Katie Wickens
Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been rambling about games, tech and science—rather sarcastically—for four years since. She can be found admiring technological advancements, scrambling for scintillating Raspberry Pi projects, preaching cybersecurity awareness, sighing over semiconductors, and gawping at the latest GPU upgrades. Right now she's waiting patiently for her chance to upload her consciousness into the cloud.
Latest articles by Katie Wickens
Internal leak from Intel shows Arrow Lake could see a 21% performance increase over the Core i9 13900K
By Katie Wickens published
news The numbers show impressive upticks in performance, and the likelihood that the upcoming chips will be neural networking champs.
Live now: the best Prime Day gaming laptop, PC, GPU, and monitor deals still around today
By Dave James last updated
Still live! As we count down to the end of Amazon Prime Day, we're live blogging all the best PC gaming deals you can still buy today.
The best Amazon Prime Day AMD deals on gaming laptops, PCs, CPUs, and graphics cards
By Katie Wickens published
Deal All AMD all the time with Lisa Su's red team.
The 5 best Prime Day gaming laptops under $1,000
By Katie Wickens published
Deal A steal for some pretty impressive little gaming laptops.
Threads threatens to muscle in on Mastodon's Fediverse and admins are up in arms about it
By Katie Wickens published
news Privacy concerns have lead to petitions being signed to keep Meta out.
I watched my school descend into an OG Battle Royale situation in this Japanese academic management sim
By Katie Wickens published
class dismissed "And so our compulsory education was coming to an end."
Fake discounts are rampant even before Amazon Prime Day's kick-off
By Katie Wickens published
Non deals Here's the low-down, and how to avoid getting fooled when it comes to deals.
A little DIY can't hurt when you're getting an RTX 4060 gaming laptop for under $900
By Katie Wickens published
Deal Give it a little DIY lovin' and you could have a really decent laptop for less than a grand.
It might be tougher than expected to buy Apple's Vision Pro headset in its first year
By Katie Wickens published
news The manufacturer is looks to be having a hard time, with only 400,000 units expected.
Microsoft's light-based computer marks 'the unravelling of Moore's Law'
By Katie Wickens published
news Analog, iterative machines ditch binary transistor switches for photons and electrons to process at the speed of light.
Windows AI Copilot has just hit Windows Insider builds
By Katie Wickens published
news "Copilot, delete System 32."
How Master Chief made it onto this very scientific survey of the most stylish video game characters is utterly beyond me
By Katie Wickens published
Slay I know people want to cosplay as these characters, but does that automatically make them stylish?
Iran finally admits its 'quantum processor' was in fact not quantum at all
By Katie Wickens published
news Oops, little typo there.
Our recent editor's pick RTX 4070 gaming PC is just $1,561 right now
By Katie Wickens published
deal With DDR5 memory, 1TB of NVMe storage, and a current-gen AMD processor... Am I dreaming?
VRLA Tech Titan review
By Katie Wickens published
well rounded A suave, icy entry to the RTX 40-series prebuilt gaming PC space.
This guy's tech mandalas are giving me an ontological crisis
By Katie Wickens published
news Computer is god.
Skytech Chronos 2 review
By Katie Wickens published
limited spectrum An impressive gaming machine for the price, with a couple of small caveats.
I took on Corsair's new DIY iCue Link system just as any good PC builder would: with no instructions
By Katie Wickens published
diy dabbling The Corsair iCue Link system aims to "reignite your passion for DIY" and even though putting it together without instructions was stressful, it was worth it.
Great moments in PC gaming: Building a little server community in Project Zomboid then dying six times in a row
By Katie Wickens published
Grr Arg Zombies, zombies everywhere.
Someone please explain how this RTX 4070 gaming PC is just $1,380 right now
By Katie Wickens published
deal And the spec is still good, what's going on?
The Diablo 4 team confirms DirectStorage isn't working in the game 'but we are planning on enabling it in the future'
By Dave James published
News Microsoft's funky SSD tech should be landing in Diablo 4 at some point.
This is awkward: some aerospace company just rebranded as RTX
By Katie Wickens published
news Jensen Huang might have something to say about this.
Any app that makes 'create desktop shortcut' the default option is going straight in my recycle bin
By Katie Wickens published
Deskflop Here's how to stop rogue icons from haunting your home screen.
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