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
The Snapdragon X dev kit that we thought looked pretty cool turned out to be so bad that Qualcomm ended up cancelling it
By Nick Evanson published
News The few that had already bought one will get their money back, at least.
Channel your inner Professor X by turning your gaming chair into Cerebro with this strap-on 7.1.2 surround sound speaker
By Nick Evanson published
News It might just help you to sit better in your chair and avoid the dreaded 'gamer hunch', too.
Load up on games with this huge 4 TB SSD, at less than $0.05 per GB
By Nick Evanson published
Deal It's not the fastest out there but you're getting a massive amount of storage for the money
The world's smallest 'ruler' can measure down to a mere 0.1 nm—the width of a single atom or as small as TSMC and Intel would like their transistors to be
By Nick Evanson published
Alas, the technique won't work with microchips but there are other ways to peek inside those.
The first 3D V-Cache Zen 5 chip could arrive just in time to spoil Intel's Arrow Lake party but whenever it does appear, you can be sure it won't be cheap
By Nick Evanson published
News AMD is in a position where it can charge whatever it likes for its golden gaming goose.
As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 11 24H2 update, owners of certain Western Digital SSDs have been greeted with constant Blue Screens of Death
By Nick Evanson published
News Has there ever been a major Windows update that hasn't messed up something somewhere?
Excess stock and poor SSD sales look set to pull flash memory prices down by up to 10%
By Nick Evanson published
news It's the same old story, folks.
'As far as I know, there's only one person in the world who could do that.' Nvidia's CEO praises Elon Musk for a 'superhuman' feat
By Nick Evanson published
news Naturally, the fact that X has bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of GPUs has nothing to do with such praise. No siree.
'Correctness comes first. Performance improves next.' Fedora Asahi Remix project brings Windows PC gaming to Apple silicon Macs
By Nick Evanson published
news That's great news for Mac owners and potentially PC owners, too.
The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
Pining for more USB Type-C ports on your motherboard? ASRock's solution is a wee bit extreme
By Nick Evanson published
news Just one or two Type-A ports around the back would be nice, though.
Nvidia might be considering using sockets for its next AI mega GPUs but that's not going to happen with its GeForce graphics cards
By Nick Evanson published
news For once, it looks like Nvidia is taking a leaf from AMD's book on how to do chips.
MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk Wi-Fi motherboard review
By Nick Evanson published
USB overload With more ports than a shipping hub, MSI's new X870 motherboard is one for the USB enthusiast.
October Prime Day SSD deals
By Nick Evanson last updated
Prime Day SSDs An SSD can do wonders for your load times and there are some great deals on these flashy wonders in the Prime Day sales.
Geekom beats Amazon at its own Prime game, with 20% off its tiny AX8 Pro mini PC
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals The deal ends today, so you'll need to be quick if you want to save $180.
The Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro, one of the best wireless gaming mice around, is at its lowest-ever Amazon price—save $40 in Jeff's big sales
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals Only $11 more expensive than my favourite gaming mouse, the DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed.
Need some speedy DDR5 for a new build or gaming PC upgrade? This Team Group 32 GB kit is just $86
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals No RGB but it's genuinely fast, low-latency stuff.
Thanks to Prime Day, this Radeon RX 7700 XT is the cheapest it's ever been on Amazon, now just $350
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals A Prime Day graphics card deal to warm the heart.
I've beaten the best Prime Day gaming PC deal with a rig built completely from Big Deal Days parts
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals And it's a bit faster and has twice as much storage. You'll need your own OS, though...
Don't fancy a Prime Day pre-built? This is how I would upgrade a gaming PC platform for under $460
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals Breath new life into an ageing PC with a speedy CPU, feature-rich motherboard, and fast DDR5 RAM.
Save up to $80 on one of AMD's best RDNA 3 GPUs, thanks to these Prime Day graphics card deals
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals Whether you game at 1080p, 1440p, or 4K, there's a GPU just for you.
Dygma Defy ergonomic keyboard review
By Nick Evanson published
Expensive ergo Powerful, pretty, and very, very pricey. Alas, not perfect.
Grab a pre-Prime Day deal with this fast 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor for just $160
By Nick Evanson published
deal It'll be hard to find a better deal in the sales next week.
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