
Nick Evanson
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

Montech's new shuttered PC case is so odd, I can't decide whether I'm missing the sheer brilliance of it or if it really is totally pointless
By Nick Evanson published
News Two words for you: fan and profile.

Corsair's range-topping AX1600i power supply gets some much-needed upgrades, including pin monitoring, proper GPU power sockets, and a reduction in size
By Nick Evanson published
News The hammer blow of the price tag has yet to fall, though.

Cheap graphics card deals this week
By Nick Evanson last updated
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.

NAND flash makers earned a record $46 billion in revenues over the first quarter of 2026, a shocking 3.5 times more than last year
By Nick Evanson published
News Gosh, I wonder how? Was it AI, by any chance?

Sticking two fingers up at the economy, Biwin's new Origin Code memory sticks are as extreme as you could imagine, with up to 256 GB of DDR5-8000 CL42
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 Plus an EXPO ULL kit of DDR5-6000 CL26, though none of it is what you'd call affordable.

'One of my favourites': Even Jensen Huang recognises the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as one of the best graphics cards Nvidia ever made
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 And we'll probably never see its like again.

Maingear MG-1 Mk.II (2026) review
By Nick Evanson published
Score: 76% The highest of high-end gaming PCs, with the biggest of price tags, but with a somewhat average chassis.

Excess often sells in the world of gaming PCs, but Asus' new 3000 W power supply makes little sense for even the wealthiest of whales
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 When is a gaming PSU not a gaming PSU? When it's an Asus ROG Thor 3000 W Titanium III Edition 20.

Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards
By Nick Evanson last updated
Computex 2026 The Infinity Next sure does look purdy.

While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 Black or white, with or without RGB, all sensibly priced.

Intel's attempting to break into the AI market once more, but this time avoiding Nvidia's dominance in training by going for inference
By Nick Evanson published
News Gaudi was practically a flop. Second time's a charm with Crescent Island?

Acer tries to dodge the RAMpocalypse with its Nitro Blaze Link by making it streaming only
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 It worked for Sony with the PlayStation Portal, so why not for Acer?

AMD confirms that AM5 will continue to be supported by new processors through to 2029, and drop the deets on a forthcoming EXPO update
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 The AM6 socket looks like it'll be an end-of-the-decade release.

Nvidia announces that a DLSS 4.5 update for Ray Reconstruction is finally on its way, promising better ray-traced and path-traced graphics for 'similar performance' as the old model
By Nick Evanson published
Computex 2026 It's very late to the party, but better than never having it at all.

Amazon bins an internal AI leaderboard for its Kiro employees, because they were burning through too many costly tokens
By Nick Evanson published
News Sorry, my bad. It's been 'deprecated'.

Cooler Master and G.Skill team up to bring you actively cooled DRAM kits, answering that incredibly distant call for even more expensive memory
By Nick Evanson published
News Y'all wanted actively cooled memory, yes?

It's only a little thing but with the latest Windows update, Microsoft has dragged its OS into the modern world of sharing audio streams
By Nick Evanson published
News The checklist for it all to work is a tad convoluted, though.

This supply chain Sankey diagram for an Nvidia AI megachip is a handy guide to understanding just how easy it is to ruin the prices of graphics cards
By Nick Evanson published
News One hiccup over there, a price increase here, and our precious GPUs become a whole lot more expensive.

Liquid metal hasn't been used to make machines for crushing humanity just yet, but it is being used for rapid PCB prototyping
By Nick Evanson published
News It looks really neat, but how well it works in practice compared to traditional methods is uncertain.

It looks like Nvidia's AI inference GPU won't see the light of day this year, which could actually be good news for PC gamers
By Nick Evanson published
News Vera Rubin, on the other hand, is all steam ahead. Which isn't good news for PC gamers, sadly.

007 First Light joins an ever-expanding list of 2026 games without up-to-date AMD FSR or Intel XeSS support
By Nick Evanson published
News Shaken, stirred, who cares? Just properly support all GPUs, please, not just some of them.

Team Group CEO warns that DRAM and SSD prices will still rise: 'If you need memory, we recommend purchasing it as soon as possible'
By Nick Evanson published
News Prices for server products are increasing by 30% per quarter, and general PC parts could follow suit.

A rumoured Intel Nova Lake mobile chip that's 100% E-cores with a beefy iGPU would be great news for handhelds, if it wasn't destined for edge computing only
By Nick Evanson published
News But that might not stop some companies from experimenting with it.
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