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I 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
By Jacob Ridley published
Gear of the Year Let's give it up for affordable all-in-one liquid coolers.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming monitor of 2025
By James Bentley published
Gear of the year Two 4K and one 1440p monitor take the nominations this year, with one being a potential dark horse.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptop of 2025
By Dave James published
Gear of the year With a whole new generation of mobile GPUs, and some sleek new designs, this has been a great year for gaming laptops. But who's the winner?

Three shining examples of brilliant PC game development in 2025
By Nick Evanson published
Best dev …and three not-so-shining examples. Oh dear.

Intel's 'Serpent Lake' rumoured to be its first chip developed in collaboration with Nvidia
By Jeremy Laird published
News Meanwhile, Razer Lake, Hammer Lake and Titan Lake take the fight to AMD.

Samsung outs world's first 1,040 Hz and 6K 3D gaming monitors ahead of CES
By Jeremy Laird published
News If RAM prices are making a PC upgrade impossible, maybe 2026 is the year for a new gaming monitor?

This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users
By Jacob Ridley published
News Random IOPS could increase by up to 80% for servers, says Microsoft.

Acer Predator Orion 3000 gaming PC review
By Ian Evenden published
Score: 71% Pairing last-gen parts with current-gen GPUs is a recipe for more affordable gaming.
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