
Nick Evanson
Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in the early 1980s. After leaving university, he became a physics and IT teacher and started writing about tech in the late 1990s. That resulted in him working with MadOnion to write the help files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a short stint working at Beyond3D.com, Nick joined Futuremark (MadOnion rebranded) full-time, as editor-in-chief for its PC gaming section, YouGamers. After the site shutdown, he became an engineering and computing lecturer for many years, but missed the writing bug. Cue four years at TechSpot.com covering everything and anything to do with tech and PCs. He freely admits to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open-world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days?
Latest articles by Nick Evanson

Anthropic's apparently starting to learn that it can't have its cake and eat it when it comes to working with the military
By Nick Evanson published
News Unlike me. I have cake and I'm eating it right now.

RAMpocalypse be damned, I've tested a range of games to see if slow DDR5 will ruin my gaming experience
By Nick Evanson published
Going slow And you know what? It doesn't. Mostly.

Panther Lake's limited number of PCIe lanes means you probably won't see any gaming laptops arriving with the 12-core Xe3 iGPU and a discrete GPU
By Nick Evanson published
News Meanwhile, AMD's mobile Ryzens still give you the best of both worlds.

Not even Microsoft is confident that Copilot is right for coding, as it's encouraging staff to try out Anthropic's AI model, according to one report
By Nick Evanson published
News Anthropic is backed by Microsoft, though, to the tune of at least $5 billion.

Making the invisible visible, this engineering artist's creation shows the incredible level to which modern devices fill our world with radio waves
By Nick Evanson published
News It's a little bit spooky to watch in action, but I'd love one in my office.

Intel's in no hurry to get 14A all tooled up: 'It does not make sense to build out significant capacity there until we know that we have the customers that will accept that demand'
By Nick Evanson published
News But it's 'aggressively as possible' in getting all other wafers out of the door.

Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'
By Nick Evanson published
News No solutions yet, but it's better than staying quiet on the whole matter.

If you've been saving up to buy a new 16 GB graphics card, then I have bad news for you: It's already a bloodbath out there and it's getting worse every week
By Nick Evanson published
News So either face the storm now or ride it out for a year or so.

'I think this is crazy': Anthropic's CEO takes a potshot at Nvidia and the US government for selling AI chips to China
By Nick Evanson published
News It's not really biting the hands that feed it, more just a little nibble.

If you're tired of fighting with your mouse cursor across acres of multi-monitor screen space, Microsoft's latest PowerToys update has it all wrapped up for you
By Nick Evanson published
News To the top, to the bottom, to the left, to the right.

Nvidia allegedly greenlit the use of pirated books from illegal sources to train its AI models, according to an expanded class-action lawsuit
By Nick Evanson published
News The lawsuit from 2024 is back, this time with bigger allegations.

Doom, Windows 95, even Hytale itself: It seems like there's nothing that modders can't make Hytale run
By Nick Evanson published
News But can it run Crysis?

The shift key trick to quickly restart Windows 95 wasn't a placebo, it was a neat little system to avoid a full PC reboot
By Nick Evanson published
News One of Microsoft's veteran software engineers explains the full 'secret sauce'.

Intel signals the end for its 12th Gen Core processors, though the architecture lives on under the guise of its 13th and 14th Gen
By Nick Evanson published
News It's not the end, but it is an end.

Because of AI 'memory's become sexy again'. That's what Micron told us as the alarm bells for the RAMpocalypse began ringing in 2024, but we just didn't listen
By Nick Evanson published
News We're all paying for sexy memory now.

Spraying kerosene over the DRAM inferno, US commerce secretary suggests memory chip makers could face 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased US production
By Nick Evanson published
News 2025 was full of tariff talk. Now it's 2026's turn.

A stupid Windows 11 requirement makes Asus' simple new Wi-Fi motherboard feature a winner
By Nick Evanson published
News The new Asus X870E Glacial motherboard looks super clean and feature-rich, but it's the integrated Wi-Fi drivers that get my nod

No, Jeff Bezos didn't predict the future of the home PC would see it being swept away into the cloud
By Nick Evanson published
News He's just talking about the world of data centers, that's all.

Audio devices that use Google's Fast Pair Bluetooth tech are vulnerable to hacks that could track location or listen to the mic, according to researchers
By Nick Evanson published
News Google's still working on a complete fix, but a partial solution is available.

SK Hynix's unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices
By Nick Evanson published
News Though we're still some way off from seeing the light at the end of the AI-induced tunnel.

Apple is no longer the apple of TSMC's eye, with Nvidia taking centre stage in the supply of wafers, according to one report
By Nick Evanson published
News It essentially comes down to whoever is willing to pay the most and AI tops them all.

Microsoft rolls out tables in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, though I'd feel happier about this if I knew this was the final addition to my favorite little app
By Nick Evanson published
News You can have too much of a good thing.

Best external hard drives in 2026: the storage media I'd take on my own gaming adventures
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