Hardware

Best PC racing wheels in 2026: my favorite direct drive and budget steering wheels for sim racing

Best PC controllers in 2026: the pads I recommend for PC gamers

How to use a PS4 controller on PC: Wired and Bluetooth

How to use a PS3 controller on PC: Wired or Bluetooth

Moza AB9 FFB Base + MH16 Flightstick + MTP Throttle review

Steam Controller re-review: A fresh look at Valve's flawed but influential 10-year-old controller

Open source Steam Controller-a-like is a beast with new screens and gyro controls: 'there's so much more I can add' says creator

How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC

Arc Raiders' overpowered aim assist gets stronger at high frame rates, and I feel like I'm cheating when I use it

Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync review

Der8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it's really fun

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review

Best CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: Keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers

Noctua 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

Be Quiet! keeps the 'consumer' in CES with new PC components including a dashing new Dark Rock 6 cooler

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

RAM 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

EarFun Air Pro 4+ earbuds review

This Logitech wireless gaming headset has the best mic you will find for $130

Logitech G325 Lightspeed review

Razer's magnificent BlackShark V3 is the gaming headset we recommend time and time again, and at $120 it's the obvious choice for your next audio upgrade

Beyerdynamic MMX 150 Wireless gaming headset review

New research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies

Artist scales retro speaker up to ridiculous proportions: 'Is this a really stupid project? Yes'

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite review

Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself

ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

The Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance

Best office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested

As an awkward sitter, you may need a more dynamic ergonomic chair

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AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one

Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

Ikea Utespelare desk review

Mode claims its upcoming Encore keyboard refresh 'delivers our most satisfying typing experience to date' and has a neat new mounting system to boot

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: the fastest, smoothest and loveliest boards I've tested

Gravastar Mercury V60 Pro review

Cherry Xtrfy MX 8.2 Pro TMR TKL review

As an ergonomic keyboard skeptic, I made the switch this month and it's so much easier than I expected

Wooting 60HE v2 review

'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

Corsair Galleon 100 SD review

Keychron's made a concrete keeb: 'Each keystroke carries industrial rhythm... elevating the experience with marble-like smoothness and auditory-visual harmony'

New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance

Asus CFO Nick Wu thinks Apple's MacBook Neo is 'certainly a shock to the entire market'

As if PC hardware news couldn't get any gloomier, one research report suggests mainstream laptop prices could rise by as much as 40%

One of the fastest RTX 5080 gaming laptops we've ever tested has $950 knocked off the price

This shady Amazon listing for a 1.1 TB laptop actually uses the cloud for 1 TB and it's only included for a year

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

I'm a Linux bore now, so I used my new powers to resurrect a ten year-old laptop forgotten by Windows

As hardware prices make heads spin, Apple of all companies has just announced a new MacBook laptop for only $599

Acer Nitro V 16 AI gaming laptop review

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

Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Wireless CF review

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on

Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks

I think I've found my gaming mouse heaven but it's on the other side of the world in Tokyo

A rep for a major mouse company thinks half of gaming mice will be like the Superstrike in three years

This upcoming gaming mouse weighs just over 28 grams without poking holes in it

Logitech's budget wireless gaming mouse is down to a phenomenal $27, making it arguably the best value rodent out there right now

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

One of my favourite 4K OLED monitors just got updated with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel tech

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

Samsung's new 1440p gaming monitor sports a ridiculous 600 Hz refresh rate but that's nothing compared to the 1040 Hz it can do in 1080p mode

After two years and over 6,000 hours, Monitors Unboxed's long-term OLED gaming monitor test shows increasing burn-in

If you've been looking for an excuse to upgrade to an ultrawide monitor, this huge curved 1440p panel is the one I'd go for on sale

A 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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Now just $350, this 27-inch 1440p OLED gaming monitor is not only the cheapest it's ever been, but it's also a brilliant upgrade

Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse

Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'

This RTX 5070 gaming PC packs 2 TB SSD storage and 32 GB speedy memory for a genuinely reasonable price in this great RAMpocalypse

Best cheap gaming PC deals

This is 100% the gaming PC I would buy in these tech-starved times

Top 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

One 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'

This 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

Holy RAMpocalypse! Here's an RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC with a load of RAM and SSD storage, all inexplicably at last year's price

PNY GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB OC review

AMD announces next-gen 'FSR Diamond' AI-enhanced upscaling for future Xbox consoles, but the question is whether it's coming to PC and which GPUs will support it

Cheap graphics card deals this week

DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation is coming to Nvidia App beta users on March 31, bringing on-the-fly 6x frame gen switching to RTX 50-series owners

Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry system will be sprucing up the forests of The Witcher 4, making for some lush-looking ray traced trees to go Witcher-ing within

Resident Evil Requiem is one of the few games to use GPU data decompression but it's a bit hit and miss as to whether your GPU will ever actually use it

Intel has released the SDK for XeSS 3 so hopefully it won't be long before Arc GPU owners get in on native multi frame gen action

Nvidia's next hardware launch for us gamers could be an RTX 5050 with a whopping 1 GB of extra VRAM

'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

No, AMD isn't abandoning Ryzen Z1 chip series: Lenovo says it's working with AMD on handheld gaming PC updates until 2029

Lenovo is going long with a foldable 12-inch handheld gaming PC concept

Abxylute 3D One handheld gaming PC review

Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

Surprise, surprise: The ROG Xbox Ally X just got a AU$200 price hike in Australia

Valve breaks its silence on Steam Deck OLED scarcity and yes, it's because of the RAM and storage crisis

Ayaneo celebrates the Chinese New Year with the launch of a new customer service improvement plan, with US-based repair facilities currently being tested

Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses.

All models of Steam Deck are sold out in the US and fingers are inevitably already pointing at the memory crisis

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

This smart lamp changed my gaming setup for the better and it's finally below $100 this Cyber Monday, just don't pick the wrong model

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

I own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

I may not need a full-blown Logitech streaming light but I'm mighty tempted now that it's 27% off in this early Prime Day deal

As if I needed any more RGB lights, this Govee x Evangelion light kit we gave a 91% is still $60 off for Cyber Monday

I find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here's a set from Neewer that's nearly buy one, get one free for Black Friday

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

One Australian gamer was denied a replacement for DRAM kit bought just two years prior and was only offered a refund of original price, four times less than its cost today

'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research

Asus thinks 'high-end brand value and high-end product mix' will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI

DRAM maker SK hynix has validated its next-gen LPDDR6 which would be great news for handheld PCs, except that the targeted market is AI devices

Phison CEO says 'both money and inventory are insufficient' as NAND prices continue to climb at an astronomical rate

Industry 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

It 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

The company that stopped making memory for gamers just explained how important memory is for gamers. Yeah, really

HP warns that memory now makes up around 35% of the cost its PCs, double that of a year ago

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review

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

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

If 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

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

Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'

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

Best gaming motherboards in 2026: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today