
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

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.

I now know what my life has been missing and it's a set of rotary encoders sunk straight into the top of a mechanical-keebed Framework laptop, for some reason
By Andy Edser published
News Look, we've all got our kinks and this is mine.

'I'm disappointed with what I see' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, amid reports that China has banned some of the country's biggest tech companies from buying its AI chips
By Andy Edser published
News Fits and starts, now a no-go?

This redditor has discovered a higher-specced engineering sample of the RTX 2080 Ti, with more shaders, ROPS, TMUs, and VRAM than the release version
By Andy Edser published
News It's got the lot.

I don't want to give horror game devs any ideas but this chilling 'sphere o' mouths' lip-syncing robot is haunting my dreams and I want it to stop
By Andy Edser published
News Nope.

Is Borderlands 4 the series at 'its most potent', or 'uninspired' and 'painfully dull'? The PC Gamer team is divided
By Robin Valentine published
LANDS APART Five members of the team weigh in with their thoughts so far.

I can think of few things more ridiculous than a tiny OLED screen slapped on the side of some DDR5 RAM, but here we are
By Andy Edser published
News I look forward to physically shoving my head in my case to check my RAM speeds. The future!

I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game
By Andy Edser published
News Still, a fix is a fix. Mostly.

'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'
By Andy Edser published
News I'm not entirely sure this helps.

Europe's first exascale supercomputer is now up and running, using 24,000 Nvidia GH200 Superchips to perform more than one quintillion operations per second with nearly 1,000,000 terabytes of storage
By Andy Edser published
News Yeah, but can it play... y'know what, I'm not even gonna go there.

Intel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch
By Andy Edser published
News New face, same Comet Lake-era performance.

'Microsoft has become like an arsonist selling firefighting services to their victims' says US senator, referring it to the FTC for a cybersecurity flaw, though Microsoft says it has a plan
By Andy Edser last updated
News "There is one company benefiting from this status quo: Microsoft itself."
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