Ben Hardwidge - Page 5

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.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D just dropped to its lowest ever price

With a £60 discount on its usual MSRP, Cyber Monday is a great time to pick up the finest gaming CPU out there.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum fans unite, we need to make this new Lego kit happen

A Lego ZX Spectrum kit is up on the Ideas page, and it looks great, including a Clive Sinclair minifig on a C5, as well as a TV playing Jet Set Willy.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 just dropped to its lowest ever price in this Black Friday GPU deal

With its price now 10% below MSRP, this MSI Shadow 2X Nvidia graphics card is a tempting GPU deal.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card prices are now cheaper than ever

Even the awesome Sapphire Nitro+ 9070 XT has dropped to an amazing price in this latest AMD Radeon GPU Black Friday deal.

This Acer gaming laptop costs just $579.99 for Black Friday, includes Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU

With an Intel Core i5 CPU, 165Hz screen, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU, this gaming laptop offers a surprisingly decent spec for the price.

Best PC upgrades under £100

From 144Hz gaming monitors to liquid coolers, fish tank cases, and PCIe Gen 5 SSDs, there's loads of great PC gear that won't cost the earth.

At $399, this AOC OLED gaming monitor Black Friday deal is outstanding

Now at its lowest ever price, the AOC Gaming Q27G4ZD gives you a QD-OLED panel with a 240Hz refresh rate, and 2560x1440 resolution.

The top 10 PC CPUs of all time

From Intel 386 chips in the 1980s to AMD Ryzen processors today, our CPU top 10 charts the chips that have really stood out on the PC.

Here’s why your next gaming monitor should be dual-mode

A dual-frame monitor gives you the best of both worlds at native resolution, with a fast refresh rate for gaming and a high resolution for work.