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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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Arctic Freezer 36-S review: a great CPU cooler for an astoundingly low price

Despite costing just £17.89, this budget-friendly heatsink and fan can happily cool a 105W CPU, and it barely makes any noise in the process.
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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is selling like hotcakes, despite $349 price tag

AMD's flagship Socket AM4 gaming CPU storms the Amazon chart, outselling the 7800X3D, 9950X3D, and 9850X3D, thanks to its DDR4 support.
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AMD FSR multi frame gen settings appear in the wild

Radeon Tuner provides access to several multi frame gen features named in the latest AMD GPU drivers, although the 8x MFG mode is just a placeholder.
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Lenovo Legion Go S just nosedived to its lowest ever price, now 37% less than a Steam Deck

Lenovo's device is going for just £404.10 in this gaming handheld deal, including 1TB of storage space, and it runs SteamOS rather than Windows.
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No, Nvidia isn’t launching a GeForce RTX 5090 SE with this ‘leaked’ spec

A rumour about an apparently incoming Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 SE GPU looks incredibly suspicious to us, ringing several AI alarm bells.
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MSI MEG CoreLiquid E15 360 review: bright lights, big screen

Sporting a massive AMOLED screen, and some ingenious design ideas, this fancy 360mm AIO cooler is built to wow, although it costs a pretty penny.
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Best DDR4 CPU and motherboard guide: upgrade your PC, use old RAM, avoid silly DDR5 prices

From the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D to the Intel Core i5-14600K, here are some decent PC upgrades you can use with your old DDR4 memory.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is more popular than 5060, as PC gamers demand more GPU power

Nvidia's mid-range GPU grabs the #4 spot in the Steam Hardware Survey, suggesting PC gamers now want more than 8GB of VRAM when they upgrade.
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10 graphics cards that changed PC gaming forever

PC gaming has undergone several graphical quantum leaps in its rich history, thanks to 3dfx, Nvidia, AMD, and even IBM. Here are the big ones.
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