
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

The best left-handed mouse for gaming in 2025: The top ambidextrous and mirrored rodents for the southpaw PC gamer
By Dave James last updated
Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.

It's not an April Fool's joke anymore: Zotac goes ahead with its 'gamer fragrance' perfume, for a limited few, for a limited time
By Nick Evanson published
News Clean, woody, and aquatic. Doesn't shout 'gamer' to me.

'MSI Afterburner is a bit PowerColor Afterburner now' as the dev had to buy another manufacturer's GPU to build support for AMD's RDNA 4 graphics cards into the next beta
By Nick Evanson published
News No MSI RDNA 4 cards means no MSI RDNA 4 hardware for the Afterburner dev.

Lian Li's new Hydroshift AIO cooler doesn't work properly on some motherboards but it will send you a replacement part if you can't get around the issue in the BIOS
By Nick Evanson published
News The key detail here is that not all motherboard fan headers are the same.

Switch 2 teardown shows that Nintendo hasn't learned a single lesson from the OG Switch when it comes to repairing it
By Nick Evanson published
News Glue and stickers akimbo, with too many bits soldered directly to the main motherboard.

The Witcher 4's leafy glory is all down to Epic's Nanite Foliage, and largely so is the fact it can run ray-traced at 60 fps on a lowly PS5
By Nick Evanson published
That level of performance on an aging console suggests good things for the PC version.

A graphical history of id Tech: Three decades of cutting-edge graphics and game engine technologies
By Nick Evanson published
30 year tech It's not just about Doom. Okay, it's mostly about Doom.

Elden Ring Nightreign PC performance analysis: A bare-bones console port with glitches a-plenty
By Nick Evanson published
Bare bones Elden Ring's back. So is the 60 fps cap, GPU underutilisation, and random stuttering.

Hate RGB software but still want all the pretty LEDs on your AIO cooler? Lian Li might just have the very thing for you
By Nick Evanson published
Computex You can still control it all through an app, but I like the twist-n-go simplicity.

Noctua aims to release its first liquid CPU cooler in 2026, working with Asetek to make the quietest water pump around, though it's not the thermosiphon project
By Nick Evanson published
Computex But as with all of Noctua's projects, it won't really be released until it's perfect.

Asus and Noctua team up once more, this time creating a hulking three-fan, four-slot RTX 5080 chonk of a graphics card
By Nick Evanson published
Computex Their previous collabs look feeble in comparison, but I reckon they're better-looking.

For this year's Computex, Cooler Master showcases two new PC cases: a fresh look for the legendary Cosmos and a weird-but-cool goldfish bowl 360 Panoramic
By Nick Evanson published
Computex Buy a Cosmos 2025 and just move in. More space and cheaper than your average apartment.

Phison launches the first ever SSD controller to have built-in AI processing, along with some monstrous random data performance figures
By Nick Evanson published
Computex It probably won't appear in any gaming PC. Well, not yet, at least.

Will 2025 be the year that CAMM2 memory finally makes a proper entrance? Rambus and Team Group believe it is
By Nick Evanson published
Computex All aboard for the CAMM2 can-can.

Gigabyte unveils its second generation of X3D Turbo Mode, for squeezing up to 15% more performance from Ryzen X3D CPUs
By Nick Evanson published
Computex Up to 15% more performance with one click in the motherboard BIOS? Hmmm…

Microsoft wants everyone to use an open-source technology to create an 'agentic web' where AI agents interact with other AI agents
By Nick Evanson published
news Forget ChatGPT and other LLMs, agentic AI is where it's at now.

Best RAM for gaming in 2025: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.

Thanks to the Computex, we now know that there's an RTX 5070-like GPU inside Nvidia's 'supercomputer at home' DGX Spark
By Nick Evanson published
Computex Shame you won't be gaming with the little box because it'd make for one heck of a NUC.

Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang boasts that one spine of its new NVLink Fusion tech can 'move more traffic than the entire Internet'
By Nick Evanson published
Computex And unusually for Nvidia tech, it'll work with other vendors' CPUs, too.

Intel's next batch of CPUs might still be called Core Ultra 200S, possibly because the Arrow Lake refresh won't be much of a boost
By Nick Evanson published
news Anybody want a bigger NPU? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Best CPU for gaming in 2025: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

Keychron M5 review
By Nick Evanson published
Straight up This is what you get if you take an ergonomic, vertical mouse shell and stuff ultra-fast gaming hardware inside it.

Musk's Colossus data center for Grok is at the centre of an environmental row over air quality in South Memphis
By Nick Evanson published
news "From the beginning, the company operated with a stunning lack of transparency that left impacted communities in the dark."
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