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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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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.
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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.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told me how AI will dominate PC gaming graphics, and why big jumps in shader power are over

Don't expect Nvidia GeForce RTX 6090 to have loads more rendering power than 5090 - Jensen Huang says neural rendering is the future.
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Intel is making a new gaming handheld chip, and ‘exploring other avenues’ for it beyond Windows

New Intel Panther Lake handheld chip is coming soon, with potential for amazing GPU performance.
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This five-year-old AMD Ryzen CPU now outsells 9800X3D in UK, as RAM prices bite

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is now Amazon UK's best-selling CPU, as people look to CPU upgrades that don't require DDR5 RAM.
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Save a massive 40% on this 256GB Samsung microSD Express card, perfect for Nintendo Switch 2

Grab a 256GB Samsung P9 microSD Express card for just $32.99 in this limited-time Amazon deal, if you're quick.
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Gamers desert Intel in droves, as Steam share plummets from 81% to 55.6% in just five years

Following Raptor Lake's infamous stability issues, and Arrow Lake's underwhelming gaming pace, gamers are turning to AMD instead.
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Best PC hardware components of 2025

Based on our expert analysis and tests, here are the best PC components and accessories in 2025, from GPUs and CPUs to SSDs and monitors.
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Corsair modular PSUs are astoundingly cheap on Amazon right now, but you need to be really quick

You can get a Corsair RM750e PC PSU for just £75 right now, and an RM1000e for £109.99, but these deals will expire on New Year's Day.
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