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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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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti price tumbles to just £279.99 in this MSI GPU deal

Save £70 on the launch price of an MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Ventus 2X OC 8GB graphics card, thanks to this Amazon GPU deal.
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MSI just unveiled a load of new QD-OLED and Mini-LED gaming monitors, with some killer specs

MSI's latest monitor lineup includes 5K Mini-LED and IPS screens, a triple-mode QD-OLED panel, some pretty infinity mirrors, and a bunch of AI features.
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I love the new Xbox logo, Microsoft – now can we bring Aero back to Windows too?

Flat logos and bland colour schemes are finally out of vogue, and it's about time. Now let's make Windows look fancy again, argues Ben Hardwidge.
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This 27in AOC 180Hz gaming monitor now costs just £89.99, its lowest ever price

The AOC Gaming 27G4XED offers Nvidia G-Sync compatibility, as well as a Fast IPS panel with a 180Hz refresh rate, and it's a bargain at this price.
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be quiet! Dark Rock 6 review: stealthy looks and sound

This CPU cooler has a nifty, subtle design, hiding its heatsink and fan from the top view, and it's exceptionally quiet as well.
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Several Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs just dropped below MSRP in the UK, if you’re quick

Grab an RTX 5060 Ti for £299 if you're in the UK, along with several other cut-price GPU deals, starting from £218.99
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be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 review: top-quality air cooler design

This classy CPU cooler has no trouble cooling an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, even at low fan speeds, and its build quality is excellent too.
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We’re using the wrong aspect ratio – why we need to bring back 16:10 monitors

16:9 might offer a good compromise between 4:3 and 2.35:1 for TVs, but it makes no sense as the standard for desktop PC monitors.
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We unboxed MSI’s Mandalorian and Grogu RTX 5080 graphics card, and it looks fab

Grogu does a fine job of holding up this Star Wars Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card up close, with its classy box art and premium backplate.
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