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.
Over a fifth of PC gamers use GPUs with no ray tracing or AI hardware, according to Steam Survey
A surprising number of gamers still use Nvidia GeForce GTX GPUs, with the GTX 1650 making the top five.
PC RAM prices are going through the roof, and they’re not coming down any time soon
RAM prices are going up, due to the huge demand for DRAM from AI data centres. Supply is now very scarce, particularly when it comes to older types of memory, such as DDR4.