Nick Evanson

Nick Evanson

Hardware Writer

Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in the early 1980s. After leaving university, he became a physics and IT teacher and started writing about tech in the late 1990s. That resulted in him working with MadOnion 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 PC gaming 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 covering everything and anything to do with tech and PCs. 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

A composite image showing a stylised render of part of an Intel Panther Lake CPU, focusing on the iGPU, with a blurred render of the Xe3 module in the background.
If the RAMpocalypse doesn't price them into oblivion, the next generation of hot handheld gaming PCs could well be Intel-powered

By Nick Evanson Published

News Team Blue's unannounced Arc Extreme looks like a real winner for gaming on the go.

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A promotional group image of the Valve Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller
Steam Deck restocks or a pile of Steam Frames and Machines? Either way, Valve's been importing a whole heap of 'game consoles'

By Nick Evanson Published

News What's in the box?

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A promotional image for Microsoft PowerToys Power Display feature, showing the tool pop-up on a Windows desktop
Microsoft's latest PowerToys tool brings control of your monitor into Windows: a must-have for anyone with lots of big monitors and too little time

By Nick Evanson Published

News Power at your fingertips. Well, mouse button.

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An image of a Super Flower Leadex III power supply unit, against a colorful background, with the phrase 'Deals' on the right above a PC Gamer logo
Power supplies might not be as exciting as CPUs or GPUs but when you can get a top-rated 1000 W unit for just $130, you really can't ignore it

By Nick Evanson Published

Deal Super Flower in name, super reliable in nature.

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A close-up photo of a single DDR4 DIMM installed in a gaming PC's motherboard
Single-channel DRAM is bad news for PC gaming but depending on what CPU you have, it's not actually as awful as you might think

By Nick Evanson Published

Cached out Cache to the rescue.

Cached out
An image of a Stormcraft Phantom desktop gaming PC, against a colorful background with the phrase 'Deals' on the right side, above a PC Gamer logo
I'd buy this Intel 270K Plus, RTX 5080 gaming PC over anything with a Ryzen 9800X3D and no, I'm not joking

By Nick Evanson Published

Deal I've not lost the plot either. Just hear me out.

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A photo of a Seagate FireCuda X Vault external hdd, resting on a computer desk
Seagate FireCuda X Vault review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 80% Big on size, big on capacity, not that big on price.

Score: 80%
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics card
Data, not guessing: Looking at Nvidia's past GPUs to predict the specs for its future RTX 60-series graphics cards

By Nick Evanson Published

Crystal ballin' I've stared at Excel so much, I'm dreaming about spreadsheets now.

Crystal ballin'
AMD's CEO Lisa Su at CES 2020
It's not just Intel that investors are loving right now: At over $450 billion, AMD's market cap is the highest it's ever been in 54 years

By Nick Evanson Published

News If you bought AMD shares in its darkest times, you're probably laughing all the way to the bank right now.

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Intel Arc B570 graphics card by ASRock
If you're still battling to get your Arc B-series graphics card to play nicely with Crimson Desert, Intel's new drivers might help a little

By Nick Evanson Published

News Sadly, there's no progress yet for A-series GPUs.

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Hands-on with Valve's new VR headset, the Steam Frame, during an interview at Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
Valve's latest Proton 11 beta has been quietly released in an even more beta Arm64 flavour and you can thank the Steam Frame for that

By Nick Evanson Published

News Arming PC gamers with all the tools they need.

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A promotional, stylised render of an Intel Core Series 3 processor, showing the two tiles that comprise the CPU
Intel launches Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 processors: Kitten-sized chips for the business and budget markets only

By Nick Evanson Published

News Wildcat Lake has all of Panther Lake's goodies, except for its big iGPU.

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The MSI logo on the bottom of the screen of the MSI Raider 18 HX AI A2XW
MSI says its refreshed Raider gaming laptops have been designed to combat the one thing I hate most about portable PCs: fan noise

By Nick Evanson Published

News And it seems to be addressing its fondness for the chonk, too.

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor
AMD could be releasing a special version of the classic Ryzen 7 5800X3D to celebrate 10 years of the AM4 socket

By Nick Evanson Published

News The only problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything special about it.

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An image of an Acer Nitro V 16S gaming laptop against a colorful background, with the phrase 'Deals' on the right side above a PC Gamer logo
This RTX 5070 gaming laptop is a little low on GPU power but at $1,200, it's a lot of low on price

By Nick Evanson Published

Deal Compromise is the name of the game in these wallet-trying times.

Deal
A screenshot of a YouTube video by Alex Ziskind, where they use tiny corp's TinyGPU app to use an Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics card with an Apple Mac mini
Apple rubberstamps an open source driver to allow Nvidia GPUs to run on Macs, though gaming isn't on the table just yet

By Nick Evanson Published

News Your graphics card might be enormous, but the app that does all the magic is tiny.

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor
'In 10 years of tracking retail CPU sales, I have never seen such a steep decline,' says one tech channel after staring at the grim figures

By Nick Evanson Published

News You don't need to be a data expert to know why CPU sales have tanked.

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Two RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards lined up next to an RTX 4060 Ti.
Nvidia spent 1003% more on warranty claims in 2025 than the year before according to a new report, with the total cost almost reaching $900 million

By Nick Evanson Published

News Team Green's claim rate shot up, too, reaching a figure 800% higher than that in 2024.

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A promotional image of the Sony Inzone M10S II gaming monitor
Sony squares up to Asus and LG in the dual-mode, esports OLED gaming monitor market with a Fnatic collab

By Nick Evanson Published

News It's a match for the competition on specs, but not quite there on price

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A Microsoft Surface laptop with a Qualcomm X processor
Microsoft's already pricey Surface laptops have suddenly got a whole lot pricier and you know exactly what to blame for this

By Nick Evanson Published

News I'm not a huge fan of Surface laptops but I'd prefer it if they didn't price themselves into oblivion.

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A close-up photo of a YMTC 232-layer TLC 3D-NAND flash memory module, from a Team Group MP44 SSD
China's YMTC is reportedly aiming to more than double its wafer production, which could eventually help put cheap gaming SSDs back on the menu

By Nick Evanson Published

News Paying over $160 for a basic 1 TB drive at the moment just feels like a fever dream.

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A promotional image of the Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Tachyon Duo X Ice motherboard
Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

By Nick Evanson Published

News That rear IO panel is giving me the ick, though.

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A 1952 close-up photograph of an RCA lab technician using a magnifying glass to inspect a new transistor
Researchers have developed a way to peek inside electronic parts as they're running and plan to see if they can snoop encrypted data

By Nick Evanson Published

News If that's got you worried about security, then don't panic: a little bit of metal solves that problem entirely.

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Origami Linux on a Dell XPS 13 laptop
The new Linux 7.0 kernel is here and as always, it's all about lots of little improvements rather than one significant update

By Nick Evanson Published

News Tux is looking a little more dapper with every update.

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A promotional image of a SanDisk Extreme Pro Dual USB drive, shown inserted in the side of a laptop resting on a desk
Nearly here! Microsoft ups the partition size limit of FAT32 from 32 GB to 2 TB in the latest beta of Windows 11

By Nick Evanson Published

News Got deja vu? Yeah, me too.

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