pchardware.org

About pchardware.org

A continuously-updated reference for every PC component — chipsets, processors, graphics cards, memory, motherboards, storage and more. One page per part, with structured specs, compatibility data and full source provenance.

What this site is

pchardware.org is a technical encyclopedia of computer hardware. Every component has its own page with normalized specifications, manufacturer data, and links to primary sources. It is not a review site, not a news aggregator, and not a price comparison engine.

How data is gathered

The data pipeline is open about its sources. Each specification on each component page is tagged with the source it came from, in this order of priority:

  • Manufacturer pages — the primary, authoritative source. Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Samsung, ASUS, MSI, Crucial, and every other vendor we cover.
  • Wikipedia & Wikidata — used as cross-reference and for historical components where vendor pages no longer exist.
  • Public benchmark datasets — PassMark, Geekbench, Cinebench and Blender Open Data, imported from openly-licensed snapshots with full attribution.
  • Third-party catalogs — used internally for discovery (finding SKUs we should document) but not surfaced as public sources.

A specification is marked as verified only when two or more independent sources agree. Conflicts are flagged and reviewed manually. Components have a last verified date so the re-scrape pipeline can refresh the stalest data first.

Benchmark sources

Benchmark scores shown on component pages reflect aggregate community submissions and may not match your specific configuration. They come from the following sources, all redistributable:

  • PassMark, Geekbench 5, Cinebench R23 — via Kaggle (CC0 Public Domain), 2022 snapshot. Components released after 2022 are not covered until a more recent CC0 snapshot becomes available.
  • Blender Open Data — opendata.blender.org (CC0), updated daily. Per-device score is the sum of median samples_per_minute across the three modern scenes (classroom, monster, junkshop) for Blender 3.x / 4.x / 5.x submissions.
  • Nero Score — community-submitted CPU AI inference and AVC encode results from score.nero.com.

Benchmark specifications are stored as unverified and are never cross-checked against manufacturer specifications. For components released after 2022, only Blender Open Data and Nero Score are available, so rankings inherit the bias of those workloads (render-heavy and AI/encode-heavy respectively).

Affiliate links

Some component pages carry a link to buy the part on Amazon. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. The link costs you nothing extra, and the price you pay is the same as if you had gone to Amazon directly.

These links do not influence what we publish. Specifications, benchmark scores and rankings come from the sources described above and are compiled before any purchase link exists; no component is added, promoted or ranked because it earns a commission, and no page is written differently because it carries a link. Where a page describes a chip rather than a product you can buy — a graphics processor, for instance, which reaches shops only as a card built by ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and others — we link to the search results for that chip instead of picking one manufacturer's card on your behalf.

Prices and availability shown next to a link come from Amazon and are accurate as of the date and time indicated beside them. They change constantly; the price shown on Amazon at the moment of purchase is the one that applies.

About prose and AI

Introductory paragraphs and summaries on component pages are written by a large language model from the verified structured data of that component. The model never invents specifications, and it never writes facts without a source. If you spot a hallucination or an inaccurate sentence, please report it.

Who runs it

pchardware.org is operated by Eduard Puigdemunt as a personal project. Contact: info@pchardware.org.

Reporting errors

If a specification looks wrong, a source is broken, or a component is missing, email info@pchardware.org with the page URL and what you believe is incorrect. Corrections backed by manufacturer documentation are fastest to merge.

Legal

See the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Legal Notice for licensing of the database, privacy information, and operator identification.