Latest articles by Alan Dexter
Sorry, but it's still not a great time to buy a graphics card
Mined games Despite what you might think, the market is still too tricksy to upgrade.
I didn't expect to love Corsair's bendable OLED screen this much
Bendy hands-on Hands-on with Corsair's bendy Xeneon Flex OLED monitor.
The best HDMI cable for PC gaming
4K and beyond Getting the best HDMI cable for gaming will ensure you get the most from your graphics card and screen.
AMD gets rid of ghosting and improves performance with FSR 2.1
News AMD's newest upscaling tech will soon be available in 45 games.
Corsair Voyager a1600
Review It's not perfect, but Corsair's first laptop may be tempting for a very specific audience.
Corsair teases 10,000MB/s SSDs with its first PCIe 5.0 SSDs
News That's a 40% improvement to sequential reads and writes over PCIe 4.0 SSDs.
Early X670E motherboard pricing looks totally wild
News Upgrading to AMD's new platform is looking like a pricey affair.
Many existing PCIe 4.0 SSDs should work okay with DirectStorage says Phison
News Reassuring news for anyone that has bought a compatible PCIe 4.0 SSD.
This tiny registry tweak shows what resolution DLSS is rendering at
News It'll also show you which DLSS version your game is running.
Tinkerers rejoice! There's a new DLSS version to mess around with in your games
News The latest spin of the upscaling tech suffers from too much ghosting and shimmering for some.
Conflicting Ryzen 7000 price leaks tell very different stories
News It's either good news or very, very bad news for your bank account when it comes to AMD's next-gen CPUs.
Great moments in PC gaming: Grabbing that first Draft win in Magic Arena
Arts & Drafts A little bit of luck, a little bit of skill, and a boatload of perseverance gets you there in the end.
Intel gets serious with its Arc Pro A-series GPUs
News Workstations and laptops get some professional-grade hardware love.
Modder shows how to transform the Framework laptop into a tablet
News The beauty of the modular laptop just keeps on giving.
Intel admits tuning DX11 support is going to be a 'labor of love for like forever'
News If you've got your heart set on playing older games then Intel's new GPUs may not be the perfect option.
Upscaling isn't only for buffing frame rates, it also 'reduces latency'
News If you're trying to optimize your gaming then DLSS and FSR could be the answer.
Sabrent's new NVMe SSD raises plenty of questions about DirectStorage
News Could this be the vanguard of a whole slew of SSDs designed for Microsoft's API, or just a bit of overzealous marketing?
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
Review A year ago this would have been the Zen 3 to get, but today it simply isn't good enough.
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Review AMD's most affordable Zen 3 chip is finally here but it's too little too late.
Intel Arc GPUs don't natively support HDMI 2.1
News Intel's openness about its GPU's capabilities is certainly refreshing.
Raptor Lake appears to enjoy a 20% performance boost from DDR5
News It's early days, and it's only one benchmark, but that's still an impressive uplift.
I have a deep fear about how messy AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs will be with too much thermal paste
News Zen 4 is coming and looks utterly metal.
