Ben Hardwidge

Managing editor of Club386, he started his long journey with PC hardware back in 1989, when his Dad brought home a Sinclair PC200 with an 8MHz AMD 8086 CPU and woeful CGA graphics. With over 25 years of experience in PC hardware journalism, he’s benchmarked everything from the Voodoo3 to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090. When he’s not fiddling with PCs, you can find him playing his guitars, painting Warhammer figures, and walking his dog on the South Downs.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and 5070 suddenly boom in popularity among PC gamers

For the first time, all top five GPUs on the Steam Hardware Survey have dedicated ray tracing and AI hardware, as RTX 5070 and 5060 storm the charts.
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Asus Zenbook Duo 2026 review: Panther Lake shines in this gorgeous dual-screen laptop

With dual OLED touchscreens and a new Intel Core Ultra X8 388H CPU, this laptop is extraordinarily versatile and can even play games at decent settings.
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Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF price plummets to just £119.99, now lower than ever

Now less than half price, this Intel Arrow Lake CPU is a genuine bargain, as long as you have some DDR5 RAM to go with it.
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Grab this Dell laptop for just £379 if you’re quick, complete with 16GB of RAM

With an Intel Core i5 Raptor Lake CPU, Full HD screen and 512GB SSD, this laptop deal gives you a capable mobile office machine for a very low price.
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Intel has no plans for Strix Halo competitor, says AMD iGPU tech is “not that competitive”

It looks as though the Arc B390 GPU, as seen in in Intel's Core Ultra Series Panther Lake chips, is as fast as it's going to get.
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Intel Core Ultra Series 3 review: outstanding battery life and a great iGPU

We benchmark Intel Core Ultra X9 388H with its Arc B390 GPU, and we're really impressed by its gaming and battery performance.
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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D specs, price, and release date

AMD's new gaming CPU has eight cores and 64MB of 3D V-cache, just like 9800X3D, but it also has a significantly faster clock speed.
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MSI Roamii BE Pro review: home Wi-Fi coverage solved

MSI's new Wi-Fi 7 mesh set offers amazing speeds and coverage, although its smartphone software needs some work.
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AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D just plummeted to its lowest price ever

At just £208.52, this 6-core gaming CPU with 3D V-cache is now a great deal. It's a shame we can't say the same for the DDR5 RAM you'll need for it.
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