Ben Hardwidge - Page 7

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.

Apple MacBook Air 13 2025 just dropped to $749.99, its lowest ever price

You can save a massive 25% off the price of a brand new Apple MacBook Air 2025 right now, complete with an M4 CPU.

UK gamers – save a huge £450 on this 4K MSI OLED monitor, if you’re quick

With a 240Hz refresh rate, G-Sync compatibility, and super-fast response times, the MSI MPG 272URX is a bargain of a monitor right now.

A call to PC case manufacturers – bring back 5.25in drive bays

Drive bays aren't just about installing optical drives, but also expanding your PC with new ports and features.

Razer just slashed $900 off its gorgeous Blade 14 gaming laptop – grab one while you can

With prices now starting from just $1,599.99, Razer's premium gaming laptop suddenly looks a whole lot more tempting.

Over a fifth of PC gamers use GPUs with no ray tracing or AI hardware, according to Steam Survey

A surprising number of gamers still use Nvidia GeForce GTX GPUs, with the GTX 1650 making the top five.

PC RAM prices are going through the roof, and they’re not coming down any time soon

RAM prices are going up, due to the huge demand for DRAM from AI data centres. Supply is now very scarce, particularly when it comes to older types of memory, such as DDR4.