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

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.
'We see everything': Report says Meta's AI smart glasses footage is reviewed by human contractors who see far more than they bargained for, which has led to a new lawsuit against the company

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News 'People can record themselves in the wrong way and not even know what they are recording. They are real people like you and me.'

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A Microsoft Copilot app homepage, for Andy
Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies

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News MS takes its ball and goes home. Then brings it back again.

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Valve's new Steam Machine during a visit to Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington. The Steam Machine is a compact living room gaming PC.
In the battle for our living rooms, Xbox Project Helix and the Steam Machine make for unlikely rivals on paper—but Microsoft's new PC gaming-capable console might be raising some eyebrows at Valve

By Andy Edser Published

Console conundrum Two very different machines, perhaps closer than we initially thought.

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A screenshot from vibe-coded operating system Vib-OS, showing a notepad-like text editor on the desktop
This vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that's fun

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News I guess we should be impressed that it works at all.

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images
'I think the fact that everything is scarce is fantastic for us' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang '...in a world of constraint, you have no choice but to choose the best'

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News At least someone is positive about it.

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Jensen Huang holding aloft a Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card alongside a similarly powered MSI laptop at Nvidia's Computex 2025 keynote.
'The reason why we're so beloved in the videogame industry and we're so deep in it still is, in a lot of ways, we created the modern videogame industry' says Nvidia CEO Huang

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News Strap in, folks, and save your opinions until the end.

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A police officer staring at the camera in Schedule 1.
South Korean authorities seized $5.6 million worth of crypto then accidentally posted pictures of the super-secret recovery phrase, resulting in the loss of... $4.8 million worth of crypto

By Andy Edser Published

News Aaaand it's gone. Mostly.

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Two DDR5 RAM modules lit up in pink inside a gaming PC
Industry insiders say Samsung has confirmed a DRAM price increase of 'over 100%' for its customers, so brace yourself for the next phase of the dreaded RAMpocalypse

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News Memories, of the way things used to be...

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An angler using Google as bait.
Malwarebytes says a fake Google Account security page is distributing 'what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild'

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News A particularly nasty RAT.

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Microsoft Windows 10 wallpaper
A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to traffic thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via their Certificate of Authenticity stickers

By Andy Edser Published

News Schemes I did not know existed: Example One.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman throws up his hands.
'We shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday': OpenAI hastily amends the terms of its controversial deal with the US Department of War as CEO Sam Altman claims it's been a 'good learning experience'

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News "We want to have a voice, and a seat at the table where we can share our expertise, and to fight for principles of liberty."

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Grace holds up a lighter in the dark
A redditor who found their exact gaming monitor in Resident Evil Requiem finds Reddit image of their monitor inside a monitor inside a monitor in Resident Evil Requiem and now my head hurts

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News Arggghhhhhh.

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A dramatically lit close up of computer memory/ RAM on a motherboard-style background.
It looks like more memory price hikes may soon be on the way, as Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly inform customers of yet another DRAM price increase

By Andy Edser Published

News It's going to get worse before it gets better, that much seems clear.

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A gaming PC sat on a desk with purple RGB lighting on the fans and light bar enabled.
Top analyst firm Gartner predicts the 'sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028', along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026

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News 'This is the steepest contraction in device shipments witnessed in over a decade'.

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SUQIAN, CHINA - JANUARY 27, 2025 - An illustration photo shows the logo of DeepSeek and ChatGPT in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, January 27, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
DeepSeek has reportedly denied Nvidia and AMD early access to its new V4 AI model, giving Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers a head start

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News The AI race turns another corner.

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(L to R): OpenAI President Greg Brockman, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are seen standing side by side.
OpenAI announces another $110 billion in investment funding including $30 billion from Nvidia, but says Microsoft is still its best friend forever

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News Aww. Isn't it sweet when multi-billion, sometimes multi-trillion dollar businesses buddy up?

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MANNING, SOUTH CAROLINA - FEBRUARY 23: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to a crowd during an event hosted by the South Carolina Democratic Party at the Carter-Sullivan American Legion on February 23, 2026 in Manning, South Carolina. The Governor had scheduled appearances in Pineville, Manning and Rock Hill, South Carolina on Monday. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup

By Andy Edser Published

News I wonder how the government of California plans to enforce it?

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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 is standing up to the US Department of War and refusing to remove AI autonomous weapon and mass surveillance safeguards: 'We cannot in good conscience accede to their request'

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News 'We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk.'

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The Spy from Team Fortress 2 holds up a folder with an accusatory expression.
Google says it's disrupted a super-serious 'global espionage campaign' that uses *checks notes* Google Sheets to covertly intercept telecoms data

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News It's not the sexiest spy story I've ever heard, I'll be honest.

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Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card from different angles
'We expect supply constraints to be the headwind to gaming in Q1 and beyond' says Nvidia, although it claims demand and inventory levels are 'healthy'

By Andy Edser Published

News A tempering of expectations, perhaps?

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UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 13: Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in Russell Building on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Nvidia reports a truly astonishing $193.7 billion in annual data center revenue in its latest earnings call, up 75% year on year, while little old gaming brought in $16 billion

By Andy Edser Published

News I think it's obvious why us gamers are perhaps not team green's top priority right now.

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Data Center
'The compute bottleneck is massively under appreciated' says Google AI Studio lead: 'I would guess the gap between supply and demand is growing [by a] single digit % every day'

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News 'In practice, this will be the rate limit on the impact AI will have in the economy/society.'

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The front controls of the Nacon Revolution X Unlimited controller
The future of Nacon gaming accessories looks uncertain as the company files for insolvency

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News Will Nacon's hardware wing be the first to feel the brunt of debt restructuring efforts?

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A custom gaming PC built inside of an old Victorian cast-iron radiator
This creator extraordinaire has built a gaming PC attached to a Victorian cast-iron radiator that is fully integrated into the cooling system, and I am in complete awe

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News Billet Labs, take a bow.

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Fortnite Simpsons season best drop spots and important POIs
A plague of AI-generated Homer Simpson cover songs is reportedly swamping a popular music file sharing network with the big yellow fella's dulcet tones

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News "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."

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