PC Gamer {Hardware} Awards 2022: The most effective gear of 12 months

On Dec 31, 2022

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Because the wan solar fades on this bleak 12 months of 2022 we’re given to look again and take into consideration all now we have to be glad about. And in PC gaming tech phrases meaning we’re all of the gaming gear launched over the previous 12 months to select our favorite tech in a bunch of various classes.

And what? That features graphics playing cards this 12 months, in an precise significant means. We paid lip service to GPUs final 12 months, once they existed in a principally theoretical fairly than bodily sense, however lastly, we are able to truly purchase new playing cards. I imply, they’re nonetheless woefully costly if you wish to get in on the most recent technology, however the last-gen GPUs at the moment are genuinely inexpensive. Particularly in case you’re wanting on the AMD facet of the graphics card divide.

We have additionally began to see the primary inroads of OLED panel know-how into our desktop gaming displays, too, as each Samsung and LG have began transport screens into shows from the likes of Alienware and Corsair. To lesser or higher impact, it needs to be stated…

There have been new CPU generations from each Intel and AMD, with the latter retiring its venerable AM4 socket and eliminating these horribly pliable pins on its chips. Although now now we have to fret about errant thumbs jamming into the sockets of AMD motherboards as a substitute. Dr. Su giveth and Dr. Su taketh away.

It is also been the 12 months of the Steam Deck, a chunk of tech we love for all its flaws and faint jankiness, it is some of the PC bits of {hardware} launched this 12 months. And it is a frickin’ handheld.

However with out additional ado, listed below are the winners of PC Players annual {hardware} awards. I provide the greatest {hardware} of 2022.

Greatest gaming laptop computer of 2022

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 — (Picture credit score: Asus)

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Greatest gaming monitor of 2022

Alienware 34 OLED — (Picture credit score: Dell)

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Greatest graphics card of 2022

AMD RX 6650 XT — (Picture credit score: AMD)

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Greatest CPU of 2022

Intel Core i5 13600K — (Picture credit score: Future)

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Greatest microphone of 2022

HyperX ProCast — (Picture credit score: HyperX)

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Greatest motherboard of 2022

MSI MAG B660 Tomahawk motherboard — (Picture credit score: MSI)

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Greatest SSD of 2022

WD Black SN850X — (Picture credit score: WD)

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Greatest gaming mouse of 2022

Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro — (Picture credit score: Razer)

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Greatest gaming keyboard of 2022

Mountain Everest 60 gaming keyboard — (Picture credit score: Mountain)

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Greatest gaming headset of 2022

HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless — (Picture credit score: HyperX)

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The Wildcard 2022

Steam Deck wildcard — (Picture credit score: Future)

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Dave has been gaming for the reason that days of Zaxxon and Girl Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Loss of life Race 2000!). He constructed his first gaming PC on the tender age of 16, and at last completed bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system round a 12 months later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first began writing for Official PlayStation Journal and Xbox World many many years in the past, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 amongst others. Now he is again, writing in regards to the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with extra cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the solar, and SSDs extra capacious than a Cybertruck.