Author: Chris Szewczyk

The launch of AMD’s 8000-series desktop APUs is drawing closer. Motherboard BIOS’ are ready, samples are out and about, and that means tis the season to be leaky. We expect the new APUs to deliver a big step forward in gaming performance, and though actual gaming performance is still partly unknown, a set of Geekbench…

This article was originally published on 12th May this year and we are republishing it today as part of a series celebrating some of our favourite pieces of the past 12 months. As one of PC Gamer’s hardware writers and reviewers, I handle a lot of different PC parts. But there’s one part in particular…

When the bossman asked the PC Gamer hardware team to select our personal picks for hardware of the year, I thought about it, and then thought about it some more. As a reviewer that covers a lot of components, my shortlist came down to five items. The Intel Core i5 14600K, Nvidia RTX 4070, ASRock…

So, you’re in the market for a new graphics card. Yay! You’ve headed over to your favorite retailer’s website and looked at the options. Damn! They’re expensive!  Apart from voting with your wallet or purse, what can be done about it? Nvidia and AMD aren’t charities. Their prices are high because they can get away…

Nvidia has announced that its groundbreaking suite of RTX technologies is now supported by over 500 games and applications. Beginning in 2018, features such as ray tracing, AI and upscaling have gone from a niche to being an integral part of PC gaming. Nvidia maintains a list of games and apps that support RTX technologies.…

2023 has been a year to forget for PC manufacturers. After the work-from-home boom and seemingly endless global political and economic instability, a slowdown was always likely to happen. But if a new analysis from Canalys is to be believed, 2024 is shaping up to be a much better year for the PC market. Canalys…

The last few months have seen some incredibly low prices on memory and storage products, particularly SSDs. That’s great for consumers but not so for manufacturers, who have been struggling to turn a profit. That looks set to flip. The prices of DRAM and NAND chips are on the rise, and that means the bargain…

When it comes to cloud storage, most users expect providers to be infallible. You upload your data, and it stays there. Safe and secure. Forever. However, even the mighty Google is not immune to glitches, as many users have reported the loss of data they have uploaded to Google Drive. Last week, a user reported…

Now here’s something interesting, if only for interest’s sake. Twitter/X user Nemez managed to create a RAM disk held within the Level 3 cache of an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor and the results make the fastest NVMe drives look like sloths in comparison. Nemez (via Tom’s Hardware), used the CrystalDiskMark benchmark using some specific…

If you’ve got an older Google account you haven’t used in a while, it’d be a good idea to log into it—if you can—and do something as basic as reading or sending an email or watching a YouTube video. If you don’t, the account is at risk of deletion, possibly as soon as December 1st.…