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

Balatro
Balatro's mind-bending code uses mouse jitter for random number generation, along with a bunch of clever maths I'm too dense to fully appreciate

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News Bear with me, I'm going out on a limb here.

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A Noctua NH-L12S cooler with mounting accessories.
You can now download 3D CAD models of Noctua fans, but the company warns they 'will not perform well when printed'

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News Still, a useful resource if you're designing around Noctua air-movers.

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The Steam Controller on a desk during a teardown, with various parts removed.
Valve's Steam Controller goes on sale next week, May 4. It's pricier than you might have hoped, but more reasonable than I expected

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News Trackpad-tastic.

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A photo of the Windows update menu, showing that I'm all up to date
Microsoft is updating Windows Update, creating a fractal of fixes that target shutdown and reboot settings, scheduling issues, and more besides

By Andy Edser Published

News Doctor, heal thyself.

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A Toyota Crown Seat desk/gaming chair on a beige background
Toyota has turned a car seat into a gaming chair and it's $3,500

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News I don't care, I want one. Where do I sign?

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A Turtle Beach Command Series MC7 gaming mouse shot from various angles on pink and purple backgrounds
Turtle Beach has wedged a touchscreen into the side of its new 8K gaming mouse and it's giving me the heebie-jeebies

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News I just... it's not for me, I think.

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Intel Nvidia deal
Rumours suggest Nvidia's next-next gen Feynman AI GPUs will use Intel Foundry tech for some of the components

By Andy Edser Published

News Green and blue, in harmony once more.

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The Sims 3 - a Sim with long blonde hir weaaring a green shirt grabs her head with both hands, screaming in dismay.
'I basically sprinkle water drops on top of tissue paper': One redditor's quest to cool their Mac mini

By Andy Edser Published

News Cursed.

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Two nervous hands look at a typewriter in Final Sentence, a typing battle royale game.
Attention keyboard nerds: This website lets you hear the sound of 36 different mechanical keebs, switches, and more as you type

By Andy Edser Published

News Most of them go "clickety clack." Sorry for spoilers.

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Global warming, conceptual computer illustration. Statue of Liberty, New York, USA, flooded and in ruins, in a possible future. This is showing a rise in sea levels due to global warming. Global warming is the increase of average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The melting of ice and glaciers contribute to the rise in sea levels.
Gas power projects for just 11 US data center 'campuses' could emit more greenhouse gases than entire countries, according to report

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News "That terrifies me in a lot of ways."

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Four budget graphics cards arranged tastefully on a wooden desk
Can overclocking get 8 GB AMD and Nvidia graphics cards to the performance of their 16 GB versions? Yes, but I've got some bad news for you too

By Andy Edser Published

Need for speed While the 8 GB RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti cards can often match their 16 GB brethren, VRAM limitations are still a barrier too tall for overclocking alone.

Need for speed
Lip-Bu Tan, Intel CEO, speaks in a keynote presentation at Intel Foundry Direct Connect on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in San Jose, Calif.
'This is a fundamentally different company today': Intel reports strong financial results, says its upcoming 14A process is already outpacing early 18A yields

By Andy Edser Published

News Back in the ring.

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A shocking Lego brick in Monster Hunter Wilds
This vibe-coded tool helps you find missing Lego pieces for your old sets, and now I think the AI revolution might not be such a bad thing after all

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News It's got its uses, I'll admit.

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Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. - stock photo. Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA - August 23, 2022: Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. Samsung is a South Korean manufacturing conglomerate.
'Many employees are leaving for SK hynix': 40,000 Samsung workers are marching outside its factories to protest pay levels

By Andy Edser Published

News 'The compensation gap has become so wide that it's driving these moves.'

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A still from a video showing Sony's Ace robot arm playing table tennis against a professional player
Sony's terrifyingly fast robot arm is finally beating pro-level table tennis players at their own game

By Andy Edser Published

News Now dual-wield. For fun.

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A microscope shot of 20 DRAM cells made in a garden shed
Making your own DRAM cells in a garden shed isn't the most practical solution to the RAMpocalypse, but it's still awesome to watch

By Andy Edser Published

News It's about the struggle, right?

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Kerbals on a space station in Kerbal Space Program 2
There's no memory crisis in space, as astronauts on the ISS are getting new laptops with 128 GB of RAM and a seriously beefy specs sheet

By Andy Edser Published

News Everyone loves upgrade day, don't they?

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Sci-fi shooter Pragmata
Some gamers are going full conspiracy theory over Pragmata's path tracing vs ray tracing debate, so I've donned my tin foil hat and taken a look

By Andy Edser Published

News Yes, path tracing looks better than ray tracing. No, I don't think that's a plot.

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Macro view of the group of computer PC DRAM memory modules circuit board PCB with selective focus effect
'We have no choice but to impose a severe punishment': Ex Samsung researcher sentenced to 7 years in prison for leaking DRAM tech to a Chinese competitor

By Andy Edser Published

News The semiconductor process tech was reportedly deemed 'a core national technology' of South Korea.

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Claptrap in Borderlands 4 with a mute symbol above his head.
Deezer says it's being bombarded by 'nearly 75,000' AI-generated tunes every day, and that 97% of survey respondents can't tell the difference between human-made and AI music

By Andy Edser Published

News Robot music is no longer beeps and boops.

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A Playdate gaming console on a green gradient background
The makers of Playdate, the console-with-a-crank, will no longer accept games created with generative AI

By Andy Edser Published

News 'There are lots of people in the world who are extremely eager and excited to create beautiful music, art, and words for your Playdate creation.'

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Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at Bloomberg House during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from Jan. 19-23. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Anthropic had a 'productive and constructive' meeting with White House officials after the preview release of its new cybersecurity-challenging AI model

By Andy Edser Published

News Best friends again?

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An image from a Gigabyte press release describing its new PSUs as a "Hardware Guardian".
Gigabyte describes its new PSU range as a 'Hardware Guardian', protecting your graphics card from melting and presumably fighting crime in its spare time

By Andy Edser Published

News To the Volt-mobile!

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A Playnix Console on a yellow and lime gradient background
This AMD-powered, Linux-running mini PC looks like a Steam Machine disguised as a vinyl record player, without the fancy controller

By Andy Edser Published

News A mixing console?

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Intel Core i9 13900K Raptor Lake chip on a promotional box
Report claims the global CPU shortage is 'more acute for processors than memory' as industry waits for Intel's 18A chips to plug the gap

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News Yes, it's caused by AI demand. What else?

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