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

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.

October Prime Day SSD deals
By Nick Evanson last updated
Prime Day SSDs An SSD can do wonders for your load times and there are some great deals on these flashy wonders in the Prime Day sales.

Geekom beats Amazon at its own Prime game, with 20% off its tiny AX8 Pro mini PC
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals The deal ends today, so you'll need to be quick if you want to save $180.

The Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro, one of the best wireless gaming mice around, is at its lowest-ever Amazon price—save $40 in Jeff's big sales
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals Only $11 more expensive than my favourite gaming mouse, the DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed.

Need some speedy DDR5 for a new build or gaming PC upgrade? This Team Group 32 GB kit is just $86
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals No RGB but it's genuinely fast, low-latency stuff.

Thanks to Prime Day, this Radeon RX 7700 XT is the cheapest it's ever been on Amazon, now just $350
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals A Prime Day graphics card deal to warm the heart.

I've beaten the best Prime Day gaming PC deal with a rig built completely from Big Deal Days parts
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals And it's a bit faster and has twice as much storage. You'll need your own OS, though...

Don't fancy a Prime Day pre-built? This is how I would upgrade a gaming PC platform for under $460
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day deals Breath new life into an ageing PC with a speedy CPU, feature-rich motherboard, and fast DDR5 RAM.

Save up to $80 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.

Grab a pre-Prime Day deal with this fast 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor for just $160
By Nick Evanson published
deal It'll be hard to find a better deal in the sales next week.

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?

Blazing speed or top value-for-money? Take your pick with these two great SSD deals
By Nick Evanson published
deal SSD prices are still all over the place at the moment but you can snap up some genuine bargains.

'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.

OpenAI's CEO vision of humanity's AI-powered glorious future: 'Fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics'
By Nick Evanson published
news Some of you may be unemployed in the future but it's a sacrifice that AI is willing to make.

MSI's new top-end PSU boasts two 12V-2x6 sockets for twin GPUs, or just one really, really big one
By Nick Evanson published
news I don't need a PSU that can handle 1200 W worth of GPUs but I do kinda want one.

If Nvidia couldn't buy Arm, then Qualcomm's rumoured Intel buyout isn't going to happen either
By Nick Evanson published
news For the mobile chip firm, the only thing Intel has of worth right now are x86 licenses.
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