Intel’s love affair with PC gaming

Intel’s love affair with PC gaming

By Matt Hanson

PC Gaming Week 2018

As part of TechRadar’s PC Gaming Week 2018, where we celebrate the greatest gaming platform ever, we’ve talked to some of the biggest companies on the planet involved with PC gaming, and they don’t come much bigger than Intel.

If you’ve been a PC gamer for as long as we have, there’s a very high chance that you’ll have at some point played on a PC that’s powered by one of Intel’s processors. For a long time Intel was the king of gaming processors, and while AMD has been putting up a brilliant fight recently, as you can see from our list of the best processors of 2018, Intel’s Core i5-7600K and Core i7-8700K CPUs remain our top picks.

With PC games becoming ever more graphic- and processor-intensive, while PC gamers require more from their gaming rigs, it’s meant that companies like Intel have had to rise to the challenge to keep on producing hardware that keeps up with our demands.

We sat down with Steve Shakespeare, EMEA Enterprise Solutions Director at Intel, to chat about Intel’s involvement in PC gaming, and what challenges – and rewards – there are when you build platforms for gamers and enthusiasts.

The war’s back on

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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