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
Self-taught hardware engineer discovers that GPUs really are ridiculously complex and hard to design after all
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news The project is available online if you fancy giving it a go yourself.
Coffee and PC gaming ground together in perfect harmony, in this fabulous Scandi wood-sauna-themed build
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news Every Nerdforge project makes me miss my engineering days and this could be the one to make me start all over again.
AMD's start to 2024: Big gains in client and data center, big falls in gaming
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news Data, AI, and compute are where all the money is at right now.
PCIe 5.0 is nearly four years old and it's still virtually worthless in gaming PCs
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PCIe progress pains Gen 4 stuff is not only cheaper, it's also better. Now that's progress for you.
I watched the first Autonomous Racing League event and while it certainly wasn't exciting, it was unintentionally hilarious
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news Will it ever be exciting to what a bunch of AIs race against each other? Place your bets now.
Suffering so you don't have to, this streamer has doubled up on haptic suits to feel the real pain of Skyrim VR
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news I'm so bad at VR games that I'd be permanently on the floor, whimpering like a scared puppy.
Early benchmark suggests Intel's Battlemage GPU in Lunar Lake has lots of low-power promise
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news But it's still too soon to tell if it'll be any good at gaming.
Intel points at motherboard vendors for recent CPU instability issues but the chip maker isn't entirely blame-free
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news That Spider-Man meme is probably the simplest way to describe the whole debacle.
NASA manages to fix Voyager's garbled data problem, even though it's more than 15 billion miles away
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news With hardware older than an Atari 2600, it's amazing Voyager 1 is still even running, let alone sending gobbledegook.
RDNA 3+ edges closer as AMD hints at refreshed GPU architecture in its Linux firmware
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news Don't expect major changes to the architecture, as that's been all kept for RDNA 4.
Asus adds 'Intel Baseline Profile' to new BIOS files to combat stability issues but the TDP is still higher than Intel's actual baselines
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news Is it really that hard to have a BIOS setting that enforces all of Intel's stock values?
With nine BIOS updates and a new warranty extension, Asus is trying its best to move forward from the ROG Ally's SD card woes
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news There is one significant caveat with that warranty, though.
A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all
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news My money's on the universe being like Civ 6, with its borked-n-bonkers AI.
Microsoft's VASA-1 takes AI-generated video one step closer to 'aw hell, we're all doomed'
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news The researchers are targeting 'positive applications' for their work, so that's alright then.
Best external hard drives in 2024
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TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
Do reviews of 'bad' products really kill off companies? Not according to one famous tech YouTuber and we absolutely agree
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news The truth can hurt sometimes but if something's bad, it's bad.
Intel will have spent over $160,000,000,000 on new fabs, assembly, packaging, testing and R&D facilities by 2030
By Nick Evanson published
news Big bucks on big projects equals big expectations. No pressure, then.
Logitech's booked a seat on the AI hype train with its new AI Prompt Builder and forthcoming AI button-enabled mouse
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news ChatGPT at the press of a button might not sound all that impressive, but it's surprisingly quite good.
Great Scott! Asus' Back to the Future cable-hiding system is no gimmick, it's the future of gaming and enthusiast PCs
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Hidden treasure It's not cable-less, it's cable-hidden, and it's flipping brilliant.
Nixxes is 'sort of waiting for FSR 3.1' before adding AMD's frame generation to Horizon Forbidden West because it wants 'the latest and greatest before integrating it'
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news Better to do it right first time, rather than just churn something out and have to fix it later.
Western Digital will be shipping 4TB SD cards in 2025 for handhelds, laptops, or anything that needs tiny-BIG storage
By Nick Evanson published
news As well as for anyone wanting to lose a mountain of data because they can't find it in a drawer.
Intel's new LGA 1851 socket breaks cover giving us even more pins to mush with an errant thumb
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news Arrow Lake looks like it will give us an even better chance of ruining things when mishandling the motherboard. Sweet.
Which is the best $700 AMD Ryzen gaming PC: a handheld or desktop PC?
By Nick Evanson published
APU or handheld? Putting a Ryzen 7 8700G system in a head-to-head with the Asus ROG Ally to see what's what.
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