Behold! All the finalists in the 2025 Australian PC Awards

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It’s our business to tell you about the PC gear you should consider making yours. Every day and all through the year, our experts are using, testing, assessing and rating a huge range of gear – all with the aim of making you better informed when it comes to making a purchase decision.

Of the hundreds of products our team tests through each year, some shine more than others, and some are clearly head and shoulders above everything else. And which is what is what we’re here to decide.

Stay tuned, because coming up next is the big winners announcement, and you’ll find that right here on 14 March!

Finalists: Best motherboard maker

Finalists: Best value motherboard

Finalists: Best premium motherboard

APCA 2025 Graphics cards — (Image credit: Future)

Finalists: Best graphics card maker

Finalists: Best graphics card

Finalists: Best value CPU

Finalists: Best mid-range CPU

Finalists: Best premium CPU

APCA 2025 storage — (Image credit: Future)

Finalist: Best internal storage maker

Finalists: Best external storage maker

APCA 2025 systems — (Image credit: Future)

Finalists: Best value or 2-in-1 laptop

Finalists: Best premium laptop

Finalists: Best gaming laptop

APCA desktop maker — (Image credit: Future)

Finalists: Best desktop PC maker / reseller

APCA 2025 Components — (Image credit: Future)

Finalists: Best memory maker

Finalists: Best cooling product

Finalists: Best monitor

Finalists: Best keyboard

Finalists: Best mouse

Finalists: Best gaming headset

Finalists: Best case

Finalists: Best router

APCA 2025 Excellence — (Image credit: Future)

For the person, product or technology that advanced the PC more than any other in 2024.

Finalists: Excellence

The company that impressed us the most, overall, in 2024.

Finalists: Gold

apca epic fail award — (Image credit: Future)

Finalists: Epic fail

Ben thinks he’s probably the most experienced PC gaming editor and writer in Australia. After working on the legendary Hyper magazine in the early 1990s, he founded the even-more-legendary PC PowerPlay mag in 1995, and remained as editor for the first five years during that period of explosive PC gaming evolution. After that he founded Atomic magazine in 2000, shifting his focus a bit more towards PC gaming hardware. After a few years as Atomic editor, Ben took over PC Authority magazine, and is now the editor of APC. He likes 48-hour Sins of a Solar Empire binges when he’s not sitting in his sim racing rig manhandling his precious German equipment.