Samuel Willetts - Page 2

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.

Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction tested: a free ray tracing upgrade for GeForce RTX GPUs

The swap to a transformer model greatly elevates DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction's quality over prior versions, with little performance impact.

Gigabyte readies its first 24.5in OLED gaming monitor, as well as more-affordable 4K options

The GO25F54G will mark the first 24.5in OLED gaming monitor from Gigabyte, and the brightest Tandem WOLED we've seen from the firm to date.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D performs amazingly in ancient X370 motherboard, but there’s a catch

Swapping chipsets from X370 to X570 won't always boost your AM4 system's frame rates, but the bigger picture with newer SSDs and GPUs is more nuanced.

Microsoft says RGB is responsible for recent Windows 11 and game crashes

LED software could be causing system instabilities in Windows 11, and crashing games, including Arc Raiders, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals.

PCSpecialist Apex Ultra review: a punchy 5800X3D gaming PC for a reasonable price

Featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, this PCSpecialist prebuild offers loads of gaming performance for £1,599.

LG Display develops “dream next-gen” OLED tech that can boost panel brightness by 60%

WOLED panels produced using LG Display's new FLiPP tech should be 60% brighter than existing screens, while also packing other advantages.

Intel Nova Lake power draw could approach a monstrous 300W on 28-core CPU, according to leak

In addition to offering more cores relative to current Intel Core Ultra processors, Nova Lake could mark a notable rise in power consumption too.

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus hits lowest ever price, and comes with two free games

The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is one of the best-value processors on the market, and this latest Amazon CPU deal makes it even more tempting.

Sandisk unveils new NAS SSD series, with SATA and NVMe options

Both the Sandisk NAS 800 NVMe and NAS 600 SATA series should serve you well as primary storage, or as a cache complement to your existing array.