Antony Leather

Antony Leather

Contributor

Antony has been building PCs for 25 years and writing about them for nearly as long. His favourite areas are cooling, especially watercooling as well as small form factor hardware. His first full time role was for Custom PC magazine alongside bit-tech where he reviewed all types of PC hardware and was also editor for the PC modding sections. Other roles include being a senior contributor for Forbes as well as running posting various ramblings and reviews on his own small YouTube channel CrazyTechLab, always with a focus on PC hardware.

Latest articles by Antony Leather

A Gigabyte and MSI pair of motherboards against a coloured background, with a PC Gamer Recommended logo

Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the mobos I'd build a system around today

By Dave James last updated

Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.

Best Mobo
ASRock B850 Steel Legend Wi-Fi motherboard on a desk.

ASRock B850 Steel Legend Wi-Fi review

By Antony Leather published

Legend A well-rounded option but we’d be very tempted to spend a little more.

Legend
ASRock Phantom Gaming B850I Lightning Wi-Fi motherboard on a desk.

ASRock Phantom Gaming B850I Lightning Wi-Fi review

By Antony Leather published

Lightning This motherboard has stiff competition but for the right price...

Lightning
Asus ROG Strix X870-I Gaming WiFi motherboard on a desk.

Asus ROG Strix X870-I Gaming WiFi review

By Antony Leather published

🤤 A drool-worthy motherboard, and I don't say that often.

🤤
Endorfy Fortis 5 air cooler on a desk and loaded onto a motherboard.

Endorfy Fortis 5 Dual Fan review

By Antony Leather published

Dual wield A sub-$50 cooler with lots going for it.

Dual wield
MSI MAG CoreLiquid A15 360 AIO CPU cooler installed close-up of pump

MSI MAG CoreLiquid A15 360 review

By Antony Leather published

Easy flow An AIO cooler that hits the price-performance sweet spot.

Easy flow
An air cooler from Noctua and a liquid cooler from Arctic on a blue background with the PC Gamer Recommended badge in the upper right.

Best CPU coolers in 2025: I've loaded liquid and air coolers onto today's top processors and these are my favorites

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.

Cool Breeze
Be Quiet and Noctua CPU air coolers on an orange background with the PC Gamer Recommends badge in the upper right hand side.

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2025: keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Air dried Quiet, reliable and affordable—why not consider a CPU air cooler in 2025?

Air dried
An Arctic Liquid Freezer III and Deepcool Gammaxx S240 pair of AIO liquid CPU coolers against a split grey background, with a PC Gamer Recommended logo in the top right corner

Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2025: I've tried all the best AIO coolers and these are my top picks

By Nick Evanson last updated

Wetware These are the best liquid chip chillers to suit all budgets, form factors, and processors.

Wetware
Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro motherboard with the SSD heatsinks detached and on a light desk.

Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro review

By Antony Leather published

All the extras A particularly user-friendly motherboard that has a long life ahead of it.

All the extras
Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite WiFi 7 Ice on a light desk with a white background and SSD covers removed.

Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice review

By Antony Leather published

Intel on ice A slick motherboard for Arrow Lake systems, even if it does slip behind AMD's alternative.

Intel on ice
Gigabyte's X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice motherboard on a light desk with white background.

Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice review

By Antony Leather published

Solid pick A white motherboard with all the extras.

Solid pick
The Noctua NH-D15 G2 all put together.

Noctua NH-D15 G2 review

By Antony Leather published

Finely-tuned Great cooling and wild engineering.

Finely-tuned
The Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 in situ

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 review

By Antony Leather published

Smart air An attractive compact air cooler that’s fairly quiet too.

Smart air
Be Quiet! Light loop AIO lit up.

Be Quiet! Light Loop 360mm review

By Antony Leather published

Shhh A refillable liquid cooler with a very quiet pump.

Shhh
A glowing white fan with the Arctic logo on top.

Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 A-RGB review

By Antony Leather published

Chip chiller Popular for good reason.

Chip chiller

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