Do you want to participate in the 2026 Hardware Upgrade Community Awards?

It’s an annual event where we ask our community of readers to let us know which companies and types of products have captured your interest over the past 12 months. All you need to do is express your preference in the survey at the following link: if you do, you could enter the drawing for a graphics card of your choice from the NVIDIA and AMD options available on the market.

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

and select the producers that stood out the most, in your opinion, over the year for each of the represented categories. It’s not required to express a preference for every category; indeed, it’s preferable to do so only for those in which you have a well-defined personal opinion.

The collected insights will help identify the favorite 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 ongoing by the websites that make up 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 for a fantastic prize: a graphics 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 able to choose the graphics card of their personal preference, both for GPU and producer brand, with the only constraint being the maximum cost within €1,099, taxes and shipping included.

You have until July 26 to express your preference

Voting is open until 10:59 PM on July 26, 2026; the winner will be announced on July 29, 2026. In the following days, we will publish the results of Hardware Upgrade readers' preferences, discussing in a specific article what the preferences of Italian consumers are regarding the best companies in each product category.

This survey is organized by the European Hardware Association, of which Hardware Upgrade is a founding member. Any email addresses collected will be handled in accordance with regulations and used solely to notify the prize winner: once this is done, the email addresses will be deleted. The responsible party for collecting the email addresses of participants in the drawing and the offered prize is Parsec Media, 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.