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
Fake online reviews and false testimonials are now banned by America's FTC
By Nick Evanson published
News The new rules also apply to ungrounded legal, physical threats, and other forms of intimidation to suppress negative customer reviews.
This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop
By Nick Evanson published
News If you're keen on logging your logs, then the Throne might be just up your alley.
The Snapdragon X dev kit that we thought looked pretty cool turned out to be so bad that Qualcomm ended up cancelling it
By Nick Evanson published
News The few that had already bought one will get their money back, at least.
Channel your inner Professor X by turning your gaming chair into Cerebro with this strap-on 7.1.2 surround sound speaker
By Nick Evanson published
News It might just help you to sit better in your chair and avoid the dreaded 'gamer hunch', too.
The world's smallest 'ruler' can measure down to a mere 0.1 nm—the width of a single atom or as small as TSMC and Intel would like their transistors to be
By Nick Evanson published
Alas, the technique won't work with microchips but there are other ways to peek inside those.
The first 3D V-Cache Zen 5 chip could arrive just in time to spoil Intel's Arrow Lake party but whenever it does appear, you can be sure it won't be cheap
By Nick Evanson published
News AMD is in a position where it can charge whatever it likes for its golden gaming goose.
As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 11 24H2 update, owners of certain Western Digital SSDs have been greeted with constant Blue Screens of Death
By Nick Evanson published
News Has there ever been a major Windows update that hasn't messed up something somewhere?
Excess stock and poor SSD sales look set to pull flash memory prices down by up to 10%
By Nick Evanson published
news It's the same old story, folks.
'As far as I know, there's only one person in the world who could do that.' Nvidia's CEO praises Elon Musk for a 'superhuman' feat
By Nick Evanson published
news Naturally, the fact that X has bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of GPUs has nothing to do with such praise. No siree.
'Correctness comes first. Performance improves next.' Fedora Asahi Remix project brings Windows PC gaming to Apple silicon Macs
By Nick Evanson published
news That's great news for Mac owners and potentially PC owners, too.
The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
Pining for more USB Type-C ports on your motherboard? ASRock's solution is a wee bit extreme
By Nick Evanson published
news Just one or two Type-A ports around the back would be nice, though.
Nvidia might be considering using sockets for its next AI mega GPUs but that's not going to happen with its GeForce graphics cards
By Nick Evanson published
news For once, it looks like Nvidia is taking a leaf from AMD's book on how to do chips.
MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk Wi-Fi motherboard review
By Nick Evanson published
USB overload With more ports than a shipping hub, MSI's new X870 motherboard is one for the USB enthusiast.
Best UK October Prime Day PC gaming deals
By Nick Evanson last updated
Prime Day Deals And it's not just Amazon dropping the prices on everything PC gaming.
Save up to £249 on one of AMD's best RDNA 3 GPUs, thanks to these Prime Day graphics card deals
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals Whether you game at 1080p, 1440p, or 4K, there's a GPU just for you.
Dygma Defy ergonomic keyboard review
By Nick Evanson published
Expensive ergo Powerful, pretty, and very, very pricey. Alas, not perfect.
I spent 14 hours flying 6,230 miles to watch MSI make me a new motherboard in just 40 minutes
By Nick Evanson published
Mobo making It's more machines than humans but people are still at the heart of making sure it's all good.
Starfield: Shattered Space performance analysis—New DLC, new patch, same old frame rates
By Nick Evanson published
New World FPS It seems that Morrowind was more than just an inspiration for the DLC's design.
Zen 5 revisited: Testing what a new BIOS and Windows update does for AMD's Ryzen 9000 chips
By Nick Evanson published
Once again zen Ryzen 5 and 7 models get more power and all of them get better OS support. Good news, right?
'It's certainly not going to be business as usual because business at the moment is not as we'd like it'—Corsair CEO on its Fanatec acquisition
By Nick Evanson published
news Fanatec was in a total mess but it looks like Corsair is planning to fix it all.
Hacking wizard gets Linux to run on a 1971 processor, though it takes almost 5 days to boot the kernel
By Nick Evanson published
news The real magic is that the chip has to emulate another old chip to manage the feat.
The new Unity 6 game engine demo looks spectacular but is it enough to convince developers to return?
By Nick Evanson published
news Professional game makers care very much about how Unity operates as a business these days.
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