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

Two DDR5 RAM modules lit up in pink inside a gaming PC
Industry insiders say Samsung has confirmed a DRAM price increase of 'over 100%' for its customers, so brace yourself for the next phase of the dreaded RAMpocalypse

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News Memories, of the way things used to be...

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An angler using Google as bait.
Malwarebytes says a fake Google Account security page is distributing 'what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild'

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News A particularly nasty RAT.

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Microsoft Windows 10 wallpaper
A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to traffic thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via their Certificate of Authenticity stickers

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News Schemes I did not know existed: Example One.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman throws up his hands.
'We shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday': OpenAI hastily amends the terms of its controversial deal with the US Department of War as CEO Sam Altman claims it's been a 'good learning experience'

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News "We want to have a voice, and a seat at the table where we can share our expertise, and to fight for principles of liberty."

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Grace holds up a lighter in the dark
A redditor who found their exact gaming monitor in Resident Evil Requiem finds Reddit image of their monitor inside a monitor inside a monitor in Resident Evil Requiem and now my head hurts

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News Arggghhhhhh.

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A dramatically lit close up of computer memory/ RAM on a motherboard-style background.
It looks like more memory price hikes may soon be on the way, as Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly inform customers of yet another DRAM price increase

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News It's going to get worse before it gets better, that much seems clear.

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A gaming PC sat on a desk with purple RGB lighting on the fans and light bar enabled.
Top analyst firm Gartner predicts the 'sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028', along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026

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News 'This is the steepest contraction in device shipments witnessed in over a decade'.

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SUQIAN, CHINA - JANUARY 27, 2025 - An illustration photo shows the logo of DeepSeek and ChatGPT in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, January 27, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
DeepSeek has reportedly denied Nvidia and AMD early access to its new V4 AI model, giving Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers a head start

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News The AI race turns another corner.

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(L to R): OpenAI President Greg Brockman, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are seen standing side by side.
OpenAI announces another $110 billion in investment funding including $30 billion from Nvidia, but says Microsoft is still its best friend forever

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News Aww. Isn't it sweet when multi-billion, sometimes multi-trillion dollar businesses buddy up?

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MANNING, SOUTH CAROLINA - FEBRUARY 23: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to a crowd during an event hosted by the South Carolina Democratic Party at the Carter-Sullivan American Legion on February 23, 2026 in Manning, South Carolina. The Governor had scheduled appearances in Pineville, Manning and Rock Hill, South Carolina on Monday. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup

By Andy Edser Published

News I wonder how the government of California plans to enforce it?

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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 is standing up to the US Department of War and refusing to remove AI autonomous weapon and mass surveillance safeguards: 'We cannot in good conscience accede to their request'

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News 'We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk.'

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The Spy from Team Fortress 2 holds up a folder with an accusatory expression.
Google says it's disrupted a super-serious 'global espionage campaign' that uses *checks notes* Google Sheets to covertly intercept telecoms data

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News It's not the sexiest spy story I've ever heard, I'll be honest.

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Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card from different angles
'We expect supply constraints to be the headwind to gaming in Q1 and beyond' says Nvidia, although it claims demand and inventory levels are 'healthy'

By Andy Edser Published

News A tempering of expectations, perhaps?

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UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 13: Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in Russell Building on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Nvidia reports a truly astonishing $193.7 billion in annual data center revenue in its latest earnings call, up 75% year on year, while little old gaming brought in $16 billion

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News I think it's obvious why us gamers are perhaps not team green's top priority right now.

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Data Center
'The compute bottleneck is massively under appreciated' says Google AI Studio lead: 'I would guess the gap between supply and demand is growing [by a] single digit % every day'

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News 'In practice, this will be the rate limit on the impact AI will have in the economy/society.'

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The front controls of the Nacon Revolution X Unlimited controller
The future of Nacon gaming accessories looks uncertain as the company files for insolvency

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News Will Nacon's hardware wing be the first to feel the brunt of debt restructuring efforts?

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A custom gaming PC built inside of an old Victorian cast-iron radiator
This creator extraordinaire has built a gaming PC attached to a Victorian cast-iron radiator that is fully integrated into the cooling system, and I am in complete awe

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News Billet Labs, take a bow.

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Fortnite Simpsons season best drop spots and important POIs
A plague of AI-generated Homer Simpson cover songs is reportedly swamping a popular music file sharing network with the big yellow fella's dulcet tones

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News "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."

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Linux Designer Linus Torvalds - stock photo. Linus Torvalds was the designer of the open-source operating system Linux.
'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0

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News Totally relatable, carry on.

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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.
Anthropic says it has identified thousands of 'fraudulent accounts' taking Claude and 'extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models'

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News 'Industrial-scale distillation' is underway, apparently.

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The Sims 4 - a Sim reacting with shock
This AI bot roasts any website URL you give it and it's hilariously, scathingly mean

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News And yes, I've tried PC Gamer. It'd be unfair not to, right?

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A cracked glass water cooling block in front of some pressure testing equipment
Der8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it's really fun

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News Everyone's got to have a hobby.

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Computer hard disks, electronic scrap, collected inside a bin
A UK redditor flew to New York City to buy 280 TBs worth of HDDs to avoid 'literally ridiculous' pricing, declares it was 'worth it in the end'

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News I would fly several thousand miles, and I would fly several thousand more...

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor next to an Intel logo
Rumours are swirling once again around Intel ditching its hybrid P-core and E-core chip architectures for a single, 'unified core' design, although it looks like we might have a long wait yet

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News Are my days of typing "XX Performance, XX Efficient" soon to be over? Probably not.

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Amazon logo is screened on a mobile phone for illustration photo. Krakow, Poland on October 17th, 2024.
Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an AI coding tool deciding to 'delete and recreate the environment' from scratch, while Amazon says 'misconfigured access controls' were to blame

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News The vibes may have been off.

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