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A collage of M.2 SSDs from Lexar and Western Digital against a gradient blue background, with a PC Gamer Recommended logo in the corner

Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage

By Jeremy Laird last updated

High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.

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

Best gaming motherboards: 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
Packaging for Intel Core i5 13400F and AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D on a green background with a PC Gamer Recommended logo

Best CPU for gaming: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity and peace of mind

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

Happy Cores
A gaming PC built using MSI's Project Zero components. With a small illustrated 'living' computer pointing at it in the bottom left.

I built the mullet of gaming PCs with MSI's Project Zero 'Back-Connect' parts

By Jacob Ridley published

Mullet PC Business up front, party out back.

Mullet PC
A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor next to an Intel logo

Arrow Lake's had three months of Windows and BIOS updates to fix its performance, and my testing shows in some games, it's worse

By Nick Evanson published

Wayward arrow I thought fixes were supposed to improve things.

Wayward arrow
A screenshot from a video by Ordinary Uncle Tony, showing the internal structure of Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPU

Intel's next-gen desktop CPU Nova Lake allegedly spotted and can't come soon enough

By Jeremy Laird published

news Successor to the underwhelming Arrow Lake CPU spotted.

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A photo of the Asus TUF Gaming B860M-Plus WiFi motherboard

Asus TUF Gaming B860M-Plus WiFi motherboard review

By Nick Evanson published

Mid mainstream Gaming in name only but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Mid mainstream
TSMC 3nm

TSMC's next-gen 2nm silicon is reportedly on track for later this year but don't expect chips for PCs until 2027 and beyond

By Jeremy Laird published

News Maybe Moore's law isn't quite dead.

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OC record 1

Core i9 14900KF CPU hits a world record 9.12 GHz and proves Intel chips are still good at something

By Jeremy Laird published

News Or an untimely reminder that Intel's new Arrow Lake chips are still second best?

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