Zak Storey

I built my first PC with my dad when I was just 8 years old; from then on, I was hooked, gaming almost exclusively on custom-built machines. From World of Warcraft, to Dawn of War, and countless hours in the Total War franchise, I cut my teeth building budget rigs that you could overclock to hell and back, to get the most fps out of them in those CPU-heavy titles. After graduating from the University of Derby in 2015, I jumped into tech journalism at the first chance I got. Since then, I've dabbled in almost every area in the industry, working my way up from staff writer, to Editor in Chief at Maximum PC, to PR specialist at Corsair, and now freelancer for all manner of publications including Gamesradar, PC Gamer, Techradar, Trusted Reviews, and more. I've worked in the trade for just over a decade now, building PCs and testing every component under the sun, and still love it to this day. If it's got some silicon behind it, you can be sure I'm keen to get my mitts on it.