Hardware

Lick your way to victory with the Mouth Pad, a Bluetooth device that lets you control your PC with just your tongue

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

This DIY 'OpenPuck' project allows the Steam Controller to emulate Xbox, Switch, and PlayStation controllers, but no wireless charging for you

A second OG Steam Controller prototype has been found at Goodwill

Forza Horizon 6 works best with a racing wheel, so I've found nine Amazon Prime Day deals to put you in pole position

The best high-end PC controllers used to cost a king's ransom, now it's a little more affordable thanks to Amazon Prime Day

This discounted controller puts the standard Xbox pad to shame for just $64 as Amazon Prime Day wraps up

The most satisfying controller I've ever used is on sale at its lowest ever price for Prime Day

Looking for a Forza-ready, direct drive racing wheel for less? This $379 Moza bundle is astonishingly good value for Prime Day

Arctic Freezer 36-S review

Best PC fans in 2026: I've put these case fans through their paces to find the coolest and quietest

Chill out your toasty gaming PC and beat the heat with these 12 deals on fans, liquid coolers, cases, and more from just $5

Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling

Be Quiet Dark Rock 6 and Dark Rock Pro 6 review

Rein the heat with three of the best AIO CPU coolers around, now all with massive discounts thanks to Prime Day

Noctua's AIO liquid cooler is here but hooo boy is it expensive

Hyte's new prototype AIO cooler looks to pack funky RGB and transparent shrouds into an affordable package

Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one

'A+, would have my soul leave my body again': One of my favorite wireless gaming headsets is now at its lowest ever price

Glorious GHS InfinitePlay review

At 34% off, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro still proves hot swappable batteries are a game changer for wireless headsets

The best gaming headset out there right now has just received a tidy $19 discount at Best Buy

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

This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for '200+ PC games'

Amazon Prime Day gaming headset deals

A gaming headset we summed up as smooth in every way is down to $81 this Prime Day

My favorite wireless gaming headset is now just $76 this Prime Day, though not in my preferred colorway

Secretlab Atlas review

LiberNovo Omni Pro chair review

Upgrade your gaming setup on the cheap with possibly the best Prime Day gaming chair deal

I've just finished reviewing this great office chair and—oh, hey look, there's $50 knocked off the price right now

Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review

Secretlab's CEO is getting tough on copycat chairs and doesn't feel pressure to adopt AI: 'If we were owned by outside investors, you can bet that AI will be somehow jammed down our throats'

I was roasted by a physician for sitting weird but they gave me some great tips for healthier gaming

Secretlab's new Atlas chair is cheaper, slimmer than the Titan Evo and I've been sitting comfortably in it for the past couple days

Corsair's new and supposedly affordable seat continues 'the move away from traditional gaming chair style'

Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

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

Asus ROG Azoth Extreme Edition 20 review

Turtle Beach Command Series KB7 TKL gaming keyboard review

Logitech G316 X (tactile) gaming keyboard review

With a huge 31% Prime Day discount, this Asus ROG gaming keyboard is a great deal for anyone wanting a fast and feature-rich button basher

This gaming keyboard is a class act, and it's waiting for you this Prime Day with its top hat askew and its monocle popped

Our pick for the best budget keyboard packs in magnetic switches and an 8K polling rate for only $32 this Prime Day

This lubed-up optical gaming keyboard has been my daily driver for two years, and it beats out boards three times its price at just $80

Melgeek Real81 review

I was genuinely surprised by the discounted price of Logitech's Genshin Impact-themed TKL gaming keyboard, thanks to a 56% price cut at Amazon

We now have independent testing confirming Razer's latest innovative mouse sensor tech does what it says it does

Hot swappable mouse batteries might be the hot new trend as it looks like Wallhack's first ever mouse will have them

Glass mouse pads haven't won me over but gamer sleeves are a different story

We might see a new Logitech Superstrike this September, just a few months after the world's first proper analogue mouse launched

Asus ProArt Mouse MD301

Logitech Mobi Fold mouse review

The best gaming mouse is 'a superior squeaker in pretty much every respect' and its finally enjoying a $20 discount

The gaming mouse I use everyday weighs only 55 grams, enjoys a 100-hour battery, and can be yours for just $70

If you're looking for a performance-first gaming mouse for less, the Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 is ready for you this Prime Day

The day has finally come where you can get OLED gaming monitors for $300, and this Samsung Odyssey is my pick

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

Asus ROG Strix OLED XG32UQWMS gaming monitor review

LG UltraGear Evo GX9 39GX950B gaming monitor review

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

BOE's new $9 billion OLED monitor plant, capable of churning out 10 million panels this year alone, is now up and running—with some big names already on board

I've found six 1440p gaming monitors for under $200, so now's the time to ditch 1080p and pick up some more pixels for less

Budget OLED versus budget mini-LED: The best real-world PC gaming monitor tech tested

Whether you have a need for speed or require retina-melting brightness, I've got two cracking deals on budget gaming monitors for you

MSI celebrates 40 year anniversary by unveiling a SEVEN GRAND LAPTOP

Tired of carrying around a Steam Deck? The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra might be your new go-to gaming device for travel

I would only play Halo: Campaign Evolved on handheld with upscaling

The best Steam Deck games

Acer and Gigabyte will launch RTX Spark laptops too, but not before Microsoft and Co.

Steam Deck sales are estimated to have plummeted by around 80% since the massive price hikes earlier this year, back of the napkin maths suggests

Acer's Predator Atlas 8 pricing puts the nail in the handheld coffin for me: it is now a luxury market

Valve has replaced a Steam Machine for free after it was stolen by porch pirates, saving one UK redditor roughly £1,000

MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC review

After months of surprising stability in graphics card prices, apparently Nvidia is now raising the cost of its GPU kits for AIB partners

Redditor uses 'ticking time bomb' vial of gallium to stop their GPU sagging

If you're looking for ideas on how to mod your RTX 4060, maybe remove its fans and slap a ridiculously big heatsink on it like this person did

This is the cheapest Nvidia's RTX 5070 has been all year... and [whisper] there's actually a deal on the RTX 5070 Ti, too

Cheap graphics card deals this week

HWMonitor now shows you thermal hotspot data for RTX 50-series graphics cards, so I thought I'd give one of ours a quick test

Too hot to handle: A leaked internal Nvidia tool re-enables blocked GPU hotspot sensor data for RTX 50-series graphics cards

More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x

Legendary dad fixes their kid's dead RTX 3070 by ripping the capacitor out of an old radio and slapping it on the side, saving over $100 in the process

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

The fourth biggest memory manufacturer could break into America soon, and chances are you've never heard of it

'There are limits to how much prices can be raised' says SK hynix chairman about memory crisis but I'm not sure the market will care

Redditor fashions a 'game cartridge' system for their Steam library out of cheap SATA SSDs

DRAM demand predicted to outstrip supply by 28.7 exabytes in 2030, which is almost as much as the actual DRAM in the world right now

So THIS is why component makers have started validating their products for Chinese memory

'Customer demand will remain higher than our supply capacity even beyond 2030': SK hynix CEO predicts memory supply crisis may run even longer than we feared

Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation

What memory crisis? 79% of PC Gamer readers are rocking 32 GB or more RAM in their gaming rigs

New IDC report claims worldwide PC shipments fell by 5% but revenue didn't, as 'vendors are pushing through price increases faster than demand is dropping'

Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

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

The biggest upgrade I did last year was setting up a Wi-Fi 7 mesh network and with this huge Prime Day deal, you can too

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

The best PC upgrade I did this year was switching everything to Wi-Fi 7 and now you can too with these Cyber Monday deals

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access'

Gaming PC cases are still being hit with the discount stick right now, so I've rounded up nine of the best deals starting at just $40

Thermaltake Retro 360 TG case review

This is by far the prettiest Phanteks PC case I've ever built in, and it's at its lowest ever price

This bright yellow PC case is a sweet little bumblebee at only $130, and I take no responsibility if you've now got a certain song stuck in your head

I'm so bored of looking at plain black hardware this Prime Day, but thankfully this head-turning PC case is only $100

Phanteks XT View Matrix case review

Havn is making a smaller, lighter version of the excellent HS 420, with a few convenient upgrades too

Phanteks shows off PC case that bucks the fish tank trend in favour of greater thermal efficiency and giving your GPU its own little room

We got our eyes and noses on a new PC case with a magnetic essential oils diffuser to make your gaming den smell less like a gaming den