
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

This €130 gaming PC in a plastic jug churns out a whole 15 fps in Fortnite and might be the best/worst DIY build I've ever seen
By Andy Edser published
News Honestly? I kinda love it.

Estimates on the financial impact of yesterday's AWS outage range from 'hundreds of billions' to over $75 million per hour, but one thing we can all agree on is it was pretty bad, chief
By Andy Edser published
News A butterfly flaps its wings. Again.

Windows 11 25H2 has borked the mouse and keyboard controls in the Windows Recovery Environment, because what would a major update be without a fresh batch of bugs
By Andy Edser last updated
News Update: It's been fixed. Hoorah!

China accuses the US of attacking time—or being behind a series of cyberattacks on its National Time Center, anyway
By Andy Edser published
News Stop the clocks, etc.

'It really was Asus' says Microsoft about the ROG Xbox Ally X's eye-watering $1,000 price tag: 'That is all of their insight into the market'
By Andy Edser published
News Not us, guv. Honest.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'At the moment we are 100% out of China... it's important to be mindful that what harms China could oftentimes also harm America'
By Andy Edser published
News 'We went from 95% market share to 0%.'

PayPal's crypto partner accidentally minted $300,000,000,000,000 worth of stablecoins, which is more than twice the world's total GDP
By Andy Edser published
News Which must have made for a heart-stopping moment, I'd imagine.

Microsoft says it's making 'every Windows 11 PC an AI PC' with a dizzying array of Copilot upgrades, including voice activation
By Andy Edser published
News 'All with your permission and built upon the security of Windows 11.'

A Google AI model has discovered a promising new cancer treatment method, described as 'a milestone for AI in science'
By Andy Edser published
News A genuinely positive AI story, for a change.

I tested the beta version of MSI's beginner-friendly, AI-powered EZ PC Builder, and it told me the 9800X3D was the perfect chip for a budget gaming PC
By Andy Edser published
Are we sure? It also loves to recommend MSI components, to the surprise of no one.

Best gaming chair in 2025: 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
Take a seat Treat your body to one of the best gaming chairs and sit like a royal on your new throne.

The foldable OriMouse is a mere 5 mm thick and weighs just 38 g but the photos give me a serious case of the heebie-jeebies
By Andy Edser published
News Apparently I have some sort of sense issue, which is an interesting thing to discover on a Thursday morning.

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.
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