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
AMD's Zen 5 chips will reportedly hit mass production at TSMC in the summer
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news Just in time to give your gaming PC a serious Christmas upgrade.
FSR 3 removed from Nightingale's launch plan with 'a significant number' of game crashes blamed on the AMD tech 'whether or not users had the setting turned on'
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news The bug affected everyone but Radeon owners are the ones left paying the price.
What motherboard chipset and socket do I need?
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Know your sockets How to pick the right motherboard for your next AMD or Intel PC build.
Round three of Reddit versus the movie industry ends in yet another win for the social network site, because the First Amendment didn't suddenly change overnight
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news What's the betting that there will still be a fourth attempt to blame social media for supporting piracy?
You can run Nvidia CUDA applications natively on Radeon GPUs thanks to ZLUDA, the open-source project that AMD once funded
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news The chip giant ultimately withdrew its support but we still get to enjoy the fruits of that labour.
Corsair's coffers cop a load of cash: 'The gaming hardware market in the United States and Europe is now at a level between 30% and 50% bigger than pre-pandemic years'
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news Decent margins all round but net income was pretty small, though.
Logitech Wave Keys keyboard review
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Naughties Nostalgia When the saying 'look but don't touch' gets applied to a keyboard.
Logitech ERGO K860 keyboard review
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Ordinary Ergo Is an office-focused ergonomic keyboard worth considering if you're a PC gamer?
GPU leaker is claiming RDNA 4 engineering samples are boosting between 3 and 3.3GHz. Remember when AMD said that about RNDA 3?
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news Pepperidge Farm does and I'm sure you do as well.
Go big or go home, with this 32-inch 1440p 240Hz gaming monitor that's under $270 right now
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deal Or if that's too big, how about 27 inches for $50 less?
One memory to rule them all? New 'superlattice' material promises an efficient world of universal memory
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ULTRARAM still leads the race but more competition is good news for everyone.
AMD isn't alone in the Easter egg silicon doodle market, chipmakers have etched hamburgers, zombies, Smurfs, and even Groucho Marx onto their products in the past
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news Any chip with a Smurf on it is going to automatically be 10% faster.
ZSA Moonlander review
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Starship Split One small step for ergo keebs, one giant leap of a learning curve.
Opera buys its own Nvidia H100 mini-supercomputer, just so you can have a spot of AI in a web browser
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News And it's based in Iceland, for an extra bit of Norse kudos.
This year's 'Windows 12' might just be nothing more than a large update for Windows 11, rather than a whole new operating system
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news PC vendors are banking on Microsoft releasing out something extra special this year, though.
Resizeable BAR mod for older gaming PCs, said to deliver up to 12% more performance, could breath a little more life into systems as old as Sandy Bridge
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news Your graphics card and drivers will also need to support it, if you want a free frame rate boost.
Radeon graphics cards maybe aren't as popular as AMD might like us to think they are, at least according to the Steam HW Survey
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News Either that or AMD has just been really, really unlucky in the survey sampling.
AMD's top Zen 5 motherboards will reportedly come in a triple-chip configuration for guaranteed USB4 40Gbps support
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news Having more options is always a good thing but how will this affect the price?
MoErgo Glove80 review
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Space Age Ergo The Matterhorn of ergo keebs: Steep curves, steep price, steep learning period.
Intel Battlemage: What can we expect to see with the second generation of Arc GPUs?
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Arc Round Two Picking through the rumours and leaks to get the best view of what Intel has planned for its graphics cards.
Google has updated Chrome with three AI tools for sorting tabs, making new themes, and writing text for you
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news You can be sure there'll be more to come, as the prevalence of generative AI has only just started.
MSI apologises and releases new BIOS files for its slow RTX 4070 Ti Super GPUs, thanks to being 'unwaveringly committed' to performance
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news With the benchmarks and ratings all complete, the damage is already done though.
Save $50 on any Lenovo Legion Go and get yourself a mighty handheld PC
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deal Detach the controllers, sit back, and enjoy the pocket powerhouse.