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
Intel's chip foundry keeps losing billions of dollars but CEO Gelsinger says this is it, this year is 'the trough'
By Nick Evanson published
news Internal restructuring and foundry investments are the first steps back to profitability.
Valve Hardware Survey for March—AMD still can't make a dent in Nvidia's massive lead
By Nick Evanson published
news No major changes this month but that's hardly surprising
Mark Zuckerberg bromances Jen-Hsun Huang, claiming 'he’s like Taylor Swift, but for tech'
By Nick Evanson published
news I reckon it's better than being told you're like the tech version of Leonard Cohen.
TSMC makes the world's graphics chips and predicts 'within a decade a multichiplet GPU will have more than 1 trillion transistors'
By Nick Evanson published
news It seems like only yesterday when the one billion mark was passed in 2008.
Having built 500+ PCs in my time I can say this with confidence: Building is fun and rewarding but ironing out those inevitable BIOS, CPU, memory kinks is unbearable
By Nick Evanson published
PC building pains AMD, Intel—doesn't matter which one you go with, there's always something to trip you up.
Dragon's Dogma 2 is an object lesson in how system requirements pages are failing PC gamers
By Nick Evanson published
System Wrecks And that's especially true where games are released on Steam.
Elon Musk claims Tesla could build a silicon foundry and make its own chips, but says 'I sure hope we don’t have to'
By Nick Evanson published
news Oh, just do it Elon. I'm sure you'd make more money from it than you have from Twitter.
The disk 'Format' dialog in Windows was only meant to be a temporary solution but it's still chugging along, 30 years later
By Nick Evanson published
news Who'd have thought something cooked up one 'rainy Thursday morning' could have such longevity?
Microsoft's new patent promises more efficient ray tracing for the Xbox and that could be a real boon for AMD's graphics cards too
By Nick Evanson published
news Not all patents ever see real-life applications but this one could be very popular with devs.
OpenAI's GPT-3.5 is the champion of the Street Fighter III LLM Colosseum, beating Mistral on its home turf
By Nick Evanson published
news Beat 'em ups are clearly the superior way to test large language models.
UK police bust a fast food worker turned £3 billion bitcoin scam member on a £7.5 million money laundering charge
By Nick Evanson published
news Posh houses, expensive jewellery, and private schooling were all bought with the ill-gotten virtual funds.
Forget your money and identities, hackers are now after your water, according to the White House
By Nick Evanson published
news It seems like a little bit of basic cybersecurity is all that's required to keep it safe, though.
Music streamer that spent years streaming other artists' work as their own gets convicted of fraud in Denmark
By Nick Evanson published
news And it was a very profitable six years of streaming, too.
Dragon's Dogma 2: The best settings for your PC
By Nick Evanson published
Deal with the dragon Get the perfect balance of graphics and performance with our recommended quality settings.
Dragon's Dogma 2 already has the file for DLSS Frame Generation, so where is the feature?
By Nick Evanson published
news And the game offers FSR 3 but there's no AMD FG either.
Arise Arc owners and rejoice as Intel's new drivers offer up to 36% more performance in Dragon's Dogma 2. Maybe
By Nick Evanson published
news Yes, I've actually tested them but the GPU gods were rather moody today.
Gaming PC and graphics card shipments will grow into 2025 'due to economic improvement as well as new GPUs'
By Nick Evanson published
news IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Gaming Tracker report makes positive reading for the gaming market.
Dragon's Dogma 2 performance analysis: It'll take everything your PC has and still want more
By Nick Evanson published
Testing the dragon I hope you have a top-end CPU and GPU because you're really going to need them.
PlayStation 5 Pro hardware leak suggests its GPU is a RDNA 3/4-hybrid design, with some big improvements coming this way
By Nick Evanson published
news I'll stick be sticking with my gaming PC, of course.
Sony's reportedly stopped making any more PS VR2 headsets until it can figure out a way of shifting a pile of unsold VR goggles
By Nick Evanson published
news Hmm, that explains why it's eyeing up PC support, too.
OpenAI hopes to break AI's reliance on Nvidia by using investment from UAE to make its own chips
By Nick Evanson published
news It's going to take a lot to take on AI's silicon big guns.
What is general intelligence in the world of AI and computers? The race for the artificial mind explained
By Nick Evanson published
Mind and the machine GPT and Dall-e are just the first baby steps in the world of human-like AI.
Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86
By Nick Evanson published
news AMD and Intel can breathe easier for a little longer, it would seem.
Intel's chief financial officer admits the company is 'heavier than we want to be in terms of external wafer manufacturing'
By Nick Evanson published
news Intel's outsourcing more silicon manufacturing that it would want, but the customer-competitor relationship with TSMC will continue in the future.