Hardware

Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits

There's only one budget wireless hall effect controller I'd recommend right now, and my current favorite is only $30

EasySMX D05 review

EasySMX D10 controller review

This simple gaming chair bracket could have saved me years of sim racing with two wooden blocks holding my pedals in place

Hyperkin Competitor review

Best PC racing wheels in 2026: my favorite direct drive and budget steering wheels for sim racing

Best PC controllers in 2026: the pads I recommend for PC gamers

How to use a PS4 controller on PC: Wired and Bluetooth

Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync review

You can chow down on this edible thermal paste made from gold leaf and honey, and it's not as horrible for your temps as you might expect

YouTuber replaces PC fan with 15 miniature fans in unholy experiment dubbed 'The Fanhattan Project', performs pretty much the same as a standard fan

Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync review

Der8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it's really fun

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review

Best CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: Keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers

Noctua once again delays its fan-equipped mouse and 140 mm desk fan but we're still on for the launch of its all-in-one liquid cooler soon

Cambridge Audio L/R S review

Asus ROG Kithara headset review

Asus ROG Cetra Open Wireless review

The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears

EarFun Air Pro 4+ earbuds review

This Logitech wireless gaming headset has the best mic you will find for $130

Logitech G325 Lightspeed review

Razer's magnificent BlackShark V3 is the gaming headset we recommend time and time again, and at $120 it's the obvious choice for your next audio upgrade

Beyerdynamic MMX 150 Wireless gaming headset review

The best gaming chair around is now a little bit better, thanks to Secretlab's not-so-secret sale

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

The Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance

Best office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested

As an awkward sitter, you may need a more dynamic ergonomic chair

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AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

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

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

Ikea Utespelare desk review

Keychron has shared the source files for all its keyboard and mice meaning you could almost build an entire kit from scratch

Cherry K5 Pro TMR Compact magnetic gaming keyboard review

Here's a keycap that's also a watch, for the discerning gamer

Asus ROG Strix Morph 96 Wireless review

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more

You can grab a Hall effect gaming keyboard that we've consistently ranked as one of the best for $112 in Amazon's Big Spring Sale

Asus ROG Falchion Ace 75 HE review

Corsair Vanguard Air 99 Wireless gaming keyboard review

Split spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend

Tiny mitt bandits rejoice! You can pick up the best budget wireless gaming mouse for only $35

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on

Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks

Logitech Superstrike vs Razer Viper V4 Pro: The battle for the competitive crown

SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 review

Razer Viper V4 Pro review

Mchose G3 V2 review

This tool tells you exactly how much your latency could improve by changing your mouse's polling rate

2026 is shaping up to be a golden year for gaming mice, as Razer's battery-boosting FrameSync adds more goodies to the pot

Of course 1440p is your favorite gaming res, but I'm kinda stunned there are as many 4K gamers as 1080p ones in PC Gamer's ranks

Use this handy cheat sheet to keep track of all those confusing Samsung QD-OLED gaming monitor panel generations

LG has unveiled the 'world's first 39-inch 5K2K curved OLED' gaming monitor, and it's about as expensive as you think it would be

4K gaming monitor prices are now mighty reasonable and this $200 MSI would be my choice of the lot

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

Our favorite budget 1440p gaming monitor that goes up to 210 Hz is just a touch over $150 right now

Say what you want about burn-in, sales of OLED PC monitors surged by 92% in 2025

Thanks to Amazon's Big Spring Sale, this glorious 1440p OLED gaming monitor is now the cheapest it's ever been

LG claims its new 1-120 Hz auto-refresh rate LCD display for laptops extends battery life by 48% and helps the new Dell XPS hit 31 hours

Don't like the MacBook Neo's storage options? Well, with lots of electronics gear, years of experience, and nerves of steel, you too can have a 1 TB model

PC shipments have actually grown this quarter despite the RAMpocalypse says IDC. Well, everywhere except the Americas

It's a RAMpocalypse-buster: Even though it's two bucks over $900, this RTX 5060 gaming PC actually comes with 32 GB of DRAM and a 1 TB SSD

Where does your PC live? There is obviously one correct answer, can you pick it out?

Apple's MacBook Neo is reportedly close to selling out which has got me thinking about why we can't have more simple and affordable gaming PCs like the Steam Deck

These are the only RTX 5060 gaming laptops worth a damn right now, and I'd 100% be buying the OLED one

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite reviews are in, but these second-gen Windows-on-Arm chips still aren't grabbing me as a PC gamer

PlayStation 3 emulator gets shiny new UI for handheld PCs like the Steam Deck

Crimson Desert is now somewhat playable on Intel Arc graphics cards, though Kliff's face didn't make it

Cheap graphics card deals this week

Intel updates Arc graphics driver with 'gaming support' for the GPU gamers aren't getting

71% of you say you could never be convinced to turn on DLSS 5, with 37% saying it wouldn't matter how good it looked

Crimson Desert has received FSR SDK 2.2 support, offering better upscaling and frame generation for AMD cards

CoreWeave co-founder says even older GPUs are still rising in price and are in demand for AI servers

Minecraft creator Notch says 'DLSS fundamentally makes no sense', but the X comments say 'um, actually'

Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever

Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

This smart lamp changed my gaming setup for the better and it's finally below $100 this Cyber Monday, just don't pick the wrong model

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

I own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

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

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

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

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

RAM spot prices are down by 5%, though they did spike by well over 2000% this past year

During a memory crisis do you really need fast memory for PC gaming? No, no you do not

Look, 16 GB of RAM is absolutely fine for PC gaming in 2026. Though there are some caveats to that...

Dell's CEO reckons that the total memory demand from the entire AI market in 2028 will be 625x bigger than it was in 2022

Samsung is cashing in on the memory crisis, as it estimates profits of over 8 times this period last year

Framework says stabilising memory prices are a 'temporary reprieve' and there are more cost increases to come this year

The RAMpocalypse won't end any time soon, so here are the cheapest 16 and 32 GB memory kits I'd fit in my own gaming PC

To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS

Yes, some DDR5 RAM prices have dropped recently—but I wouldn't pop the champagne just yet

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review

Fortnite adds more anti-cheat requirements, including Secure Boot and TPM, so it might be time to get tinkering in that BIOS

Hidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

The best PC upgrade I did this year was switching everything to Wi-Fi 7 and now you can too with these Cyber Monday deals

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access'

Routers don't grab headlines like graphics cards but having a good one in your home can make a world of difference to your digital life

Corsair announces new Frame cases, and one comes with a classy wood finish

Silverstone FLP02 case review

Thermaltake View 380 WS ARGB review

Lian Li Lancool 217 case review

Corsair 3200D review

Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition case review

My latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: 'We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC'

This Redditor has built a stained glass-style panel for their gaming PC with a 'magnificent and luxurious animal' on it and it is indeed magnificent and luxurious

Phanteks XT V3 case review