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Spring Sale live - I'm tracking the best PC gaming hardware deals to help you beat the RAMpocalypse
Live With Amazon and other retailers getting involved, sales events like this could be your best chance to beat the RAMpocalypse.
Screw you, RAMpocalypse, the Spring Sale just delivered an RTX 5060 machine for less than $860 WITH 32 GB OF MEMORY
Deal That's right. Loadsa memory. Even if it is last-gen.
Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more
Keyed in The best gaming keyboards, according to our testers.
Best CPU for gaming in 2026: These are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
I really thought Nvidia's DLSS 5 was going to be smarter than this
News The latest details suggest a real disconnect between the ground truth of a game and the DLSS 5 layer.
The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears
Budding gamers So you finally managed to bag a Steam Deck or ROG Ally, now what are the best gaming earbuds to go with it?
Nvidia DLSS 5 reveal: PC Gamer reacts... not wholly positively
So... DLSS 5 This has been one of the most controversial reveals of an Nvidia technology I can remember, and people have a lot of thoughts.
Nvidia has just shown off DLSS 5 coming this fall... and currently it looks a lot like an AI filter
News At the GTC keynote, Jen-Hsun has just showed off the AI-enhancement of DLSS 5.
Nvidia GTC live: Jen-Hsun lays out 'the future of real-time rendering' in today's keynote and potentially 'it's gonna blow your mind'
Live Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference kicks off this week, with a leather-clad keynote from the company's CEO.
Here's 8 minutes in nostalgic benchmark heaven, with me running 3DMark2001 on an RTX 5090 to celebrate its 25th birthday
Released March 13, 2001 MadOnion's 3DMark 2001 was an instant PC graphics classic.
The one thing using a $1,337 gaming mouse has taught me is: we've come a long way from the old Razer Boomslang, baby
Boom and bust The Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition has missed its true anniversary by a long shot and honestly kinda missed the mark for me.
Best PC controllers in 2026: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
I'm a Linux bore now, so I used my new powers to resurrect a ten year-old laptop forgotten by Windows
Resurrection It was all going so well...
This is 100% the gaming PC I would buy in these tech-starved times
deal The memory, GPU, and SSD alone are worth around $1,330, which means you're getting an 8-core Zen 4 chip, motherboard, PSU, chassis, and cooling for just $300.
Best gaming laptop 2026: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend.
Portable powerhouses From our own extensive testing, rigorously benchmarking 40+ machines over the past two years, these are the best gaming laptops you can buy today.
Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses.
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iBuyPower's President's Day sale means this 'superb all-AMD gaming PC' is now $250 cheaper than when we reviewed it a week ago
Deal Now, that's not the current trajectory of high-end PC gaming hardware prices.
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself
Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.
Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some audio treacle with the best gaming headsets.
'Credible and reliable contacts' claim Nvidia is releasing an RTX 5090-beating GPU around September time this year
news Sources from different countries and different companies suggest this is happening, and y'know what, I don't doubt it.
What's a gamer to do if they need more storage? 😭obviously, but also consider this 2 TB drive for a whole lot less than our favorite SSD
deal It's not the fastest, but this Samsung SSD is the cheapest 2 TB drive I've found that I would actually buy.
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU review
Score: 87% A factory overclocked golden sample for a modest premium.
AMD's unannounced dual-CCD 3D V-Cache monster chip appears in official AMD docs
news The new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has shown up in an EEC listing from Friday.
