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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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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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Xbox Helix and PS6 GPUs are finalised, says leaker, and the Microsoft console is 40% more powerful

If these figures are right, Xbox Helix GPU performance is roughly on par with an RTX 5080, while the PlayStation 6 sits between a Radeon RX 9070 and XT.
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Blood of Dawnwalker game director “exasperated” by players demanding 120fps frame rates

Running above 60fps is good enough for Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, director of The Witcher 3, but he promises Rebel Wolves team is still "working on it."
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What is Wi-Fi 8? As Asus launches the world’s first 802.11bn gaming router, we take a look at the tech

Asus has just made its ROG Rapture GT-BN98 series Wi-Fi 8 router available for pre-order, and we've explored what makes this latest networking tech tick.
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AMD’s new Radeon GPUs could use GDDR7 VRAM, hints driver update

AMD has released a Linux driver patch that specifically adds GDDR7 as a VRAM name for its GPUs, suggesting RDNA 5 cards may finally move beyond GDDR6.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 60 “postponed” until 2028, says tech leaker, as AI datacentres eat up all the RAM

Tech leaker kopite7kimi states that Nvidia's GR20x Rubin gaming GPUs won't see the light of day in 2027, despite recent rumours to the contrary.
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Noctua even has a camera in its roster now, and it’s designed to prove your photos aren’t AI slop

A 40mm Noctua fan sits in front of the CAIM1's sensor heatsink to keep it cool, while the camera cryptographically stamps your work to prove its origin.
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Mini-LED gaming monitor bargain – this 240Hz AOC screen just dropped to a record low price

At just $249.99 for an AOC Q27G4ZMN, this is a fantastic gaming monitor deal, bringing you a Mini-LED backlight and 240Hz refresh rate.
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