Nick Evanson

Nick Evanson

Hardware Writer

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

The playable characters from Slay the Spire 2 jumping to attack, an action shot against a red background
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.

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A promotional, stylized image of the MSI Claw A8 handheld gaming PC, against a red/orange background, with a Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor imposed over the device's screen.
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.

Computex 2026
A photo of Cooler Master's G11M concept AIO CPU cooler, as displayed at Computex 2026
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

Computex 2026
A photo of two Montech F738 Pro PC cases, as displayed at Computex 2026, with their front panel shutters partially open
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.

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A photo of a Corsair AX1600i Shift PSU resting on a pink wall shelf
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.

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A Samsung 9100 Pro SSD in both 2 TB and 4 TB sizes.
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?

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A photo of Biwin's Origin Code brand of DDR5 memory kits, as displayed at Computex 2026
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.

Computex 2026
An image of an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card, against a green gradient background
'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.

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Computex 2026
A photo of a Maingear MG-1 Mk.II gaming PC on a desk, with its RGB lighting enabled
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.

Score: 76%
A promotional photo of an Asus ROG Thor 3000W Platinum III Edition 20 power supply unit against a colorful background
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.

Computex 2026
A promotional image showing the Gigabyte X870E Aorus Infinity Next and X870 Aorus Infinity motherboards next to each other
Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards

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Computex 2026 The Infinity Next sure does look purdy.

Computex 2026
A photo of an Arctic Freezer 61 CPU cooler, as displayed at Computex 2026
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.

Computex 2026
A photo of the main entrance to Intel's foundry in Arizona, US
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?

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A low-resolution promotional image for the Acer Nitro Blazer Link remote gaming handheld
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?

Computex 2026
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor
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.

Computex 2026
A screenshot of a promotional video created by Nvidia, using Capcom's Pragmata, to demonstrate the use of DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction
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.

Computex 2026
The logo for Amazon's Kiro, an agentic AI development platform
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'.

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A photo of a Cooler Master/G.Skill MasterDimm DDR5 memory UDIMM, as taken by G.Skill to promote the products launch at Computex 2026
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?

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Two pairs of headphones. One, a SteelSeries set with ANC; the other, an Audeze set with great passive sound isolation.
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.

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Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics card
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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A screenshot of a promotional video by Itera, showing a rendered proof-of-concept for its liquid metal on glass substrate PCB prototyping service
Liquid metal hasn't been used to make machines for crushing humanity just yet, but it is being used for rapid PCB prototyping

By Nick Evanson Published

News It looks really neat, but how well it works in practice compared to traditional methods is uncertain.

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An image of an MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, against a colorful background with the phrase 'Deals' on the right side, above a PC Gamer logo
This RTX 5060 Ti graphics card is just $30 more than an RTX 5060 and it's the best GPU deal I've seen in a long time

By Nick Evanson Published

Deal It's also bang on MSRP, which feels like a miracle in the era of the RAMpocalypse.

Deal
A promotional image for the Nvidia NVL144 CPX platform, with Nvidia Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs, and Rubin CPX processors clearly shown
It looks like Nvidia's AI inference GPU won't see the light of day this year, which could actually be good news for PC gamers

By Nick Evanson Published

News Vera Rubin, on the other hand, is all steam ahead. Which isn't good news for PC gamers, sadly.

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A young James Bond in 007 First Light furrowing his eyebrows. His face is dirty and he's in a car with a busted out window
007 First Light joins an ever-expanding list of 2026 games without up-to-date AMD FSR or Intel XeSS support

By Nick Evanson Published

News Shaken, stirred, who cares? Just properly support all GPUs, please, not just some of them.

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A promotional image from Team Group, showing four sticks of its T-Force DDR5 RAM in a motherboard
Team Group CEO warns that DRAM and SSD prices will still rise: 'If you need memory, we recommend purchasing it as soon as possible'

By Nick Evanson Published

News Prices for server products are increasing by 30% per quarter, and general PC parts could follow suit.

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