What are the best technology producers? Let us know, you could win a video card
Every year, during the summer period, we ask the readers of Hardware Upgrade to indicate which companies in the tech world and what types of products have captured your interest the most over the past 12 months. To do this, we invite you to vote in the Hardware Upgrade Community Awards 2026, a survey through which we collect your personal brand preferences divided by product type.
Hardware Upgrade Community Awards 2026: Make your voice heard!
Expressing your preference is very simple: just access the survey at the following link: Hardware Upgrade Community Awards 2026, selecting the producers that have most distinguished themselves, in your indisputable judgment, during the year for each of the represented categories. It is not necessary to express a preference for every category; in fact, it is preferable to do so only for those in which you have a well-defined personal opinion.
The collected data will help identify the preferred companies in the various product categories: the data from Italian readers of Hardware Upgrade will also contribute to selecting the best producers at the European level in the EHA Reader Awards 2026, as similar initiatives are currently underway by the sites that comprise the European Hardware Association:
- Hardwareluxx in Germany,
- KitGuru in the United Kingdom,
- iO-Tech in Finland,
- PurePC in Poland,
- Lab501 in Romania,
- Geeknetic in Spain,
- Technology Insider in the Netherlands, and
- CowCotland in France.
At the end of the survey, if you wish, you can participate in the drawing of a fantastic prize: a video card of your choice between an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070Ti model or one with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, with a maximum purchase value of €1,099. The winner will be announced on July 23, and they will be able to choose the video card of their personal preference, both for GPU and for manufacturer brand, with the only constraint of a maximum cost within €1,099, tax and shipping fees included.
You have until July 26 to express your preference. Voting is open until 22:59 on July 26, 2026; the winner will be announced on July 29, 2026. In the following days, we will publish the results of the preferences of Hardware Upgrade readers, discussing in a dedicated article what the preferences of Italian consumers are regarding the best companies for each product category.
This survey is organized by the European Hardware Association, of which Hardware Upgrade is a founding member. The email addresses that may be collected will be managed in accordance with regulations, and used solely to notify the winner of the prize: once this has been done, the email addresses will be deleted. Responsible for collecting the email addresses of participants in the drawing and the prize offered is Parsec Media, the publisher of the website Geeknetic, which is a founding member of the European Hardware Association. Parsec Media will handle the delivery of the prize to the winner drawn from all participants on a European basis. You can participate in the survey by following this link.