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
![A photo of a quantum computer hanging from the ceiling of a clean room laboratory](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QADz6rKcfmeHv7t9ngzekF-320-80.jpg)
Multiple governments around the world have secretly agreed to restrict the export of quantum computers
By Nick Evanson published
news The move has stumped the scientific community as there's no obvious reason for it.
![An image showing a rendering gold padlock against a digital background depicting technologies in security systems](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/M3mHWJTZ6C4ToPjQSegNSo-320-80.jpg)
An infamous dataset of leaked login details, updated last week, now houses 9,948,575,739 passwords and poses the biggest threat to our online security ever
By Nick Evanson published
news Another 1.5 billion passwords have just been added to the RockYou dataset, all harvested in only three years.
![A screenshot of the launch presentation of the Ling Long portable PC](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UADL5yvxt5J4gd83zwxmKT-320-80.jpg)
Rip the display off a laptop, snap its keyboard in the middle, and you've got this portable PC you can stick in a pocket
By Nick Evanson published
news Excuse me while I whip this out. Now any of y'all kind folks got a monitor and mouse handy?
![An image of a close-up of a human eye on lap top computer in a domestic kitchen, at night](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pooR83RSQqkqUb6KURuLy6-320-80.jpg)
Microsoft patents a technique to display encrypted documents so only you can see them
By Nick Evanson published
news It seems to be a better system than AMD's Privacy View feature but like all of them, it can't solve one key issue.
![A promotional image of two Micron GDDR7 memory modules against a dark background](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8tYK8R5hWKRWraABLJyJDW-320-80.jpg)
Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM
By Nick Evanson published
news Does 30% more memory bandwidth mean 30% more fps? Let's put it to the test.
![A screenshot of the Ultra test in GPUScore's Breaking Limit ray tracing benchmark tool](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bokCUaaFMm38VPXGRgp7jW-320-80.jpg)
There's a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today's GPUs
By Nick Evanson published
news No prizes for guessing which vendor handles ray tracing the best.
![Kioxia Exceria Plus SSD](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RfeudjxPHyx8mR5pVB8ohm-320-80.jpg)
SSD storage is set to use 1,000 layer memory chips by 2027, potentially offering 20 TB NVMe drives for under $300
By Nick Evanson published
news Given the pace in NAND flash development, that's certainly not impossible, even the price.
![A stock photo showing a close up of an Ethernet cable and connector, with fiber optic cables in the background](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zFLSWv5Cyn7zzyFfTSJG6V-320-80.jpg)
Internet speed record of 402,000,000 Mbps achieved using standard optic fibre cabling, fast enough to download Baldur's Gate 3 in less than four milliseconds
By Nick Evanson published
news A gaming PC with the fastest CPU, DDR5 RAM, and Gen5 SSD would be a massive bottleneck though, so there's no chance you could use this at home.
![Intel Meteor Lake CPU](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/k5GBTN8VpocH6CDhEaVMs7-320-80.jpg)
Intel's Arrow Lake chips could be using a brand new core layout for the first time in years
By Nick Evanson published
news The change could be about boosting multithreading performance. Great news for content creators but not necessarily for gaming, unfortunately.
![AMD Strix Point APU chip, held in a hand, with the reflected light showing the various processing blocks in the chip die](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MJ7bphMH9WHYqXXHgbZ8tb-320-80.jpg)
AMD's Zen 5 APUs are mighty on paper but could've been made mightier and AI is partly to blame
By Nick Evanson published
APU dreams It's a shame that we'll probably never get to see a truly massively capable APU but I'll never stop dreaming.
![Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC port screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2Y5Hv6Xcz6UAKv69E4AMBE-320-80.jpg)
AMD's FSR 3.1 finally arrives, sporting an improved upscaler for less ghosting, flickering, and shimmering in games
By Nick Evanson published
news The frame generation algorithm is also now fully decoupled to allow older Nvidia RTX and Intel Arc cards to use it with their DLSS and XeSS upscalers.
![A photo of a Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed gaming mouse resting on an office desk, with a PCGamer Editor's Pick Award logo in the top right corner](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZdAxgwbzz3HSSKYCWt2cXk-320-80.jpg)
DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed gaming mouse review
By Nick Evanson published
Take a DeathAdder V3 Pro, swap its hardware for something simpler, hack down the price and you've got a brilliant gaming mouse.
![Two photos of artificial skin applied to a structure resembling a human face with eyes](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iKZ9fmWvv3PF29QBFF2F8k-320-80.jpg)
Scientists create a face for robots out of 'cultured human cells' and it's something that I wish I could unsee now
By Nick Evanson published
news That's not a smile, it's a grimace, cursing its existence and longing for the silence of dark eternity.
![A stock photo of a hand holding a NFC card on a sensor, performing a security/id check](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tTjfG8tQhNJVUJLn6Mrnnn-320-80.jpg)
Ever wanted to rip open an NFC travel card to see how it all works? One engineer has done just that and it's way cooler than you'd think
By Nick Evanson published
news Compared to CPUs and GPUs, the 'processor' used is so small that it honestly beggars belief.
![A promotional composite image for Microsoft Teams, showing the software running on a table and phone, surrounded by emojis](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Sv3GL5WkoS3VdhqTitd9sY-320-80.jpg)
Grab your popcorn as Microsoft lands in hot water again with the EU for its 'insufficient' changes to how it bundles Teams
By Nick Evanson published
news There's a potential fine of up to $20 billion if the Commission finds Microsoft guilty of breaching antitrust laws.
![MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics card](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Basjh9SuxUYCUwZw9EKBuE-320-80.jpg)
MSI is using cut-down RTX 4090 GPUs in at least one of its RTX 4070 Ti Super models, with a higher TGP but no extra performance
By Nick Evanson published
news No amount of BIOS hacks will turn it back into a full-blown RTX 4090, though.
![A photo of a Corsair M75 Wireless gaming mouse](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/thdjYVsn9opsApvpkDErfM-320-80.jpg)
Corsair M75 Wireless gaming mouse review
By Nick Evanson published
Ambidextrous delight Righties and lefties rejoice! A wireless gaming mouse that's genuinely suitable for any hand.
![A stock photo of old books on shelves](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tazwyKQsM9dmtgEmwHRGhP-320-80.jpg)
'Devastating loss': Digital lending library, Internet Archive, removes 500,000 books after being sued by publishers
By Nick Evanson published
new It's hoped that a successful appeal will allow Internet Archive to restore its full listing and continue lending the books.
![A promotional photo of a person holding a laptop sporting a tandem OLED display panel by LG](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ELRaSmhSrR9FdxKZRvFtUX-320-80.jpg)
LG brings tandem OLED panels to laptops, claiming three times the brightness and double the lifespan of current self-emissive screens
By Nick Evanson published
news The new display is also claimed to be 40% thinner, 28% lighter, and up to 40% lower power consumption than existing OLED panels. Crikey.
![AMD Strix Point APU chip, held in a hand, with the reflected light showing the various processing blocks in the chip die](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VCkwq2FV7M7bUiVenTvcmb-320-80.jpg)
The first technical deep dive of the Zen 5 architecture is here, with preliminary benchmarks supporting AMD's IPC claims
By Nick Evanson published
news It looks like AMD's new laptop cores are going to be quite a bit less capable than their desktop counterparts, though.
![A screenshot from Elden Ring, showing the player character looking out over a wide, fantasy vista](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cqewfb5Zkju72jkkt2X4FL-320-80.jpg)
Sad times: The big Shadow of the Erdtree Elden Ring patch is still tarnished with micro-stutter. And it's not always that micro
By Nick Evanson published
Scarlet Stutter The persistent stutter issue is elusive, and some systems won't see it at all, but Elden Ring on at least one of my testing PC is still full of scarlet rot.
![AMD logo on rendered chip](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mwLfVSdmBCJ9j2VSfXm7dR-320-80.jpg)
Hackers claim to have carried off an enormous data heist on AMD, selling info on employee and customer information, future products and specs
By Nick Evanson published
news Remember folks, nothing is 100% secure when you store it via a remote service.
![Intel Core i5 14600K on a blue box with Intel logo on it.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uLGCsB6XsTB4aifHk9XXkQ-320-80.jpg)
Intel clarifies what BIOS settings 13th/14th Gen CPUs should be used for power and current
By Nick Evanson published
news No fix for the instability issue yet but using the right settings will certainly help.
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