Hardware

Best Black Friday controller deals

Best PC controllers in 2026: I've tested lots of gamepads and these get my recommendation

You can make this DIY controller in six hours and for less than 12 bucks—but would you want to?

GameSir Nova Lite 2 review

Razer Wolverine V4 Pro wireless gaming controller review

October Prime Day controller deals

A love letter to the Guitar Hero X-Plorer Controller

I just think it's neat

SteelSeries throws everything but the kitchen sink in the feature list of its Aeon Pro controller

I've never seen a laptop cooler come with its own comic strip before, but it still hasn't convinced me this noisy beast is worth $50

'No fuss, no greater meaning, only fans': Corsair shares 3D print files for its April Fools mini fan cube

Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2026: I test all the latest AIO coolers and these are my recommendations

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: I've tested loads of coolers and these are my top picks

Noctua NL-LC1 liquid cooler review

Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'

Cooler Master V8 Ace 3DHP review

Arctic Freezer 36-S review

Best PC fans in 2026: I've put these case fans through their paces to find the coolest and quietest

Edifier G5 Max wireless gaming headset review

Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones

Black Friday gaming headset deals 2026

October Prime Day gaming headset deals

Amazon's $25 self-propelling speakers gave me the giggles as they tried to walk off the edge of my desk, and that's almost worth the price of entry alone

Kali Audio’s HP-1 brings real studio sound to a pair of headphones you can use every day

Corsair HS35 v3 review

HDMI technology integration and installations are essential for advanced gaming

Best PC speakers in 2026: From 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers

Black Friday gaming chair deals 2026

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested loads of gaming chairs and these are my top picks

Razer Chroma Soma lighting

Razer Soma Chroma gaming chair review

One chair for every posture: why the Boulies EP600 is built for people who don't sit still

Corsair's new de-gamefied gaming chair is actually much more affordable than I thought

Boulies EP200 review

Secretlab Atlas review

LiberNovo Omni Pro chair review

Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

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

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

Best Black Friday gaming keyboard deals

This sound library catalogues 100 different keyboard switches, is dangerous for my wallet, and also has… live service game mechanics?

October Prime Day gaming keyboard deals

I'm here to inform you the wrist rest included with the new Logitech G Pro X2 Rapid is very good and very wobbly

Google Japan's conveyor belt keyboard is a sad reminder of the sense of humour the whole company used to have long, long ago

I made two $50 gaming keyboards fight for my average-gamer affections, and for me there's one clear winner

Razer Reclusa X Mini 65% gaming keyboard review

Framework cancels custom low profile keyboard module for its laptops: 'We weren’t able to bring costs to a place where the product economics worked'

Feel the thrill of competition with Logitech G's mechanical keyboards

Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks

Black Friday gaming mouse deals

Come on Razer what are you doing? This Pokemon-themed mouse is most definitely not the one

79% of you think Razer's new gaming mouse feature counts as cheating

Looks like a lighter, carbon fibre version of the best gaming mouse I've held is on its way, but don't look at the price tag

Does Razer's 'Perfect 180' insta-turning mouse feature count as cheating? You decide

New Razer Basilisk V4 executes perfect 180 degree turns at the click of a button, all while looking like a Power Ranger's foot

October Prime Day gaming mouse deals

2026 is the year big brands have finally pushed gaming mouse technology forwards

Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself

Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2026

In a rare instance of good news, Philips has announced the world's first 36-inch, 260 Hz gaming monitor. So that's nice

LG UltraGear Evo 52G930B Evo gaming monitor review

OLED really is the gift that keeps on giving, with what should be cheaper 700 Hz panels planned by TCL for 2028

2026's OLED monitors can nearly recreate the sublime clarity of a '90s CRT, but Windows will have to change before we can achieve true nirvana

October Prime Day gaming monitor deals

AOC jumps on the 1,000 Hz IPS gaming monitor bandwagon but this time with 0.1 ms pixel response

This new super-bright 500 nit 'inkjet' tech promises to fix OLED's full-screen brightness limitation

Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

Best gaming laptops 2026: We've reviewed the best gaming laptops of this generation and these are our favorites

Black Friday gaming PC deals 2025

Best deals on gaming laptops

Redditor's mother-in-law finds missing Steam Deck on train, returns it to its rightful owner in a soap box nine months later

Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2026

Five things I want you to think about before you buy your first gaming laptop

Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse

Asus ProArt P16 (H7607) RTX Spark laptop review

Cheap graphics card deals this week

For the second time this year, Galax says it's not closing down: Palit-owned graphics card brand 'continues to operate as usual'

Nvidia may not have discontinued the RTX 5090, but one AIB partner says it can't get hold of the parts required to make the card

Leaked video shows hundreds, possibly thousands of brand-new RTX 5090s being dismantled for AI server usage in Chinese factory

AMD says its working on FSR's frame pacing issues, but there's still conspicuously no mention of Multi Frame Generation

Graphics card wholesale prices are on the rise once again in China, so it's time to brace yourself for even more GPU pricing pain

Two entire pallets of RTX 5090s have 'gone missing' from a Brazilian airport—$495,000 worth of unobtanium graphics cards now presumably at large

Stolen RTX 5090 from Brazilian airport forklift heist reportedly turns up on second hand market for $6,400, but the rest remain AWOL

'We probably sold millions of boards because of that game, and it was magnificent': 3dfx cofounder gives Quake a 'great deal of credit for our overall success'

31% of you go full goth and keep your RGB lighting turned off, while a mere 7% drench your rigs in unicorn vomit

Full unicorn vomit, or stealthed-out mean machine? I want to know how much RGB festoons your gaming PC, please and thank you

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

Elgato Light Strip Pro review

Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review

Govee Strip Light 2 Pro review

YouTuber buys and turns 32 GB of laptop DDR5 into desktop RAM for just $175

Elon Musk says 'robot RAM needs will exceed everything else on Earth' but only assuming we throw all the data centers into space

80% of Samsung's data center memory is already sold for 2027, meaning yet another double-digit price increase for RAM expected and more likely to come

Why PC hardware costs more than ever, why it's all AI's fault, and what's being done about it

Micron CEO says it'll be tougher to get memory in the next couple of years than it is today, and keeps saying it over and over again

Woah, here's a tech CEO saying the memory crisis won't be as bad as everyone expects

Who the hell is buying their server memory from Amazon?! Also, can I interest you in a $101,000 kit?

Good news for some: Framework swims against the tide of the RAMpocalypse by 'retroactively reducing' its LPCAMM2 prices

Why does this sort of thing never happen to me? Redditor says they found $10,000 worth of RAM just sitting in their garage

Don't fear the BIOS update: Asus has just fixed a local access vulnerability affecting older Intel motherboards

Gigabyte admits an oopsie with Gigabyte Control Center software leaving kernel exposed to attackers

Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%

Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad

Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 router review

TP-Link says it will start making Wi-Fi 8 routers in the US, dodging government soft ban in one easy step

Wi-Fi 8 is upon us, so here are two routers we saw at Computex that should be hitting the shops soon

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

Havn HS 360 review

Cooler Master HAF II 500 review

I crammed 20 anime figures inside my gaming PC to see how it affects thermal performance. Yes, you can call me a scientist now

The highly customisable Corsair Frame 4000X promised it would be my dream PC case, but I'm not completely convinced

This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I've ever seen

Thermaltake Retro 360 TG case review

Phanteks XT View Matrix case review

Havn is making a smaller, lighter version of the excellent HS 420, with a few convenient upgrades too

Phanteks shows off PC case that bucks the fish tank trend in favour of greater thermal efficiency and giving your GPU its own little room