
While artificial intelligence dominated the tech news headlines, 2023 was quietly a strong year for PC hardware and other enthusiast tech. For the most part, prices either stayed steady or fell on key components while systems and devices got faster.
The price of SSDs continued to fall while we saw a new generation of PCIe 5 drives break previous speed records. AMD retook the gaming crown with its Ryzen 7000X3D series of chips while Intel spent most of the year preparing for a more innovative 2024 (Raptor Lake Refresh was a bare-minimum release in the fall).