PC Gamer highlights the best hardware of 2024, including a three-way tie for best OLED gaming monitor and a surprisingly high score for a Wi-Fi router. The article also addresses the absence of graphics cards in the top five due to cost and performance issues.
To paraphrase an absolute belter from Andrew W.K., we here at PC Gamer do what we like and like what we do. Some may call us needlessly picky for it, but I prefer the word 'connoisseur.' Either way, that means it takes a lot for any hardware to nab a review score of 90 or more from us, and only 30 different bits of kit managed to do just that this year. So, let's get a party going., though 2024's extra candidates are really something special.
It's been a bumper year—so much so we've even got a three-way tie for the best OLED gaming monitor (more on that in a bit). Besides that crowded edge of the podium, there are plenty of surprises ahead. For just one very honorable mention, who would have thought that we'd award a solid 92 to a Wi-Fi router of all things? Well, the doesn't just deliver great performance, but also looks quite a bit like a not-so-miniature black obelisk straight out of Blade Runner. I don't know about you, but that's the sort of ostentation I thinkInteresting also to note is that, for the second year in a row, not a single graphics card features in our top five. As Nick wrote last year, this is in part down to high-performance cards simply costing too much while slightly less costly cards can't compete in terms of performance. That doesn't mean this particular hardware space is in a dire place, as ourBesides graphics cards, there's a healthy mix of bits of kit in our top five highest rated hardware—and a not so healthy selection in our bottom five as well. That's right, we're not just here to celebrate; we're here to shine a light into the shadowy corners of infamy for five deeply questionable hardware picks that received the lowest scores from us.in our lowest-rated five. Has the company redeemed itself this year? Well, I don't want to spoil anything but, with some scores in the forties among our lowest rated five this year, it's still a long way to the to
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