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NewsNvidia announces that a DLSS 4.5 update for Ray Reconstruction is finally on its way, promising better ray-traced and path-traced graphics for 'similar performance' as the old model -
NewsComputex 2026 Live: All the best PC gaming hardware announcements at this year's show -
NewsThis could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast -
Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit… and it's not far off -
NewsNvidia RTX Spark's gaming battery life will be 'better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptops' -
NewsNvidia's working with all the anti-cheat vendors to make competive games work on RTX Spark and WoA… just when gaming on Linux was looking good -
NewsNvidia sets out roadmap for RTX Spark, its new PC platform, which also gives us a better idea of when to expect next-gen RTX GPUs
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News'Basically Lego for gamers': This new game controller has modular buttons, sticks, grips, and even vibration motors -
Save up to $600 on a complete Corsair Build with next-gen GPUs from NVIDIA and AMDPC Gamer Approved - Sponsored Offer Corsair
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Steamed upThe Steam Controller's main competition isn't from Microsoft or Sony: It's from third-party vendors -
NewsYou need to know the Steam Controller's charging puck is always live, so if you accidentally touch it with something conductive, you're in for a shock -
DealDon't buy an Xbox controller when you can get one with drift-free TMR sticks, 8x the polling rate, and a charging stand for less at Amazon -
NewsHear the Steam Controller sing whole songs with haptics, including the Wii Store soundtrack, Still Alive, and even attempt a Rick Roll -
News'Average Valve W': After some Steam Controller packages were sent to the wrong country, Valve is reportedly giving 'any standard-edition title' to affected shoppers -
NewsLeaked Xbox Elite 3 controller images show at least one oddball addition, but it'll struggle to compete in a radically changed market8 Comments -
newsSteam Controllers to come back in stock with reprise of Steam Deck reservation system
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DealsSummer's nearly here, so it's time to clean your gaming PC and banish soaring temperatures for another year -
NewsNoctua's iconic beige and brown PC fan now comes in a slightly less iconic all-black version for PC builders who can't stand the original colour -
NewsYouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer -
DealI don't necessarily need a CPU cooler with a screen, but for only $170 I can definitely see the argument for turning the inside of my PC case into a tiny Miku Hatsune shrine -
NewsMaking 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' -
NewsYou can now download 3D CAD models of Noctua fans, but the company warns they 'will not perform well when printed' -
NewsHardware modder connects his gaming PC to his bike and achieves 'human powered CPU cooling' -
News'I basically sprinkle water drops on top of tissue paper': One redditor's quest to cool their Mac mini -
NewsRedditor shares gaming PC build with cooling system that can only be described as 'biblically accurate'
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DealMy favorite wireless gaming headset is now just $90, though not in my preferred colorway -
Score: 85%Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II review -
UntetheredBest wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself -
Score: 70%Rig R5 Spear Max HD gaming headset review -
Score: 85%SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni review -
Score: 79%Glorious GHS Eternal wired gaming headset review -
Score: 83%HyperX Cloud Flight 2 gaming headset review -
Score: 87%Cambridge Audio L/R S review -
Score: 76%Asus ROG Kithara headset review
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DealsFrom Ultramarines to Batman and Minecraft creepers, there's a dazzling selection of designs for our best gaming chair pick on discount in Secretlab's mega sale -
Score: 80%Flexispot C7 Morpher chair review -
DealSecretlab has a whole heaping of collaboration deals on, making it the best way to get our favorite gaming chair and desk -
NewsToyota has turned a car seat into a gaming chair and it's $3,500 -
DealExclusive: Get $250 off Razer's OG Iskur V2 gaming chair -
DealThe best gaming chair around is now a little bit better, thanks to Secretlab's not-so-secret sale -
Take a seatBest gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer -
Score: 89%ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review -
Score: 82%DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review
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NewsHerman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive8 Comments -
Top DesksBest gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between -
Score: 86%Secretlab Magnus Evo review -
Swanky surfaceFor the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice) -
LuxuriousGrovemade desk review
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Score: 85%Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review -
Score: 82%Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review -
NewsThere'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
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Score: 70%MelGeek Centauri 80 review -
NewsFramework says its Wireless Touchpad Keyboard 'is by far our most waitlisted product' -
NewsSit down, relax, and see how a magnetic keyboard switch is made with Wooting's CEO -
NewsI've spent the past month testing Keychron's concrete keeb and it's absolutely brilliant, with one small sticking point -
Score: 90%Logitech G512 X review -
NewsAttention keyboard nerds: This website lets you hear the sound of 36 different mechanical keebs, switches, and more as you type -
newsFramework is building its own keyboard and will even help you make your own -
NewsKeychron has shared the source files for all its keyboard and mice meaning you could almost build an entire kit from scratch -
Score: 76%Cherry K5 Pro TMR Compact magnetic gaming keyboard review
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NewsThis new gaming mouse looks to combine tech similar to Logitech's analogue clicks and Razer's frame sync but I'm a little sceptical -
NewsReplacing the Viper V4 Pro's skates gave one reviewer some Razer warranty trouble after glass pad sensor issues -
Score: 82%Zowie EC2-DW review -
PinpointBest gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks -
SlickBest mouse pads for gaming in 2026: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on -
NewsKeychron calls this 'the next gen mouse switch' and I believe it: optical and magnetic all-in-one -
NewsElo Shapes reveals a speedy gaming mouse from a fresh new brand that weighs even less than the competition -
NewsSome pro gamers change mouse pads every few months, and that makes me wonder how often I should change mine9 Comments -
NewsThere's a website to competitively guess gaming mouse shapes, and it's a better use of my time than doomscrolling
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NewsThis could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast
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newsOkay, maybe I could be convinced AI monitors aren't all bad8 Comments -
NewsLG reportedly denies plans to sell TV business to Hisense, but there's probably still a display war coming that could impact the PC -
NewsSamsung ups its 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor ante with impressive new 360 Hz, RGB-stripe, HDR 600 panel -
DealThe best OLED gaming monitor we've reviewed is at its best price with over $300 off -
DealsBest cheap gaming monitor deals today -
NewsOLED gaming monitor sales are booming as shipments increase 78% in the first quarter of 2026
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NewsLG reveals the world's first native 1,000 Hz 1080p panel but you're gonna need a beast of a rig to make good use of it -
DealThe best value 1440p gaming monitor is only $130, but there's a challenger to its throne
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Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit… and it's not far off
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NewsNvidia RTX Spark's gaming battery life will be 'better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptops'
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NewsNvidia's working with all the anti-cheat vendors to make competive games work on RTX Spark and WoA… just when gaming on Linux was looking good
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NewsNot just for AI agents: Nvidia's RTX Spark means Arm-powered laptops for gamers, too, promising 100 fps at 1440p in the latest games -
newsThe device in my hands feels like the standard all new handheld gaming PCs will be judged by -
NewsAnbernic claims quiet memory size downgrade in its retro handheld devices is 'an unexpected error' without addressing criticisms over speed decreases -
NewsIt looks like the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld powered by Intel's new Arc G-series chips will have a pinch of ROG Xbox Ally to it -
NewsTim Sweeney takes swipes at Valve for Steam Deck price hike, blames it on the 'component parts supply chain for megayachts'13 Comments -
NewsAcer's Predator Atlas 8 handheld gaming PC with new Intel G-series chips looks a lot like a beefier Lenovo Legion Go S
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NewsNvidia announces that a DLSS 4.5 update for Ray Reconstruction is finally on its way, promising better ray-traced and path-traced graphics for 'similar performance' as the old model
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NewsThis supply chain Sankey diagram for an Nvidia AI megachip is a handy guide to understanding just how easy it is to ruin the prices of graphics cards -
DealThis RTX 5060 Ti graphics card is just $30 more than an RTX 5060 and it's the best GPU deal I've seen in a long time -
DealsCheap graphics card deals this week -
NewsIt looks like Nvidia's AI inference GPU won't see the light of day this year, which could actually be good news for PC gamers -
NewsPotential DLSS 5 references have been found in the latest Nvidia driver, but it's all gone quiet on the AI image enhancement front -
News007 First Light joins an ever-expanding list of 2026 games without up-to-date AMD FSR or Intel XeSS support -
NewsTaiwanese buyers of Gigabyte's new RTX 5090 can register to receive a 'gold item', because nothing says wealth like Nvidia's most expensive gaming GPU -
NewsThe Nvidia Control Panel is no more, an ex-control panel, kicked the bucket, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisib... okay, it's being retired8 Comments
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Light it up!The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up -
Cyber MondayThis smart lamp changed my gaming setup for the better and it's finally below $100 this Cyber Monday, just don't pick the wrong model -
Win or Bin?I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert -
Prime DayI own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales -
Prime DayI may not need a full-blown Logitech streaming light but I'm mighty tempted now that it's 27% off in this early Prime Day deal -
As if I needed any more RGB lights, this Govee x Evangelion light kit we gave a 91% is still $60 off for Cyber Monday -
DealI find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here's a set from Neewer that's nearly buy one, get one free for Black Friday -
ReactiveNanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review -
Sync'dGovee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review
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NewsCooler Master and G.Skill team up to bring you actively cooled DRAM kits, answering that incredibly distant call for even more expensive memory -
NewsThis Corsair RAM features 'light-emitting micro-drilling technology' and looks gorgeous but it's 2026 so of course it costs $600 for 32 GB -
NewsTeam Group CEO warns that DRAM and SSD prices will still rise: 'If you need memory, we recommend purchasing it as soon as possible' -
NewsTwo memory manufacturers join Samsung in the $1 trillion market cap club, global DRAM revenue is nearing $100,000,000,000, and I'm here with my head in my hands -
NewsSamsung has swerved a planned South Korean factory strike with a last-minute deal, so the memory machine rumbles on -
NewsFormer Samsung boss predicts the memory crisis could be over in the second half of next year thanks to a 'surge' in Chinese capacity -
NewsWe're getting closer to a 100% ROG rig as Asus gets into the DRAM game for its 20th anniversary -
NewsWhile I can barely find two sticks of 16 GB to rub together, Micron unveils a 256 GB memory module destined for AI servers -
NewsWe're starting to get convincing counterfeit DDR5 modules, just in case the memory crisis isn't bad enough already
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NewsTwenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of -
NewsReport says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore -
NewsGigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit -
NewsLooks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse -
NewsModder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard -
NewsIf Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin? -
Score: 92%Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review
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NewsIntel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything -
Score: 88%MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review
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News'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 -
NewsAsus 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 -
NewsThe FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US -
High speedThe best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life -
Gear of the YearOut 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 has15 Comments -
Cyber MondayThe best PC upgrade I did this year was switching everything to Wi-Fi 7 and now you can too with these Cyber Monday deals -
NewsThe internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon -
NewsIf you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access' -
Wi-FineRouters don't grab headlines like graphics cards but having a good one in your home can make a world of difference to your digital life
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Best caseThe best PC cases in 2026: These are the chassis I'd use for my next gaming build -
Score: 80%Cooler Master MasterFrame 360 Panorama review -
NewsCorsair announces new Frame cases, and one comes with a classy wood finish -
Score: 84%Silverstone FLP02 case review -
Score: 83%Thermaltake View 380 WS ARGB review -
Score: 76%Lian Li Lancool 217 case review -
Score: 86%Corsair 3200D review -
Score: 88%Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition case review -
Byte of the living deadMy latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: 'We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC'
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NewsNvidia sets out roadmap for RTX Spark, its new PC platform, which also gives us a better idea of when to expect next-gen RTX GPUs
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NewsDevelopers are creating Arm game ports, wholly Arm-native versions, and Prism-optimised updates for Nvidia's RTX Spark -
NewsNot just for AI agents: Nvidia's RTX Spark means Arm-powered laptops for gamers, too, promising 100 fps at 1440p in the latest games
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