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

I've been testing Nvidia's new Neural Texture Compression toolkit and the impressive results could be good news for game install sizes
By Nick Evanson published
news Big textures go tiny but there is a price to pay.

Why pay more? This 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor is perfectly priced at just $153
By Nick Evanson published
Deal IPS panel, high refresh rate, VRR support. It's all there.

Where the AF are all the graphics cards?! It's not just the new RTX 50-series that's impossible to buy, finding any decent GPU in stock at the major US retailers right now is like staring into an abyss of nothing
By Nick Evanson published
Barren shelves It's like the pandemic's back for another round of GPU misery.

Epic talks shop about stuttering in games that use its Unreal Engine and offers solutions to the problem
By Nick Evanson last updated
news To precache or to bundle your PSOs, that is the question. Fortunately, Epic has the answer, too.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is proof, if any was ever needed, that you don't need the latest graphics technology to have a great-looking game that also runs well
By Nick Evanson published
This year's bar Warhorse Studio has set the bar for others to aim for in 2025.

Not even the most powerful gaming PC is going to get around Civilization 7's ridiculously variable performance
By Nick Evanson published
Ping pong perf Strategy games are supposed to be all about the CPU when it comes to performance, but Civilization 7 will just stress everything in your gaming PC

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 performance analysis—scalable frame rates, decent graphics, and barely a stutter in sight
By Nick Evanson published
Medieval marvel And for once, upscaling is completely optional. Wait, this is 2025, yes?

Civilization 7 PC performance analysis: Playable on lots of systems but the late game will grind down whatever CPU you have
By Nick Evanson published
Taxing turns Don't be fooled by how well it runs when you first start playing.

Spider-Man 2's PC launch woes are woe-ier than you think, as it looks like GPU-powered DirectStorage is hobbling performance
By Nick Evanson published
news Not Nixxes' finest hour, that's for sure.

Intel will be keen to forget 2024 despite its products selling well because its foundries still keep on swallowing money
By Nick Evanson published
news Client, data, AI, networking, and edge were all up compared to 2023.

If you're picking up a new RTX 5080 or 5090 today, then either of these glorious OLED monitors will be a perfect match
By Nick Evanson published
Deal Traditionally dimensioned or super ultrawide, both are a feast for your eyes

This ultra-cool Apollo computer-inspired smartwatch looks rather beautiful but at the same time weirdly incongruous with the fashion-man model shots
By Nick Evanson published
news Slap a slice of American engineering history onto your wrist.

MSI says that the supply of its RTX 5090 cards will be very tight, due to a limited supply of GPUs from Nvidia
By Nick Evanson published
news Artificial supply constraint or a sign of genuine manufacturing limitations?

You don't need an RTX 5090 or a 4K monitor for gaming when you can play Snake on your monitor's subpixels. But you will need a microscope or a good macro lens
By Nick Evanson published
news Or just squint really, really hard.

This spectacular GB202 die shot shows just how massive Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU is but it's not the largest chip it's ever shoehorned into a gaming graphics card
By Nick Evanson published
news Count the transistors with me. One, two, skip a few, ninety-two point two billion.

If you're looking to upgrade your gaming rig to make it ready for an RTX 5090, here are the best parts to match that gigantic GPU
By Nick Evanson published
Deal Like a dating show host, I've picked the perfect CPU, motherboard, RAM, and PSU to get.

Arrow Lake's had three months of Windows and BIOS updates to fix its performance, and my testing shows in some games, it's worse
By Nick Evanson published
Wayward arrow I thought fixes were supposed to improve things.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC performance analysis: Runs well and looks good, but the tight system requirements and dearth of PC-centric options spoil the show
By Nick Evanson published
Cloud Nein Limited graphics options, capped frame rates, and a mediocre upscaling system. Gee, thanks Square Enix.

Is time too precious to waste making gurning thumbnails for your YouTube videos? Huzzah for this AI tool that does it all for you, then
By Nick Evanson published
news Good to know all those super-expensive GPUs are being used for something so vital.

If you're worried about your RTX 50-series graphics card suffering another 4090-meltgate, MSI's yellow-tipped adapter cables might just give you peace of mind
By Nick Evanson published
news Rather than copying another manufacturer's system, MSI is copying its own PSU designs.

Aokzoe teases its next-gen handheld gaming PC and it looks like it's just stuffed a better chip, screen, and battery into its not-bad, not-great A1 Pro
By Nick Evanson published
news Which would be absolutely fine, as long as Aokzoe also sorted out its clunky software.

Asus TUF Gaming B860M-Plus WiFi motherboard review
By Nick Evanson published
Mid mainstream Gaming in name only but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Asus ROG Strix B850-F Gaming WiFi motherboard review
By Nick Evanson published
B850 Blues Selling a B850 motherboard at an X870 price means expectations are going to be very high.
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