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Highly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs
By Nick Evanson Published
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The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business
By James Bentley Published
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Portable powerhouses
Best gaming laptop in 2025: I've tested a ton of notebooks this generation and these are the best in every category
By Dave James Published
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'There's no such thing as a laser-resistant weed' says company employing dozens of Nvidia GPUs to fry weeds with lasers from above
By James Bentley Published
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Armed with AMD's latest SDK, DLSS Swapper, and one renamed file, you can apparently just drop FSR 4 into games that run FSR 3
By Nick Evanson Published
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Claimed Sony PS6 handheld console specs promise a miracle of next-gen, cutting-edge processor architectures at a price that's barely enough for today's hardware
By Nick Evanson Published
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Score: 83%
Shure SM4 Studio Kit microphone review
By Andy Edser Published
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Explore Hardware
Controllers
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Guide
How to use a PS3 controller on PC: Wired or Bluetooth
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
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Asus announces the Raikiri II controller with anti-drift TMR joysticks and 1000 Hz wireless polling, which should make the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro look up from its breakfast
By Andy Edser Published
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GameSir's G7 Pro has removable faceplates, TMR sticks, and 1000 Hz polling rate for under $80
By Hope Corrigan Published
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The sequel to the best high-end Hall effect controller just dropped with Razer's esports focussed Wolverine V3 Pro 8k PC
By Hope Corrigan Published
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This retro-styled programmable high-polling wireless mouse comes with a charging dock for under $60 USD
By Hope Corrigan Published
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PSPad
How to use the PS5 controller on PC
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
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I don't think they should make this
By Lincoln Carpenter Published
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Sony finally acknowledges the minor, but annoying part of using a PS5 controller on PC with an update that will make my life easier
By Tyler Colp Published
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I have no idea what I'd use this gorgeous retro futuristic macropad for, but at $99 I'm thinking of slamming the buy button anyway
By Andy Edser Published
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Cooling
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Highly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs
By Nick Evanson Published
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AMD scales back its CPU cooler bundles, with some older Ryzen models dropping it altogether
By Nick Evanson Published
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Score: 67%
MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 360 review
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Asus heard you like screens, so it put a curved '3D effect' OLED screen on your CPU water cooler
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Whoosh
Air coolers are still cool
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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Score: 88%
Tryx Panorama SE ARGB 360 review
By Zak Storey Published
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If you've ever wondered if Japanese blossom-scented thermal paste in a weeb-inspired applicator is worth using, we have at long last the scientific answer to the greatest quandary of our time
By Nick Evanson Published
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AMD's mighty 96-core Threadripper Pro has been overclocked with a car radiator and some big ol' beefy fans, and I am remarkably satisfied
By Andy Edser Published
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Top pick
You don't need to buy a liquid cooler with a screen: Arctic's Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 ARGB has everything you need, and that's why it's our new top recommendation
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Gaming Audio
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Microsoft adds full stereo Bluetooth LE Audio for gaming to Windows 11 because mono with mics is so last century
By Nick Evanson Published
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Get your Master Balls ready folks, the Gengar Razer Kitty Kraken V2 headset is finally availble outside of Asia
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Sony has launched a line of pro peripherals aimed at PC gamers with big budgets
By Hope Corrigan Published
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HyperX just updated one of our favorite wireless gaming headsets with a new RGB base station... and slightly worse battery life
By Andy Edser Last updated
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I'm genuinely excited to check out Beyerdynamic's first 2.4 GHz wireless gaming headsets, but they'll only be available in Canada and the EU for now
By Andy Edser Published
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Untethered
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2025: the top cans I'd buy myself
By Dave James Last updated
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Score: 86%
Fractal Design Scape review
By Andy Edser Published
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Score: 82%
Audeze MM-100 headphone review
By Andy Edser Published
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Gripes Week
My speakers automatically go into standby mode and it's driving me mad
By Andy Chalk Published
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Gaming Chairs
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Score: 55%
Flexispot OC3/BS3 review
By James Bentley Published
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Take a seat
Best gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Score: 79%
Razer Iskur V2 X review
By Ian Evenden Published
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Couch potato
Couchmaster Cycon3 review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Ergo
'Most chairs labeled as 'gaming' chairs are simply budget task chairs with colorful accent stripes': here's what annoys industry experts the most about gaming chairs
By Dave James Published
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Ow.
AndaSeat Novis gaming chair review
By Kizito Katawonga Published
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Take a seat
Best office chairs for gaming in 2025: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested
By Dave James Last updated
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Office life
ThunderX3 Flex Pro review
By Alistair Jones Published
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news
Razer's newest gaming headset goes on your chair instead of your head
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Gaming Desks
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Take a stand
As a standing desk connoisseur, I'm happy to crown our new best budget and compact motorized gaming desks
By James Bentley Published
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Top Desks
Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
By Dave James Last updated
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Score: 85%
Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Score: 82%
Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review
By Dave James Published
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There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it
By James Bentley Published
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Thunder X3 Lab-X review
By James Bentley Published
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ALL THE SPACE
Ikea Utespelare desk review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Rising RGB
Blacklyte Atlas review
By Nick Evanson Last updated
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Tidy
Thermaltake Gaming Desk Pegboard (Medium) review
By Jacob Fox Published
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Gaming Keyboards
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Glorious is bringing an actually customisable gaming keyboard to the 'boring entry-level market'
By Jacob Fox Published
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Quick digits
Best Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Score: 74%
Asus ROG Falcata
By Nick Evanson Published
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Razer's esports keyboard goes low-profile with its latest Blackwidow V4
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Razer claims optical gaming keyboards are more precise than Hall effect ones because magnets are 'hard to control'
By Jacob Fox Published
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Sound advice
I've been on a quest to find a gaming keyboard media key replacement, and like an incredibly nerdy anti-Goldilocks, I've found none of them are just right
By James Bentley Published
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This futuristic keyboard from the past and some street stylin' peripherals are the result of this latest gaming hardware collab
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Cherry brings its MX2A hot-swappable wireless keyboard and graphene fabric mousepad to the United States
By Hope Corrigan Published
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This keyboard looks like it's been plucked straight from Half-Life 1 with how well it replicates low-res classic game textures
By Jacob Fox Published
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Gaming Laptops
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Portable powerhouses
Best gaming laptop in 2025: I've tested a ton of notebooks this generation and these are the best in every category
By Dave James Published
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Score: 80%
Alienware 16 Area-51 review
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Score: 80%
Alienware 18 Area-51 (2025) review
By Nick Evanson Last updated
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A PR storm has erupted around Razer's gaming laptops with reports of faulty trackpads and keyboards, glitchy software, performance issues and poor customer support
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Smol for all
If you're looking for the best bang for your buck in a 14-inch gaming laptop, you can't do any better than the new Asus TUF A14
By Andy Edser Published
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Smol
Best 14-inch gaming laptop in 2025: The top compact gaming laptops I've held in these hands
By Dave James Last updated
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Framework's promise of an upgradeable gaming laptop has finally been made real as Nvidia steps into the void left by AMD
By Dave James Published
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Deals
Best cheap gaming laptop deals
By Dave James Last updated
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Score: 73 %
MSI Stealth 18 HX AI review
By Ian Evenden Published
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Gaming Mice
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New Logitech leak points to an MX Master 4 with haptic feedback and I think it could actually be useful
By James Bentley Published
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Score: 66%
SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 Wireless review
By Jacob Fox Last updated
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This undetectable AI-powered aimbot physically moves the mouse pad to cheat in Valorant, an invention so unholy I demand it be cast down to the depths of hell where it belongs
By Andy Edser Published
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Snek
I've just anointed the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro as our new best gaming mouse because... well, it's simply better than the rest in almost every conceivable way
By Andy Edser Published
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Pinpoint
Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
By Dave James Last updated
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Unbound
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
By Dave James Last updated
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Score: 90%
Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro gaming mouse review
By Dave James Published
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Endgame Gear confirms it had malware-compromised mouse software on its official site but promises changes to prevent it happening again
By Jacob Fox Last updated
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Rodent revolution
PC gamers don't have many options for CPUs and graphics cards but when it comes to gaming mice, we're absolutely spoiled for choice
By Nick Evanson Published
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Gaming Monitors
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How many Hz?
I am officially elderly because the new best budget 1440p monitor is better than my own, and I was very proud of it once upon a time
By Jacob Fox Published
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Eye candy
Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
By Dave James Last updated
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Score: 57%
Corsair Xeneon Edge review
By Dave James Published
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After running an OLED monitor for 533 days, seven hours, and 22 minutes straight, MSI claims the effects of burn-in on its displays are 'basically none'
By James Bentley Published
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Forget OLED, it was a 610 Hz TN gaming monitor that stole my heart over Gamescom week
By Jacob Fox Published
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Score: 82%
KTC H27T22C-3 review
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Samsung says you'll soon be able to see Stellar Blade in, err, all its glory on its glasses-free 3D monitor, which I'm sure absolutely no-one will be weird about
By Andy Edser Published
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Asus just grabbed the fastest OLED crown with this 540/720 Hz dual mode beast of a monitor
By Jacob Fox Published
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Asus' new monitor brings tandem OLED into the fray and promises brighter panels with a whopping 60% increased lifespan
By Jacob Fox Published
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Gaming PCs
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DIY
Best gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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Valve's rumoured 'Fremont' SteamOS console spotted on Geekbench... running Windows 11
By Jeremy Laird Published
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HP announces an updated set of Omen Max 45L RTX 5090 rigs with Ryzen CPUs, but no word on price yet leaves me worried
By James Bentley Published
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This is not an Xbox 360, it's a gaming PC in disguise
By Jacob Fox Published
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'Just a tap water, please': Starbucks Korea asks customers to stop bringing desktop PCs, printers, and pop-up dividers into its coffee shops for a cheeky work session
By Andy Edser Published
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Small but mighty
The Framework Desktop's small footprint is deceptively cute, as it's actually sequestering serious compute power that makes it the best mini AI PC
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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Teeny Peecees
Best mini PCs in 2025: The compact computers I love the most
By Al Bickham Last updated
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Top of the pile
RTX 5090 prices are so ludicrous that Alienware gaming PCs actually feel, dare I say, reasonable
By James Bentley Published
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Perfect PC
Best gaming PCs in 2025: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today
By Dave James Last updated
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Graphics Cards
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Armed with AMD's latest SDK, DLSS Swapper, and one renamed file, you can apparently just drop FSR 4 into games that run FSR 3
By Nick Evanson Published
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The RTX 50-series has delivered a record-breaking $4.28B in gaming revenue for Nvidia... no matter what you think about VRAM levels, launch pricing, and availability
By James Bentley Published
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Pixel pushers
Cheap graphics card deals this week
By Nick Evanson Last updated
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Fresh rumours claim that AMD is planning a 16 GB version of its RX 9070 GRE graphics card, though there are still no signs of a global release yet
By Nick Evanson Published
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The latest AMD RDNA 5 rumours are complicated but it looks like there really is going to be a high-end next-gen GPU to take on Nvidia's best graphics card
By Jeremy Laird Published
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AMD just revealed that its current RDNA 4 GPUs have a clever 'modular' architecture—here's hoping it signals a broader range of next-gen graphics cards
By Jeremy Laird Published
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AMD's FSR 4 open source whoopsie-daisy may be harder to take back than initially thought, thanks to the inclusion of a difficult-to-revoke MIT license
By James Bentley Published
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The first reported case of an AMD RX 9070 XT melting a 16-pin power connector is here, but I'm not sure we should prepare ourselves for another 'meltgate' just yet
By Andy Edser Published
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AMD accidentally released the source code for FSR 4 before swapping back to the normal SDK, and a glimpse at the libraries suggests it might support older graphics cards in the near future
By Andy Edser Published
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Handheld Gaming PCs
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I got a look at the first AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme handheld, and no, that's not an ROG Ally you're looking at, it's the MSI Claw A8
By Jacob Fox Published
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The ROG Xbox Ally borrows a heck of a lot from the Steam Deck, proving that the old gated console concept is a thing of the past
By Shaun Prescott Published
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'This is the Ally 2, 100%': Asus says the ROG Xbox Ally is a bona fide successor to the first two handhelds, but the originals will still get new Xbox features
By Jacob Fox Published
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I just got my hands on the ROG Xbox Ally and can confirm the sheer comfort is worth that peculiar grip design
By Jacob Fox Published
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Dreaming of an Nvidia Steam Deck? This modder converted an RTX 4090 laptop GPU into 4K 'portable' handheld gaming PC
By Hope Corrigan Published
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The ROG Xbox Ally will reportedly launch in October, but I'm still not convinced there's a good enough reason to buy it yet
By James Bentley Published
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Modders are trying their hardest to add an NVMe SSD to the Switch 2, which is both impressive and something I'm not going to do
By James Bentley Published
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A gaming benchmark face-off between AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme and Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V is surprisingly close, proving once more that Lunar Lake is the best chip Intel has made in years
By Nick Evanson Published
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Steam On
The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
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Lighting
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Light it up!
The best desk lighting in 2025: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
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Reactive
Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review
By Josh Brown Published
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Sync'd
Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review
By Josh Brown Published
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Scripted
Elgato Light Strip Pro review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Unit 01
Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Lit up
Govee Strip Light 2 Pro review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Stunner
Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Sponsored
AI-generated lighting from Lepro should be setting the mood for your gaming sessions
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Light 'em up
Elgato Key Light Neo review
By Hope Corrigan Published
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Memory
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Overclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved
By Nick Evanson Published
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Team Group joins the mega memory kit clan, launching a set of 256 GB DDR5-6000 for gamers and creators who just never have enough RAM
By Nick Evanson Published
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Score: 70%
Crucial 128 GB DDR5-6400 CUDIMM review
By Nick Evanson Published
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Prime Day
I don't need 64 GB of RAM but I am tempted when prices are as low as they are right now for genuinely speedy sticks
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Computex
Will 2025 be the year that CAMM2 memory finally makes a proper entrance? Rambus and Team Group believe it is
By Nick Evanson Published
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Dynamic
Best RAM for gaming in 2025: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
By Chris Szewczyk Last updated
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Samsung rakes in nearly $5 billion profit from companies hoarding memory chips like Smaug ahead of Trump's tumultuous tariffs
By James Bentley Published
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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
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Wasted potential
Corsair Vengeance DDR5-8400 CUDIMM review
By Nick Evanson Published
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Motherboards
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MSI is celebrating 10 years of Godlike extravagance with a gold-trimmed AMD motherboard—to go with your golden graphics card and RAM, naturally
By Jacob Ridley Published
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Best Mobo
Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
By Dave James Last updated
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News
If you're using an Intel 8–11th Gen CPU with a Gigabyte motherboard, update your BIOS to protect from a newly discovered vulnerability
By Jacob Fox Published
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Score: 79%
NZXT N7 Z890 review
By Antony Leather Published
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Score: 80%
NZXT N9 X870E review
By Antony Leather Published
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Score: 84%
NZXT N9 Z890 review
By Antony Leather Published
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Budget steel
This B860 motherboard is what I'd pair with a Core Ultra 265K to make a powerful pairing for about $500
By Jacob Fox Published
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Yoink
Call me Victor Kermit Kiam, cos I liked this mobo so much I built my new gaming PC around it
By Dave James Published
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Mini marvels
Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested
By Nick Evanson Last updated
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More about Hardware
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Score: 83%
Shure SM4 Studio Kit microphone review
By Andy Edser Published
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Battlefield 6 Ultra system requirements have finally been revealed and you will need at least an RTX 4080 for this shooter to look its explosive best
By James Bentley Published
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Microsoft adds full stereo Bluetooth LE Audio for gaming to Windows 11 because mono with mics is so last century
By Nick Evanson Published
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