
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

You can't have a gaming PC without DRAM, so here are the cheapest DDR4 and DDR5 memory kits I've found in the Prime Day sales
By Nick Evanson Published
Prime Day There's no avoiding the RAMpocalypse but that doesn't mean you should pay more for memory than necessary.

It's all the gaming mouse you'll ever need: Razer's DeathAdder V3 Pro is now under $67 in the Prime Day sales
By Nick Evanson Published
Prime Day We love the DeathAdder and you will too.

Believe it or not, you can buy a graphics card for less than its MSRP—and you don't need to be an Amazon Prime member to bag one
By Nick Evanson Published
Prime Day At $500, this RX 9070 GRE is the best mid-range card you should buy.

Here are four reasons why you should forget about Micro Center's Prime Day bundles on Amazon and head straight to Newegg for the best gaming PC upgrade deals
By Nick Evanson Published
Prime Day If you can't get to a store, Newegg is the next best thing.

The controller I use every day in Forza Horizon 6 is now just $43 thanks to Prime Day, so you too can do the 8BitDo
By Nick Evanson Published
Prime Day Do-do, do-do-be-do, do-do-do, bit-do, bit-do. Yes the heat in my office has got to me.

The ergonomic keyboard I use every day for work and gaming now has $50 hacked off its price tag thanks to Prime Day
By Nick Evanson Published
Prime Day For the money, there isn't an ergo keeb to beat it.

Thanks to all the Prime Day PC gaming deals, I've found the best parts to not only beat the Steam Machine on price, but also on performance and storage too
By Nick Evanson Published
Prime Day Just not on looks or size, sadly.

True to its word, AMD brings FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 7000-series card owners with its latest Adrenalin drivers
By Nick Evanson Published
News The Steam Machine will eventually get it too. Whaddya mean, so what?

Forget about overpriced PC upgrades: this $649 OLED ultrawide isn't just the cheapest it's ever been, it's also way better value than any DRAM or SSD upgrade
By Nick Evanson Published
Prime Day I'd buy this over any silly-priced DDR5 kit or wallet-crushing SSD.

AMD is said to be holding talks with Samsung about making some of its future chips to offset TSMC's constrained supply of cutting-edge wafers
By Nick Evanson Published
News If true, my money would be on low-end laptop APUs or Ryzen IO chiplets.

I've just finished reviewing this great office chair and—oh, hey look, there's $50 knocked off the price right now
By Nick Evanson Published
Deal Free shipping, too. Bargain.

My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under
By Nick Evanson Published
Lite rays With studios being closed down faster than you can blink, every coder is going to be using one-click fixes.

This 4 TB NVMe SSD is the only one I've seen below $400 and going big is the best way to survive the memory chip crisis
By Nick Evanson Published
Deal It's only a cent under but it's still cheaper than every other 4 TB drive out there.

'[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6
By Nick Evanson Published
News When two become one.

Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems
By Nick Evanson Published
News Plus a whole heap more stuff that's genuinely useful for all kinds of devs.

Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review
By Nick Evanson Published
Score: 82% The makers might be heavily into AI, but its chair design is all about humans.

Consumer rights champion and tech-whizz Louis Rossman is taking Samsung to court over a failed 990 Pro SSD it says it can't replace, even though Amazon has plenty of them in stock
By Nick Evanson Last updated
News The fact that they now cost $949 instead of $300 surely has nothing to do with it, right?

Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2x6 power cable…err…melting shows up, adding more fuel to the fire that is Nvidia's connector
By Nick Evanson Published
News Normally I'd suggest burning such things to the ground but they're doing that themselves.

Arm's ray-traced demo of its neural technologies for mobile phone gaming proves that there's an alternate chip for handheld gaming PCs to use outside of AMD or Intel
By Nick Evanson Published
News After all, the hardware inside your phone is rather wasted, so let's stick it in something better.

SK hynix claims it will be able to triple its memory chip output by 2034, roughly 10 years sooner than first projected
By Nick Evanson Published
News Just in time to solve the current crisis, right?

There's one AI machine that doesn't need a nuclear power station to run, and it points to a potential way forward in the memory crisis
By Nick Evanson Published
News You, a box, and a crank.

Thanks to a substantial 27% discount, this ROG Falchion gaming keyboard is a seriously tempting deal for anyone aiming for an all-white theme
By Nick Evanson Published
Deal It's wired-only, but don't let that put you off.

Linux driver for vintage AMD GPUs gets an update with a helping hand from Copilot AI, keeping old hardware alive and kicking
By Nick Evanson Published
News Today, just refactoring. Tomorrow, the whole driver set?
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