1. Setting the scene
2. The attic find
3. But can it run Crysis?
4. Riding shotgun in GTA 5
5. Riding horses in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
6. Riding rails in Metro Exodus
7. Riding illithid ships in Baldur's Gate 3
8. Crashing and burning in Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield
9. Conclusion and plans for a rematch
PC gaming never changes. Sure as night follows day, elite PC gaming hardware will, often within just a few months of release, be dethroned by something even faster and more powerful. It may, if a PC gamer is lucky, take more than a year to happen. But one thing is certain, no matter how much money a PC gamer pumps into buying top-shelf components for a rig, nor how much technical expertise they demonstrate when building it, no amount of high-end silicon, extreme overclocking, or liquid cooling loops will halt the inevitable—that their rig's time ruling the gaming world will be as brief as it is glorious.
