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.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU review
Mighty Zen 5 The most expensive and powerful Zen 5 chip in the Ryzen 9000-series enters the arena to dominate the benchmark wars and your wallet.
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU review
Middling Zen 5 Round two of the Ryzen 9000-series kicks off with the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X but the shadow of the last-gen 7900X spoils its entrance.
A robot trained with AI to beat average randos at table tennis is a much more impressive thing than you might think
news Anyone who has spent hours battling with toolpaths and G-code will certainly be interested.
Once the apple of Microsoft's eye, Paint 3D will be fully killed off in favour of its elder sibling Paint
news Few people wanted it when it was first launched, fewer people used it over the years, and now very few people will miss it.
Doom running on a Def Con attendee badge at 50 fps is the highlight of the otherwise messy backstory to this year's popular hacking conference
news Seeing hackers modding hardware to make it run Doom is cool. Seeing them fall out over coding projects is decidedly not cool.
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU review
Middle Zen 5 The second entry in the desktop Ryzen 9000 series chucks eight Zen 5 cores into the ring. Let's get ready to benchmark!
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU review
Little Zen 5 Ding, ding! Round one of the desktop Ryzen 9000 series throws six Zen 5 cores at PC gaming.
GeForce GPU giant has been data scraping 80 years' worth of videos every day for AI training to 'unlock various downstream applications critical to Nvidia'
news "Full compliance with the letter and the spirit of copyright law,” says Nvidia.
A decade after buying Oculus VR, Meta's Reality Labs' losses are spiralling out of control, with no end in sight
news $10 billion loss in 2020, $16 billion loss in 2023—and it's only going to get worse, says Meta.
Workstation builder Puget Systems' report shows the stability problems with Intel's CPUs can be managed if only you 'mistrust the default settings on any motherboard'
news The risk of failure is still there, however, until Intel releases a microcode fix.
Steam's favourite GPU, the RTX 3060, is nearing its end as Nvidia gets ready to issue the last batch of chips
news Ampere GPUs are still really great but Nvidia wants you to buy Ada instead.
Best RAM for gaming in 2024: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.
Brilliant execution, awful inspiration material: This AMD-powered Cybertruck mini PC really is in production
news It's a standard AMD Hawk Point system, shoehorned into a sturdy-looking chassis, but oh boy…those looks.
GDDR6X VRAM is claimed to be in short supply and could lead to an RTX 4070 being launched with slower GDDR6 to meet the demand
news Which should be fine, as long as it's not too much slower. Or the same price.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg chews AI cud with Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang, talking about delicious cows, slicing tomatoes, and old Chinese guys drinking whiskey
news "We're CEOs, we're delicate flowers." Aww, bless.
Nvidia's CEO chats about the future of AI: 'We're going to need three computers... one to create the AI… one to simulate the AI… and one to run the AI'
news Definitely not trying to make everyone buy even more Nvidia GPUs, no sir.
AMD introduces a beta preview of Fluid Motion Frames 2, with 'AI-optimized enhancements for improved quality, lower latency, and better performance'
news No, the frame generation algorithm doesn't use AI—it's just been optimised by it.
Nvidia's reportedly scaling back RTX 40 series production by as much as 50% in preparation for the Blackwell RTX 50 launch
news Either that or the dearth of new GPUs means it's just a nice time to hike prices. Again.
MIT researchers create a super-fast, super-tough, super-slidey transistor and claim that in '10 to 20 years from now could change the world'
news The ferroelectric material transistor could be used to make NVMe SSDs last a whole lot longer.
Report claims that OpenAI has burned through $8.5 billion on AI training and staffing, and could be on track to make a $5 billion loss
news Generative AI makes billions of dollars in revenue but more is needed to cover the operational costs.
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.
Asus ROG Ally X handheld gaming PC review
Bigger but better Some big changes and a host of further tweaks have fixed the old flaws making this the handheld gaming PC to get.
