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But weirdly, you will see higher fps on a hard drive if you're willing to wait — Forspoken DirectStorage on test: Contrary to reports, there's no GPU performance hit on an RTX 4090 But weirdly, you will see higher fps on a hard drive if you're willing to wait

AMD blog post publishes damning data about the value of its own new GPUs. — AMD's new GPUs are pretty poor value according to...AMD AMD blog post publishes damning data about the value of its own new GPUs.

I'm drooling over this video test of Alphacool's gorgeous RTX 4090 block. — My heart is aching for this tiny single slot RTX 4090 I'm drooling over this video test of Alphacool's gorgeous RTX 4090 block.

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Best SSD 2022

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best SSDs of 2022

By Jeremy Laird published 28 December 22

Gear of the year The finest M.2 drives known to human kind in 2022.

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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best motherboard of 2022

By Dave James published 28 December 22

Gear of the Year System building is back, but which motherboards showed up with the goods this past year?

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Steam Deck, AMD Zen 4 CPU, Nvidia RTX 4090

All the PC Gamer hardware reviews from 2022

By Dave James published 28 December 22

Numbers Every. Single. One.

Crisis screenshots from its original release

There may never be another Crysis moment for PC gaming

By Jacob Ridley published 28 December 22

News Has PC gaming grown out of absurd system requirements?

AI generated art in the style of Aharon Kahana

I thrashed the RTX 4090 for 8 hours straight training Stable Diffusion to paint like my uncle Hermann

By Dave James published 27 December 22

AI FAM And I haven't burned the house down yet.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2022

By Dave James published 27 December 22

Gear of the year There have been new GPUs, affordable GPUs, and even actually available GPUs. What a year?!

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Gear of the year banner with text 'PC Gamer Best CPU 2022'

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best CPUs of 2022

By Jacob Ridley published 27 December 22

Gear of the year Intel, AMD, VIA?! These are the three nominees we've shortlisted for the gaming CPU crown this year.

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Highest scoring hardware

PC Gamer's highest hardware review scores of 2022... and the five lowest

By Dave James published 27 December 22

90+ All the top tech to hit the magic 90% mark in our rigorous testing as well as the ones which fell waaaaaay short.

Monitor award

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming monitors of 2022

By Jeremy Laird published 26 December 22

Gear of the year OLED versus LCD. There can be only one winner...

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The Razer Blade 14 gaming laptop with best gaming laptop branding on top

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptops of 2022

By Katie Wickens published 26 December 22

Gear of the year So many gaming laptops deserve the crown this year—here are our three nominees.

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