Introducing the PC Gamer Ultimate PC Hardware Guide, out now
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Want to add more newsletters?
Every Friday
GamesRadar+
Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.
Every Thursday
GTA 6 O'clock
Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.
Every Friday
Knowledge
From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.
Every Thursday
The Setup
Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.
Every Wednesday
Switch 2 Spotlight
Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.
Every Saturday
The Watchlist
Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.
Once a month
SFX
Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!
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.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
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.


