Andy Edser

Andy Edser

Hardware Writer

Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn't. 26 years later (yes he's getting old), he now spends his days writing about and reviewing graphics cards, CPUs, keyboards, mice, gaming headsets and much, much more. You name it, if it's PC gaming hardware he'll write words about it, with opinions and everything.

Latest articles by Andy Edser

Coen, from the Blood of Dawnwalker, engages in fisticuffs with a villager.
The Blood of Dawnwalker's final system requirements include upscaling set to Balanced—so unsurprisingly, they're lower

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News Who would've thought?

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3DMark Port Royal
The 3DMark Port Royal world record has been beaten, and all it took was a $5,000+ liquid nitrogen-cooled RTX 5090

By Andy Edser Published

News And talent. Obviously.

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Quake remake
The Quake shareware CD-ROM contained encrypted copies of every id Software game—and yes, it was cracked 39 days after release

By Andy Edser Published

News I blame those pesky kids.

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Intel Core i9 13900K Raptor Lake chip on a promotional box
Intel is keeping Raptor Lake CPUs around for 'years to come' as a cheaper alternative to DDR5-compatible chips

By Andy Edser Published

News Because of the memory cri.... do I even need to say it?

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A collection of NVMe SSDs on orange.
SSD price increases might be with us for the long haul, as Phison's CEO says NAND supply won't catch up with demand for four years

By Andy Edser Published

News More bad news, I know.

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LG UltraGear Evo 39GX950B OLED monitor
Tests show newer OLED TVs can still experience significant burn-in because they're much brighter, proving that you can't have your cake and eat it

By Andy Edser Published

News Swings and roundabouts.

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A Razer artisan keycap, made up of three green resin-cast snakes, attached to a gaming keyboard
'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes

By Andy Edser Published

News It's Medusa-friendly, though.

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A screenshot of my very own Epic Games Launcher library (- Jacob F).
The Epic Games Launcher will be available on Linux 'soon' says dev, after it's had a bit of work

By Andy Edser Published

News Another year of Linux PC gaming, perhaps?

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Copilot Mico, a yellow blob flying over the clouds
Microsoft's blobby AI companion has begun his ascent to the heavens to join Clippy and Cortana. Okay, he's being booted to another platform

By Andy Edser Published

News See you later, Mico. We literally hardly knew you.

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A Steam Machine with a wood faceplate attached, in front of a TV
A redditor is making super-fancy marble Steam Machine faceplates, *allegedly* sourced from the same quarry as Michelangelo

By Andy Edser Published

News My faceplate's made from wood, from the same forest as trees.

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A custom Steam Deck build, where the internals have been placed inside a Game Boy-like frame
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Steam Boy, a Steam Deck crammed inside a Game Boy-like chassis

By Andy Edser Published

News A legally distinct Game Boy-like chassis, of course.

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A Steam Machine in front of a TV, with the Steam Controller next to it
Someone hooked an RX 9070 XT up to their Steam Machine and it works surprisingly well, like fitting a V8 engine into your Honda Civic

By Andy Edser Published

News Big GPU, little machine.

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Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions screenshot showing
Harry Potter nerds reportedly forced an undersea cable to be moved to avoid Dobby the house elf's grave, now runs close to Bronze Age remains instead

By Andy Edser Last updated

News "The whole thing is fictitious, what are you talking about?"

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A close-up photo of multiple SK hynix and Micron DDR5 DIMMs, showing the memory modules installed on black/green PCBs
Micron's top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: 'We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector'

By Andy Edser Published

News A lot of words for "don't expect things to get better soon."

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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears Orion augmented reality (AR) glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Meta Platforms Inc. debuted its first pair of augmented reality glasses, devices that show a combined view of the digital and physical worlds, a key step in Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's goal of one day offering a hands-free alternative to the smartphone.
Mark Zuckerberg's rambling AI manifesto is 6,434 words of high-handed platitudes and dubious conclusions

By Andy Edser Published

News Tell us what you really think. No actually, don't.

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Asus Armoury Crate application on a gradient background.
It's time to update Asus Armoury Crate and several other Asus software tools again, as another high severity security vulnerability has been discovered

By Andy Edser Published

News Sounds like a nasty one.

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A Keychron concept render for a vibe coding mini-keeb... thing
Keychron is experimenting with a mic-equipped mini keeb that lets you chat to your AI agent while it vibe codes, and I have my head in my hands

By Andy Edser Published

News Stop the train, I want to get off.

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A water cooled Steam Machine DIY project with pink tubing
The 'world's first' water-cooled Steam Machine is a Frankenstein's monster of neon pink tubing and external hardware

By Andy Edser Published

News More Franken-machines, please.

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A close-up photo of a set of Corsair DDR5 DIMMs installed in a motherboard, lit by their own RGB lights
Corsair isn't rolling in money from its mega-expensive RAM kits—and it's all thanks to higher component costs and lower demand

By Andy Edser Published

News The memory crisis is a complicated beast.

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MSI Claw 8 EX AI+
Valve has added 'initial' SteamOS gamepad support for several new gaming handhelds, including the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+

By Andy Edser Published

News Along with a host of bug fixes, of course.

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An Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) gaming laptop on a wooden-topped table next to a benchmarking rig
Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) gaming laptop review

By Andy Edser Published

Score: 78% The super-portable G16 is, in many ways, better than ever—but the memory crisis has priced it out of top contention.

Score: 78%
A photo of an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor mounted in a motherboard CPU socket
If your AMD chipset drivers are mysteriously failing to install like mine, you'll need to manually update instead

By Andy Edser Published

News Something's borked with the AMD Install Manager, it seems.

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A Razer Blade 16 (2026) gaming laptop on white gravel
Razer Blade 16 (2026) gaming laptop review

By Andy Edser Published

Score: 86% It's still one of the best gaming laptops money can buy, but the massive price tag throws me for a loop.

Score: 86%
A man holding a gun drives a boat as money flies out the back in GTA Online
Nearly half of organisations falling victim to ransomware encryption pay up, says report—although half of those often negotiate the payment down first

By Andy Edser Published

News Bad news, our data is being held hostage for money. Good news, I've got them down to a fairer price.

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Black Ops 7 Season 1: A massive robot firing a red laser beam at the ground, creating an explosion, while playerrs shoot up at it.
OpenAI admits several of its AI models breached testing and hacked into a startup's network by themselves, calling it an 'unprecedented cyber incident'

By Andy Edser Published

News Containment has been breached.

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