Breaking Best Of Ces 2026

Our picks for the very best products and features we saw at this year's show.

The jetlag has rescinded, the luggage is unpacked, and the weather is miserable. This can only mean one thing: I'm back in the UK after attending CES 2026, and this year's show sure had a load of tech to show off.

Sure, we were more than a little disappointed by the relentless march of AI announcements, particularly in a show with "consumer" in the title, but we still managed to find a host of gaming gear to get excited about. It wasn't the richest of years for PC gamers, but hey, you can't win 'em all.

Below, I've listed all nine of our Best of CES 2026 award picks. Despite all the AI tomfoolery, we still managed to scythe our way through the inference stacks, agentic nonsense, and the odd weird sporting tie-in to find gaming gear worth shouting about, and you'll find the cream of the crop right here.

We've picked out some exciting new Intel chips, some monitor tech that looks to make a real difference to the way we display our games, a mahoosive graphics card, and much, much more. Let's get started, shall we?

MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36Well, here's a kick-off for you—we've already reviewed the best gaming monitor we saw at CES this year, and it's the unfathomably-named MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36. It makes use of what MSI refers to as "5th gen" Samsung QD-OLED panel tech, complete with a vertical RGB stripe pixel configuration that delivers smoother font rendering, better text clarity, and simply sumptuous image quality.

Doesn't sound that exciting? Well, this latest panel tech essentially fixes one of the biggest issues with OLED gaming monitors—which leaves, err, price as the last big hurdle to conquer. Oh, and worries about burn-in, although the most recent long term testing suggests it's not quite as big an issue as many fear.

Anyway, at a CES filled with exceptional monitor tech (a genuine highlight in an otherwise fallow year), MSI's 34-inch ultrawide left us stunned, earning itself many admiring glances at the MSI booth and a 92% review score from our resident monitor expert, Jeremy Laird. That's a man who can tell you what panel a display is using from across a crowded room, so when he breaks out the big scores, you'd best believe you should start paying attention.

Asus ROG G1000In a crowded show suite, the Asus G1000 stood out for two reasons. One, it's absolutely massive, dwarfing even the Alienware Area-51 in proportions. And two, it's been fitted with not one,

Source: PC Gamer