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Somehow this svelte 32 GB OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti is down to $1,550 in the middle of the RAMpocalypse, and I'm asking no questions
Deal Well, few questions, anyway.
Intel says it has shipped nearly 100 million AI PC processors, which equates to roughly four 'ZOPS', or 'Zetta OPS' of AI processing power
CES 2026 That's a lot of... zip?
Asus has tweaked the twangers out of Hifiman's planar magnetic drivers in its new audiophile-grade gaming headset, and it shows
CES 2026 Asus + audiophile? Yep, I was there with bells on.
The Asus Micro-OLED AR gaming glasses might be the weirdest thing I've ever tested at CES, and that's saying something
CES 2026 Not for me, thanks very much.
I did some quick and dirty testing of the Intel Arc B390 iGPU in Intel's new top-end Core Ultra chip and I'm pretty impressed
CES 2026 It's still an iGPU, though. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
Okay Asus, you've intrigued me: The ROG Zephyrus Duo might finally convince me that dual screen laptops are a good idea
CES 2026 Behold, the transform-o-book.
Lenovo's Las Vegas Sphere event delivered an absolute barrage of AI announcements, but at least we got this, err, FIFA-themed Legion gaming laptop
CES 2026 I have been to the Sphere, and returned mostly unscathed.
I've seen Nvidia's G-Sync Pulsar in action and it's kinda ruined all other gaming monitors for me
CES 2026 Thanks, Nvidia.
Intel says its graphics drivers are now 'light years ahead of where we were a few years ago', and they'll need to be if it's going to tempt gamers towards its new iGPUs
CES 2026 Speedy hardware is a nice thing to have, but driver support can make and break a gaming experience.
Intel's new top-end Core Ultra Series 3 mobile chips promise up to 77% faster iGPU gaming performance than Lunar Lake, and come with a whole host of friends
CES 2026 Strap in, it's about to get technical.
HP has smushed together the HyperX and Omen brands to create its new HyperX Omen range of gaming laptops, and I'm over here playing spot the difference
CES 2026 All in a name, as they say.
HyperX gaming monitors are a thing now, and HP says this 34-inch QD-OLED model has next-gen V-Stripe tech to banish text fringing
CES 2026 Begone, foul fuzz.
MSI's monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to 'completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes', apparently
CES 2026 Still, if you're going all in on an RTX 5090, why not turn everything up to 11?
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming microphone of 2025
Gear of the year Join me for a look back at the microphone movers of 2025.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming headset of 2025
Gear of the year It's been a helluva year for gaming headsets, but which of our three contenders will take the ultimate prize?
The Fractal Design Scape feels like a gaming headset from the future, which makes it the best thing I've tested in 2035. I mean, this year
Gear of the Year I've seen the light, and I don't want to go back.
PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby
Hard times Money, money, money.
Avowed didn't rewrite the RPG rulebook in 2025, but it still gave me some of my biggest gaming 'wow' moments of the year
🏆 Call me shallow if you must. In fact, I encourage it.
Nvidia has built location tracking tech that uses the 'confidential computing capabilities' of its AI chips to prevent smuggling, according to a Reuters report
News GPU, where are you?
Good gaming laptop deals are tough to find right now, but you can still pick up this beastly RTX 5080 machine with a $1,300 discount
Deal Hello, what are you still doing here?
The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship went way, way harder than it needed to with its wrestling-style intros and I'm so here for it
News Let's get ready tooooooo... spreadsheet.
This Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses detector helpfully lights up the word 'glasshole' when the specs are nearby, just so we're all aware of exactly what we're dealing with
News Also, nice hat.
