
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

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.

Prime Day is old news but the GPU deals are still rolling in, with the Arc B570 and GeForce RTX 5070 now the cheapest they've ever been
By Nick Evanson published
Deal If only every graphics card had discounts like these.

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.

OLED monitors are the perfect match for any speedy gaming PC and if you're eyeballing a new ultrawide, we've just crowned a new champion for you to consider
By Nick Evanson published
Ultra OLED Ultra wide, ultra speed, but thankfully, not ultra expensive.

ASRock X870 Nova WiFi motherboard review
By Nick Evanson published
Score: 70% Lots of features, lots of compromises.

Panther Lake revealed: Intel's pocket powerhouse is a big step up from Lunar Lake, with performance and efficiency gains all around
By Nick Evanson published
Little big cat But is the cost of multiple tiles and Foveros the answer to AMD's monolithic approach?

It's not Celestial, but Intel's new Xe3 GPU architecture looks like it'll be ideal for the next generation of handheld gaming PCs
By Nick Evanson published
news It's Intel's largest ever iGPU and big enough to put some basic dGPUs to shame.

Intel announces XeSS 3 with multi-frame generation, putting it ahead of AMD in the AI-powered graphics performance race
By Nick Evanson published
News Though Intel would probably prefer its GPU sales to be ahead instead.

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.

Amazon October Prime Day graphics card deals
By Nick Evanson last updated
Prime Day Deals Big Deal Days is over but Amazon isn't the only place to find graphics cards at a discount.

Amazon October Prime Day SSD deals
By Nick Evanson last updated
Prime Day Deals An SSD can do wonders for your load times and we're still seeing some great deals on them even though the October Prime Day sales have officially ended.

Forget about all those laptop, monitor, and GPU deals this Amazon Prime Day, grab yourself a great USB charger instead
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day And I've found three that suit any budget or power needs.

Amazon's Prime Day exclusive GPU deals aren't the best way to grab a bargain unless you want one of these four graphics cards
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day Two picks from Nvidia and one apiece from AMD and Intel.

For the same price as a mid-range graphics card, you can upgrade your gaming PC's CPU, motherboard, cooler, and RAM to the latest AMD Ryzen setup
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day And it'll be an upgrade that will last you for many long years.

Thanks to a massive $128 discount, this 4 TB drive is the best Prime Day SSD deal I've seen so far
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day It's a fast drive, too, making it perfect for anyone's Steam library.

With this RTX 5070 Prime Day deal dipping comfortably below its $550 MSRP it's a tough choice between AMD and Nvidia once again
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day GeForce or Radeon. FSR or DLSS. Happy days, either way.

I've been using Intel's best Arrow Lake CPU in my main rig for almost a year and I have only one regret: I wish I had bought it at this Prime Day deal price
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day It's not the best for gaming but you're getting a whole heap of cores for your money.

Acer isn't the first name you think of with fast DDR5 RAM, but it has the best prices this Prime Day
By Nick Evanson last updated
Prime Day Even its 64 GB kit is very reasonably priced.

New MIT research opens the door to faster-charging and longer-lasting batteries, and it could be implemented right away
By Nick Evanson published
News This isn't some lab-only stuff, it's the real deal.

Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
By Dave James last updated
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
By Dave James last updated
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.

While we're still waiting for games to use Nvidia's RTX IO tech, data centres get another bit of hardware to remind us they've been using it all this time
By Nick Evanson published
News Like a Scooby Doo reveal, RTX IO is GPUDirect with a mask on. Well, it was.

'Are we going to bet the company's road map on chiplets?' AMD's CEO Lisa Su reminds us how fortunate it was that its executives all said yes
By Nick Evanson published
News 'I really do believe for tech companies, the key is you have to be best at something.'
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