Andy Edser

Andy Edser

Hardware Writer

Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn't. 26 years later (yes he's getting old), he now spends his days writing about and reviewing graphics cards, CPUs, keyboards, mice, gaming headsets and much, much more. You name it, if it's PC gaming hardware he'll write words about it, with opinions and everything.

Latest articles by Andy Edser

A YouTuber putting dry ice on top of a gaming PC
YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer

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News Still, we've all had our fun.

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Apple MacBook Neo in Citrus colour.
'We undercalled the level of enthusiasm': Apple's Tim Cook says supply is constrained for the MacBook Neo, but 'we could not be happier with how things are going at the moment'

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News Flying off the shelves.

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Noctua fans sitting on a desk with boxes.
Making black versions of Noctua's beige fans is 'less like painting a wooden fence... and more like changing the colour of a carbon-fibre Formula 1 part'

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News I love me some hardcore engineering.

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Elon Musk listens as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addresses a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well as meet with Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
'Motivated by jealousy...' OpenAI lashes out at Elon in blog post claiming the billionaire 'spent years harassing OpenAI through baseless lawsuits and public attacks'

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News Musk has said the current lawsuit is "actually very simple. It's not okay to steal a charity."

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An updated version of the Texas Instruments TI-84 Graphing Calculator, in blue, on a pink and blue background
The hottest hardware release of the year is finally here, and it's this Texas Instruments TI-84 Evo graphing calculator

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News What a machine.

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Data Center
China's upcoming all-CPU supercomputer plans to add an extra 47,000 processors in its second phase, and aims to be one of the fastest in the world

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News Any chance of a Geekbench score?

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The MacBook Neo in yellow, held aloft.
Apple is reportedly set to speed past Dell and become the third-largest laptop vendor, thanks in part to the affordable MacBook Neo

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News Neoooooooom.

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A promotional image from Nvidia showing two RTX 50-series gaming laptops in front of a green and black background
Nvidia has quietly announced the 12 GB RTX 5070 mobile in a GeForce driver update, of all things

By Andy Edser Published

News Also, here are some tweaks for Conan Exiles Enhanced.

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Balatro
Balatro's mind-bending code uses mouse jitter for random number generation, along with a bunch of clever maths I'm too dense to fully appreciate

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News Bear with me, I'm going out on a limb here.

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A Noctua NH-L12S cooler with mounting accessories.
You can now download 3D CAD models of Noctua fans, but the company warns they 'will not perform well when printed'

By Andy Edser Published

News Still, a useful resource if you're designing around Noctua air-movers.

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The Steam Controller on a desk during a teardown, with various parts removed.
Valve's Steam Controller goes on sale next week, May 4. It's pricier than you might have hoped, but more reasonable than I expected

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News Trackpad-tastic.

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A photo of the Windows update menu, showing that I'm all up to date
Microsoft is updating Windows Update, creating a fractal of fixes that target shutdown and reboot settings, scheduling issues, and more besides

By Andy Edser Published

News Doctor, heal thyself.

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A Toyota Crown Seat desk/gaming chair on a beige background
Toyota has turned a car seat into a gaming chair and it's $3,500

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News I don't care, I want one. Where do I sign?

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A Turtle Beach Command Series MC7 gaming mouse shot from various angles on pink and purple backgrounds
Turtle Beach has wedged a touchscreen into the side of its new 8K gaming mouse and it's giving me the heebie-jeebies

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News I just... it's not for me, I think.

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Intel Nvidia deal
Rumours suggest Nvidia's next-next gen Feynman AI GPUs will use Intel Foundry tech for some of the components

By Andy Edser Published

News Green and blue, in harmony once more.

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The Sims 3 - a Sim with long blonde hir weaaring a green shirt grabs her head with both hands, screaming in dismay.
'I basically sprinkle water drops on top of tissue paper': One redditor's quest to cool their Mac mini

By Andy Edser Published

News Cursed.

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Two nervous hands look at a typewriter in Final Sentence, a typing battle royale game.
Attention keyboard nerds: This website lets you hear the sound of 36 different mechanical keebs, switches, and more as you type

By Andy Edser Published

News Most of them go "clickety clack." Sorry for spoilers.

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Global warming, conceptual computer illustration. Statue of Liberty, New York, USA, flooded and in ruins, in a possible future. This is showing a rise in sea levels due to global warming. Global warming is the increase of average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The melting of ice and glaciers contribute to the rise in sea levels.
Gas power projects for just 11 US data center 'campuses' could emit more greenhouse gases than entire countries, according to report

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News "That terrifies me in a lot of ways."

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Four budget graphics cards arranged tastefully on a wooden desk
Can overclocking get 8 GB AMD and Nvidia graphics cards to the performance of their 16 GB versions? Yes, but I've got some bad news for you too

By Andy Edser Published

Need for speed While the 8 GB RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti cards can often match their 16 GB brethren, VRAM limitations are still a barrier too tall for overclocking alone.

Need for speed
Lip-Bu Tan, Intel CEO, speaks in a keynote presentation at Intel Foundry Direct Connect on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in San Jose, Calif.
'This is a fundamentally different company today': Intel reports strong financial results, says its upcoming 14A process is already outpacing early 18A yields

By Andy Edser Published

News Back in the ring.

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A shocking Lego brick in Monster Hunter Wilds
This vibe-coded tool helps you find missing Lego pieces for your old sets, and now I think the AI revolution might not be such a bad thing after all

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News It's got its uses, I'll admit.

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Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. - stock photo. Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA - August 23, 2022: Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. Samsung is a South Korean manufacturing conglomerate.
'Many employees are leaving for SK hynix': 40,000 Samsung workers are marching outside its factories to protest pay levels

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News 'The compensation gap has become so wide that it's driving these moves.'

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A still from a video showing Sony's Ace robot arm playing table tennis against a professional player
Sony's terrifyingly fast robot arm is finally beating pro-level table tennis players at their own game

By Andy Edser Published

News Now dual-wield. For fun.

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A microscope shot of 20 DRAM cells made in a garden shed
Making your own DRAM cells in a garden shed isn't the most practical solution to the RAMpocalypse, but it's still awesome to watch

By Andy Edser Published

News It's about the struggle, right?

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Kerbals on a space station in Kerbal Space Program 2
There's no memory crisis in space, as astronauts on the ISS are getting new laptops with 128 GB of RAM and a seriously beefy specs sheet

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News Everyone loves upgrade day, don't they?

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