As we bid farewell to the disparate assortment of hours, days, and months we have come to know as 2021, allow us to pour out a wee dram and lift a glass in salute to the perfect PC gaming {hardware} launched this 12 months. In some methods it isn’t been a golden 12 months for PC {hardware}; it is by no means been more durable to construct a brand new rig than it’s proper now, for instance.
However regardless of the continuous horror of the GPU market, and the truth that new funds {hardware} appears to have vanished in a puff of logic, there are nonetheless issues to have fun. Should you’ve ever wished to package your system out with the type of speedy SSD beforehand solely obtainable to knowledge centre IT managers, then now’s definitely the time. Likewise, Intel’s return to CPU kind with its Alder Lake gamble seemingly paying off within the type of the spectacular Core i9 12900K and the excellent Core i5 12600K processors ought to carry a smile to the face of any gamer.
Competitors is nice for everybody, and if AMD and Intel are correctly going toe-to-toe with high-quality gaming silicon, as an alternative of 1 or different of them being on the ropes, the long run is trying very rosy certainly.
There have additionally been glorious displays, gaming laptops, and a bunch of high quality new peripherals passing throughout our check benches this 12 months, and we’re right here to essentially have fun these goodies which have happy us essentially the most. Over the previous week we have been highlighting our nominations for the perfect merchandise in ten key classes. And, whereas some have been somewhat robust to choose a winner, others have been fully apparent from the start.
I imply, the perfect graphics card ‘launched’ in 2021 is nearly a purely theoretical award in these GPU starved occasions of ours… However no matter, now will not be the time to wallow within the gloom of the chip scarcity, it is time to finish the suspense and dig into the PC Gamer {Hardware} Awards Winners of 2021.
