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.
Intel Nova Lake CPUs may boast absurd amount of cores and cache to batter AMD Ryzen X3D rivals
Dual compute tiles could push the number of cores and amount of cache in Nova Lake far beyond any Intel CPU architecture before it.
MSI MAG X870E Gaming Plus Max WiFi review: refining the baseline
Providing all you could reasonably want from an AM5 motherboard, the MAG X870E Gaming Plus Max WiFi is a winner in terms of features and design.
Intel’s answer to AMD X3D may only feature on a few select Nova Lake CPUs
Intel bLLC could be the silver bullet to combat AMD 3D V-Cache, but not every Nova Lake CPU is likely to benefit from the feature.
This Intel Panther Lake benchmark should have AMD worried
Intel's Core Ultra 9 386H rubs shoulders with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395, trading blows in single-core and multi-core benchmarks.
AMD GPU prices will increase by “at least 10%” if this rumour holds true
Rising DRAM costs may have consequences for Radeon pricing, but AMD is unlikely to be the only manufacturer to raising GPU costs.
You can now juice up an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 all the way to 800W, but at your own peril
Not content to run a GPU with just
600W, intrepid modders are using the ROG Matrix Platinum BIOS for some extra juice.
NZXT F360X review: a classy, convenient, and cool set of fans
An excellent choice for cases and radiators alike, the NZXT F360X is a cool set of fans in every sense of the phrase.
Valve, don’t miss this open goal, please launch a barebones Steam Machine
As the final Steam Machine price hangs in the balance, it's clear to me that Valve should put together barebones stock.