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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 5 9600X crashes to bargain price in this limited-time CPU deal

Get six cores of AMD Zen 5 goodness for just £139.99 in this Amazon UK CPU deal, if you're quick. Great for building a budget gaming PC.
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The 3dfx Voodoo story: as the legendary graphics card tech turns 30, we talk to cofounder Ross Smith

We chat to Ross Smith about how 3dfx started, where the Voodoo name came from, why Diamond Multimedia laughed at them, and loads more.
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Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus plummet to lowest ever prices in this CPU Prime deal

You have until 7 October 2026 to take advantage of this Arrow Lake Refresh CPU deal, with the 18-core Core Ultra 5 250K Plus now going for just £178.49 in the UK.
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Intel Nova Lake CPUs with massive AMD X3D-style cache will launch first, says leaker

Chips with bLLC, such as the rumoured Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC and 4870K BFC, will apparently be the "earliest launched" CPUs in the Nova Lake lineup.
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10GbE is the bomb: why it’s time to finally replace your ageing Gigabit network

We try out a full 10GbE network, courtesy of a QNAP switch, NAS, and network card, and the performance is game changing.
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Intel Core Ultra 4000 Nova Lake CPU specs and model names just leaked

It looks as though three models with Intel's bLLC tech are coming, with the top-end model apparently called the Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC.
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Intel Nova Lake release on horizon, as platform passes USB and PCIe compliance tests

Several device IDs associated with Intel's new Nova Lake CPUs, and their 900-series chipsets, pass compliance testing, suggesting a launch is looming.
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Nvidia forced EVGA to make a loss on most popular GeForce RTX graphics cards, says former manager

Brendon Ray Hedrick, who used to be a manager at EVGA, says the RTX 20 starting price cards were loss leaders "to keep Nvidia happy."
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The Witcher 3 Remastered path tracing benchmarks show even an RTX 5090 can’t get beyond 62fps at 1080p

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 are neck-and-neck, even at 1920x1080, and the new advanced graphics mode doesn't look that great either.
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