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
Retesting Ghost of Tsushima with a fresh Arc A770 shows that Intel has a mountain to climb to compete against AMD and Nvidia
By Nick Evanson published
Ghost of Arc But at least the latest game patch and AMD drivers mean RDNA 3 owners can fully enjoy the game now.
Could Arm's legal battle with Qualcomm over technology licences stop Copilot+ PCs from really taking off?
By Nick Evanson published
news Nearly two years on and there's still no sign of the two companies coming to an agreement.
MediaTek is aiming to do a Qualcomm and make Arm chips for Copilot+ PCs, targeting a 2025 release
By Nick Evanson published
news But does this mean the Nvidia collaboration is still on or has that gone the way of the dodo?
AMD's new Ryzen AI laptop chips aren't officially supported on Windows 10, thanks to its NPU and Copilot+
By Nick Evanson published
news But don't worry, Ryzen AI laptops should still run that operating system perfectly fine.
Fresh rumours claim Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell cards won't have a wider memory bus or more VRAM—apart from the RTX 5090
By Nick Evanson published
news Are we reaching the limits of GPU innovation or is it just a lack of serious competition? Place your bets now, folks.
Ryzen 9000 X3D chips could be with us by September, just three months after AMD's Zen 5 launch
By Nick Evanson published
news Only one source claiming this right now but Zen 5 appeared sooner than we expected, too.
Microsoft makes Recall an optional feature on Copilot+ PCs after it 'heard a clear signal' from the public
By Nick Evanson published
news Better security has been added too but does that matter when you now have the option to ignore a feature nobody asked for?
Powercolor's Edge AI aims to significantly reduce GPU power consumption without a big hit in frame rates
By Nick Evanson published
news It's very much a work in progress right now but the concept looks promising.
Microsoft details how its Automatic Super Resolution upscaler will benefit gamers with Copilot+ AI PCs
By Nick Evanson published
news It's not like FSR, DLSS, or XeSS and that's a good thing. It's also a bad thing.
AMD is 'working actively on really cool differentiators' to make the next generation of 3D V-cache 'even better'
By Nick Evanson published
news X3D versions of Ryzen 9000-series chips won't be announced for a good while, though.
Gigabyte's been autograph hunting with signatures from Jen-Hsun, Pat, and Lisa for some of its GPUs and motherboards
By Nick Evanson published
news We tried to write PC Gamer all over Gigabyte's Computex display but they shooed us away.
AMD is right about AI PCs being 'the biggest change in the PC form factor in the last decade' but it's not because of AI
By Nick Evanson published
It's not AI PC, it's just PC Good competition drives innovation and development, not fads and phrases.
ThunderX3 shows off two new gaming chairs, an update to one of the best gaming chairs you can buy and a funky-looking mesh model
By Nick Evanson published
news Best of all, the replacement for the brilliant ThunderX3 Smart is actually $100 cheaper.
Thanks to billionaires and businesses going mad for AI, Nvidia's market cap rockets past $3 trillion, pushing Apple into third place
By Nick Evanson published
news Microsoft is fractionally ahead and you guessed it—that's all down to AI, too.
Aerocool's budget CPU cooler looks like it was inspired by running a Founders Edition through a bandsaw
By Nick Evanson published
news It's a very clean and cool design, though, whatever the inspiration for it was.
Power your laptop, while capturing its video output, with Avermedia's new 100W GaN charger
By Nick Evanson published
news It's one seriously beefy charger but how many can claim to be a capture card too?
Capture up to 4K gaming footage from your Steam Deck with Avermedia's new X'Tra Go docking station
By Nick Evanson published
news No additional hardware is required, just an SD card for the dock.
Qualcomm's CEO on AI performance in laptops: 'People talk about TOPS but they should be talking watts'
By Nick Evanson published
news NPUs in processors are all well and good, but not if they make them power-hungry.
Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang reflects on how AI already creates pixels and entire frames, before saying that 'games will be generated with AI'
By Nick Evanson published
news Meshes, textures, and even complete NPCs could soon be AI-generated on gaming PCs.
Hyte's updated Y70 PC case range, with more colours and a better touchscreen, looks pretty darn lovely
By Nick Evanson published
news It's about time we had more options, other than the ubiquitous black or white.
Sony's PSVR 2 virtual reality headset will get an adaptor for PCs this summer but its best features will remain exclusive to PlayStation
By Nick Evanson published
news Sony just doing Sony things in the Sony way, I guess.
Asus has ROG-ified its monstrous BE19000 Wi-Fi 7 router to be more Thargoid than ever before
By Nick Evanson published
news Ludicrous looks and speed, but I still kind of want one, no matter how pricey it is.
We've got our hands on AMD Strix Point and Granite Ridge, and they're both so pretty
By Nick Evanson published
news Has silicon ever looked so silky and sweet?
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