
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

Rocket wizard Scott Manley has used a ZX Spectrum to land a Kerbal on the Mun and I am phenomenally impressed
By Andy Edser published
News One small step for retro computing, etc.

'Everybody who worked at Nvidia in the early days really wanted to make a game console' says senior VP of engineering Andrew Bell: 'Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves'
By Andy Edser published
News ‘Let’s go after people who really want a premium experience.’

Puget Systems crowns the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K as the most reliable processor in its consumer PCs, with Nvidia Founders Edition cards leading the charge for GPUs
By Andy Edser published
News It's Kingston for RAM, with Micron not far behind.

This Frankenstein-ed RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it has just set a world record benchmark score and it's the most cursed-looking graphics card I've ever seen
By Andy Edser published
News A graphics card can be destroyed but not defeated, apparently.

'TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outside a 'trillion-dollar dinner' for top tech manufacturers in Taiwan
By Andy Edser published
News Sounds lovely.

You can now view the Computer History Museum's collection from the comfort of your own home, and it's full of retro blasts from the past
By Andy Edser published
News For those who can't make the trip to California.

DeepSeek has reportedly been given conditional approval by the Chinese government to buy Nvidia's AI GPUs
By Andy Edser published
News If true, China's top AI startup may be about to receive some serious hardware horsepower.

Microsoft says the Windows 11 boot failure bug is linked to another buggy update: 'This issue can occur on devices that failed to install the December 2025 security update and were left in an improper state'
By Andy Edser published
News Bugs upon bugs.

Google says Chrome's new 'auto browse' feature is 'a powerful agentic experience that handles multi-step chores on your behalf'
By Andy Edser published
News Can it do my laundry? I've been meaning to wash some shirts.

Scientists say they've developed transistor-dense, flexible fibre chips as thin as a human hair, which can survive 'crushing by a container truck weighing 15.6 tons'
By Andy Edser published
News I'd like to be there the next time they test that. For science.

'An unprecedented bombardment': Cloudflare claims a new world record for a 31.4 Tbps DDoS botnet attack it recorded late last year
By Andy Edser published
News "The largest attack ever disclosed publicly."

Microsoft says Windows 11 now has one billion users, 'up 45% year-over-year', which is probably no surprise after Windows 10 was put out to pasture
By Andy Edser published
News It's not like we had too many other options. Yes, I know, Linux.

'Vibe coding kills open source' claims new paper, as its authors lament the lack of 'human attention' towards OSS products
By Andy Edser published
News "Vibe coding raises productivity... but it also weakens the user engagement through which many maintainers earn returns."

This 'scientifically dubious' Linux CPU scheduler makes decisions 'based on real-time planetary positions, zodiac signs, and astrological principles'
By Andy Edser published
News "Because if the universe can influence our lives, why not our CPU scheduling, too?"

A professor lost two years of 'carefully structured academic work' in ChatGPT because of a single setting change: 'These tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability in mind'
By Andy Edser published
news No way, you're kidding, etc, etc.

Highguard's output resolution is bizarrely tied to its post processing setting, which feels like a crunchy bug that needs squashing
By Andy Edser published
News The difference is pretty darn clear in person.

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
A call for calm I am fully prepared to debate the term "proper".

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
Handhelds when? How soon is "soon", anyway?

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
Full charge My day without cables.

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
Cat-like The artist formerly known as Panther Lake shows its teeth.

Sony Inzone H9 II gaming headset review
By Andy Edser published
Score: 79% Great cans, let down by a substantial price tag.

Best mechanical keyboards in 2026: The clacky boards I'd buy in a heartbeat
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Click Clack Make the switch with our guide to the best mechanical gaming keyboards.

Redditor claims that Monster Hunter Wilds runs better 'the more DLC you own', and it does—but not by much on my machine
By Andy Edser published
News Your mileage may vary.
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