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Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition review A new graphics card built for silicon austerity and a new era of AI rendering.
A close-up photo of a monitor displaying the Windows 11 start icon, with the screen's pixels clearly visible
You don't need an RTX 5090 or a 4K monitor for gaming when you can play Snake on your monitor's subpixels. But you will need a microscope or a good macro lens Or just squint really, really hard.
Adata SE880 external SSD
Adata SE880 1 TB external SSD review A reasonably performant and extra-small USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 drive that faces tough competition.

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I adore this chunky, reliable external SSD, so for a third off the 4 TB version I will absolutely recommend it in a heartbeat

By Jacob Fox published

Deal There's no more satisfying a thunk than plopping one of these on your desk.

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The WD Black SN850X and the Lexar NM790 NVMe SSDs on a pink gradient background with the PC Gamer recommended logo in the top right

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend

By Jeremy Laird last updated

Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Speedy storage
A close-up photo of a monitor displaying the Windows 11 start icon, with the screen's pixels clearly visible

You don't need an RTX 5090 or a 4K monitor for gaming when you can play Snake on your monitor's subpixels. But you will need a microscope or a good macro lens

By Nick Evanson published

news Or just squint really, really hard.

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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
Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds

This spectacular GB202 die shot shows just how massive Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU is but it's not the largest chip it's ever shoehorned into a gaming graphics card

By Nick Evanson published

news Count the transistors with me. One, two, skip a few, ninety-two point two billion.

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Best cheap gaming PC deals today

By Dave James last updated

deal Our simple advice: don't pay full price for a gaming PC.

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The Asus ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDM and the Alienware 34 QD-OLED AW3423DWF ultrawide gaming monitors on a blue buying guide background with a PC Gamer recommended logo in the top right

Best ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2025: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Expansive It's time to go wide... ultrawide: these gaming monitors are wider, brighter, and faster than ever.

Expansive
Knolling shot of "Steam Brick," a Steam Deck with many of its parts removed so it could fit in a smaller enclosure, with some of the removed components arranged tastefully around it.

One mad modder has massacred the Steam Deck, folding it into a 'Steam Brick' with 'no screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense'

By Ted Litchfield published

news Revenge of the Steam Machine.

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Nvidia is winding down developer support for 9 and 10-series graphics cards, but they'll likely keep getting driver updates for a while yet

By Ted Litchfield published

news Don't panic buy a new GPU: Two years passed between 7-series cards' CUDA deprecation and the end of their driver support.

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A woman wearing a large black mask, the Metadox Ombra, over her mouth, secured by head straps with a microphone cable dangling from the front.

I put a $139 gamer muzzle on my loud husband to muffle his Rainbow Six shouting, but the quiet wasn't worth the guilt

By Lauren Morton published

Silenced The Metadox Ombra does dampen gamer screams as advertised, but at the cost of bad Bane jokes in the group chat.

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