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.
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Noctua explains why its chromax.black fans always take longer to arrive

The process of launching Noctua chromax.black fans is more than a simple paint job, with the design requiring months of testing.
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Intel Arc G3 Extreme handheld chip thrashes AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme by 25% in leaked benchmark

Leak suggests Intel Panther Lake handheld chips will have a multi-core advantage over rival AMD CPUs, and a faster GPU too.
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Gigabyte MO27Q28G review: a glorious Tandem OLED gaming monitor

With class-leading peak brightness and great colour performance, the MO27Q28G is a brilliant showcase of Tandem OLED tech.
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This Steam Deck update brings loads of improvements I’ve wanted since launch

Chatting on the Steam Deck just became far more convenient, but that's not the only quality-of-life change this update has to offer.
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Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT PhantomLink Edition review: swapping cables for connectors

The Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT shines all the brighter with its new polar paint job and GC-HPWR connector but this sheen costs a pretty penny.
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The Blood of Dawnwalker system requirements demand an RTX 5090 for native 4K Ultra settings

This RPG from ex-Witcher developers looks set to push your GPU and CPU hard, with an AMD Ryzen 7950X and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 required for the top spec.
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Valve is “hard at work” on Steam Deck 2, learning from Steam Machine and more

Valve is making progress on Steam Deck 2, and points to progress from the original Steam Controller to today's Valve devices, to set expectations.
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Sapphire Nitro+ X870EA PhantomLink Edition review: a stylish, cable-shifting motherboard

GC-HPWR is undeniably cool, but the Nitro+ X870EA PhantomLink Edition remains a good motherboard in its own right too.
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Intel cancelled Arc Celestial GPUs “long ago” and Druid successor is unclear, leaker claims

The Xe3P architecture will apparently live on across mobile and data centre, but Intel reportedly has no plans to launch gaming GPUs with it.
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