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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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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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Grab this Netgear Orbi WiFi 6 mesh system for its lowest ever price, while you still can

The price of this three-way WiFi 6 mesh set, with a router and two satellites, is now down to just $173.82.
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Intel Panther Lake is our CES 2026 winner, as Nvidia and AMD sideline PC gaming

With their Arc B390 GPUs, Intel Panther Lake CPUs provide outstanding gaming performance. AMD is going to need to up its game.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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