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

Nvidia Ampere GPU
Not that we should be at all surprised, but Nvidia leans on AI pretty hard for speeding up how it plans and designs its next generation of GPUs

By Nick Evanson Published

News "Hey NeMo, what is a GPU? Why, it's a Gelato Processing Uakari. Err, what?"

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor next to an Intel logo
Fresh Intel Nova Lake leak fills out the details on the range of Core Ultra 400-series CPUs we can expect to see later this year

By Nick Evanson Published

News Just remember that 44 and 52-core monsters are unlikely to be marketed at PC gamers.

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A stylized screenshot of the software tool CPU-Z, against a colorful background
CPUID's download page has been hacked, with its popular processor and PC info tools replaced with links to files containing malware (Update: Fixed)

By Nick Evanson Last updated

News Staff at CPUID have reportedly fixed the issue now.

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A screenshot of a YouTube video by dosdude1, in which they replace the 256 GB flash chip in a MacBook Neo with a 1 TB module
Don't like the MacBook Neo's storage options? Well, with lots of electronics gear, years of experience, and nerves of steel, you too can have a 1 TB model

By Nick Evanson Published

News Shame you can't embiggen your own gaming SSDs like this. Or can you?

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A photo of a set of Lexar Thor OC DDR5 UDIMMs, resting on top of a motherboard's heatsink
During a memory crisis do you really need fast memory for PC gaming? No, no you do not

By Nick Evanson Published

Going slow Does fast DDR5 make a difference to gaming, you know what? It doesn't. Mostly.

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Going slow
A photo of a DDR5 RAM kit by Corsair, mounted in a gaming PC motherboard
Look, 16 GB of RAM is absolutely fine for PC gaming in 2026. Though there are some caveats to that...

By Nick Evanson Published

Don't fret If it's good enough for consoles, surely it's good enough for a gaming PC?

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Don't fret
A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor, resting on an Intel-branded box with a colorful pattern
Intel's fabs may at long last be worth all those billions of dollars

By Nick Evanson Published

News Its market capitalization is higher than it's ever been for over 25 years, thanks to recent chips and deals with Google and the Terafab project.

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An image of the Asus ROG Equalizer 12V-2x6 power cable, against a gradient green background
Asus announces the ROG Equalizer: a new cable aimed at making melting GPU power connectors a thing of the past

By Nick Evanson Published

News It's even compatible with PSUs from other vendors, as long as it has a decent 12V-2x6 socket.

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An Mchose G3 V2 Pro and Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse on a green background with a PC Gamer Recommended label on the top right.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on

By Dave James Last updated

Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.

Unbound
HP Omen 35L gaming PC from various angles
PC shipments have actually grown this quarter despite the RAMpocalypse says IDC. Well, everywhere except the Americas

By Nick Evanson Published

News It's probably going to be the only bit of good news for PC vendors this year.

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A promotional image showing a render of the two CCD chiplets in the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor
Top dollar for top cache: AMD's dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will sell for a wallet-burning $899

By Nick Evanson Published

News But for the right person, it's actually a bargain.

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An image of an ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, against a colorful background, with the phrase 'Deals' on the right, above a PC Gamer logo
It's a RAMpocalypse-buster: Even though it's two bucks over $900, this RTX 5060 gaming PC actually comes with 32 GB of DRAM and a 1 TB SSD

By Nick Evanson Published

Deal The CPU is pretty basic, but it's good enough to get you going in PC gaming.

Deal
A photograph of the wall of a US state building, displaying a sign saying 'Department of Justice'
Supermicro 'committed to protecting America’s advanced technologies and intellectual property' as investigation into former employees over alleged AI tech shipments to China begins

By Nick Evanson Published

News Everyone wants a slice of the multi-billion-dollar AI pie.

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A promotional image of the SK hynix 321-layer QLC PQC21 SSD, against a colorful gradient background
SK hynix's latest 321-layer QLC flash memory chips are ready to roll out, with Dell's PCs first in line to host the tiny SSDs

By Nick Evanson Published

News What's good for SK hynix and Dell isn't necessarily good for you. Yet.

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An image showing the Claude AI logo displayed on the screen of a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which lines of computer code are projected.
Anthropic's new Claude Mythos AI model has apparently found thousands of vulnerabilities in 'every major operating system and every major web browser, along with a range of other important pieces of software'

By Nick Evanson Published

News It managed to find a vulnerability in OpenBSD that had lain hidden for 27 years.

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News
A processed photo of a data center server room, showing racks of computers lit by overhead lights, reflecting off the ground.
Dell's CEO reckons that the total memory demand from the entire AI market in 2028 will be 625x bigger than it was in 2022

By Nick Evanson Published

News Who needs DRAM in their PC anyway? Mine works on wishes and positive thoughts.

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A photograph of Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan shaking hands with Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI
Surprise! Intel has teamed up with Elon Musk and his Terafab project, to 'help refactor silicon fab technology' to give SpaceX and Tesla 1 TW per year of AI compute

By Nick Evanson Published

News Quite what Intel is actually going to do, however, is still very much unknown.

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A close-up photo of a set of four DDR3-SDRAM DIMMS, installed in a motherboard
Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

By Nick Evanson Published

News We're talking AMD FX-series and Intel Core 5th Gen or older here.

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A cropped screenshot of a Pretext demo, as created by Cheng Lou and somnai-dreams
'I have crawled through depths of hell': One coder's suffering is a potential joy to every web user, as their project could make sluggish browsers a thing of the past

By Nick Evanson Published

News And for once, it's a positive news story about AI, too.

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The official splashscreen for Steam, showing the logo at the centre and various games as horizontal tiles in the background.
Valve could well be giving Steam its most useful update ever: Frame rate estimates for games, based on how well they've been running on users' gaming PCs

By Nick Evanson Published

News Power from the people, power to the people.

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A group photo of Intel's primary Arrow Lake and Arrow Lake Refresh desktop processors (Core Ultra 9 285K, Core Ultra 7 265K, Core Ultra 5 245K, Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, Core Ultra 5 250K Plus) resting on top of an Intel-branded box
It's not just Arrow Lake that's been refreshed: Intel's whole approach to the consumer market seems like a new direction

By Nick Evanson Published

All ears Talk is cheap, listening is priceless.

All ears
A collage of dual channel memory kits against a colorful background, with the phrase 'Deals' on the right side, above a PC Gamer logo
The RAMpocalypse won't end any time soon, so here are the cheapest 16 and 32 GB memory kits I'd fit in my own gaming PC

By Nick Evanson Published

Deal Don't pay more for stuff you don't need.

Deal
Solas bloodied after a battle looks sadly at Rook
Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever

By Nick Evanson Published

News Am I so out of touch or is it Nvidia that's wrong?

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Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics card from various angles
Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters

By Nick Evanson Published

News Being locked into 6x mode might sound great for performance, but it ruins the PC latency.

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A promotional image for Nvidia's Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, showing a sequence of frames from a game, against a black and green background
Hands-on with Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation: 5x and 6x modes push frame rates even higher than before, though you can have too much of a good thing

By Nick Evanson Published

Dynamic And for some games, no amount of AI-generated frames will make them run well.

Dynamic
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