Affiliate disclosure

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

The relationship

The PC Radar participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. The site operates under the Associates tracking ID thepcradar-20.

Every link from this site to Amazon carries that tracking ID. If you follow one and buy something, Amazon pays this site a percentage of the sale as an advertising fee. You pay nothing extra. The price is the same as it would be if you had gone to Amazon directly, and the fee comes out of Amazon's margin rather than being added to yours.

Amazon links are marked in the page's markup as sponsored links and open in a new tab, so both search engines and readers can tell what they are.

What the commission does not buy

No manufacturer, retailer or PR agency pays to appear here, and none has any input into the rankings. There are no sponsored placements, no paid reviews and no advertising slots for sale. Where two products are close, commission rate is not the tie-breaker — the recommendation is the same one I would give someone who asked in person.

Commission rates vary by product category on Amazon's schedule, which means the site earns different amounts on different recommendations. That is a real conflict of interest and worth naming rather than pretending it does not exist. The defence against it is the next section: the reasoning behind every pick is on the page, so you can check the argument rather than take it on trust.

How products are assessed

Recommendations here are based on published manufacturer specifications and aggregated third-party testing — not on hands-on testing by this site. I do not have review samples, a test bench, or the equipment to measure sustained throughput, noise-normalised thermals or power draw. Anyone who tells you otherwise about a site this size is usually selling something.

What that means in practice: where a claim comes from a manufacturer's data sheet, it is described as a specification. Where it comes from someone else's measurements, that source is named and linked. Where the evidence is thin or the reviews disagree, the page says so instead of picking a winner to fill the slot.

It also means this site publishes no Review or AggregateRating structured data. Those markup types tell Google a first-party review took place. One has not, so emitting them would be a lie told to a machine, which is still a lie.

Prices

You will not find a number anywhere on this site. Amazon's terms only permit displaying prices obtained through their Product Advertising API and kept current; without that access, any price printed here would be both a terms violation and, within days, wrong. Products are described in broad price bands instead, and the live price is whatever Amazon shows you when you arrive.

Questions

If something here looks like it was written to sell rather than to inform, say so —support@thepcradar.com. Corrections are made in public, and the article's updated date changes when they are.