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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 5 245K processor against a dark background

Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything

By James Bentley published

News Just don't let strangers near your rig soon, or any time really.

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An MSI MEG X870E Ace Max motherboard on a desk.

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

By Antony Leather published

Score: 88% Bigger BIOS, better overclocking.

Score: 88%
MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi on a desk.

MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review

By Antony Leather published

Score: 75% Bigger BIOS, better overclocking.

Score: 75%
Jonesy Fortnite, in black and white.

Fortnite adds more anti-cheat requirements, including Secure Boot and TPM, so it might be time to get tinkering in that BIOS

By Jacob Fox published

News Most modern motherboards should support these features.

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A promotional image of the Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial gaming motherboard, with the included RAM cooler, Q-DIMM.2 and Hyper M.2 expansions cards set next to the board.

Hidden 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

By Nick Evanson published

News Seven M.2 slots sounds really impressive, but using them all means sacrificing a bit of performance.

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A photo of the MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard, focused on the CPU and DRAM sockets.

New Intel 900-series leak suggests there are three upcoming motherboard chipsets gamers should care about

By James Bentley published

News And Nova Lake is said to drop later this year.

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A Cooler Master Hyper 212 Pro air cooler with its packaging and installed on a gaming PC.

ASRock and Cooler Master partner up for no real reason that I can make out but aw hey that's kind of cute

By Jacob Fox published

News A match made in Huizhou, China.

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A promotional image of an Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial motherboard against a dark, stylized background

A stupid Windows 11 requirement makes Asus' simple new Wi-Fi motherboard feature a winner

By Nick Evanson published

News The new Asus X870E Glacial motherboard looks super clean and feature-rich, but it's the integrated Wi-Fi drivers that get my nod

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Asus ROG Strix Z790-I Gaming WiFi motherboard

Update your MyAsus software now because there's a fix for a nasty hack that could easily ruin your day

By James Bentley published

News You gotta watch out for that arbitrary code execution.

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A black diamond with the words 'PC Gamer The Wildcard 2025' floats over the top of a blurred out image. It's difficult to discern what's in the background, but a strip of purple-pink RGB lighting, two fans, and a circuit board are vaguely identifiable.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: 2025's wildcards—the best of the rest is full of surprises

By Jess Kinghorn published

Gear of the year Wildcards keep us guessing every year, shedding light on the hardware hits that don't easily fit into a neat category elsewhere.

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