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newsValve quickly updates its own Steam Machine update, recommitting to a 2026 launch despite AI woes: 'Nothing's really changed on our end'
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ResurrectionI'm a Linux bore now, so I used my new powers to resurrect a ten year-old laptop forgotten by Windows
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newsValve nixes less confident Steam Machine language, recommits to 2026 release
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News'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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NewsAn alleged crypto thief accused of stealing $46 million from the US Marshals has been arrested by the FBI
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NewsiOS exploit kit Coruna may have begun life as a set of iPhone hacking tools used by the US government, according to security researchers
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NewsI think I've found my gaming mouse heaven but it's on the other side of the world in Tokyo
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Controllers
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GuideHow to use a PS4 controller on PC: Wired and Bluetooth
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GuideHow to use a PS3 controller on PC: Wired or Bluetooth
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Score: 86%Moza AB9 FFB Base + MH16 Flightstick + MTP Throttle review
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Flawed potentialSteam Controller re-review: A fresh look at Valve's flawed but influential 10-year-old controller
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NewsOpen source Steam Controller-a-like is a beast with new screens and gyro controls: 'there's so much more I can add' says creator
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NewsQuick—Amazon is flogging the best PC gaming controller for just AU$135
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Switch padHow to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC
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NewsArc Raiders' overpowered aim assist gets stronger at high frame rates, and I feel like I'm cheating when I use it
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Gear of the YearI enjoy touching all the hardware bits that pass through PCG's offices, but this bit of kit was all but made for my upsettingly small baby hands
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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Cooling
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NewsDer8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it's really fun
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Score: 94%Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review
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Cool BreezeBest CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU
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Air driedBest air cooler for CPUs in 2026: Keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers
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NewsNoctua 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
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CES 2026Be Quiet! keeps the 'consumer' in CES with new PC components including a dashing new Dark Rock 6 cooler
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Gear of the YearI know I'll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn't ask for more money
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NewsRAM prices might be sucking all the joy out of building PCs but four-screen AIO coolers go a little way to bringing a smile back on my face
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NewsThe company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group
By James Bentley Published
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Gaming Audio
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Score: 84%Logitech G325 Lightspeed review
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Score: 84%Beyerdynamic MMX 150 Wireless gaming headset review
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NewsNew research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies
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Quality cansThe best gaming headsets in Australia for 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
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NewsArtist scales retro speaker up to ridiculous proportions: 'Is this a really stupid project? Yes'
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Score: 68%SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite review
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UntetheredBest wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself
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NewsJLab has made a ridiculously large set of headphones that function as a gigantic Bluetooth speaker, which can be 'worn around the neck or placed on a table'
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Score: 86%Logitech G522 Lightspeed gaming headset review
By James Bentley Published
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Gaming Chairs
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Score: 89%ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review
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Take a seatBest gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer
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Score: 82%DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review
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NewsThe Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance
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Take a seatBest office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested
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Score: 80%AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review
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CES 2026'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one
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DealsBlack Friday gaming chair deals 2025
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Saddle upFive things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming chair
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Gaming Desks
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Top DesksBest gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
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Score: 86%Secretlab Magnus Evo review
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Swanky surfaceFor the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)
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LuxuriousGrovemade desk review
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Score: 85%Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review
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Score: 82%Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review
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NewsThere's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it
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Thunder X3 Lab-X review
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ALL THE SPACEIkea Utespelare desk review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Gaming Keyboards
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Score: 75%Gravastar Mercury V60 Pro review
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Score: 74%Cherry Xtrfy MX 8.2 Pro TMR TKL review
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As an ergonomic keyboard skeptic, I made the switch this month and it's so much easier than I expected
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Score: 93%Wooting 60HE v2 review
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News'Our most uncompromising keyboard ever built': Razer has unveiled a new signature edition version of its Huntsman keyboard, but I can't get over the price
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Score: 74%Corsair Galleon 100 SD review
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NewsKeychron's made a concrete keeb: 'Each keystroke carries industrial rhythm... elevating the experience with marble-like smoothness and auditory-visual harmony'
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NewsRazer launches Synapse Web for browser-based peripheral management, but it's very limited and buggy right now in beta
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Score: 75%Asus ROG Azoth 96 HE review
By Reece Bithrey Published
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Gaming Laptops
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ResurrectionI'm a Linux bore now, so I used my new powers to resurrect a ten year-old laptop forgotten by Windows
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NewsAs hardware prices make heads spin, Apple of all companies has just announced a new MacBook laptop for only $599
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Score: 81%Acer Nitro V 16 AI gaming laptop review
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NewsApple somehow just doubled the amount of storage in the new MacBook Air M5 base model to 512 GB despite the memory crisis
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Score: 66%Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop review
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NewsHP has a gaming laptop subscription service, where you pay monthly to borrow a rig but never get the option to own it
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5 things you can do with the Area-51's Thunderbolt 5 port
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A call for calmIntel's new high-end mobile chip is an impressive game-cruncher, but I don't think proper gaming laptops should worry just yet
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NewsLenovo might bring AMD's monster Strix Halo iGPU and Nvidia's N1X to gaming laptops soon if this recent listing is anything to go by
By Jacob Fox Published
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Gaming Mice
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NewsI think I've found my gaming mouse heaven but it's on the other side of the world in Tokyo
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NewsA rep for a major mouse company thinks half of gaming mice will be like the Superstrike in three years
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NewsThis upcoming gaming mouse weighs just over 28 grams without poking holes in it
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UnboundBest wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents I love getting my mitts on
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The Logitech Superstrike has allowed me to get excited over some genuinely new PC gaming technology for the first time in what feels like forever
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Score: 85%Mchose L7 Pro+ review
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PinpointBest gaming mouse in 2026: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
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NewsI've found a nifty gaming mouse comparison tool that's the next best thing for communicating hand-feel, beyond sticking my mitts straight through the monitor
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Score: 79%QPAD Obsidian Glass mouse pad review
By Jacob Fox Published
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Gaming Monitors
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NewsAfter two years and over 6,000 hours, Monitors Unboxed's long-term OLED gaming monitor test shows increasing burn-in
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NewsA 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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NewsSamsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense
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NewsAfter 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage
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NewsIt's reportedly game over for 8K before it even got going as display industry support 'dwindles'
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ExpansiveBest ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2026: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers
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DealIt's hard to say no to this 4K 144 Hz gaming monitor deal for just $180
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NewsAsus' new 4K dual-mode gaming monitors include even faster 1080p modes all the way up to 480 Hz
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Score: 88%XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser projector review
By Katie Wickens Published
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Gaming PCs
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NewsTop 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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NewsOne Redditor has 3D-printed a big yellow air duct to attach to their GPU, and the results are middling: It 'does nothing but it looks cool'
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NewsThis 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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NewsAcer and Asus' German websites are down in wake of lawsuit, but Acer says its own will 'be up again shortly' so customers can get BIOS updates again
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NewsAll hail the Bro MegaOrb: A custom-built, water-cooled Threadripper, RTX Pro 6000 monster that costs $60,000 or roughly the same as 16 GB of DDR5-5200 at today's prices
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News'Probably the worst build of my entire life': This YouTuber spent two months building a gaming PC with titanium liquid cooling, galvanic corrosion be damned
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DIYBest gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
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Score: 87%iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 review
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Teeny PeeceesBest mini PCs in 2026: The compact computers I love the most
By Al Bickham Last updated
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Graphics Cards
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NewsNvidia's next hardware launch for us gamers could be an RTX 5050 with a whopping 1 GB of extra VRAM
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News'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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NewsThird time's hopefully the charm as Nvidia releases hotfix driver to tackle voltage issues and Resident Evil Requiem performance in one fel swoop
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NewsI've tested Resident Evil Requiem with different GPUs and different drivers, but cannot replicate the massive performance loss some PC gamers are reporting
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NewsIn yet another twist in the US-China chip export fiasco, it seems like America may limit the number of H200 AI chips being sent to China
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NewsNvidia's RTX 5070 leaps to top of the Steam Hardware Survey but something looks fishy in the figures
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Exceptional performance for ultra-fast gaming? GIGABYTE has a GPU for that
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NewsPS5 Pro owners will soon get an improved PSSR AI upscaler, while PC gamers with RDNA 2 and 3 GPUs are still praying for AMD to add official support for FSR 4
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NewsMicrosoft's update for Direct3D, with opacity micromaps and shader execution reordering now official features, will probably mean little to gamers but graphics devs are going to be happy
By Nick Evanson Published
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Handheld Gaming PCs
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NewsNo, AMD isn't abandoning Ryzen Z1 chip series: Lenovo says it's working with AMD on handheld gaming PC updates until 2029
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NewsLenovo is going long with a foldable 12-inch handheld gaming PC concept
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Score: 63%Abxylute 3D One handheld gaming PC review
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Portable PCBest handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses
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NewsDefying price increases and AI-induced component shortages, the best PC gaming handheld just got a AU$130 discount
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NewsSurprise, surprise: The ROG Xbox Ally X just got a AU$200 price hike in Australia
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on deckHow to buy a Steam Deck in Australia
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NewsValve breaks its silence on Steam Deck OLED scarcity and yes, it's because of the RAM and storage crisis
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NewsAyaneo celebrates the Chinese New Year with the launch of a new customer service improvement plan, with US-based repair facilities currently being tested
By Nick Evanson Published
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Lighting
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Light it up!The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up
By Jacob Ridley Last updated -
Win or Bin?I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert
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ReactiveNanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review
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Sync'dGovee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review
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ScriptedElgato Light Strip Pro review
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Unit 01Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review
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Lit upGovee Strip Light 2 Pro review
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StunnerGovee Cob Strip Light Pro review
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SponsoredAI-generated lighting from Lepro should be setting the mood for your gaming sessions
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Memory
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NewsIndustry 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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NewsIt 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
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NewsThe company that stopped making memory for gamers just explained how important memory is for gamers. Yeah, really
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NewsHP warns that memory now makes up around 35% of the cost its PCs, double that of a year ago
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NewsAnd I thought DDR5 prices were bad: Samsung is apparently charging $700 for its latest AI-empowering HBM product
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NewsYes, Chinese DRAM is fine for gaming but don't think for one moment that any of it is a bargain
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News'As DRAM prices continue to rise, protecting product authenticity has become increasingly important': Corsair changes Vengeance DDR5 packaging in bid to deter scams
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NewsRelief that the worst is over or just the calm before the hurricane continues? Some reports suggest that DRAM prices have plateaued or even fallen
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NewsMany consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says
By Jeremy Laird Published 32 Comments
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Motherboards
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Score: 88%MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review
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Score: 75%MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review
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NewsFortnite adds more anti-cheat requirements, including Secure Boot and TPM, so it might be time to get tinkering in that BIOS
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NewsHidden 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
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NewsIf your Ryzen-powered PC has an AM5 ASRock motherboard and sometimes just won't boot, then rescue is at hand in the form of a new BIOS update
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NewsNew Intel 900-series leak suggests there are three upcoming motherboard chipsets gamers should care about
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NewsAsus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'
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NewsA stupid Windows 11 requirement makes Asus' simple new Wi-Fi motherboard feature a winner
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Best MoboBest gaming motherboards in 2026: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
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NewsI think I've found my gaming mouse heaven but it's on the other side of the world in Tokyo
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NewsA rep for a major mouse company thinks half of gaming mice will be like the Superstrike in three years
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NewsCloudflare claims 'today’s threat landscape is more varied and chilling than ever' in latest report
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