Atomic Reader Awards 2005 winners!

And the winner is...!

Atomic Reader Awards – the winners!

You had your say, you voted here on the Atomic site and the winners clearly emerged. The best in each important tech and games category were announced at the Big Deal evening at Atomic Live.

Here now is the complete list of all the winners and runner-ups. Thanks to everyone who voted, and congratulations to all the winners – you know that if you got voted in by Atomicans then you deserved to win!


2005 Atomic Reader Awards winners

GPU manufacturer
NVIDIA
Runner-up: ATI

Video card manufacturer
Powercolour
Runner-up: Gigabyte

CPU manufacturer
AMD
Runner-up: Intel

Motherboard manufacturer
ASUS
Runner-up: Gigabyte

Memory manufacturer
Corsair
Runner-up: Geil

Case manufacturer
Antec
Runner-up: Coolermaster

Cooling product manufacturer
Thermaltake
Runner-up: Zalman

Hard drive manufacturer
Seagate
Runner-up: Western Digital

Audio product manufacturer
Creative
Runner-up: Apple

ISP
iiNet
Runner-up: Internode

Monitor manufacturer
Samsung
Runner-up: Benq

Innovation
Dual core CPUs
Runner-up: Nvidia SLI

PC single-player game
Half-Life 2 (Electronic Arts)
Runner-up: F.E.A.R. (Vivendi Universal Games)

PC multiplayer game
Battlefield 2 (Electronic Arts)
Runner-up: World of Warcraft (Vivendi Universal Games)

Console game
GTA: San Andreas (Take 2 Interactive)
Runner-up: Gran Turismo (Sony Computer Entertainment)

Handheld game
Nintendogs (Nintendo)
Runner-up: Metal Gear Acid (PSP; Konami)

Peripheral manufacturer
Logitech
Runner-up: Microsoft

Wireless product manufacturer
D-Link
Runner-up: Netgear

Notebook manufacturer
Alienware
Runner-up: ASUS