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PSPad
How to use the PS5 controller on PC
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
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News
The latest version of Intel's XeSS 2 now lets other GPUs run its AI-based frame generation system, throwing RTX 30-series owners a Team Blue-shaped bone
By Nick Evanson Last updated
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Steam On
The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
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News
We just got our first proper look at GPD's battery-optional Strix Halo handheld gaming PC and I'm still unconvinced
By James Bentley Published
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Whoosh
Air coolers are still cool
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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Quality cans
Best gaming headsets in 2025: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
By Dave James Last updated
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Score: 91%
Razer BlackShark V3 gaming headset review
By Dave James Published
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Controllers
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PSPad
How to use the PS5 controller on PC
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
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News
I don't think they should make this
By Lincoln Carpenter Published
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news
Sony finally acknowledges the minor, but annoying part of using a PS5 controller on PC with an update that will make my life easier
By Tyler Colp Published
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News
I have no idea what I'd use this gorgeous retro futuristic macropad for, but at $99 I'm thinking of slamming the buy button anyway
By Andy Edser Published
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8BitDo's newest Pro 3 Controller has magnetic swappable face buttons for Switch and Xbox configurations
By Hope Corrigan Published
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News
If you're on the latest Windows 11 Insider build you might have to uninstall your Xbox controller driver to get it to play nicely
By Jacob Fox Published
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News
This YouTube channel is converting a 3,287-hour FAA-certified flight simulator into a gaming PC-based sim rig and it wants your help
By Andy Edser Published
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Prime Day
If you're at all into driving games you should treat yourself to one of these Prime Day racing wheel deals
By Kara Phillips Published
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Prime Day
I only have eyes for this TMR controller—especially now it's less than $50 in the Prime Day sales
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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Cooling
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Whoosh
Air coolers are still cool
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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Score: 88%
Tryx Panorama SE ARGB 360 review
By Zak Storey Published
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News
If you've ever wondered if Japanese blossom-scented thermal paste in a weeb-inspired applicator is worth using, we have at long last the scientific answer to the greatest quandary of our time
By Nick Evanson Published
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News
AMD's mighty 96-core Threadripper Pro has been overclocked with a car radiator and some big ol' beefy fans, and I am remarkably satisfied
By Andy Edser Published
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Top pick
You don't need to buy a liquid cooler with a screen: Arctic's Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 ARGB has everything you need, and that's why it's our new top recommendation
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Cool Breeze
Best CPU coolers in 2025: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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Wetware
Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2025: I've tried all the best AIO coolers and these are my top picks
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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Score: 90%
Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 ARGB review
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Score: 68%
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Pro review
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Gaming Audio
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Quality cans
Best gaming headsets in 2025: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
By Dave James Last updated
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Score: 91%
Razer BlackShark V3 gaming headset review
By Dave James Published
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Score: 79%
Razer BlackShark V3 Pro review
By Dave James Published
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news
Finally, Razer launches the fully updated sequel. The BlackShark V3 Pro goes all in on esports with less latency, ANC, and 12 pro-curated EQs for in-game sound
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Score: 59%
Nacon Rig 900 Max HS review
By Andy Edser Published
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Score: 85%
SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3X wireless gaming headset review
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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Score: 62%
Sony WF-C710N review
By James Bentley Published
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Closed cans
I've just crowned these Beyerdynamic headphones as the best audiophile closed-back cans, although it's a shame about the lack of microphone
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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Audiophile
The best audiophile headphones for gaming in 2025: my top recommendations for the best cans money can buy
By Dave James Last updated
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Gaming Chairs
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Score: 55%
Flexispot OC3/BS3 review
By James Bentley Published
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Prime Day
One of the best gaming chairs has just dropped to its lowest ever price at $147: Corsair's TC100 is what Prime Day deals are all about
By James Bentley Published
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Prime Day
If I needed a gaming chair right now, our favorite budget Corsair choice would be my pick now that it's less than $200
By James Bentley Published
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Take a seat
Best gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Score: 79%
Razer Iskur V2 X review
By Ian Evenden Published
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Couch potato
Couchmaster Cycon3 review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Ergo
'Most chairs labeled as 'gaming' chairs are simply budget task chairs with colorful accent stripes': here's what annoys industry experts the most about gaming chairs
By Dave James Published
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Ow.
AndaSeat Novis gaming chair review
By Kizito Katawonga Published
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Take a seat
Best office chairs for gaming in 2025: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested
By Dave James Last updated
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Gaming Desks
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There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it
By James Bentley Published
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Top Desks
Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
By Dave James Last updated
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Thunder X3 Lab-X review
By James Bentley Published
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ALL THE SPACE
Ikea Utespelare desk review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Rising RGB
Blacklyte Atlas review
By Nick Evanson Last updated
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Tidy
Thermaltake Gaming Desk Pegboard (Medium) review
By Jacob Fox Published
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Stay Frosty
Dezctop Bifrost Elite 160 gaming desk review
By Dave James Published
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Crushing shame
Flexispot E2Q gaming desk review
By Alistair Jones Published
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Handy L
Flexispot E7L adjustable standing desk review
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Gaming Keyboards
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This futuristic keyboard from the past and some street stylin' peripherals are the result of this latest gaming hardware collab
By Hope Corrigan Published
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news
Cherry brings its MX2A hot-swappable wireless keyboard and graphene fabric mousepad to the United States
By Hope Corrigan Published
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News
This keyboard looks like it's been plucked straight from Half-Life 1 with how well it replicates low-res classic game textures
By Jacob Fox Published
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Score: 60%
Asus ROG Azoth X review
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Score: 70%
Corsair MAKR 75 keyboard review
By Phil Iwaniuk Published
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Prime Day
I genuinely can't believe how cheap wireless Hall effect gaming keyboards are, with our pick for the best budget keeb getting a Prime Day price cut
By James Bentley Published
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Prime Day
Does your keyboard suck? Good news, the best gaming keeb we've ever tested is on discount this Prime Day and it's poised to give your current model a thrashing
By Andy Edser Published
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Prime Day
Bringing joy to wallets and wrists alike, two of my favorite ergonomic keyboards are both discounted in the Prime Day sales
By Nick Evanson Published
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Prime Day
My favorite rapid trigger keyboard has an OLED screen for game information, and has now hit its lowest ever price this Prime Day
By James Bentley Published
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Gaming Laptops
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News
The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 chip in the laptop I've been testing just scored over 1,000,000 in Cinebench, breaking space and time and sending me whirling around my room like a nut in a blender
By Jacob Fox Published
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Deals
Best cheap gaming laptop deals
By Dave James Last updated
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Deal
Nobody panic but I've just found maybe the best deal you can get on a Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop right now
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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Deal
I reckon this RTX 4070-equipped 14-inch gaming laptop is the unsung star of our deals pages, so let's give it some time in the sun
By Andy Edser Published
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Score: 81%
Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI gaming laptop review
By Ian Evenden Published
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Deal
Our new favourite 14-inch gaming laptop still has $400 knocked off the price at Razer right now, even after the dust has settled on the Prime Day sales
By Andy Edser Published
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Prime Day
If you'd told me RTX 50-series gaming laptops would deliver the best Prime Day deals I would have laughed in your stupid face. And yet here we are at the end...
By Andy Edser Published
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Prime Day
Pour one out for the stunning RTX 5080 gaming laptop deal that is now merely a good one. I mean, it remains the cheapest RTX 5080 notebook you'll find, but still 🥲
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Prime Day Deals
Amazon Prime Day gaming laptop deals
By Dave James Last updated
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Gaming Mice
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Snek
I've just anointed the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro as our new best gaming mouse because... well, it's simply better than the rest in almost every conceivable way
By Andy Edser Published
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Pinpoint
Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
By Dave James Last updated
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Unbound
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
By Dave James Last updated
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Deal
Glorious has fixed the main issues I had with this super-speedy 8K gaming mouse and at $55 I reckon it's now a bit of a bargain
By Andy Edser Published
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Score: 90%
Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro gaming mouse review
By Dave James Published
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News
Endgame Gear confirms it had malware-compromised mouse software on its official site but promises changes to prevent it happening again
By Jacob Fox Last updated
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Deal
Don't scroll away! The best wireless gaming mouse is now the cheapest it's ever been at less than $75
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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Rodent revolution
PC gamers don't have many options for CPUs and graphics cards but when it comes to gaming mice, we're absolutely spoiled for choice
By Nick Evanson Published
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Score: 80%
Razer Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition review
By Nick Evanson Published
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Gaming Monitors
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Deals
Best cheap gaming monitor deals today
By Dave James Last updated
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Score: 89%
Philips Evnia 27M2N3800A review
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Deal
This Acer gaming monitor is the absolute cheapest I'd actually buy now that it's at its lowest ever price
By James Bentley Published
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news
MSI releases new all-bright HDR mode update for its QD-OLED gaming monitors but OLED's underlying limitations remain
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Prime Day
Uberwide 49-inch OLED gaming monitors used to be $2,000, you can still get one for $729 and it might just be the best Prime Day monitor deal around
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Prime Day Deals
Amazon Prime Day gaming monitor deals
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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Prime Day
Get big, get curved, get OLED, and get happy with a huge $400 saving on this luscious Prime Day 32" 4K Acer gaming monitor
By Nick Evanson Published
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Prime Day
I've been reviewing screens since forever, and the Prime Day gaming monitor deals this year are the best I've ever seen
By Jeremy Laird Last updated
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Prime Day
A 4K 32-inch MSI OLED gaming monitor for $699? Please take my money and call it quits for Prime Day 2025
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Gaming PCs
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What kind of gamer are you? There's a rig for that.
By Jacob York Published
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News
Corsair's Strix Halo mini PC will set you back $2,300 for the top model, but boring old AI productivity is the name of the game
By Nick Evanson Published
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Deal
RTX 5060 Ti gaming PCs are finally starting to approach actual budget prices and for $200 off this is the one I'd pick from the bunch
By Jacob Fox Published
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deal
Best cheap gaming PC deals
By Dave James Last updated
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Score: 81%
Alienware Area-51 gaming PC review
By Dave James Published
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News
A capacitor 'mix-up' is causing some mini PCs to fail and it's giving me flashbacks to the great capacitor plague of the early '00s
By Jacob Fox Published
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Deal
Now Prime Day is over, AMD gaming PCs have returned to the top of the value pile, case in point this RX 9070 XT and 9800X3D build
By Jacob Fox Published
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Prime Day
This Zotac RTX 5080 rig is still $1,000 off and better and cheaper than every other gaming PC deal I've seen over Prime Day
By Jacob Fox Published
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Prime Day
It's that classic Prime Day conundrum of 'Do I buy a big boi RTX 5090 graphics card or an entire Ryzen 9800X3D, RTX 5080 gaming PC with a monitor to boot?'
By Nick Evanson Published
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Graphics Cards
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News
The latest version of Intel's XeSS 2 now lets other GPUs run its AI-based frame generation system, throwing RTX 30-series owners a Team Blue-shaped bone
By Nick Evanson Last updated
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News
Nvidia says it's game over come October for GTX 10, 9 and 7-series graphics cards driver support but RTX owners running Windows 10 are getting an extra year of grace
By Jeremy Laird Published
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AMD's rumoured to be plotting a new ultra high-end gaming GPU, plus a $550 graphics card with RTX 5080 performance, but sadly we probably won't see either until 2027
By Jeremy Laird Published
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News
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers gets another patch to improve performance, though the fixes appear to be nothing more than forcing on upscaling, even when it's supposed to be off
By Nick Evanson Published
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News
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su says she can see AI 'helping us design the next-generation GPU much faster and more reliably'
By Jacob Fox Published
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News
Keep this to yourself, but a BIOS with a theoretical 2,001 W power limit exists for this absurdly overbuilt Galax RTX 5090 D
By Andy Edser Published
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News
If you want to know why graphics cards are still so painfully pricey, you might want to take a look at TSMC's record-high profits which are heading for $50 billion this year
By Jeremy Laird Published
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OptiScaler has been updated to theoretically support AMD's FSR 4 in all games with upscaling that don't use Vulkan or anti-cheat—which is nice, but why the heck doesn't AMD do this?
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Deal
So much for the Amazon Prime Day sales because here's a whole bunch of different GPUs that are even cheaper than they were last week
By Nick Evanson Published
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Handheld Gaming PCs
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Steam On
The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
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News
We just got our first proper look at GPD's battery-optional Strix Halo handheld gaming PC and I'm still unconvinced
By James Bentley Published
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News
The first gaming benchmarks for AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme show memory bandwidth is hobbling the full potential the new handheld chip
By Nick Evanson Published
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News
Ayaneo confirms a Strix Halo handheld gaming PC is on the way, but if you think the powerful AMD chip is overkill, wait until you see the M.2 slots
By James Bentley Published
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News
AMD's powerful Strix Halo chip has been stuffed inside a handheld gaming PC, and it only requires carrying a battery in a backpack
By James Bentley Published
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News
Better grips, OLED screen, and more memory: Our first actual look at the Lenovo Legion Go 2 is everything I wanted in the original
By Jacob Fox Published
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News
This Redditor says it wasn't even that difficult to get a sub-$100 broken Steam Deck working again with parts from an old Nintendo DS Lite: 'not that hard at all'
By Jacob Fox Published
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News
This might be the first AMD Strix Halo chip in a handheld gaming PC we've seen, but I'm more excited for those mini PCs around the corner
By Jacob Fox Published
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News
The Nintendo DS had it right all along: Ayaneo launches Flip 1S DS and Flip 1S KB, two new clamshell handheld gaming PCs with prices to make your teeth clench
By Andy Edser Published
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Lighting
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Prime Day
I own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales
By James Bentley Published
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Prime Day
I may not need a full-blown Logitech streaming light but I'm mighty tempted now that it's 27% off in this early Prime Day deal
By James Bentley Published
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Light it up!
The best desk lighting in 2025: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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As if I needed any more RGB lights, this Govee x Evangelion light kit we gave a 91% is still $60 off for Cyber Monday
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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Deal
I find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here's a set from Neewer that's nearly buy one, get one free for Black Friday
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Reactive
Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review
By Josh Brown Published
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Sync'd
Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review
By Josh Brown Published
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Scripted
Elgato Light Strip Pro review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Unit 01
Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Memory
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Team Group joins the mega memory kit clan, launching a set of 256 GB DDR5-6000 for gamers and creators who just never have enough RAM
By Nick Evanson Published
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Score: 70%
Crucial 128 GB DDR5-6400 CUDIMM review
By Nick Evanson Published
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Prime Day
MS Flight Sim 24 is the canary in the coal mine for RAM requirements, so I'm eyeballing these Prime Day deals on 64 GB kits for my next upgrade
By Nick Evanson Published
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Prime Day
I don't need 64 GB of RAM but I am tempted when prices are as low as they are right now for genuinely speedy sticks
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Prime Day
Once you're above a certain speed, it's all about CAS latency with your RAM and there are my top early Prime Day picks so far
By Nick Evanson Published
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Computex
Will 2025 be the year that CAMM2 memory finally makes a proper entrance? Rambus and Team Group believe it is
By Nick Evanson Published
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Dynamic
Best RAM for gaming in 2025: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
By Chris Szewczyk Last updated
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News
Samsung rakes in nearly $5 billion profit from companies hoarding memory chips like Smaug ahead of Trump's tumultuous tariffs
By James Bentley Published
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News
G.Skill's 128 GB golden RAM kit is the first high-capacity set to hit DDR5-8000 speeds and it's making me reconsider my views on PC hardware bling
By Andy Edser Published
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Motherboards
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Best Mobo
Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
By Dave James Last updated
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News
If you're using an Intel 8–11th Gen CPU with a Gigabyte motherboard, update your BIOS to protect from a newly discovered vulnerability
By Jacob Fox Published
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Score: 79%
NZXT N7 Z890 review
By Antony Leather Published
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Score: 80%
NZXT N9 X870E review
By Antony Leather Published
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Score: 84%
NZXT N9 Z890 review
By Antony Leather Published
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Budget steel
This B860 motherboard is what I'd pair with a Core Ultra 265K to make a powerful pairing for about $500
By Jacob Fox Published
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Yoink
Call me Victor Kermit Kiam, cos I liked this mobo so much I built my new gaming PC around it
By Dave James Published
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Mini marvels
Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested
By Nick Evanson Last updated
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Mini
ASRock Phantom Gaming B860I Lightning Wi-Fi review
By Antony Leather Published
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More about Hardware
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Score: 91%
Razer BlackShark V3 gaming headset review
By Dave James Published
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News
Nearly two-thirds of Brits surveyed about the UK's new age verification laws think the changes aren't effective, but even more support them being made in the first place
By Nick Evanson Published
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SPONSORED
What kind of gamer are you? There's a rig for that.
By Jacob York Published
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