Samuel Willetts
With a mouse in hand from the age of four, Sam brings two-decades-plus of passion for PCs and tech in his duties as Hardware Editor for Club386. Equipped with an English & Creative Writing degree, waxing lyrical about everything from processors to power supplies comes second nature.
AMD suddenly skips game optimisations on Radeon RX 6000 & 5000 Series graphics cards
New drivers are arriving for the older graphics cards, but AMD is curiously saving game optimisations for newer products.
Sapphire Edge AI 340 review: the time for mini PCs is now
Small and capable, Sapphire Edge AI 340 provides the chops necessary to face the new era of inference at a relatively inexpensive price.
Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua OC Edition review: silence is brown and beige
Asus and Noctua put the cooling capabilities of NF-A12x25 G2 fans to great use in this RTX 5080 but the card will cost you a pretty penny.
Boost your storage with a WD_Black SN8100 1TB SSD at its lowest ever price
Few drives can are on equal footing with WD_Black SN8100 1TB in terms of speed, but fewer still can beat the SSD's current price too.
Battlefield 6 anti-cheat isn’t playing nice with core parking on AMD Ryzen CPUs
The extent to which EA Javelin is impeding performance on Ryzen CPUs is unknowable but this issue deserves a fix.
Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite X3D review: Turbo Mode 2.0 put through the wringer
Gigabyte's claims of up to 25% more gaming performance are tantalising, but Turbo Mode 2.0 isn't quite the one-click improvement it's made out to be.
Prime subscribers can now nab an Nvidia RTX 5070 for just under $500
There's never been a better time to pick up an RTX 5070 and the card's current price makes it difficult to ignore.
Intel Panther Lake shows promising Xe3 iGPU performance uplift in early benchmark
Architectural improvements in tandem with more Xe cores are giving Intel Panther Lake SoCs considerably more graphics horsepower.