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PCSpecialist Storm Elite II review: a great QHD gaming PC at a fair price

Featuring an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 and Intel Core i5 CPU, this PCSpecialist gaming PC offers plenty of decent performance for a reasonable price.

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Three premium PC builds with killer specs – meet the latest Club386 test rigs

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We've built three test rigs with the latest kit, which we'll be using in Club386 reviews. Find out which parts we picked and why, plus how they perform.

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This motherboard swaps its PCIe 16x graphics slot for a pair of cable connectors

MaxSun has replaced the main x16 PCIe slot on these mini-ITX motherboards with two MCIO connectors, which transmit PCIe signals through cables.
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First 1,000Hz gaming monitor shows terrible results, due to slow IPS panel

Despite having a 1,000Hz refresh rate, this gaming monitor shows slow results, as its IPS panel's pixel transition time can’t meet the required 1ms.
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Steam Controller delivery dates slip into 2027, as Valve can’t keep up with demand

If you order a Steam Controller now, Valve estimates that you'll have to wait until next year before it arrives.
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Steam Frame may support hot-swappable batteries, but with a catch

Leaks suggest Valve will offer a 'Frame Enthusiast Pack' alongside the VR headset, including a hot-swappable battery pack.
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MSI hopes to make DDR5 RAM more affordable, thanks to HUDIMM memory support

MSI adds support for HUDIMM memory, which uses a single 32-bit channel to its Intel motherboards, but there will be a cost to performance.
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Next-gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs appear in official documentation, powered by Zen 6

AMD confirms its next-gen Threadripper lineup, codenamed Mustang Peak, featuring 2nm Zen 6 cores, a new TR6 socket, and PCIe 6.0 lanes.
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Dell’s MacBook Neo competitor ends up costing £899 in UK and €1,149 in Europe

Dell’s XPS 13 Wildcat Lake laptop hits Europe and the UK at a much higher price than in the US, making it a hard sell compared to Apple's MacBook Neo.
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Consumer SSD market has “almost disappeared,” claims Silicon Motion, with NAND supply likely to worsen in 2027

As AI data centres eat up NAND supply, OEMs are now having to source SSDs from manufacturing channels that typically served consumers.
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Best CPU cooler 2026: AIO and air coolers tested for Intel and AMD processors

Here are the best air, passive, and AIO coolers for your PC build, whether you're using an AMD Ryzen or Intel Core CPU.
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Intel shows off 18A-P, promising a 9% clock speed boost for the same power as 18A

Intel Foundry reveals the details of its latest refinements to the 18A manufacturing process, including improved thermals and power management.
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Valve Steam Machine CPU appears in Geekbench, with six cores at 4.86GHz

A SteamOS-powered rig appears on Geekbench, revealing the CPU clock speeds and giving us an indication of performance.
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AMD says Radeon 7000 GPUs will get the same FSR 4.1 upscaling quality as Radeon 9000 cards

AMD explains why it’s taking so long to bring FSR 4.1 to older GPU generations, while promising quality parity on RDNA 3 GPUs.
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Intel CPUs with Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics will launch in early 2028, rumour claims

While the technical details of this Intel and Nvidia collaboration remain a secret, we now have a potential release window for the CPUs.
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Noctua NL-LC1 review: first AIO cooler from the premium Austrian brand

Arguably the finest air cooler manufacturer of our time has its sights set on conquering the AIO market. Can Noctua succeed at the first attempt?
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Look out Steam Deck, Intel handhelds are now running SteamOS

Valve's operating system now works on Intel hardware, including the Lunar Lake-powered MSI Claw 8 AI+ handheld and Arc B580 desktop GPU.
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