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It's only a few days into 2024 and Razer's already dropping a couple of 'world's firsts' ahead of CES
news It's new OLED and 4K gaming laptop screens look the business.
The best UPS battery backup for PC gaming in 2024
Amped up The best UPS, or uninterruptible power supply, will safeguard your PC from unexpected power loss and surges.
The PC Gamer tech team's New Year's resolutions
Promises, promises What do you mean? Of course we'll stick to them!
I lost my head and lubed a mechanical keyboard switch. Help
Lubin' Asus made me do it, though now I need never do it again.
The PC Gamer Needlessly Terrible Hardware Naming Awards 2023: Our favourite awful names for otherwise reasonable products
Awful It's award season here at PC Gamer, and we'd be remiss if we didn't point out some of the very best terrible, awful, no-good product names we've seen.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2023: The winners
The winners All the winners from the best tech released and tested in the past 12 months of PC gaming.
What we want to see from PC gaming tech in 2024
Heart's desire The past 12 months haven't been the most inspiring, so join us in hoping for better from the year ahead.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best motherboard of 2023
Gear of the Year It's not the sexiest piece of PC componentry but where would you be without the unsung heroes of PC gaming?
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptops of 2023
Gear of the year It's been a landmark year for gaming laptops, whether you want the absolute top-end monster machine, or an affordable mobile gamer, 2023 has delivered.
The biggest hardware surprise of 2023 for me was how damned good Lenovo Legion laptops are now
Gear of the Year I used to be team Razer, but now I think I'm part of the Legion.
A simple Windows 11 shortcut has changed my view of PC HDR gaming: Win+Alt+B
HDAAAAAH So, I'm a HDR guy now.
It's apparently down to AMD whether Nvidia releases its RTX 50-series GPUs in 2024 or not
News Insiders suggest Nvidia has the RTX 5090 prepped for release at the end of 2024 "if we want it to."
Dough Spectrum One (Gorilla Glass) gaming monitor review
Doh Just as stunning a screen as Dough's original glossy display... and that's the issue.
Lenovo Legion 9i (Gen8) gaming laptop review
Legion Legend Intel Core i9 13980HX | RTX 4090 (175W) | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 2TB SSD | $3,693 | £3,950
Intel's unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers 'on a technical basis' but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind
news Bringing its desktop and laptop Arc drivers together means everyone will benefit from every performance bump Intel's engineers can deliver.
Intel's slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance
news To get an 'Arc Graphics' sticker, your Core Ultra laptop has to be dual-channel with 16GB of memory.
Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
news I mean, obviously it's beating the Ryzen 7 7840U in Intel benchmarks, but it means I now can't wait to get my hands on a new Core Ultra laptop to really see what it can do.
Watch out Razer, Asus' switch from plastic to an all-metal unibody gaming laptop design was hidden in plain sight all along
news We thought Asus' CES 2024 teaser trailer didn't say much, but by ditching the plastic chassis for metal it's going toe-to-toe with the Razer Blade aesthetic.
If GTA 6 isn't coming to PC until 2026 this is what a top-end gaming rig should look like when it does
Tech dreams With a PC release not likely until 2026 here's the hardware that will be cutting edge when we hit the state of Leonida.
Nvidia RTX 4060 vs RTX 3060 and its 7 other biggest rival GPUs
Head-to-head Here's how the GeForce RTX 4060 stacks up against the previous generation, its Ada compatriots, and its AMD rivals in our tests.
This is the spiritual successor to the best graphics card ever made
News Galax has listed a single slot beauty on its China pages, and I really want to get my hands on one.
