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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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Corsair has slashed £50 off the price of this aquarium RGB PC case, now just £69, if you’re quick

Grab a great-looking Corsair 3500X RS-R ARGB with two tempered glass panels for just £69 in this PC case deal, which expires on 30 April.
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It’s official: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU now has 12GB of VRAM, and it’s about time

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 mobile GPU won't be languishing with just 8GB of memory any more, as 12GB model gets officially confirmed.
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Valve confirms why Steam Controller is out before Steam Machine – it “doesn’t have RAM in it”

Valve has just explained the key reason why it's already launched the Steam Controller, but there's still no sign of its Steam Machine, despite...
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Deal of the day: Save $90 on a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT, and use your old DDR4 RAM with it

At $259.99, this 16-core AMD Zen 3 CPU offers a great drop-in upgrade for owners of AM4 systems, especially when RAM prices are so high.
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This fake Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 looks scarily convincing, with laser-engraved chip numbers

There's some frightening attention to detail here, with a dead Ampere GPU being skimmed and re-engraved with an RTX 4090 model number.
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Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft

Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, and menus in 1981.
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Forget the Dual Edition, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D price just dropped by $125

In this CPU deal, Amazon has slashed 18% off the price of AMD's 16-core Zen 5 chip with 3D V-Cache, giving you the best of work and play in one processor.
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Deal of the day: Grab a 144Hz AOC gaming monitor for just $79.99, complete with Nvidia G-Sync

With its 144Hz refresh rate and 1920x1080 resolution, this is a great upgrade from a 60Hz screen, or if you just want a decent second display.
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Three premium PC builds with killer specs – meet the latest Club386 test rigs

We've built three test rigs with the latest kit, which we'll be using in Club386 reviews. Find out which parts we picked and why, plus how they perform.
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