
Andy Edser
Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn't—and he hasn't stopped since. Now working as a hardware writer for PC Gamer, Andy spends his time jumping around the world attending product launches and trade shows, all the while reviewing every bit of PC gaming hardware he can get his hands on. You name it, if it's interesting hardware he'll write words about it, with opinions and everything.
Latest articles by Andy Edser

Scientists have integrated 2D materials a few atoms thick into a working memory chip for the first time and you can't tell me this isn't some prime Star Trek-level tech
By Andy Edser published
News Bring me the horizon. Or faster and more power-efficient chips, one of the two.

Edifier's new desktop speaker is treating gaming PCs as a luxury HiFi aesthetic, but it's just not doing it for me
By Andy Edser published
News A bizarre speaker setup that looks like it's cosplaying as a gaming PC.

This RTX 5070 Ti with a literal hole in it has been kept on life support by a spliced-in AMD RX 580, because no GPU gets left behind
By Andy Edser published
News We're going to make it out of here, you wait and see.

Trump announces new 100% China tariff along with export controls on 'any and all critical software' over rare earth spat, as Chinese gov says it doesn't want a trade war but is 'not afraid of one'
By Andy Edser published
News Here we go again.

Windows 10's greatest achievement was not being Windows 8, and I think we can all be thankful for that
By Andy Edser published
A tribute Rest in peace now, brave hero.

AI software company Graphite says it practices 'dogfooding' and 'onboarding roulette' by deleting employee accounts at random
By Andy Edser published
News Y'know, dogfooding. That old cliché term.

Battlefield 6: This is what a well-optimised game looks like in 2025
By Andy Edser published
Organised chaos It's pretty stunning in motion, too.

The RTX 5080 MSI Vector 16 has dropped by $200, so it's time for me to tap the 'it's a really good gaming laptop' sign once more
By Andy Edser published
Prime Day With feeling. And love.

HyperX SoloCast 2 USB microphone review
By Andy Edser published
Score: 82% It's the simple things.

Slapping screens on absolutely everything is the most unnecessary hardware 'must-have' I've seen to date, and I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed
By Andy Edser published
Screen Scream Call me a luddite, if you must.

The Trump administration may have had a hand in the Nvidia/Intel partnership, whether directly or indirectly, despite Jensen's claims to the contrary
By Andy Edser published
News An artful deal, perhaps?

'We're going to build revolutionary products' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his newly-announced collaboration with Intel: 'Nothing of its kind has ever been built before'
By Andy Edser published
News Impressive claims, but whether Nvidia will eventually use Intel's Foundry in future remains a question mark for now.

Microsoft's Paint now lets you save projects as layered files in the latest Insider build, as part of its continued efforts to make the default image editor great again
By Andy Edser published
News Is it just me, or is Paint actually kinda good these days?

Casio has unleashed its AI Tribble with 'emotions like a living creature' on the US and UK, complete with a Mogwai-like warning that you can't get it too hot, too cold, or too wet
By Andy Edser published
News Cute and cuddly, or downright insidious? You decide.

'It's all good, it's all good' says Mark Zuckerberg as his catastrophic live demo of Meta's new smart glasses goes horribly wrong: 'You spend years making technology and then the Wi-Fi on the day catches you'
By Andy Edser published
News A comedy of errors.

Logitech has announced an affordable 8 Nm direct drive racing wheel setup with full TrueForce support, along with some fancy trick pedals I want to try for myself
By Andy Edser published
News The more affordable end of the direct drive sim racing market is about to get interesting.

Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like there's no way for personal users to opt out
By Andy Edser published
News Don't want it? Time to switch office suite providers, then.

I now know what my life has been missing and it's a set of rotary encoders sunk straight into the top of a mechanical-keebed Framework laptop, for some reason
By Andy Edser published
News Look, we've all got our kinks and this is mine.

'I'm disappointed with what I see' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, amid reports that China has banned some of the country's biggest tech companies from buying its AI chips
By Andy Edser published
News Fits and starts, now a no-go?

This redditor has discovered a higher-specced engineering sample of the RTX 2080 Ti, with more shaders, ROPS, TMUs, and VRAM than the release version
By Andy Edser published
News It's got the lot.

I don't want to give horror game devs any ideas but this chilling 'sphere o' mouths' lip-syncing robot is haunting my dreams and I want it to stop
By Andy Edser published
News Nope.

Is Borderlands 4 the series at 'its most potent', or 'uninspired' and 'painfully dull'? The PC Gamer team is divided
By Robin Valentine published
LANDS APART Five members of the team weigh in with their thoughts so far.

I can think of few things more ridiculous than a tiny OLED screen slapped on the side of some DDR5 RAM, but here we are
By Andy Edser published
News I look forward to physically shoving my head in my case to check my RAM speeds. The future!
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