As you could have observed, we haven’t posted something on the Customized PC web site for some time, so I assumed it was about time we defined what precisely is happening. You’ll be glad to know that we haven’t given up writing about all of the thrilling goings on on this planet of PC {hardware}. As an alternative, we’ve all moved over to the {Hardware} crew on our good (and massive) sister web site, PCGamesN.
Whereas Customized PC had a robust, strong title as a UK print journal, there’s no getting round the truth that we additionally had a really restricted readership throughout the remainder of the world, and transferring all our work over to PCGamesN will deliver it to a a lot wider worldwide viewers. We’ve already began shifting a few of the critiques, guides, and construct options from Customized PC over to PCGamesN {Hardware}, and we’re persevering with to write down extra there as properly.
Former Customized PC Deputy Editor Edward Chester and I at the moment are heading up the PCGamesN {hardware} crew, the place we’re bringing our wealth of {hardware} data and journalism expertise to the location. We will even proceed to deliver you critiques and guides out of your favourite Customized PC writers, together with Customized PC Modding Editor Antony Leather-based.
If you happen to head over there now, you’ll have the ability to learn a great deal of our work. Try our newest GeForce RTX 4080 Tremendous evaluation, in addition to our Radeon RX 7600 XT evaluation the place we take a look at AMD’s newest GPU with 16GB of VRAM. You may as well discover out easy methods to construct a gaming PC with our newest information, take a crash course in easy methods to water cool your PC, and comply with my steps to construct a retro gaming PC for DOS with a contemporary twist.
You’ll additionally discover hundreds extra hardware-related information and opinion items on PCGamesN as a result of we now have a much bigger, devoted, extra skilled crew, which includes the wonderful abilities of Samwise Willetts and Niall Walsh, in addition to Ed and I. This week we’ve posted dozens of latest tales, why the brand new AMD Ryzen 7 5700 is unhealthy information for avid gamers, together with an AMD Athlon Easter egg from the Nineties, the CableMod 12VHPWR adapter recall, and the newest rumors about Intel next-gen CPUs.
That doesn’t imply I’m not unhappy to say goodbye to Customized PC as a stand-alone model. I had an infinite quantity of enjoyable over my 20 years on the journal and web site, however I’m additionally very happy that our work will now have the ability to attain a a lot wider viewers, and we’re having a good time in our new dwelling.
That being mentioned, we’re persevering with to develop the Customized PC Fb group too – now at virtually half one million members and the primary place to share your builds. See you there.
