Computex 2025: Best PC Hardware

The AI hype may have taken over parts of Asia's biggest tech show, but the PC ecosystem is still going strong. Here are 15 PCs, components, and peripherals that stand out as the best.

Spending a week in Taiwan at Computex, editors saw a significant transformation. Computex is becoming an AI show, like many other tech companies and venues. The show is expanding and more successful than ever before. The PC industry, though, is the traditional focus of Computex, and it isn’t letting up.

Top Laptop Picks

One way to stand out in the laptop world is to be light and glare-free. The Acer Swift Edge 14 AI weighs just 2.18 pounds. This 14-inch laptop has a 14-inch 3K OLED touch screen, up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 Series 2 CPU, a Wi-Fi 7 radio, Thunderbolt 4 ports, and AI capabilities. It also has up to 32GB of memory and a 1TB SSD. Built with magnesium alloy and certified to MIL-STD 810H, it’s also tough. The OLED touch screen has a Gorilla Matte Pro finish that cuts down on reflections by as much as 95% without losing color and clarity. Acer says the battery should last up to 21 hours. It's the best general-use laptop at Computex.

Asus brought an updated version of the ProArt 16 to Computex. This content-creation powerhouse combines AI capabilities with professional features, now updated to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 50 series. The new ProArt uses an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU that can deliver 50 TOPS of AI power and up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 for 3D modeling, video editing, and graphic design. The RTX GPU will run on optimized Nvidia Studio drivers. The NPU powers AI features in tools like Adobe Creative Suite, CapCut and Asus' Muse Tree. It has a 16-inch 3.8K OLED touch panel with Pantone-validated color and rated for 500 nits of brightness. It also has USB4, USB 3.2, HDMI, an SD card slot, and Wi-Fi 7. It also has the Asus DialPad control on the touch pad.

Acer’s new 14-inch gaming notebook has Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 graphics and an Intel “Lunar Lake” Core Ultra 200V processor. The Acer Triton 14 AI has a 1800p OLED screen with Calman color verification. The system measures just 0.68 inch thick and weighs only 3.5 pounds. This gaming laptop is one of the first to use Intel’s AI-first Core Ultra 200V mobile processors.

Desktops and Components

The Asus TUF Gaming T500 desktop uses processors designed for laptops, up to an Intel Core i7-13620H, paired with a full-size graphics card. Using a laptop processor lowers costs. The smaller chip also enables space savings. Asus is exploring even more affordable options than its $1,299 RTX 5060 Ti model.

MSI built the Cubi NUC AI+ 2M compact PC with ease of use and AI features in mind. The system uses Intel’s Lunar Lake processors with built-in neural processing units to drive AI performance using Microsoft’s Copilot+ software. The system has built-in microphones and a power button that doubles as a fingerprint reader. It is one of the first mini PCs to adopt Intel’s Lunar Lake mobile chips to bring the Copilot+ AI suite to desktops.

Acer's PD243Y E is a twin-screen display with two 23.5-inch 1080p panels stacked one atop the other. The upper panel is held in position by four hinges and the whole thing is propped up with a foldout stand. It offers both USB-C and HDMI inputs. The kickstand can double as a handle. These two extra screens are easy to set up and break down, and you can even VESA-mount the whole works.

Corsair's Makr 75 is a premium keyboard backed by an online configurator where you select parts piece by piece. You can choose different components, such as the color/material of the frame, your key-switch preference, and the keycap designs. The keyboard supports 8K polling rates, has an all-aluminum frame, and contains eight layers of sound dampening.

The P35S portable SSD provides a novel twist on data security: a self-destruct slider. The SSD is about the size of a car key fob and weighs only 1.5 ounces. The SSD’s dedicated “kill switch” lets you wipe the drive's contents in a fast two-step process. You need to swipe the slider on the surface of the SSD twice to destroy it, wrecking the NAND chips. As a USB 3.2 Gen 2 drive with a Type-C port, the P35S can transfer data at up to 1,000MBps and it holds 2TB.

AMD’s consumer Ryzen Threadripper processors are workhorses that enable near-server-grade performance. The new Threadripper 9000 chips comprise AMD’s latest Zen 5 microarchitecture. AMD's new top model, the Ryzen Threadripper 9980X, has 64 CPU cores supporting up to 128 threads and can hit speeds of up to 5.4GHz. These chips all run at 350 watts.

The Radeon RX 9060 XT is priced at $299 for an 8GB model or $349 for a 16GB model. AMD’s 16GB card substantially undercuts Nvidia’s comparable GeForce RTX 5060 Ti by $80 in MSRP. According to AMD, the Radeon RX 9060 XT should be a bit faster than the RTX 5060 Ti. AMD showed off upgrades to its FSR screen-optimization techniques.

InWin's Dubili Lite is a less expensive version of the Dubili PC case. This polished-aluminum and glass tower reminds us of a high-end speaker. Plus, with massive airflow potential, this case is built to house the best components. It’s elegant, practical.

Lian Li’s RS Series relocates the modular connectors to the sides of the PSU, making cable management dramatically easier. The RS also has a rotatable power socket and an optional snap-on USB hub.

Thermaltake won this round with the Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB CPU cooler. It has four LCDs that play custom animations, and using Thermaltake’s new software, you can even show videos that have elements running from one screen to the other. You can even pop off the cube and rotate it to whatever orientation works best in your PC.

Gigabyte’s Z890 Aorus Tachyon Ice CAMM2 is a motherboard that caters to the overclocking crowd. It uses a new type of RAM, replacing the bulky vertical DIMM modules with a CAMM2 module, which mounts parallel to the motherboard. This lowers physical obstructions, boosts stability, and even opens the door to higher memory capacities.

Intel demonstrated working silicon for its next-generation processors, code-named “Panther Lake.” They showed two reference desktops and a mini PC running content creation programs and some local AI processing. Production of the chips is set to get into full swing later this year, and the first market-ready designs are expected to show up in early 2026.

MSI unveiled prototypes of upcoming productivity and business laptops with redesigned keyboards and a new MSI logo.