● The winners in the fifth annual Australian PC Awards have been revealed
● MSI was crowned winner of the coveted 2022 Australian PC Awards Gold Award for Best Company
● 26 Award winners across product categories such as motherboards, graphics, systems, and storage
The winners in the fifth annual Australian PC Awards have been announced, with MSI claiming the coveted Gold Award for Best Company.
“After a rigorous judging process by our tech and gaming experts, MSI was crowned the best brand in PC space this year,” says APC and T3 Editor, Ben Mansill.
Among the 25 other winners were Apple which received the Excellence Award for its M1 Pro and M1 Max processors, and Intel’s Alder Lake architecture was highly commended.
“MSI had a really strong year, branching out into new monitor and SSD lines without losing focus on its core component and laptop ranges,” Mansill says.
The Awards winners are:
● Gold Award (best company): MSI
● Excellence Award: Apple M1 Pro / Max (2021)
● Motherboards
○ Maker: MSI
○ Value: Asus ROG Strix B560-F Gaming WiFi
○ Premium: MSI MPG X570S Carbon Max WIFI
● Graphics cards
○ Maker: Gigabyte
○ Value: MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X
○ Premium: Aorus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Xtreme
● CPU
○ Value: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
○ Premium: Intel i5-12600K
● Storage
○ External storage maker: Seagate
○ Internal storage maker: Kingston
○ SOHO or Home NAS: QNAP TVS-675
● Systems
○ Value laptop: Microsoft Surface Laptop Go
○ Premium laptop: Apple MacBook Pro 14 & 16-inch
○ Gaming laptop: Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 (GA503)
○ PC maker: Thermaltake
● Components & peripherals
○ Memory maker: G.Skill
○ Cooling product: TT ToughLiquid Ultra 360 AIO
○ Monitor: MSI Optix MPG321UR-QD
○ Keyboard: Akko 3098B
○ Mouse: Razer Basilisk V3
○ PC Case: Lian Li PC O11 Air Mini
○ Gaming headset: Creative SXFI Air Gamer
○ Router: Asus Zen WifI XD6
● Reseller: Mwave
The last year has been a massive one for PC gaming and home computing and we can finally now get 20/20 hindsight vision for which products of 2020 and the start of 2021 were the absolute best in their field.
About Australian PC Awards
Australian PC Awards is an annual event run by Future Publishing Australia to identify and award the best locally released hardware launched over the past year for the benefit of Australian consumers. Eligible products must have been available to purchase in Australia and released between 1st January 2021 and 31st December 2021.
