Andy Edser
Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn't. After spending over 15 years in the production industry overseeing a variety of live and recorded projects, he started writing his own PC hardware blog in the hope that people might send him things. And they did! Now working as a hardware writer for PC Gamer, Andy's been jumping around the world attending product launches and trade shows, all the while reviewing every bit of PC hardware he can get his hands on. You name it, if it's interesting hardware he'll write words about it, with opinions and everything.
Latest articles by Andy Edser
Simulated CPU-building speedrun attempt ends with a functioning processor in a mere six hours
By Andy Edser published
news About the same amount of time it takes me to decide what to have for lunch.
Semiconductor sales rose to $166,000,000,000 in a single quarter this year thanks to all that demand for AI-crunching silicon
By Andy Edser published
news The AI boom goes hypersonic for some.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming headset
By Andy Edser published
Headgear If you're eyeing up potential headset purchases, you've come to the right place.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming mouse
By Andy Edser published
Rodents My guide to buying the right gaming mouse for you.
Robots can play the cello with an orchestra now, and that sound you can hear is the point whistling over the top of its creator's heads
By Andy Edser published
News Technically perfect, completely soulless. That's what I love about my favourite musicians.
The goggles, they do everything: These scratch-built AR glasses even have homemade lenses
By Andy Edser published
News Quite the fashion statement, too.
Ex-AMD fab GlobalFoundries has been fined $500K after admitting it shipped $17,000,000 worth of product to a company associated with China's military industrial complex
By Andy Edser published
News The CHIPS-funded manufacturer takes a significant slap on the wrist.
'One million street-level deals' worth of methamphetamine smuggled in PC case shipment
By Andy Edser published
News How's that for a case mod?
I asked the PC Gamer hardware team to name the underrated bits of gear they use every day and these are the results
By Andy Edser published
Ibuprofen doesn't count. Ok, maybe it does.
Bluetooth is the bane of my hardware existence
By Andy Edser published
Teething Issues Go on Andy, say what you really think.
I know what these weird ocean-bound liminal spaces in Google Street View actually are and they're still giving me the creeps
By Andy Edser published
News Neither here nor there.
Tim Cook says his daily routine involves using 'every [Apple] product' which sounds genuinely exhausting
By Andy Edser published
News Well, in for a penny, in for a pound.
Former Intel execs are fighting over whether splitting the company in two is a good idea and if the US government should step in to cleave it in twain
By Andy Edser published
News Some serious "judgement of Solomon" vibes going on here.
Intel's former CEO pushed for the chip maker to buy Nvidia for $20 billion in 2005—the GPU company is now worth $3.5 trillion
By Andy Edser published
News I don't think this so-called "Nvidia" will turn out to be much, anyway. Best left alone, I reckon.
Microsoft CEO's new $79.1 million pay package represents a massive 63% increase despite a year of layoffs and cybersecurity failures
By Andy Edser published
News Beats a pizza party and a complimentary mint, doesn't it?
Black Friday gaming headset deals 2024
By Andy Edser last updated
Black Friday is just around the corner, so here are gaming headset deals worth keeping an eye on.
Beyerdynamic MMX 330 Pro gaming headset review
By Andy Edser published
Headset heaven Cushy, plush, and simply gorgeous to listen to.
Best PC joysticks in 2024: these are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
By Dave James last updated
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.
Elon Musk's X changes its terms of service to steer user lawsuits towards a Texas court instead of California. Which is fine. Just happens to be a completely different Texas court district to where X is actually headquartered
By Andy Edser published
News Also happens to be the district where a judge recently rejected calls to recuse himself from another X/Musk case just because he's a Tesla investor.
Meta takes 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' to its logical conclusion as iFixit finds the Meta Quest 3S is mostly the same as the Quest 2
By Andy Edser published
news And at $299 for the 128 GB version, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
World's grainiest video purportedly shows an RTX 5090 under testing, but Zotac confirms it was simply an RTX 4070 Ti Super on a test bench
By Andy Edser published
news We can all calm down now, ok?
Dead animals speak thanks to an AI museum exhibition: 'Can we change the public perception of a cockroach by giving it a voice?'
By Andy Edser published
news If a dead lion could speak we still wouldn't understand it, etc, etc...
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