
Andy Edser
Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn't—and he hasn't stopped since. Now working as a hardware writer for PC Gamer, Andy spends his time jumping around the world attending product launches and trade shows, all the while reviewing every bit of PC gaming hardware he can get his hands on. You name it, if it's interesting hardware he'll write words about it, with opinions and everything.
Latest articles by Andy Edser

Team Group has built the world's first external SSD with built-in Apple-based location tracking and it's padlock-shaped
By Andy Edser published
News Where did I leave my... oh, never mind.

'They just really didn't think anyone would look up': Researchers snooped on unencrypted satellite data with basic equipment, finding private calls, text messages, and even military communications
By Andy Edser last updated
News 'They assumed that no one was ever going to check and scan all these satellites and see what was out there. That was their method of security.'

A lawyer caught using AI citations and quotes in a Supreme Court legal case has been called out by a judge for defending themselves with, err, AI citations and quotes
By Andy Edser published
News Your honour, I'd like to request a recess.

Copilot can now help you find settings in the latest Windows Insider build, which is fine by me—as long as it doesn't touch anything
By Andy Edser published
News Look with your eyes, not with your hands, as my mother used to say.

Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says 'of course' we're in an AI bubble but it won't end 'for several years'
By Andy Edser published
News 'We're hyped, we're accelerating, we're putting enormous leverage into the system.'

Scientists have integrated 2D materials a few atoms thick into a working memory chip for the first time and you can't tell me this isn't some prime Star Trek-level tech
By Andy Edser published
News Bring me the horizon. Or faster and more power-efficient chips, one of the two.

Edifier's new desktop speaker is treating gaming PCs as a luxury HiFi aesthetic, but it's just not doing it for me
By Andy Edser published
News A bizarre speaker setup that looks like it's cosplaying as a gaming PC.

This RTX 5070 Ti with a literal hole in it has been kept on life support by a spliced-in AMD RX 580, because no GPU gets left behind
By Andy Edser published
News We're going to make it out of here, you wait and see.

Trump announces new 100% China tariff along with export controls on 'any and all critical software' over rare earth spat, as Chinese gov says it doesn't want a trade war but is 'not afraid of one'
By Andy Edser published
News Here we go again.

Windows 10's greatest achievement was not being Windows 8, and I think we can all be thankful for that
By Andy Edser published
A tribute Rest in peace now, brave hero.

AI software company Graphite says it practices 'dogfooding' and 'onboarding roulette' by deleting employee accounts at random
By Andy Edser published
News Y'know, dogfooding. That old cliché term.

Battlefield 6: This is what a well-optimised game looks like in 2025
By Andy Edser published
Organised chaos It's pretty stunning in motion, too.

Amazon October Prime Day UK PC gaming deals
By Jacob Fox last updated
Prime Day Deals Amazon's next sales event, Big Deal Days, is finally over, but there are still some deals worth paying attention to.

The RTX 5080 MSI Vector 16 has dropped by $200, so it's time for me to tap the 'it's a really good gaming laptop' sign once more
By Andy Edser published
Prime Day With feeling. And love.

HyperX SoloCast 2 USB microphone review
By Andy Edser published
Score: 82% It's the simple things.

Slapping screens on absolutely everything is the most unnecessary hardware 'must-have' I've seen to date, and I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed
By Andy Edser published
Screen Scream Call me a luddite, if you must.

The Trump administration may have had a hand in the Nvidia/Intel partnership, whether directly or indirectly, despite Jensen's claims to the contrary
By Andy Edser published
News An artful deal, perhaps?

'We're going to build revolutionary products' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his newly-announced collaboration with Intel: 'Nothing of its kind has ever been built before'
By Andy Edser published
News Impressive claims, but whether Nvidia will eventually use Intel's Foundry in future remains a question mark for now.

Microsoft's Paint now lets you save projects as layered files in the latest Insider build, as part of its continued efforts to make the default image editor great again
By Andy Edser published
News Is it just me, or is Paint actually kinda good these days?

Casio has unleashed its AI Tribble with 'emotions like a living creature' on the US and UK, complete with a Mogwai-like warning that you can't get it too hot, too cold, or too wet
By Andy Edser published
News Cute and cuddly, or downright insidious? You decide.

'It's all good, it's all good' says Mark Zuckerberg as his catastrophic live demo of Meta's new smart glasses goes horribly wrong: 'You spend years making technology and then the Wi-Fi on the day catches you'
By Andy Edser published
News A comedy of errors.

Logitech has announced an affordable 8 Nm direct drive racing wheel setup with full TrueForce support, along with some fancy trick pedals I want to try for myself
By Andy Edser published
News The more affordable end of the direct drive sim racing market is about to get interesting.

Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like there's no way for personal users to opt out
By Andy Edser published
News Don't want it? Time to switch office suite providers, then.
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