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 Fluid Motion Frames finally goes official, driver-based frame generation for any DX11/12 game
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news It's not as good as FSR 3 or DLSS 3 Frame Gen but it's still a cool piece of tech.
The open beta of Nvidia's RTX Remix is ready to grab: Remaster your favourite old games to give them a massive graphics upgrade
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news Does this mean it's cool to like Nvidia now?
Intel's Arrow Lake specs break cover: Say hello to DDR5-6400, wave goodbye to DDR4 and possibly Hyper-Threading
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news The 800-series motherboard chipset will get lots of goodies like USB4, DP2.0, and HDMI 2.1
Little things that matter: Valve is making performance settings in its Steam Deck easier to understand
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news Motherboard BIOS creators, please could you do the same?
Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge RGB review
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Split, Don't Quit A near-perfect but pricey ergonomic keyboard for PC gamers.
Cloud Nine C959 ErgoTKL review
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Super split An ideal entry to the world of ergo keebs for gamers.
Laptop makers just aren't interested in discrete Radeon GPUs and I really want AMD to do something about that, even though it won't
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Snubbed You'd think it would hurt spending all that time and money, only for nobody to want the end result.
$20 extra a month gets you the pro version of Microsoft's AI Copilot. Or you could just get Valheim every 30 days, instead
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news Or better still, don't do any of that and have $20 a month extra in your wallet.
Patriot is developing DDR5 RAM sticks that will run at 6400 speed and higher, no matter what the CPU can take
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news No funny stuff going on, just a good ol' fashioned client memory clock driver chip. Lovely.
AMD gatecrashes Nvidia's Super launch with a temporary $90 price drop and new MSRP for the Radeon RX 7900 XT
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news At just $710, it's the cheapest it's ever been and well worth considering.
Meteor Lake muscles into the portable gaming PC market with the new OneXPlayer three-in-one X1
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news Handheld meets tablet meets notebook. Hanblook, anyone? Maybe not.
Hot GPU rumour time: Intel may follow AMD in just focusing on the mainstream market with its next-gen Battlemage chips
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news And if that's the case, it leaves the mega bucks market entirely to Nvidia.
All hail RT-X: The global project aimed at creating an AI mega brain for all robotkind
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news No, not that RTX, silly. That's for pretty pictures on your monitor.
HP gets slapped with yet another lawsuit for blocking printers using anything other than its own inky liquid cash cow
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news It's already paid out millions of dollars in such cases, so this one may well be another success.
Analysts are calling 2023's decline in PC shipments 'unparalleled in the industry's recorded history' but suggest the only way now is up
By Nick Evanson published
news Despite 240 million PCs shipped in 2023, the figures are still the lowest they've been for a decade.
VESA updates its DisplayPort specification to version 2.1a, beefing up cable requirements for even higher resolutions and refresh rates
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news The numbers all look impressive but it ultimately won't mean anything for PC gamers for long, long time.
Sony might be ready to launch an updated Dualsense controller with a much larger battery capacity
By Nick Evanson published
news That's great and all, but how about a permanent fix to stick drift?
Valve continues to improve the gaming performance of Linux open source drivers for AMD GPUs, as part of the Mesa project
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news The Steam Deck will obviously benefit from the work but so to can anyone using a Linux+Radeon combination.
Ayaeneo's Next Lite is 'the cost-effective choice' but only because it cloned SteamOS off Github and jammed a 4 year-old APU into it
By Nick Evanson published
news This or an original Steam Deck? Bit of a one-sided fight, unfortunately.
Here are all of the Intel Meteor Lake gaming laptops we saw launched at CES 2024
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CES 2024 A rather small selection, unfortunately, but some look pretty tasty indeed.
Honda's CES concept cars are more Cyberpunk 2077 than the cars in Cyberpunk 2077, and I challenge anyone to convince me otherwise
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CES 2024 Maybe CD Projekt could do a wee collab with Honda for its next visit to Night City?
Lenovo's Magic Bay means you can add a monster-sized removable webcam, a handy dandy perfume pump, or dedicated emoji screen to your new ThinkBook laptop
By Nick Evanson published
CES 2024 Pure marketing genius.
Ayaneo announces the Next Lite, the first non-Valve handheld PC with SteamOS preinstalled
By Nick Evanson published
news It's aiming to be budget friendly, so don't expect cutting edge hardware