We reveal the hardware around the corner that's worth holding out for. There's a school of thought that says there's never a good time to upgrade.

Our Jeremy put it quite succinctly while playing with Nvidia's original clamshell SHIELD device. "There's something utterly brilliant about this," he said, streaming GRID 2 from the PC Format test rig.

On paper, the new Asus RoG Swift doesn't just tick all our boxes for the ultimate gaming monitor. It mashes them into oblivion. It's the screen we've been waiting for.

If it weren't for the ubiquitous red trim and Republic of Gamers regalia emblazoned on the chassis of Asus' new G550JK, you'd hardly be able to tell it was a gaming laptop.

Squatting on your lap with all the elegance and portability of a broken Ford Transit, the Medion Erazer takes the term 'mobile' with a pinch of salt.

There must be a certain frustration floating around MSI's notebook department. It spends time and resources designing funky new laptop chassis and creating winning machines, then its OEM department flogs them off to companies that effectively undercut MSI's own devices.

The current state of the PC market means you don't need to spend an absolute fortune on a PC to get a decent gaming experience.

Late in 2013, we took a look at Zalman's Reserator 3 MAX Ultimate. Like most of Zalman's chillers, it looked like nothing else on the market, and was the first AIO (all-in-one) liquid CPU cooler to use nanofluid tech.

These speakers are not designed for our desks. The gorgeously globular Novas aren't meant to reside in a mess of bills, geeky toys and discarded (but still hoarded) hardware.

Since we've spent a lot of time crystal-ballin' this issue, let's take a second to think about what our perfect graphics card would be.