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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 on the South Downs.
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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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Ducky Cushion 98 review: an astoundingly quiet mechanical gaming keyboard

With a thick layer of cushioning silicone under its switches, the typing action on this 98% keyboard is unbelievably quiet, plus you get a numpad too.
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Noctua just teased a device that raises an alarm if your GPU power connector is going to melt

A Thermal Grizzly WireView Pro II Noctua Edition looks like it's about to launch, based on a NF-A4x10 fan, after a prototype was shown at Computex.
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Noctua is working on a project to revolutionise PC air cooling, using the magic of geometry

Noctua announces a research collaboration with Forced Physics to bring its "third path" microchannel rack-cooling tech to the desktop PC.
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Gigabyte spills the beans on its new 4K OLED monitor, with a built-in KVM and 480Hz gaming mode

With its 4th-gen Tandem WOLED Panel, KVM, and 480Hz 1080p dual-mode option, the 32in Aorus Elite FO32U24G looks great for both work and play.
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