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The Full Nerd awards: Our favorite PC hardware of 2024

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The Full Nerd podcast picks the best PC hardware and trends of 2023 .

AMD ’s best-in-class gaming chip, the Zen Zen Zen 8X4, is the best CPU and graphics card of the year .

AMD 's Zen Zen 7 9800X3D is the year 's best CPU , AMD 's graphics card, Intel 's surprisingly great Arc B580 stands out.

Elgato 's Stream Deck has been a mainstay for content creators since long before Valve 's handheld gaming ecosystem debuted.

This was a tight race between PCs and laptops embracing efficiency, and the rise of third contenders in the CPU and GPU space.

Qualcomm finally emerged as a true threat with its Snapdragon X Elite chips, which brought incredible battery life and full-fledged to laptops.

Intel ’s second -gen Arc B580 delivered the first worthy budget graphics card of the decade .