
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

It's a RAMpocalypse-buster: Even though it's two bucks over $900, this RTX 5060 gaming PC actually comes with 32 GB of DRAM and a 1 TB SSD
By Nick Evanson published
Deal The CPU is pretty basic, but it's good enough to get you going in PC gaming.

Supermicro 'committed to protecting America’s advanced technologies and intellectual property' as investigation into former employees over alleged AI tech shipments to China begins
By Nick Evanson published
News Everyone wants a slice of the multi-billion-dollar AI pie.

SK hynix's latest 321-layer QLC flash memory chips are ready to roll out, with Dell's PCs first in line to host the tiny SSDs
By Nick Evanson published
News What's good for SK hynix and Dell isn't necessarily good for you. Yet.

Anthropic's new Claude Mythos AI model has apparently found thousands of vulnerabilities in 'every major operating system and every major web browser, along with a range of other important pieces of software'
By Nick Evanson published
News It managed to find a vulnerability in OpenBSD that had lain hidden for 27 years.

Dell's CEO reckons that the total memory demand from the entire AI market in 2028 will be 625x bigger than it was in 2022
By Nick Evanson published
News Who needs DRAM in their PC anyway? Mine works on wishes and positive thoughts.

Surprise! Intel has teamed up with Elon Musk and his Terafab project, to 'help refactor silicon fab technology' to give SpaceX and Tesla 1 TW per year of AI compute
By Nick Evanson published
News Quite what Intel is actually going to do, however, is still very much unknown.

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse
By Nick Evanson published
News We're talking AMD FX-series and Intel Core 5th Gen or older here.

'I have crawled through depths of hell': One coder's suffering is a potential joy to every web user, as their project could make sluggish browsers a thing of the past
By Nick Evanson published
News And for once, it's a positive news story about AI, too.

Valve could well be giving Steam its most useful update ever: Frame rate estimates for games, based on how well they've been running on users' gaming PCs
By Nick Evanson published
News Power from the people, power to the people.

It's not just Arrow Lake that's been refreshed: Intel's whole approach to the consumer market seems like a new direction
By Nick Evanson published
All ears Talk is cheap, listening is priceless.

The RAMpocalypse won't end any time soon, so here are the cheapest 16 and 32 GB memory kits I'd fit in my own gaming PC
By Nick Evanson published
Deal Don't pay more for stuff you don't need.

Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever
By Nick Evanson published
News Am I so out of touch or is it Nvidia that's wrong?

Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
By Nick Evanson published
News Being locked into 6x mode might sound great for performance, but it ruins the PC latency.

Hands-on with Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation: 5x and 6x modes push frame rates even higher than before, though you can have too much of a good thing
By Nick Evanson published
Dynamic And for some games, no amount of AI-generated frames will make them run well.

Thanks to Amazon's Big Spring Sale, this glorious 1440p OLED gaming monitor is now the cheapest it's ever been
By Nick Evanson published
Deal $385 for pixel-perfect gaming is a win in my book, or anyone's book, for that matter.

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Keyed in The best gaming keyboards, according to our testers.

This RX 9070 XT gaming PC not only has 32 GB of fast DRAM, but it also boasts a $535 discount. Take that, RAMpocalypse
By Nick Evanson published
Deal Just make sure you use the promo code to save all that sweet cash.

Even in a global memory crisis you can get a whole PC gaming setup on the cheap if you go pre-built
By Nick Evanson published
Deal Add a nice monitor, keyboard, mouse, and headset, and you've got the perfect starter setup for less than $1,200

Intel's new 200K Plus chips support ultra-fast DRAM out of the box but as my tests show, there's little benefit for most PC gamers in using warp-speed stuff
By Nick Evanson published
Warped speed Unless you've got a very specific setup that involves an Intel CPU, an RTX 5090, a 1080p monitor, and potato-quality graphics settings.

I've tested Intel's new Binary Optimization Tool to see what all the fuss is about and while it's almost everything the chip giant claims it to be, few PC gamers will ever see the benefits
By Nick Evanson published
Benching BOT It really does work but with so few CPUs and games supporting it, BOT will mean nothing to most enthusiasts.

Best CPU for gaming in 2026: 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.

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review
By Nick Evanson published
Score: 89% Arrow Lake's redemption is here at last.

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review
By Nick Evanson published
Score: 87% The dark horse of Arrow Lake: Ultra 7 class performance for an Ultra 3 class price tag.
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