Custom PC UK

Custom PC is the UK’s best-selling magazine for PC hardware, overclocking, gaming and modding. Every month, Custom PC is packed with in-depth hardware reviews, step-by-step photo guides and informative features, all with a focus on tinkering with your computer’s insides. Along the way, you’ll also find hard-hitting tech opinion, game reviews and all manner of computer hobbyism goodness, from small Pi projects to extreme PC mods.

200 issues later

Custom PC

20 YEARS OF CHANGE • From windowed hard drives to pencil-modded GPUs, Richard Swinburne looks at how PCs have changed over two decades

LOCALISATION DILEMMAS • Tracy King analyses the sometimes controversial choices facing game localisation teams, where what’s acceptable differs between countries

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