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
MSI Vector 17 HX (2024) gaming laptop review
By Nick Evanson published
Full Fan Power Intel Core i9 14900HX | RTX 4070 (140W) | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB SSD | $2,299 | £2,399
JEDEC rubber stamps the GDDR7 spec, mega bandwidth VRAM is on its way for next-gen GPUs
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news Don't expect to see it on mainstream graphics cards for a good while, though.
Sponge made from a cheesy waste product can help recover the gold from your dumped circuit boards
By Nick Evanson published
news Get bigger muscles or solve the e-waste problem? Easy when you think about it.
It's black, brown, and beige from here on out, as Noctua confirms it has ditched development on white fans and coolers
By Nick Evanson published
news Four years of hopes and dreams, all crushed in a single Tweet.
AMD's Chief Technical Officer: 'We're enabling our gaming devices to upscale using AI'
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news AI FSR for AMD GPUs everywhere or just the upcoming RDNA 4 chips? Place your bets now.
AMD wanted to incorporate parts of the HDMI 2.1 spec into its open-source Linux drivers, but the HDMI Forum's legal beagles shutdown the whole idea
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news It's HDMI 2.1, Jim, but not as we know it.
Screens? Where this new AMD-powered handheld PC is going we don't need screens. Just silly Cyberpunk glasses
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news You'd never look anyone in the eye again while gaming with this on your face.
A new frontier of immersion awaits you with a device that fires the smell of games into your home
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news Haptic feedback is just so old school now. Haptic stench is where the cool kids are at.
Nvidia will soon be showing adverts to calm queue rage for free tier users of GeForce Now
By Nick Evanson published
news Ah well. It was nice while it lasted.
Windows Copilot gets its artificial tendrils deeper into the OS settings in a new beta update
By Nick Evanson published
news And, for once, some of what it can do looks genuinely useful.
SSDs are getting more expensive again because the biggest NAND supplier has throttled production to half its previous output
By Nick Evanson published
news And where the leader goes, so the rest of the mob is likely to follow.
US White House: The responsibility of cybersecurity should be tech companies' and the Federal government's, not the individual
By Nick Evanson published
news The safety of cyberspace rests on using the right software and hardware in the future.
One person's journey to jailbreak a second-hand prison laptop is the most compelling read I've had in absolutely ages
By Nick Evanson published
news And I hadn't realised that prison laptops were even a thing.
AMD, Microsoft, and Nvidia are getting cosy at GDC 2024 to tell us all about the new DirectSR upscaler
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news Mum: But we already have DLSS, FSR, and XeSS at home.
Helldivers 2 CEO talks DLSS and FSR: 'When you are in a prio meeting and it's more awesome content vs more tech the decision is easy…'
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news You can't please all people, all of the time, but that never stops people from complaining.
Dev who created Zip file support in Windows is part of the shadowy cabal of people who have actually paid for WinRAR
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news There should be a globally-recognised medal for anyone who's bought WinRAR.
Upscaling and frame generation are the final nails in the coffin for overclocking, and I'm absolutely okay with that
By Nick Evanson published
Bye-bye boiling It's not that I'm lazy or that it's without merit, it's just not worth it anymore.
FSR 3 and XeSS now available in Starfield, bringing upscaling and frame gen boosts to all space farers
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news Now, can we have some more content to enjoy, please Bethesda?
The CPU Cooler Wars saga continues, as Cooler Master sues a bunch of other manufacturers over all-in-one patent infringements
By Nick Evanson published
news One of the defendants is definitely not cool about this, not one bit.
There are increased reports of crashing in Unreal Engine games, etc. and Epic is blaming Intel chips
By Nick Evanson published
news Power-hungry, high-clocked CPUs can be a tad unstable if they're not given the right BIOS settings.
Reddit's set to rake in $60M per year in a deal with an unnamed AI company to train future models on its 20 years' worth of user generated content
By Nick Evanson published
news In the eyes of AI, it would seem that nothing is ever truly yours once it's posted online.
Kioxia aims to sweet talk SK Hynix into letting the Western Digital merger go ahead, with a new manufacturing deal as the carrot this time around
By Nick Evanson published
news Daytime soap operas don't have this much on-again, off-again drama.
US Dept of Justice used existing router malware to quietly purge a Russia-backed 'vast spearphishing' botnet from devices in peoples' homes
By Nick Evanson published
news Moral of the story? Update your router and change the admin password.