
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 ed 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 its to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days?
Latest articles by Nick Evanson

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.

Best SSD deals for gaming today
By Jacob Ridley last updated
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.

Grab a 37% discount on the newly upgraded version of the best AIO liquid cooler you can buy, Arctic's Liquid Freezer III
By Nick Evanson published
Deal A thick 360 mm radiator, three RGB fans, and a built-in VRM blower, all for under $92.

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.

Intel's Core Ultra 265KF is down to $279 this Memorial Day and you get a free 1 TB SSD plus two games to enjoy with this deal
By Nick Evanson published
Deal It might not be the best gaming U around but it is great value for money.

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 U 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 Us
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' Us, too.

Intel's next batch of Us 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 U 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 U 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.

Rip and tear into Doom: The Dark Ages with $300 off this easily upgradeable RTX 5070 gaming PC
By Nick Evanson published
Deal $1,500 gets you a whole lot of gaming goodness. You know, for wading through hordes of Hell's minions and whatnot.

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."

One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you'll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it
By Nick Evanson published
news It's real, it's bling, its price tag is stratospheric: The gold-plated RTX 5090 from Asus finally goes on sale.
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