Introducing the PC Gamer Ultimate PC Hardware Guide, out now

Are you planning to upgrade? Are you building a new PC? Do you find yourself wandering the internet, seeking up-to-date information on which hardware components are worth your money? We have a one shot solution for all those worries. We've put together a mighty technological tome called the Ultimate PC Hardware Guide. It's packed full of 195 in-depth hardware reviews penned by our hardware experts. Whether you're after Network devices, SSDs, controllers, headsets, keyboards, laptops, mice, speakers, 3D cards, cases, motherboards, RAM, processors, coolers or monitors, our Ultimate PC Hardware Guide contains plenty of advice to help you make the best choice for your PC.

You can buy it now for £9.99 / $19 from My Favourite Magazines . It could save you a lot of money further down the line.

If you're looking to build a PC from scratch, we've included a step by step guide to constructing a working version of the PC Gamer rig, designed to deliver power at reasonable a reasonable cost. Want to know how much thermal paste to put on your CPU? Is there a dangling cable in your case that you don't recognise? The answer to these questions and any more are contained within the Ultimate PC Hardware Guide's 146 pages.

If you'd like a copy and you're ordering from outside of the UK, simply select your region from the drop down menu on My Favourite Magazines and you're good to go.

Alternatively, from September 4 you'll be able to buy the bookazine from iTunes in lustrous digital form.

Tom Senior

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.