Alan has been writing about PC tech since before 3D graphics cards existed, and still vividly recalls having to fight with MS-DOS just to get games to load. He fondly remembers the killer combo of a Matrox Millenium and 3dfx Voodoo, and seeing Lara Croft in 3D for the first time. He's very glad hardware has advanced as much as it has though, and is particularly happy when putting the latest M.2 NVMe SSDs, AMD processors, and laptops through their paces. He has a long-lasting Magic: The Gathering obsession but limits this to MTG Arena these days.
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Big Dragon Energy Ride the dragon with these killer MSI gaming laptop deals.

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Review The CPU focus will appeal to a niche but gamers would benefit more from a better GPU.

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Review Lego for adults… and there's nothing wrong with adults playing with Lego either.

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Review A good spec and build produce a good gaming PC.

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Deals Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5? 15.6-inch or 17.3-inch? The choice is yours.

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News Up to 7,300MB/s, predictive loading, minimized latency, and adaptive thermals promise perfection.

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News The WD_Black SN750 SE is a long way off the performance of the SN850.

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News Shame it isn't really 8K.

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News Dedicated PC VR isn't giving up the fight just yet.

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News "Together we advance_gaming" is my new catchphrase.

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News Benchmarks show Apple may have been over-eager with the M1 Ultra's performance.

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News It's also announced Trident Z5 DDR5-7800 kits are on the way.

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News Another reason gamers may want to look lower down AMD's CPU stack.

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News If you've been eyeing up a RAM or SSD upgrade, you may want to act now.

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News Not long to go until we find out if this is going to be a three-horse race.

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News The Acer Predator BiFrost certainly catches the eye.

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News Lara's better off ignoring the fancy new thing and sticking to basics.

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News Death Stranding: Director's Cut also gets some upscaling love from Intel.

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News Standard DLSS isn't going anywhere.

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News Night City sure does look pretty though.

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News Just when AMD and Intel thought they had a chance.

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Mined games Despite what you might think, the market is still too tricksy to upgrade.

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Bendy hands-on Hands-on with Corsair's bendy Xeneon Flex OLED monitor.
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