Author: Nick Evanson

With less than two months before the expected announcement of the RTX 40-series Super models, it’s being reported that Nvidia is putting a halt to the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti lines. The idea is, of course, that these will be superseded by the 4080 Super and the delightfully named 4070 Ti Super. As…

Without a doubt, the best deals in this year’s Cyber Monday have been gaming laptops. Hundreds of pounds have been hacked off various models but with so many to choose from, it is a tad tricky to know what’s really worth getting. So, I’ve picked my favourite four deals, across a range of budgets, to…

Gaming hardware specialist Razer has expanded the portfolio of its mice that can utilise its HyperPolling technology. With a simple firmware update, you’ll be able to set the polling rate to anywhere between 125 and 8,000Hz, and enjoy ultra smooth mouse motion in Windows and games. Peripherals such as keyboards and mice don’t constantly tell…

A technical analysis of the graphics rendering in Cities: Skylines 2 has identified the reason why the performance is just so poor. Put simply, the game is trying to draw the cityscapes using a shocking number of polygons, with few systems in place to reduce the amount when it’s not needed. It’s not something that…

With solid state drives being more popular than ever, the wholesale prices of the chips they use (NAND flash) have been slowly rising since the middle of summer. However, it looks like Samsung wants to ramp things up considerably, by adding up to 20% to the price tags, per quarter, over the first half of…

Like all good software companies these days, Microsoft is busy shoehorning AI systems into its products and services, all in the aid of making your life easier and better. However, get a little too greedy in how much you use its generative AI services and you could find yourself on the receiving end of a…

Samsung has launched its second generation Odyssey Ark monitor, boasting 55 inches of 4K 165Hz real estate. That’s a whole lot of screen but it comes with a whole lot of price tag, unfortunately. At $3000, you’d want this to be something very special. At first glance, there’s nothing that immediately stands out, especially when…

When Intel returned to the discrete graphics card market last year, it promised that the Arc GPU drivers would improve over time. And true to its word, that’s exactly what’s happened, with regular updates appearing to massively improve frame rates in older games. But I don’t think anything will top the one of the claims…

Even if you only give tech news a cursory glance each day, you can’t have missed the fact there’s a lot of concern about the growing use of AI and the demand for tighter regulations. Enter Nick Clegg, Meta’s el presidente of global affairs, to assure us it’s nothing to be worried about, claiming that…