Hardware

Switch pad

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

By Wes Fenlon Last updated 14 January 26

News

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

By James Bentley Published 13 January 26

Gear of the Year

I enjoy touching all the hardware bits that pass through PCG's offices, but this bit of kit was all but made for my upsettingly small baby hands

By Jess Kinghorn Published 31 December 25

News

Varmilo releases mildly cursed looking 'foot keyboard' designed to give you an edge in competitive games

By Jess Kinghorn Published 3 December 25

Cyber Monday

From TMR sticks to budget picks, these are the nine best game controller deals in the Cyber Monday sales

By James Bentley Published 1 December 25

Cyber Monday

Switching to a leverless fighting game controller is the smartest thing I ever did, and one of the best in the biz is at its lowest-ever price

By Mollie Taylor Published 1 December 25

Cyber Monday

This $16 controller is one of the best Cyber Monday stocking fillers, and the cheapest route to no-drift Hall effect sticks

By James Bentley Published 29 November 25

Cyber Monday

TMR sticks, 1000 Hz polling and a charging stand top the spec sheet of one of Cyber Monday's best PC controller deals

By James Bentley Published 29 November 25

Cyber Monday

My beloved Razer PC controller is finally on discount this Cyber Monday and I implore you to behold its shapely frame

By Andy Edser Published 29 November 25

Score: 94%

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review

By Jacob Ridley Published 23 January 26

Cool Breeze

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

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 January 26

Air dried

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

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 January 26

News

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

By James Bentley Published 12 January 26

CES 2026

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

By Jacob Ridley Published 6 January 26

Gear of the Year

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 25 December 25

News

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

By Nick Evanson Published 10 December 25

News

The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group

By James Bentley Published 2 December 25

Black Friday

The Hyte Thicc Q60 is the most ridiculous liquid cooler I've ever used and it's now over half off for Black Friday

By Jacob Ridley Published 26 November 25

Audiophile

Sennheiser HD 550 review

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 21 January 26

Score: 79%

Sony Inzone H9 II gaming headset review

By Andy Edser Published 16 January 26

Budding gamers

The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears

By Dave James Last updated 16 January 26

Volume up

Best PC speakers in 2026: From 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers

By Andy Edser Last updated 15 January 26

Untethered

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

By Dave James Last updated 15 January 26

Quality cans

Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones

By Dave James Last updated 15 January 26

CES 2026

Asus has tweaked the twangers out of Hifiman's planar magnetic drivers in its new audiophile-grade gaming headset, and it shows

By Andy Edser Published 8 January 26

CES 2026

HyperX is showing off a gaming headset prototype packed with brain wave monitoring EEG tech to better get your head in the game

By Jess Kinghorn Published 7 January 26

CES 2026

These $200 audiophile earbuds mix planar and dynamic drivers and they look like they might actually be decent for gaming

By Jacob Fox Published 7 January 26

News

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

By Jess Kinghorn Published 22 January 26

Take a seat

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

By Dave James Last updated 16 January 26

Take a seat

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

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 15 January 26

SPONSORED

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

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By Katie Wickens Published 14 January 26

Score: 80%

AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

By Ian Evenden Published 8 January 26

CES 2026

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

By James Bentley Published 6 January 26

Cyber Week

Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 5 December 25

Cyber Week

Want a perfect perch but without the gaming bling? This Flexispot ErgoX office chair is the cheapest it's ever been, now just $250

By Nick Evanson Published 4 December 25

Cyber Monday

I've come along to save your ass this Cyber Monday with an immense TC500 Luxe gaming chair discount

By Kara Phillips Published 1 December 25

Top Desks

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

By Dave James Last updated 15 January 26

Score: 86%

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

By Mollie Taylor Published 22 October 25

Swanky surface

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

By James Bentley Published 13 October 25

Luxurious

Grovemade desk review

By Jacob Fox Published 3 September 25

Score: 85%

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

By Jacob Ridley Published 14 August 25

Score: 82%

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

By Dave James Published 11 August 25

News

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

By James Bentley Published 22 May 25

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

By James Bentley Published 25 March 25

ALL THE SPACE

Ikea Utespelare desk review

By Hope Corrigan Published 28 December 24

Score: 75%

Asus ROG Azoth 96 HE review

By Reece Bithrey Published 23 January 26

Click Clack

Best mechanical keyboards in 2026: The clacky boards I'd buy in a heartbeat

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 January 26

Freedom

Best wireless gaming keyboard in 2026: my top picks for cable-free typing delights

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 January 26

Quick digits

Best Hall effect keyboards in 2026: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 January 26

Score: 87%

QPAD Flux 65 Model 5 review

By Jacob Fox Published 15 January 26

Keyed in

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

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 15 January 26

CES 2026

Set sail into the seas of streaming with Corsair's new Galleon 100 SD keyboard, with its built-in deck

By Nick Evanson Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Corsair brings Hall effect to its dinky enthusiast gaming keyboard in the form of the MAKR Pro 75

By Jacob Fox Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Cherry may be down but it isn't out with two new 'more than magnetic' TMR gaming keyboards

By Jess Kinghorn Published 5 January 26

A call for calm

Intel's new high-end mobile chip is an impressive game-cruncher, but I don't think proper gaming laptops should worry just yet

By Andy Edser Published 26 January 26

News

Lenovo might bring AMD's monster Strix Halo iGPU and Nvidia's N1X to gaming laptops soon if this recent listing is anything to go by

By Jacob Fox Published 26 January 26

News

Panther Lake's limited number of PCIe lanes means you probably won't see any gaming laptops arriving with the 12-core Xe3 iGPU and a discrete GPU

By Nick Evanson Published 26 January 26

Full charge

I ditched my laptop charger for a day of travel, work and gaming with Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chip and still had 18% battery life left when I got home

By Andy Edser Published 26 January 26

Score: 80%

MSI Vector A18 HX review

By Ian Evenden Published 23 January 26

The evolution of Alienware: how the Area-51 changed the game

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By Sponsored Published 22 January 26

News

Nvidia's long-awaited N1X Arm chip for the PC will be released within months according to a new report

By Jeremy Laird Published 21 January 26

Go mobile

Best graphics card for laptops in 2026: the mobile GPUs I'd want in my next gaming laptop

By Dave James Last updated 16 January 26

Score: 68%

Acer Nitro V15 (2025) review

By Ian Evenden Published 15 January 26

News

Logitech has raised the price of its already-too-expensive G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad

By Jacob Fox Published 26 January 26

Score: 79%

Pulsar X2 CrazyLight Medium review

By Jacob Fox Published 22 January 26

News

Be Quiet! enters the gaming mouse market with a pair of kinda plain-looking competitive rodents

By James Bentley Published 21 January 26

Slick

Best mouse pads for gaming in 2026: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 January 26

Pinpoint

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

By Dave James Last updated 15 January 26

CES 2026

Corsair's latest mouse pad is just begging to have my greasy fingers all over it

By Jacob Fox Published 7 January 26

CES 2026

Corsair just announced carbon fiber and magnesium alloy versions of my favourite gaming mouse since Logitech's G Pro X Superlight

By Jacob Fox Published 6 January 26

Gear of the Year

2025 is the year I discovered I love charging docks, and it's all because of one surprisingly reasonably priced gaming mouse

By James Bentley Published 29 December 25

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025

By Jacob Fox Published 28 December 25

Deal

With DRAM and SSDs now all stupidly expensive, upgrade your gaming setup with this $260 ultra-curved, ultrawide monitor instead

By Nick Evanson Published 22 January 26

Deal

It's hard to say no to this 4K 144 Hz gaming monitor deal for just $180

By James Bentley Published 21 January 26

Deals

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

By Dave James Last updated 21 January 26

News

Asus' new 4K dual-mode gaming monitors include even faster 1080p modes all the way up to 480 Hz

By Jeremy Laird Published 20 January 26

Score: 88%

XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser projector review

By Katie Wickens Published 19 January 26

How Refreshing

Best high refresh rate gaming monitor in 2026: These are the speedy panels I'd snap up

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 January 26

Bendy

Best curved monitors for gaming in 2026: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of

By Dave James Last updated 16 January 26

4K Vision

Best 4K gaming monitors in 2026: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend

By Dave James Last updated 16 January 26

Eye candy

Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself

By Dave James Last updated 15 January 26

Deal

I've found you seven gaming PCs, all packing 32 GB of DDR5 memory and defiantly priced against the growing RAMpocalypse

By Jacob Fox Published 26 January 26

deals

Best cheap gaming PC deals

By Jacob Fox Last updated 26 January 26

Teeny Peecees

Best mini PCs in 2026: The compact computers I love the most

By Al Bickham Last updated 16 January 26

Perfect PC

Best gaming PCs in 2026: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today

By Dave James Last updated 15 January 26

DIY

Best gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 13 January 26

News

PC shipments grew in 2025 but the market 'will be far different in 12 months given how quickly the memory situation is evolving'

By James Bentley Published 13 January 26

News

'Um, as a favor, if you buy a new one, please sell your gaming PC to our company' says Tokyo-based computer store as it offers 'pretty high prices'

By James Bentley Published 12 January 26

Deal

In the midst of climbing prices, surprisingly it's the RX 9070 that's stepping up to the plate with this Ryzen X3D gaming PC for $250 off

By Jacob Fox Published 12 January 26

CES 2026

HP's new AI PC might look like a laptop that lost a fight with an angle grinder but it's compact and discreet as you could possibly get

By Nick Evanson Published 6 January 26

Cat-like

Fast, feisty, fabulous: I've benchmarked Intel's new Panther Lake processor and it's dragging gaming laptop performance out of integrated graphics

By Andy Edser Published 26 January 26

News

Nvidia reportedly cancels partner incentive scheme to sell cards at MSRP, says YouTuber Der8auer, signalling hard times ahead for GPU prices

By James Bentley Published 23 January 26

News

Redditor ordered an RTX 5080 from Amazon Prime and claims a near-identical RTX 5060 Ti with the stickers swapped was sent out

By Jeremy Laird Published 22 January 26

News

If you've been saving up to buy a new 16 GB graphics card, then I have bad news for you: It's already a bloodbath out there and it's getting worse every week

By Nick Evanson Published 22 January 26

News

Behold the future of PC gaming: Upscaled 77p potatovision—and it's not quite as awful as you imagine

By Jeremy Laird Published 22 January 26

Deals

Cheap graphics card deals this week

By Nick Evanson Last updated 22 January 26

News

Jensen Huang talks AI's insatiable appetite for GPUs at the World Economic Forum: 'spot price of GPU rentals is going up, not just the latest generation, but two generation old GPUs'

By Jacob Ridley Published 22 January 26

News

Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU rumoured to be launching soon but only as a megabucks Pro graphics card with 32 GB of VRAM

By Jeremy Laird Published 21 January 26

news

Asus is NOT killing off the RTX 5070 Ti as Asus issues statment saying 'certain media may have received incomplete information'

By Dave James Last updated 16 January 26

Handhelds when?

Panther Lake is simply begging to be stuffed inside a benchmark-crushing gaming handheld, but the price tag is likely to be brutal

By Andy Edser Published 26 January 26

News

Nintendo president is 'carefully considering the situation' around memory prices as research firm predicts Switch 2 price hike

By James Bentley Published 21 January 26

News

Here comes an AMD Ryzen AI 400-powered handheld PC that's super cute, OLED and has an 80 Wh battery

By James Bentley Published 20 January 26

Steam On

The best Steam Deck games

By Wes Fenlon Last updated 16 January 26

Decked out

Best Steam Deck accessories in 2026: These are the add-ons that I'd let keep my handheld company on its travels

By Katie Wickens Last updated 16 January 26

Portable PC

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

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 15 January 26

CES 2026

We might have a new contender for the best handheld gaming PC, because Lenovo's just announced a SteamOS version of its mega Legion Go 2

By Nick Evanson Published 7 January 26

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2025

By James Bentley Published 26 December 25

News

Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen

By Jess Kinghorn Published 11 December 25

Light it up!

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

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 January 26

Cyber Monday

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

By James Bentley Published 29 November 25

Win or Bin?

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

By Andy Edser Published 1 September 25

Prime Day

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

By James Bentley Published 7 July 25

Prime Day

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

By James Bentley Published 4 July 25

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

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 1 December 24

Deal

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

By Jacob Ridley Published 27 November 24

Reactive

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

By Josh Brown Published 21 November 24

Sync'd

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

By Josh Brown Published 21 November 24

News

ReRAM has reentered the chat, with high-profile manufacturing deal positioning it as the 'successor to flash memory'

By Jess Kinghorn Published 21 January 26

News

Because of AI 'memory's become sexy again'. That's what Micron told us as the alarm bells for the RAMpocalypse began ringing in 2024, but we just didn't listen

By Nick Evanson Published 19 January 26

News

Spraying kerosene over the DRAM inferno, US commerce secretary suggests memory chip makers could face 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased US production

By Nick Evanson Published 19 January 26

News

Micron signs a deal to acquire a chip foundry in Taiwan for $1.8 billion, though it won't make a dent in the memory supply crisis until 2027 at the earliest

By Jess Kinghorn Published 19 January 26

Dynamic

Best RAM for gaming in 2026: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you

By Chris Szewczyk Last updated 16 January 26

News

To meet 'tremendous and humongous demand' from AI customers, SK Hynix accelerates 2027 fab plans by three months, with an even fresher fab beginning wafer production next month

By Jess Kinghorn Published 15 January 26

News

Seeing the absolute state of memory pricing, Chinese DIY community opts for DDR3 motherboards instead

By Jess Kinghorn Published 14 January 26

News

Major memory module manufacturer says: 'Trust me, we're not laughing our way to the bank'

By Jess Kinghorn Published 14 January 26

News

Framework 'held off as long as we could' but just cranked up prices of its Desktops and Mainboards

By Jeremy Laird Published 14 January 26

News

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

By Nick Evanson Published 23 January 26

News

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

By Nick Evanson Published 19 January 26

Best Mobo

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

By Dave James Last updated 16 January 26

Mini marvels

Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2026: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested

By Nick Evanson Last updated 16 January 26

News

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

By James Bentley Published 8 January 26

News

It's an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

By Nick Evanson Published 19 December 25

News

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'

By James Bentley Published 19 December 25

News

Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'

By Nick Evanson Published 18 December 25

Score: 80%

MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition review

By Nick Evanson Published 15 December 25