Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best CPU for gaming in 2024: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
Best PC controllers in 2024: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU
New CPU guide I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the past.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first SSD
I've been buying and using SSDs for over 20 years, and here's my quick guide to making sure you get the right one for your gaming PC.
Red Dead Redemption appeared on consoles 14 years ago—here's the kind of gaming PC it could have been ported to back then
Red Dead PC So much has changed since then but one thing still remains true: the PC is the platform to enjoy gaming at its very best.
Some of AMD's next generation of laptop APUs will be absolute monsters at gaming, all thanks to the magic of 3D V-Cache
news Even workstation Threadripper uber-chips will be joining the cache party.
Early PlayStation 5 Pro shipments reveal some big upgrades over the original but that AMD GPU isn't quite what I was expecting
news RDNA 3? RDNA 2? Something in-between?
It's the end of an era: Nvidia replaces Intel in a key Dow Jones index, as Team Blue's fortunes tumble
news AMD has been in a worse situation but even it wasn't booted from the Dow Jones.
Microsoft's building data centres out of wood hoping we'll forget AI's made its carbon emissions 29% higher than when it pledged to go 'carbon negative' in 2020
news Well, they're not entirely made from wood and the computers certainly aren't, so there's still more scope for going totally carbon zero.
I've tested Asus' new Turbo Game Mode for AMD CPUs and my verdict is simple: Don't use it
news When worse is supposed to be better but turns out to actually be worse. Or the same. Which is essentially still worse.
What a difference a year makes: Nvidia's RTX 40-series share of the Steam Hardware Survey is 80% larger than this time last year but its last-gen RTX chips still rule the roost
news RDNA 2 chips are AMD's best performer, outstripping all the rest of Team Red's GPUs combined.
Horizon Zero Dawn's fresh remaster is the best way to enjoy the game, even on handheld gaming PCs
New Dawn The new version is way better looking, with more options to make it run silky smooth.
Intel's Arrow Lake chips aren't winning any awards for gaming performance but I think its new E-cores deserve a gold star
E's alright E-cores are rubbish, yes? Not anymore.
Red Dead Redemption may still look like a 14-year-old game, but it's absolutely brilliant on handheld gaming PCs
Red Dead Finally It was a hell of a long time to wait, though.
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K review
Baby Arrow Arrow Lake squares up to Raptor Lake and Zen 5 in the battle for the budget CPU crown.
UK prime minister reckons new laws will help publishers fight back against unapproved AI data scraping
news 'This landmark legislation will help rebalance the relationship between online platforms and those, such as publishers, who rely on them.'
AMD drops a possible hint about how AI could be used in its next-gen upscaler package, FSR 4
news Does this mean RDNA 4 GPUs will have dedicated hardware for this stuff? Possibly.
No matter what gaming PC you have, you should disable DoF, motion blur, and vignette in Dragon Age: The Veilguard before changing any other setting
Someone somewhere must like the effects because why else would developers still include them?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard performance analysis—decent frame rates and blessedly glitch-free
New Age Dragon It even looks pretty good on the lowest graphics settings, too.
Microsoft's word-soup has made Windows 11 updates noticeably quicker via the 'parallel processing of component manifests' complementing 'the parallel hydration of newly serviced components using reverse and forward differentials'
news In plain speak: it's making better use of your PC's hardware, and it's really working for me.
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all making AI systems that will run your PC for you, doing online tasks like filling out forms, research, and even a spot of shopping
news Wall-E isn't a film, it's a prophecy.
If you're getting a new Intel Arrow Lake chip, don't bother splashing out on super-fast RAM
RAM for the Arrow What gains there are just isn't worth the extra cost.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K review
Tip of the arrow Designed by Intel. Made by TSMC. A match made in heaven?
