
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

'Once gamers try it, they won’t want to go back': The curse of wonky high-FOV graphics may be a thing of the past with this single plugin
By Nick Evanson published
News Ultrawide monitor owners, rejoice!

'This is cool and everything, but don't do it.' Sage advice for anyone hoping to copy the success of one Redditor's attempt at using Nvidia's $4,000 DGX Spark AI box to play Cyberpunk 2077
By Nick Evanson published
News Doom and Crysis are joined by a new game in a holy trinity of 'Will it run?'

PC repair shop discovers Corsair is selling Intel 14th Gen gaming rigs without all of the instability and voltage fixes, and there's no way around the problem
By Nick Evanson published
News And you thought Intel's meltygate was all done and dusted.

A rumour that Nvidia will cancel the RTX 50 Super cards because of RAM is almost certainly nonsense but everything won't be fine, either
By Nick Evanson published
News Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.

Best SSD deals for gaming today
By Jacob Ridley last updated
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.

The age of beige is back! SilverStone's new case is a glorious nod to PCs of the 1980s and 90s
By Nick Evanson published
News That turbo button and lock bring back so many memories, though it's a shame the floppies are fake.

Now just $480, the GeForce RTX 5070 is not only well under its MSRP but it's also the best GPU around for the money
By Nick Evanson published
Deal It's only $50 more than a 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti, which would have seemed unbelievable 10 months ago.

Black Friday graphics card deals 2025
By Nick Evanson last updated
Deals Three weeks until Black Friday, but the build-up has already started, so we're hunting down all the best GPU deals around right now.

Cheap graphics card deals this week
By Nick Evanson last updated
Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs you should build into your gaming PC.

Now we've had Doom in space, it seems that data centers and even chip foundries might be next in line to orbit the Earth
By Nick Evanson published
News Because nothing shouts cost-effectiveness better than doing something in space.

Amazon threatens legal action against Perplexity over claims of 'illegal conduct' and it's all because of an AI shopping agent
By Nick Evanson published
News Perplexity says it's a 'bully tactic to scare disruptive companies…out of making life better for people.'

Best gaming laptop 2025: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend
By Dave James last updated
Portable powerhouses From our own extensive testing, rigorously benchmarking 40+ machines over the past two years, these are the best gaming laptops you can buy today.

Electronics researchers have developed a new way to stack transistors in a die, to keep Moore's law alive for as long as possible
By Nick Evanson published
News It's the semiconductor version of one potato, two potato.

Apple's new web store looks all spiffy, but its devs forgot to do something kinda important: Disable the sourcemaps
By Nick Evanson published
News That's an oopsy. Just a little one, but still an oopsy. Someone's getting a paddling.

If Microsoft can't source enough electricity to power all the AI GPUs it has, you have to wonder how Amazon is going to cope in its new $38 billion deal with OpenAI
By Nick Evanson published
News I worry about powering the sole GPU that's in my gaming rig, so that means I'm bonding with Microsoft, right?

The 25th anniversary of the ISS operationally in orbit reminded me the ESA once challenged an Assassin's Creed and Far Cry dev to get DOOM running on a satellite
By Nick Evanson published
News The little satellite is sadly no more, but it will hold its place in gaming history forever.

Technology IP firm files lawsuits against AMD for 'its extensive and unauthorized use of our semiconductor portfolio,' citing the move as a 'business highlight'
By Nick Evanson published
News It might be TSMC's tech being used, but it's AMD that's getting the blame.

'This generation of AI is...enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before,' says Amazon, as it confirms that 14,000 corporate roles will be laid off
By Nick Evanson published
News Some reports suggest that the true figure will be as high as 30,000.

Global PC shipments are up 8% overall compared to last year, due to Microsoft killing off Windows 10 and 'strategic inventory adjustments related to certain US import tariffs'
By Nick Evanson published
News Nothing like a bit of strategic inventory adjustment to move things along.

DDR4 RAM prices continue to surge ahead of DDR5, now averaging $25 per DDR4-3200 module
By Nick Evanson published
News It won't be long before DDR5 is the only choice for a budget gaming PC.

Out with the old, in with the old: AMD's still selling Zen 2 and Zen 3+ processors, now under the guise of the Ryzen 10/100 series
By Nick Evanson published
News Even if they're super cheap, the price of DDR4 will ruin sales.

'I would stay as far away from the Founders Edition 5090 as I possibly can,' says one experienced repair tech, as a key internal connector can't be sourced for replacement
By Nick Evanson published
News If you are going to waterblock an RTX 5090, you're far better off choosing a third-party model rather than Nvidia's complex affair.

Thermaltake's new Borg-like AIO cooler might look ridiculous with four LCD screens, but its other cool features are far more noteworthy
By Nick Evanson published
News Comes with reversible fan blades that you pop out and wash in water, for example.
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