
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

Tech leaker claims that the RTX 50 Super refresh is still on, despite the RAMpocalypse, and it'll be joined by a 12 GB RTX 5060
By Nick Evanson published
News Gotta use all them Blackwell dies somehow.

Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower
By Nick Evanson published
News If you have a 270K Plus and an RTX 5090, you could see up to 27% more performance in Silksong…at 1080p High, that is.

Apple's virtual Siri-ball is a glowing reminder to Google and Microsoft that user interfaces really matter in software
By Nick Evanson published
News I'll take environmental lighting over a cell-blocking button any day of the week.

Godot devs are getting a helping hand from Microsoft to bring their games to Xbox on PC
By Nick Evanson published
News It's only a little step forward, but at least it's in the right direction.

AMD says that no decision has been made about bringing FSR 4.1 to RDNA 3.5 GPUs, which seems to contradict AMD also saying that it has no current plans to do so because of hardware reasons
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 The truth is out there somewhere.

Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 With a thermal target of 400 W in its sights, this cooler might just be planned for handling Intel's mega-core Nova Lake

Montech's new shuttered PC case is so odd, I can't decide whether I'm missing the sheer brilliance of it or if it really is totally pointless
By Nick Evanson published
News Two words for you: fan and profile.

Corsair's range-topping AX1600i power supply gets some much-needed upgrades, including pin monitoring, proper GPU power sockets, and a reduction in size
By Nick Evanson published
News The hammer blow of the price tag has yet to fall, though.

NAND flash makers earned a record $46 billion in revenues over the first quarter of 2026, a shocking 3.5 times more than last year
By Nick Evanson published
News Gosh, I wonder how? Was it AI, by any chance?

Sticking two fingers up at the economy, Biwin's new Origin Code memory sticks are as extreme as you could imagine, with up to 256 GB of DDR5-8000 CL42
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 Plus an EXPO ULL kit of DDR5-6000 CL26, though none of it is what you'd call affordable.

'One of my favourites': Even Jensen Huang recognises the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as one of the best graphics cards Nvidia ever made
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 And we'll probably never see its like again.

Maingear MG-1 Mk.II (2026) review
By Nick Evanson published
Score: 76% The highest of high-end gaming PCs, with the biggest of price tags, but with a somewhat average chassis.

Excess often sells in the world of gaming PCs, but Asus' new 3000 W power supply makes little sense for even the wealthiest of whales
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 When is a gaming PSU not a gaming PSU? When it's an Asus ROG Thor 3000 W Titanium III Edition 20.

Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards
By Nick Evanson last updated
Computex 2026 The Infinity Next sure does look purdy.

While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 Black or white, with or without RGB, all sensibly priced.

Intel's attempting to break into the AI market once more, but this time avoiding Nvidia's dominance in training by going for inference
By Nick Evanson published
News Gaudi was practically a flop. Second time's a charm with Crescent Island?

Acer tries to dodge the RAMpocalypse with its Nitro Blaze Link by making it streaming only
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 It worked for Sony with the PlayStation Portal, so why not for Acer?

AMD confirms that AM5 will continue to be supported by new processors through to 2029, and drop the deets on a forthcoming EXPO update
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 The AM6 socket looks like it'll be an end-of-the-decade release.

Nvidia announces that a DLSS 4.5 update for Ray Reconstruction is finally on its way, promising better ray-traced and path-traced graphics for 'similar performance' as the old model
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 It's very late to the party, but better than never having it at all.

Amazon bins an internal AI leaderboard for its Kiro employees, because they were burning through too many costly tokens
By Nick Evanson published
News Sorry, my bad. It's been 'deprecated'.

Cooler Master and G.Skill team up to bring you actively cooled DRAM kits, answering that incredibly distant call for even more expensive memory
By Nick Evanson published
News Y'all wanted actively cooled memory, yes?

It's only a little thing but with the latest Windows update, Microsoft has dragged its OS into the modern world of sharing audio streams
By Nick Evanson published
News The checklist for it all to work is a tad convoluted, though.

This supply chain Sankey diagram for an Nvidia AI megachip is a handy guide to understanding just how easy it is to ruin the prices of graphics cards
By Nick Evanson published
News One hiccup over there, a price increase here, and our precious GPUs become a whole lot more expensive.
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