Jeremy Laird
Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
Latest articles by Jeremy Laird

Microsoft plots dumbed down folder options in Windows 11 Explorer
By Jeremy Laird published
News The changes aren't quite official, but they're probably coming.

Google ditches web domain business moments after unleashing .zip websites on unsuspecting grandmothers
By Jeremy Laird published
News The whole Google web domain shebang is toast.

Get your OLED-everywhere-all-the-time fix with this portable monitor
By Jeremy Laird published
News It's only 60Hz, but there's still a lot of want.

Graphics card sales just got even worse
By Jeremy Laird published
News Er, anybody wanna buy a GPU?

You can overhaul your Steam Deck controls with these drift-resistant Hall effect joysticks
By Jeremy Laird published
news Fewer moving parts makes for more precision and better reliability.

Intel CPU with 16 big Performance cores hits 7.2GHz and draws 800W
By Jeremy Laird published
news Overclocked Xeon chip puts out some very serious performance numbers but draws crazy power.

Computex 2023: all the biggest stories from the Taiwan tech show
By Dave James last updated
Computex 2023 We're on the ground out in Taipei to give you the lowdown on the biggest show in PC hardware.

Gigabyte's RTX 4090 Gaming Box wants to turn your ultrabook into an absolute monster of a gaming PC
By Jeremy Laird published
News Thunderbolt 3 and 850W, but the price is probably going to be scary.

Logitech's new mouse repair partnership with iFixit isn't for gamers, yet
By Jeremy Laird published
news Gotta start somewhere...

Phison has a fix for its overheating PCIe 5.0 SSD controller
By Jeremy Laird published
News Is there really a need for all this speed?

Intel promises an avalanche of new CPUs and chip tech despite record losses
By Jeremy Laird published
News Meteor Lake this year, Arrow Lake and even Lunar lake due in 2024.

The PC industry has surely hit rock bottom as multi-billion dollar losses predicted for Intel this week
By Jeremy Laird published
News Intel is expected to make its biggest ever loss, but things are expected to improve from here. Hopefully.

Intel Arc GPU performance bumped by over 70% in Cyberpunk 2077 thanks to XeSS
By Jeremy Laird published
News The more frames the merrier, but note these are scaled frames versus native frames.

Intel quietly ditches its Bitcoin mining chips
By Jeremy Laird published
News So long, Blockscale, we hardly knew ye.

Intel just made it easier to make Arm chips in its own fabs
By Jeremy Laird published
News Agreement starts with phone-style SoCs but could scale to chips for PCs.

Nvidia's RTX 4070 matches RTX 3080 in leaked benchmarks
By Jeremy Laird published
News 30% faster than an RTX 3070 for an extra $100.

Nvidia's RTX 4070 is unofficially official but still hasn't actually been announced
By Jeremy Laird published
News Next-gen GPU pops up in Nvidia's slide on Reflex performance in Counter-Strike 2.

Nvidia's low-latency Reflex tech will give older GPUs a boost in Counter-Strike 2
By Jeremy Laird published
NEWS You'll need an Nvidia graphics card to benefit, but Reflex will have the biggest impact on older GPUs.

ChatGPT is 'so wildly incorrect' that an Australian whistleblower is suing it for defamation
By Jeremy Laird published
News ChatGPT mistakenly identified Melbourne man as the perpetrator of the very crime he uncovered.

Intel reportedly bets big on sales of its next-gen Arc graphics cards
By Jeremy Laird published
News Intel said to have placed large orders for its new GPUs with TSMC.

Most PC hardware pricing is back to normal so why not GPUs?
By Jeremy Laird published
GPU gold dust Prices are tumbling, except for graphics.

AMD's affordable $85 A620 motherboards should fix Ryzen's price premium
By Jeremy Laird published
News A620 motherboards are thin on USB connectivity and won't do PCIe Gen 5 at all, but at least they're cheap.

Intel's next-gen GPUs absolutely need to match up to these rumoured specs to be relevant
By Jeremy Laird published
News The latest, impressive Intel Battlemage 'leak' may or may not be true, but it had better be for Arc's sake.
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