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
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D CPU review
By Nick Evanson published
Cache for cash It's just a 5800X3D, except a bit slower and a whole lot cheaper. Which actually makes it better.
The CrowdStrike IT outage is pretty grim but let's hope it's not as bad as the infamous Dyn DDoS attack, Facebook mega-crash, and Rogers network disaster
By Nick Evanson published
news This one looks as bad as they come and there have been some truly massive IT problems in recent years.
AMD's tweaked RDNA 3.5 GPU is solely focused on improving mobile gaming performance
By Nick Evanson published
news There are plenty of little changes under the hood to help the graphics processor do more for less power.
Best cheap 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.
Amazon Prime 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.
If you love gaming as much as I do, then load up on NVMe storage with these 4 TB Prime Day SSD deals
By Nick Evanson last updated
Prime Day They're big enough to hold two dozen or so copies of Baldur's Gate 3, my latest storage metric of choice.
The best budget wireless gaming mouse is now even budget-ier thanks to Prime Day
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day It's as basic as gaming mice get but it's all the better for it.
A frankly monstrous Prime Day PC 'deal' has made me very, very angry, so here are three far superior gaming PCs I'd buy in a flash
By Nick Evanson last updated
Prime Day Be wary of cheap PCs as not all of them use good components. Some use parts that are over a decade old.
At less than $400, this AMD Zen 4 CPU, motherboard, and RAM Prime Day combo is the perfect upgrade for any PC gamer
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day Don't think it's all slow rubbish stuff at this price. You're getting proper hardware that's fast for gaming.
Here are the five best PC cases I'd buy in the Prime Day sales bonanza
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day Whether you want outstanding looks, masses of airflow, or something simple but great, these deals should suit every PC gamer's needs.
Make your PC life easier on the wrist with these Prime Day ergonomic mice deals, including my daily ergo rodent of choice
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day If you spend long hours working at a PC, then give your wrists the support they deserve with a proper ergonomic mouse.
At less than $0.05 per GB, this Prime Day SSD is the perfect way to bag NVMe speed for a HDD price
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day Who doesn't love a nice SSD bargain? Not me, that's for sure.
Scared off by Intel's 13th and 14th Gen calamities? These are the AMD chips I'd buy in the Prime Day deals
By Nick Evanson published
Deal Six-core chiplets offer plenty of punch in games so if you're looking to save some money, then either of these CPUs are a great deal.
Who needs Prime Day when the Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed is already a great deal on the best gaming mouse?
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day Save even more money by getting a slower DeathAdder that's lighter and better than the V3 Pro.
Two great GPUs, two great pre-Prime Day graphics card deals, one tough choice
By Nick Evanson published
Prime Day An RTX 4070 for under $500 or an RX 7900 GRE for less than $510—do you want better ray tracing, upscaling and frame generation, or do you want better rasterization performance?
Researchers create Dune-like pee-pants for the next generation of astronauts and maybe even wealthy, overly 'dedicated' gamers
By Nick Evanson published
news The design looks far more appealing than the adult diapers spacewalkers currently have to use.
It's 2024 and yet Intel is still churning out DUAL CORE CPUs for desktop PCs, and I'm a little in awe of the plucky trooper
By Nick Evanson published
news Two P-cores are all you're getting, but they're speedy little things, so it's not as awful as you might think.
Arm has developed a new shader-based upscaler using AMD's open source FSR 2.2 as its starting base
By Nick Evanson published
news Not that anyone needed a reminder but once again, open-source licencing is to thank for all of this.
Samsung workers union is calling for an indefinite strike, to which the bosses claim there will infeasibly be 'no disruptions' to production
By Nick Evanson published
news All while TSMC enjoys a market cap just shy of one trillion dollars.
At just $850, this is the best budget RTX 4050 gaming laptop I've seen in a very long time
By Nick Evanson published
deal Nvidia's little RTX chip is perfect for 1080p gaming and a great match for the speedy AMD Ryzen inside.
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 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.
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?