Hardware

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

Someone has managed to run Zork on the Steam Controller's internal hardware, but it's risky business

This wild new PC pro controller runs its own custom OS across a 2.79-inch color display slapped beneath the thumbsticks

The latest Windows 11 update is borking some multiplayer games, but Arc Raiders' developer has a quick workaround

GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl Wireless Controller for PC and Xbox

Redditor buys what looks to be a prototype Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, posts about it on Reddit, then the thread goes dark

The humble Wii Nunchuck has been turned into a video editing tool because it's 'one of the most ergonomic things ever made'

Valve explains clever shortcut for the Steam Controller's Grip Sense, and I'm starting to think it's a killer feature

Sometimes you have to take a break from work to pay respects to the PC flight stick that ruled the '90s

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

Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling

Be Quiet Dark Rock 6 and Dark Rock Pro 6 review

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

Creative XF1 speaker review

Why Kali Audio’s LP-UNF studio-caliber speakers make so much sense for PC gaming

PowerA LucidSound LS500/P review

Glorious GHS InfinitePlay review

This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for '200+ PC games'

The best gaming headsets in Australia for 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7X Wireless Gen 2 review

Sony Inzone H6 Air review

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

Boulies EP200 review

Secretlab Atlas review

LiberNovo Omni Pro chair review

Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review

Secretlab's CEO is getting tough on copycat chairs and doesn't feel pressure to adopt AI: 'If we were owned by outside investors, you can bet that AI will be somehow jammed down our throats'

I was roasted by a physician for sitting weird but they gave me some great tips for healthier gaming

Secretlab's new Atlas chair is cheaper, slimmer than the Titan Evo and I've been sitting comfortably in it for the past couple days

Corsair's new and supposedly affordable seat continues 'the move away from traditional gaming chair style'

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

Keychron K8 Ultra 8K review

'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more

Asus ROG Azoth Extreme Edition 20 review

Turtle Beach Command Series KB7 TKL gaming keyboard review

Logitech G316 X (tactile) gaming keyboard review

Melgeek Real81 review

MSI's new Strike Alloy has almost every gaming keyboard buzzword thrown at it, with TMR, 8k, and rapid trigger, and you can even use it underwater

The best quiet gaming keyboard we've tried is getting a smaller TKL version this year

AngryMiao AM Infinity.97 mouse review

Razer Naga V3 Pro review

Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20 review

These could be the first leaked images of the new Logitech Superstrike, which looks rather dashing in all-black

MMO heads rejoice, Razer is bringing out the Naga V3 Pro with upgraded switches, loads of customizability and a ridiculous DPI

Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition review

Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future

Noctua shows off 'custom-built torture-test rigs' for testing fans, and now I'm afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory

Mchose K7 V2 Ultra+ review

High-FPS, 4K detail or OLED colour: Which Gigabyte gaming display belongs on your desk?

Tests show newer OLED TVs can still experience significant burn-in because they're much brighter, proving that you can't have your cake and eat it

OLED monitors more popular than ever says analyst firm, which makes sense as one of the few good deals left in PC gaming

Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM gaming monitor review

MSI unveils its first 4K OLED monitor using a promising inkjet-printed panel, and it's not made by Samsung or LG

Best OLED gaming monitors in 2026: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays

Alienware 34 AW3426DW gaming monitor review

The best budget 1440p monitor is somehow cheaper now that it was during Prime Day, going for well under AU$200

Asus ROG Strix OLED XG32UQWMS gaming monitor review

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

Best gaming PCs in 2026: We've tested the best current-gen gaming PCs and these are our picks

Acer Predator Helios NEO 16S AI gaming laptop review

The new Framework 12 laptop's secret weapon is its battery life courtesy of Intel's Wildcat Lake

Intel might be cooking up a budget-friendly handheld chip but I'd still be surprised if it's cheap enough or fast enough to matter

A redditor is making super-fancy marble Steam Machine faceplates, *allegedly* sourced from the same quarry as Michelangelo

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Steam Boy, a Steam Deck crammed inside a Game Boy-like chassis

Someone hooked an RX 9070 XT up to their Steam Machine and it works surprisingly well, like fitting a V8 engine into your Honda Civic

The Steam Machine design makes for a frightfully good tissue box, and now you can 3D print your own

Best graphics cards in 2026: These are the GPUs worth spending money in right now

Don't tell Nvidia: 56% of you are willing to pay over $600 for your next graphics card... and 19% would spend over $1000 😮

The RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB currently costs more than the RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT, and I know which one I'd pick

We've been tracking graphics card prices for exactly one year and it's never been worse than this

It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else

EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'

I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump

First AMD RX 9050 8 GB review suggests RTX 3060-like performance but with some strange spec discrepancies

AMD is reportedly raising graphics card prices—it was just waiting for Nvidia to do it first

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

Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review

AI-generated lighting from Lepro should be setting the mood for your gaming sessions

Chinese RAM hits 9000 MT/s and even matches the speed and latency of the memory in our western gaming PCs

Micron's top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: 'We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector'

A researcher says 'we just undid about 20 years of progress' when it comes to memory prices, so I broke out my calculator and compared actual RAM kits from 2007 to 2026

Corsair isn't rolling in money from its mega-expensive RAM kits—and it's all thanks to higher component costs and lower demand

Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis

Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight

NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix

Gleefully counting its billions, Samsung cries warning of a 'severe' memory supply crisis next year

RAM prices be damned, SK hynix's record-breaking $55.6 billion quarter still failed to meet investors' wild AI expectations

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

Extract maximum performance from your components with these performance-focused 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

Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

The best NBN plans for gaming in 2026

Is Superloop NBN a good choice for gaming? 6 reasons why the high-speed internet provider is a top pick for all types of gamers

Superloop took out the best NBN provider for gaming in the 2026 Australian PC Awards—here's why

NBN price hikes are coming on July 1, but you can delay them by a year if you act fast

In my ongoing mission to save as much money on internet as possible, I just found the new cheapest NBN 500 provider for a full year

'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

If you missed out last year, Superloop is once again offering 1000 Mbps NBN for AU$79 a month

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

We got our eyes and noses on a new PC case with a magnetic essential oils diffuser to make your gaming den smell less like a gaming den

Be Quiet! unveils huge new PC case designed for 'maximum performance' with room for up to seven HDDs

Montech's new shuttered PC case is so odd, I can't decide whether I'm missing the sheer brilliance of it or if it really is totally pointless

Corsair's slightly-outrageous Warthog PC case is the thing I'd most like to take home from Computex 2026, and I'm not ashamed to say it