Hardware

You won't find a better gaming controller under $30 than the GameSir Nova Lite 2 right now

Razer's Wolverine 8K controller is down to $160 and has literally everything you need to wipe the lobby

SteelSeries throws everything but the kitchen sink in the feature list of its Aeon Pro controller

Scuf Omega review

The best wired PC controller has been knocked down to $77—so long as you don't mind it in white

Best PC controllers in 2026: I've tested lots of gamepads and these get my recommendation

Someone has managed to run Zork on the Steam Controller's internal hardware, but it's risky business

This wild new PC pro controller runs its own custom OS across a 2.79-inch color display slapped beneath the thumbsticks

The latest Windows 11 update is borking some multiplayer games, but Arc Raiders' developer has a quick workaround

'No fuss, no greater meaning, only fans': Corsair shares 3D print files for its April Fools mini fan cube

Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2026: I test all the latest AIO coolers and these are my recommendations

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: I've tested loads of coolers and these are my top picks

Noctua NL-LC1 liquid cooler review

Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'

Cooler Master V8 Ace 3DHP review

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

Corsair HS35 v3 review

HDMI technology integration and installations are essential for advanced gaming

This wireless headset may not have cat ears, but I can overlook its fashion crimes for its 300-hour battery and lowest ever price

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

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

Creative XF1 speaker review

Free yourself from the tyranny of cables and go wireless with any of these six gaming headsets starting from $49

Why Kali Audio’s LP-UNF studio-caliber speakers make so much sense for PC gaming

Razer's BlackShark V3 is the best gaming headset right now and with almost $50 off, it's the only one I'd recommend

Corsair's new de-gamefied gaming chair is actually much more affordable than I thought

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested loads of gaming chairs and these are my top picks

Boulies EP200 review

I've only seen this excellent budget gaming chair as cheap as this once before... and that was years ago

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

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

Exclusive: Spend $200 or more on eligible CORSAIR Gaming Gear and get an additional $25 off

Framework cancels custom low profile keyboard module for its laptops: 'We weren’t able to bring costs to a place where the product economics worked'

Feel the thrill of competition with Logitech G's mechanical keyboards

Logitech G's keyboards help you play to win

Our absolute favourite gaming keyboard, the Wooting 80HE, is getting a BIG KNOB, improved switches, and more

I got my hands on Razer's new $50 mechanical mini keeb and it makes a damn good first impression

Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL wired mechanical gaming keyboard

Keychron K8 Ultra 8K review

'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes

Finalmouse claims its mouse has the absolute fastest click, quicker than the Logitech Superstrike and Razer Viper V4 Pro

Oops, looks like the Logitech X3 Superstrike has leaked on Amazon and the rapid trigger gaming mouse will have +50% battery life

I've spent four months testing control pads in Counter-Strike and I've finally settled on my fave

Pulsar's new mouse is sliced in half to make it genuinely 'crazy-light'

AngryMiao AM Infinity.97 mouse review

Razer Naga V3 Pro review

Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20 review

These could be the first leaked images of the new Logitech Superstrike, which looks rather dashing in all-black

MMO heads rejoice, Razer is bringing out the Naga V3 Pro with upgraded switches, loads of customizability and a ridiculous DPI

LG UltraGear 25G590B gaming monitor review

This 240 Hz OLED may only be 27-inches, but it's a $330 gaming monitor you won't want to overlook

Koorui G2741L review

The 4K dual-mode gaming monitor in front of me right now is $70 off, and I reckon it's one of the best budget picks out there

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

Gaming monitors are one of the only good things about PC hardware right now, but one niche feature is underloved

Xgimi Titan Noir Max gaming projector review

Gigabyte GO27Q24A gaming monitor eview

I can't believe how cheap some 4K gaming monitors have become, like this Acer for just $160

Best gaming laptops 2026: We've reviewed the best gaming laptops of this generation and these are our favorites

iBuyPower RDY Scale B06 review

HP Omen 35L (2026) gaming PC review

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

Best deals on gaming laptops

The Steam Deck 2 has 'not really' been impacted by the memory supply crisis, with Valve still focused on a 'very delineated performance improvement' for its next handheld

Someone made a copper gaming PC Frankensteined out of an old blowtorch and other assorted parts and is 'just going to let it tarnish over time'

Gaming PC prices are truly shocking right now but this RTX 5070 rig is the cheapest I've seen one of late

Best cheap gaming PC deals

Touch grass? Not when AMD has whittled down ray tracing memory usage by 98% for these hardware-sapping bushes and trees

Control Resonant is one of the best-looking games at low graphics settings I've ever seen

Don't bother turning Control Resonant up to the maximum for mind-bending graphics, there's both performance and beauty in the lower graphics presets too

Suddenly much cheaper and still much faster than an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, the RX 9070 GRE is the only sub-MSRP graphics card around today

AMD presents new method of handing indirect lighting off to an image generation model: 'frame-by-frame' solution could be part of AMD's answer to DLSS 5 someday

Cheap graphics card deals this week

The leakers disagree, but we might just get one AMD-shaped mid-range GPU through all of 2027

Where have all the RTX 5090s gone? Stock of the high-end GPU is disappearing from US online retailers

Serial numbers on RTX Founders Edition graphics cards, including PC Gamer's very own, are fading and apparently it's causing a problem with RMA requests

Full unicorn vomit, or stealthed-out mean machine? I want to know how much RGB festoons your gaming PC, please and thank you

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

Who the hell is buying their server memory from Amazon?! Also, can I interest you in a $101,000 kit?

Good news for some: Framework swims against the tide of the RAMpocalypse by 'retroactively reducing' its LPCAMM2 prices

Why does this sort of thing never happen to me? Redditor says they found $10,000 worth of RAM just sitting in their garage

Chinese RAM hits 9000 MT/s and even matches the speed and latency of the memory in our western gaming PCs

Micron's top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: 'We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector'

A researcher says 'we just undid about 20 years of progress' when it comes to memory prices, so I broke out my calculator and compared actual RAM kits from 2007 to 2026

Corsair isn't rolling in money from its mega-expensive RAM kits—and it's all thanks to higher component costs and lower demand

Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis

Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight

Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%

Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad

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?

Wi-Fi 8 is upon us, so here are two routers we saw at Computex that should be hitting the shops soon

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

The highly customisable Corsair Frame 4000X promised it would be my dream PC case, but I'm not completely convinced

This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I've ever seen

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