
Nick Evanson
Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in 1981, with the love affair starting on a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and a book on ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and IT teacher, but by the late 1990s decided it was time to cut his teeth writing for a long defunct UK tech site. He went on to do the same at Madonion, helping 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 gaming and hardware 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 and over 100 long articles on anything and everything. 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

Will 2025 be the year that CAMM2 memory finally makes a proper entrance? Rambus and Team Group believe it is
By Nick Evanson published
Computex All aboard for the CAMM2 can-can.

Gigabyte unveils its second generation of X3D Turbo Mode, for squeezing up to 15% more performance from Ryzen X3D CPUs
By Nick Evanson published
Computex Up to 15% more performance with one click in the motherboard BIOS? Hmmm…

Microsoft wants everyone to use an open-source technology to create an 'agentic web' where AI agents interact with other AI agents
By Nick Evanson published
news Forget ChatGPT and other LLMs, agentic AI is where it's at now.

Best RAM for gaming in 2025: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.

Thanks to the Computex, we now know that there's an RTX 5070-like GPU inside Nvidia's 'supercomputer at home' DGX Spark
By Nick Evanson published
Computex Shame you won't be gaming with the little box because it'd make for one heck of a NUC.

Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang boasts that one spine of its new NVLink Fusion tech can 'move more traffic than the entire Internet'
By Nick Evanson published
Computex And unusually for Nvidia tech, it'll work with other vendors' CPUs, too.

Intel's next batch of CPUs might still be called Core Ultra 200S, possibly because the Arrow Lake refresh won't be much of a boost
By Nick Evanson published
news Anybody want a bigger NPU? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Best CPU for gaming in 2025: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

Keychron M5 review
By Nick Evanson published
Straight up This is what you get if you take an ergonomic, vertical mouse shell and stuff ultra-fast gaming hardware inside it.

Rip and tear into Doom: The Dark Ages with $300 off this easily upgradeable RTX 5070 gaming PC
By Nick Evanson published
Deal $1,500 gets you a whole lot of gaming goodness. You know, for wading through hordes of Hell's minions and whatnot.

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Musk's Colossus data center for Grok is at the centre of an environmental row over air quality in South Memphis
By Nick Evanson published
news "From the beginning, the company operated with a stunning lack of transparency that left impacted communities in the dark."

One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you'll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it
By Nick Evanson published
news It's real, it's bling, its price tag is stratospheric: The gold-plated RTX 5090 from Asus finally goes on sale.

US and China talk it out at Geneva, agreeing to suspend ultra-high tariffs for 90 days, but PC parts don't seem to be part of the deal
By Nick Evanson published
News Sector-specific tariffs aren't part of the deal.

Doom: The Dark Ages is unplayable on handheld gaming PCs at the moment but it's not because the hardware isn't good enough
By Nick Evanson published
Doom Drivers The frequency of GPU driver updates for portable PCs really needs improving.

Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn't a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine
By Nick Evanson published
Rip and tearing rays Though once path tracing makes an appearance, all bets will probably be off.

This Acer RTX 4050 notebook is just $600 and, with a cheap RAM upgrade, you'll have a brilliant budget gaming laptop
By Nick Evanson published
Deal Plus, you can add a second SSD to host your bulging Steam library.

UK government says Нет to British companies selling game controllers to Russia, to combat the use of drone attacks
By Nick Evanson published
News "Gaming consoles will no longer be repurposed to kill in Ukraine."

There's a 25-year-old piece of PC hardware that's still being used in even the most powerful gaming PCs sold today. Happy birthday to USB 2.0
By Nick Evanson published
news And it's not the only ancient bit of PC tech that's still inside your gaming rig. Well, sort of.

This odd but surprisingly well-priced mini ITX motherboard from Minisforum packs an embedded AMD X3D processor
By Nick Evanson published
News Its specs are far from perfect, but that price tag is very tempting.

Microsoft Recall finally launches for AI PC users, along with some other new features, almost one year after Copilot+ was announced
By Nick Evanson published
News If you don't have a Copilot+ PC, then no new stuff for you, which is a shame, as the improved search feature does look good.

Immerse yourself fully in Oblivion Remastered with this 39-inch OLED Asus ultrawide gaming monitor, now at $750
By Nick Evanson published
Deal Tamriel will never feel as good on anything else.

I've tested Intel's new 200S Boost mode for its Arrow Lake chips and the verdict is simple: You should enable it immediately
By Nick Evanson published
Faster arrows In one game, I saw a performance increase of over 40%, which is just wild to see.
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