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Gigabyte Aorus Prime 5 review: a solid if slightly spendy gaming PC

Offering plentiful performance with strong acoustics and thermals, the Aorus Prime 5 is a great albeit expensive prebuild.

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AMD Zen 6 could shake up Ryzen CPU core counts more than we expected

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AOC just dropped a new 280Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor with a surprisingly low price

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Redditor scores 12TB M.2 SSDs valued up to £790 after taking a gamble on a broken motherboard

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TeamSpeak enjoys massive influx of users, as people appear to flee Discord’s ID verification

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Chinese CXMT DDR5 memory delivers equivalent performance to known brands, but it’s hardly any cheaper

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Even Steam Deck isn’t safe from RAM and SSD crisis, as Valve battles stock issues

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Intel Arc B370 iGPU surprises by performing close to the flagship Arc B390 and Nvidia RTX 4050

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Microsoft has seemingly finalised next-gen Xbox console hardware design by packing in 11 Zen 6 cores and 68 AMD RDNA 5 CUs

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Download these free hardware monitoring and benchmarking apps after building your PC

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Intel steals a march on AMD by extending XeSS MFG to Arc A Series and Core Ultra 100

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Asus unleashes the ROG Kithara headset powered by 100mm planar magnetic drivers

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