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PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024: The winners in every category of PC gaming greatness from the past 12 months of tech
The winners We've had our hands on all the best PC gaming hardware of 2024 and these are our absolute, solid gold favourites.
I've tested the best graphics cards and CPUs of the year, and yet it's this affordable, unassuming little gaming laptop that captured my heart in 2024
Gear of the year The Asus TUF A14 is a surprising, delightful little laptop I did not expect to love so much.
I'm here digging out the best post-Christmas, post-turkey PC gaming deals using my decades of experience and lack of social norms
Deals I really ought to be building Lego with my kids...
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2024
Gear of the year The handheld market is way more than just the Steam Deck, with stunning little PC consoles from all over delighting both our hands and eyeballs.
OneXPlayer OneXFly F1 Pro handheld PC review
Flying The first Strix Point handheld becomes the most powerful and maybe most desirable, too.
Intel Arc B580 graphics card review
Up 'n' down Hope is a dangerous thing to base a graphics card purchase on.
I'm serving the best Cyber Monday gaming deals using every second of my near 20 years as a PC gaming tech vet. That's veteran, not veterinarian, btw
Live It's all been leading to this point.
The best Black Friday gaming chair deal is still available on Cyber Monday
Deal The Corsair TC100 Relaxed is enjoying a hefty price cut, even post-Black Friday.
There is only one PC gaming peripheral that needs to be wireless and thankfully there are Cyber Monday wireless gaming headset deals on the three best cans around
Deal These are PC Gamer's favorite wireless gaming headsets and they're all on offer right now.
You're going to have to work pretty damned hard to convince me there's a better Cyber Monday gaming keyboard deal than the now-$40 keeb I use every day
Deal It's our favorite budget keyboard and it's now cheaper than ever for everyone.
Yes, I'm still picking out the best Black Friday gaming deals throughout the weekend because my near 20-years as a PC tech journo have locked me into this gilded cage
Live You're welcome.
Sadly, the cheapest way to buy an RTX 4090 right now is with this horribly cynical Black Friday GPU deal combo which makes you pay to dispose of an old card Newegg doesn't want anymore
Deal We live in some truly bizarre times.
Look who's back, it's Alienware with the best Black Friday gaming PC deal of the week and the cheapest RTX 4070 Ti Super rig we've found
Deal It was a stellar deal over the October Prime Day sale, and Alienware has resurrected the $600 discount once more.
Velocity Micro Raptor ES40 gaming PC review
Smol A great compact gaming PC more than able to mix it with the big bois.
Lenovo Legion Tower 5i gaming PC review
Simple things A great entry-level gaming PC and a solid buy for 1080p gaming.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor
Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...
AMD just took the one thing Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs had going for them and slapped it right out of their hands
News Near 50% higher frame rates AND cooler AND lower power. Ouch.
Nvidia's upgrading GeForce Now's $10 tier with 1440p and Ultrawide resolutions, but the only extra Ultimate users get is a new 100-hour play limit
news With a market value of well over $3,000,000,000,000, you'd think it could have kept pricing the same without introducing a blanket time limit.
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D may have just launched, but AMD doesn't expect an end of life announcement for the old 7800X3D 'anytime in the near future' and 'would expect it in the market for a while'
The king isn't quite dead, but long live the king.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU review
Underslung The picking of the best gaming CPU might just be a little more nuanced this time around.
Lemokey G1 wireless gaming mouse review
Little squeaker A very Keychron wireless gaming mouse: Affordable, simple, and feature-rich.
Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Edition gaming chair review
Peak Secretlab What price unprecedented comfort?
