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A black diamond with the words 'PC Gamer The Wildcard 2025' floats over the top of a blurred out image. It's difficult to discern what's in the background, but a strip of purple-pink RGB lighting, two fans, and a circuit board are vaguely identifiable.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: 2025's wildcards—the best of the rest is full of surprises

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Gear of the year Wildcards keep us guessing every year, shedding light on the hardware hits that don't easily fit into a neat category elsewhere.

Gear of the year
A image with the central text of 'Best Motherboard 2025' and a PC Gamer logo, with a multi-coloured background, showing an out-of-focus motherboard through a diamond-shaped cut-out in the background.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming motherboard of 2025

By Nick Evanson Published

Gear of the year Motherboards are the only way that Intel stands any chance of winning an award this year.

Gear of the year
Valorant

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'

By James Bentley Published

News This should mean fewer cheaters going forward.

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Asus ROG Strix B760-F Gaming WiFi M.2 heatsink

Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'

By Nick Evanson Published

News And it's because of pesky DMA protections not being triggered to help out add-in PCIe cards.

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A photo of the MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard, focused on the CPU and DRAM sockets.

This online tool makes choosing a motherboard easier and coincidentally has me pulling my hair out a little less

By Jacob Fox Published

News MoboMaps could be a game changer.

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A photo of the Thermal Grizzly Der8enchtable test platform next to its retail packaging

Thermal Grizzly Der8enchtable review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 94% It's probably not for you but that doesn't stop it from being utterly brilliant.

Score: 94%
BTF 3.0

This new Mac Pro-inspired motherboard standard banishes all power cables for a single connector rated at over 2,000 W

By Jeremy Laird Published

News DIY-APE takes his war on cables to a whole new level.

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SignalRGB's custom gaming PC built inside of an old microwave.

Toasty CPU? This microwave PC build demonstrates that you ain't seen nothing yet

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Cast your eyes upon this gently lukewarm thing.

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A photo of the MSI MEG Z890 Ace motherboard, shown next to its retail packaging.

MSI Z890 Ace motherboard review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 70% Stupendous number of USB ports, stupendous price tag.

Score: 70%
A photo of the MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard, next to its retail packaging.

MSI Z890 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 87% Lots of features, not a lot of price.

Score: 87%
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