About r/pcmasterrace
In its own words:
Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Join us in celebrating and promoting tech, knowledge, and the best gaming, study, and work platform there exists. The Personal Computer.
The community was created on Apr 30, 2011, which makes it 15 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 10,358 subscribers (+0.06%). Among the 15 communities on our gaming list it is number 2 by size. Among the 7 communities on our PC gaming list it is the largest. It sits just behind r/InternetIsBeautiful (#55) and ahead of r/relationship_advice (#57) in our ranking.
What sets r/pcmasterrace apart
r/pcmasterrace is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 46% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 17% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 21.6 new posts a day per million members, more than 90% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/pcmasterrace went up from 16,321,722 to 16,365,417 subscribers (+43.7K, +0.27%). That is about 1,092 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Top posts on r/pcmasterrace this week
The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Oct 29, 2026).
- “I’m gonna use this only for study”u/ExpensiveCoat8912 · Oct 27 · image
- Where is itu/ExpensiveCoat8912 · Oct 25 · image
- Saw it again today and finally snappedu/Ayden_Linden · Oct 26 · image
- Multiple Reports Say Nvidia Manufactured the Gaming GPU Crisis by Forcing Big Tech to Stockpile Unused AI Hardwareu/chusskaptaan · Oct 23 · link
- Is 250GB of VRAM enough for Solitaire? Getting 0% GPU usage, think something's wrongu/diegocaples · Oct 23 · image
- The best generationu/Captain0010 · Oct 26 · image
- Firefox brings back some of the classic memes in their new commercialu/AmarildoJr · Oct 26 · video
- The state of AAA publishers todayu/Captain0010 · Oct 29 · image
- I have been tweaking some of my Assetto Corsa settings.u/i-mj · Oct 24 · video
- Every time I play a game with this engine...u/sfingemorta · Oct 27 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/pcmasterrace, from 2017 to 2022, ranked by Reddit.
- Building my first Gaming Computer in Africa..u/Passion_Gamer · Dec 22, 2019 · 133,107 points · 3,130 comments · image
- Gaming as a kid vs adultu/isthatzyroc · Jun 4, 2022 · 134,509 points · 1,756 comments · image
- How far it's fallen. Bring back my dog.u/SuppleFoxFluff · Mar 29, 2022 · 127,285 points · 2,571 comments · image
- Refugee saving his PC. Stay save brother.u/Yoloswaggerboy2k · Feb 26, 2022 · 112,737 points · 1,550 comments · image
- EA giving away its crown.u/ForTexi · Oct 9, 2019 · 112,766 points · 2,725 comments · image
- Micro Center taking the fight to scalpersu/cubiclewarrior50 · Jun 17, 2021 · image
- 'Nvidia displays their entire stock of 3080s' - Sept 1, 2020u/ColdPapers · Sep 17, 2020 · image
- We have a new king, LONG LIVE THE KING!u/Vaiken_Vox · Dec 25, 2019 · 101,416 points · 2,133 comments · image
- As a prior US Marine who fought for freedom your actions make me sick. Goodbye BlizzardOct 9, 2019 · 99,886 points · 1,866 comments · image
- I'm not an elitist, I swearu/AmateurZombie · Mar 12, 2021 · image
What r/pcmasterrace talks about
Across 693 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “gaming”, “help”, “gpu”, “upgrade” and “rtx”. Other frequent themes are windows, ram, cpu, good, games and laptop. Recurring phrases include “task manager”, “monitor upgrade”, “worth upgrading” and “macbook pro”. By format, 46% are text posts, 27% are images and 13% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: Question (120), Build Help / Purchase Advice (109), Discussion (108), Tech Support (80), Hardware (77), Meme/Macro (55).
Activity and best time to post
r/pcmasterrace gets about 350 new posts a day. The public archive holds 3,592,812 posts and 59,188,447 comments in total, about 16.5 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (360 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (326). Posting peaks around 14:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.
Rules of r/pcmasterrace
The moderators of r/pcmasterrace list 12 rules. In short:
- Harassment/calls to action against others
- Follow PCMR Etiquette
- Do not link to outside threads
- Anonymize all images/screenshots
- No referral or affiliate links
- Low quality, unrelated, unoriginal or low-effort posts will be deleted at mod discretion.
- Do not discriminate against others
- No begging, trading, selling, or asking for valuation.
- Do not abuse the NSFW or Spoiler tags
- Peasantry posts must be self posts
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/pcmasterrace have?
r/pcmasterrace has 16,365,417 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #56 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 43,695 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026.
How old is r/pcmasterrace?
r/pcmasterrace was created on Apr 30, 2011, so it has been around for 15 years.
How active is r/pcmasterrace?
Very active: r/pcmasterrace gets about 350 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 3,592,812 posts and 59,188,447 comments. In a sample of 693 recent posts we counted 634 different authors.
When is r/pcmasterrace most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 14:00 UTC, with the fewest around 03:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/pcmasterrace about?
The community describes itself as: “Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. You don't necessarily need a PC to …” Recent post titles often mention gaming, help, gpu, upgrade and rtx. Most posts are text posts (46%).
Is r/pcmasterrace safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/pcmasterrace as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/pcmasterrace?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/pcmasterrace accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 12 posted rules, starting with: “Harassment/calls to action against others”; “Follow PCMR Etiquette”; “Do not link to outside threads”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/pcmasterrace?
Communities with similar topics include r/gaming (47.4M), r/buildapc (8.5M), r/pcgaming (4M), r/hardware (4.4M) and r/technology (20.6M).
Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Oct 29, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/pcmasterrace.