
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's been jumping around the world attending product launches and trade shows, all the while reviewing every bit of PC 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

I know tariff-related price increases are a thing right now but a $1,371 motherboard might be pushing it, even if it is 'Extreme'
By Andy Edser published
News A beast of a board, but holy moly that price.

Silicon Valley crosswalks hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg impersonators: 'It's normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience'
By Andy Edser published
News "And I just want to assure you, you don't need to worry because there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop it."

Security researcher claims 35 Chrome extensions with 4,000,000+ installs 'include some kind of spyware or infostealer'
By Andy Edser published
News Well, this can't be good.

More RTX 50-series supply on the way? Rumours suggest Nvidia may have started to use SK Hynix GDDR7 in potential boost to production
By Andy Edser published
News How this interacts with shifting tariffs, I have no idea.

The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings
By Andy Edser published
News One is significant to my childhood, at the very least.

Asus TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC Edition review
By Andy Edser published
TUF customer An overbuilt and very speedy gaming GPU, but one that falls into the same pricing trap as the rest of the pack.

G.Skill's 128 GB golden RAM kit is the first high-capacity set to hit DDR5-8000 speeds and it's making me reconsider my views on PC hardware bling
By Andy Edser published
News I thought I was immune to the shiny stuff, but even I want a pair of these mega-sticks.

You can create plinking, plonking renditions of classic game theme tunes with a sweep of your finger using these 3D-printed fidget toys
By Andy Edser published
News All together now: plink, plonk, plink plink plink plonk, plink plink plink plink plink plink, plonk.

'They chewed me up pretty good': A US plaintiff attempted to use an AI avatar to argue their court case and the judges were far from amused
By Andy Edser published
News Words you don't want to hear from a sitting judge: "I don’t appreciate being misled."

One cable to rule them all: China's 8K-ready HDMI and DisplayPort competitor supports up to 192 Gbps bandwidth and 480 W power delivery in a single connection
By Andy Edser published
News That's over a proprietary connector, but a slower USB Type-C variant is also planned.

Keychron's M5 wireless ergonomic mouse has an 8K polling rate for 'ultimate control in gaming scenarios' making it a gaming mouse with a, err, twist
By Andy Edser published
News Ergonomic comfort and gaming chops are sometimes unhappy bedfellows, but this mouse has an interesting specs sheet.

The RTX 5060 Ti is rumoured to cost the same as the RTX 4060 Ti, which may leave it wide open for an AMD RX 9070-based assault
By Andy Edser published
News GPU pricing matters, especially when we're talking about the lower end of the stack.

Razer Blade 16 vs Asus Zephyrus G16 2025 edition: We're potentially picking the best gaming laptop of this generation
By Andy Edser published
FIGHT A clash of the gaming laptop titans.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 2025 review
By Andy Edser published
Slim but slipping A CPU stumble throws the G16 into the waiting jaws of the Razer Blade 16.

'When a widespread outage affects devices from starting properly, Microsoft can broadly deploy targeted remediation': MS introduces 'quick machine recovery' for Windows 11
By Andy Edser published
News Seems like a sensible idea.

Microsoft has disabled the popular 'bypassnro' Windows 11 sign-in workaround in the latest Insider build, but there exists another
By Andy Edser published
News A loophole, closed.

In the market for a split keyboard? Why not chop a regular one in half and then attach it back together with a nightmare of wires, said no-one ever
By Andy Edser published
News Keyboard enthusiasts, avert your eyes. This is going to get messy.

Microsoft announces changes to the Blue Screen of Death as rumours of an ominous Black Screen of Death stalk the land
By Andy Edser published
News I can't handle the suspense.

I'm collecting the best Amazon Spring Prime Day PC gaming deals like a bargain-hunting treasure goblin
By Andy Edser last updated
Live Amazon's Big Spring Sale is still running and I'm finding great prices on some seriously brilliant PC gaming gear.

Asus has finally acknowledged it's changed the Q-Release Slim mechanism, bringing the whole saga to a satisfying conclusion
By Andy Edser published
News You can all sleep well in your beds tonight.

Nacon Rig M2 Streamstar review
By Andy Edser published
Fusspot On paper, it makes all the right noises. In reality? It's complicated.

Best Spring Prime Day PC gaming deals in the UK
By Dave James last updated
Prime Day Deals Amazon's Spring Deal Days are kicking off tomorrow, but there are deals everywhere right now.

'No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense': Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth uses decoy pages to trap web-crawling bots and feed them slop 'as a defensive weapon'
By Andy Edser published
News Follow me, horrible scrape bot.
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