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

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

By Andy Edser Published

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

By Andy Edser Published

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

By Andy Edser Published

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

By Andy Edser Published

News Everyone loves upgrade day, don't they?

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Sci-fi shooter Pragmata
Some gamers are going full conspiracy theory over Pragmata's path tracing vs ray tracing debate, so I've donned my tin foil hat and taken a look

By Andy Edser Published

News Yes, path tracing looks better than ray tracing. No, I don't think that's a plot.

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Macro view of the group of computer PC DRAM memory modules circuit board PCB with selective focus effect
'We have no choice but to impose a severe punishment': Ex Samsung researcher sentenced to 7 years in prison for leaking DRAM tech to a Chinese competitor

By Andy Edser Published

News The semiconductor process tech was reportedly deemed 'a core national technology' of South Korea.

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Claptrap in Borderlands 4 with a mute symbol above his head.
Deezer says it's being bombarded by 'nearly 75,000' AI-generated tunes every day, and that 97% of survey respondents can't tell the difference between human-made and AI music

By Andy Edser Published

News Robot music is no longer beeps and boops.

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A Playdate gaming console on a green gradient background
The makers of Playdate, the console-with-a-crank, will no longer accept games created with generative AI

By Andy Edser Published

News 'There are lots of people in the world who are extremely eager and excited to create beautiful music, art, and words for your Playdate creation.'

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Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at Bloomberg House during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from Jan. 19-23. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Anthropic had a 'productive and constructive' meeting with White House officials after the preview release of its new cybersecurity-challenging AI model

By Andy Edser Published

News Best friends again?

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An image from a Gigabyte press release describing its new PSUs as a "Hardware Guardian".
Gigabyte describes its new PSU range as a 'Hardware Guardian', protecting your graphics card from melting and presumably fighting crime in its spare time

By Andy Edser Published

News To the Volt-mobile!

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A Playnix Console on a yellow and lime gradient background
This AMD-powered, Linux-running mini PC looks like a Steam Machine disguised as a vinyl record player, without the fancy controller

By Andy Edser Published

News A mixing console?

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Intel Core i9 13900K Raptor Lake chip on a promotional box
Report claims the global CPU shortage is 'more acute for processors than memory' as industry waits for Intel's 18A chips to plug the gap

By Andy Edser Published

News Yes, it's caused by AI demand. What else?

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An Asus Prime Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB graphics card in a test PC with bright RGB lights in the background
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB review (Asus Prime)

By Andy Edser Published

Score: 63% Yes, it's cheap—but there's still a cost.

Score: 63%
A Palit GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB Dual graphics card on a bookshelf
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB review (Palit Dual)

By Andy Edser Published

Score: 73% A punchy little performer, but 8 GB of VRAM comes with caveats.

Score: 73%
An Mchose G3 V2 Pro and Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse on a green background with a PC Gamer Recommended label on the top right.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on

By Dave James Last updated

Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.

Unbound
Dave's gaming PC on his desk
Where does your PC live? There is obviously one correct answer, can you pick it out?

By Dave James Published

Poll Don't hide your gaming light under a bushel. Or a desk.

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minecraft villager
Minecraft creator Notch says 'DLSS fundamentally makes no sense', but the X comments say 'um, actually'

By Andy Edser Published

News Hey, we're all learning. All the time.

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GIGABYTE X870e motherboard and AMD Ryzen 9 processor
Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me

By Andy Edser Published

News Time for a spring clean.

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A row of Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips on a wooden table
Dell XPS 14 laptop with a Panther Lake chip manages a staggering 43-hour+ battery life result, thrashing the latest MacBook Air

By Andy Edser Published

News MacBook in the mud.

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CHONGQING, CHINA - DECEMBER 29: In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of “Claude,” an AI language model by Anthropic, with the company’s logo visible in the background, illustrating the rapid development and adoption of generative AI technologies, on December 29, 2024 in Chongqing, China. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of China’s strategic ambitions, with the government aiming to establish the country as a global leader in AI by 2030.
512,000 lines of Claude Code's own CLI source code have leaked due to 'human error', but the company says 'no sensitive customer data or credentials' were exposed

By Andy Edser Published

News I'd imagine it'll still be keeping some coders busy over the weekend.

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A system running Snake without RAM on a techtuber's desk, briefly
To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS

By Andy Edser Published

News We try these things not because they are easy, etc etc.

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