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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Grab this 200Hz Gigabyte gaming monitor for just £75.64 if you get in quick

Now at its lowest ever price, the Gigabyte GS25F2 has a great spec for the money, including AMD FreeSync Premium and a 200Hz refresh rate.

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D leak alleges January 2026 release date

If this leak is true, we won't have long to wait for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D successor, with eight cores and 3D V-cache.

Intel admits there’s ‘a lot of work to do’ as we spot multi frame gen issue on Panther Lake

We saw some interesting visual artefacts in Assassin's Creed Shadows when testing multi frame gen on Panther Lake, and asked Intel what's going on.

I tried Nvidia G-Sync Pulsar, and it makes a huge difference to motion clarity, even in strategy games

I went hands on with Nvidia's latest tech at CES 2026, which brings ULMB and variable refresh rate into the same stable, and makes Anno 117 look amazing.

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D specs and release window – meet the new gaming CPU

AMD's new processor has eight cores and 64MB of 3D V-cache, just like 9800X3D, but it also has a significantly faster clock speed.

AMD plans to open FSR 4 upscaling to competitors, including Nvidia GPUs

AMD's new FSR Redstone tech could run on Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs, but there's still a question mark over support for older AMD Radeon graphics cards.

I just benchmarked Intel’s new Panther Lake GPU, and AMD should be worried

Intel's new Arc B390 GPU can happily run Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p, even with ray tracing, and there's support for 4x multi frame gen too.

AMD is ‘definitely looking’ at AM4 products in response to high RAM prices

Could Ryzen 7 5800X3D be about to make a return? AMD tells us that it's not off the cards.