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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Down to just $150, is this a deal that's just too good to ignore?

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Deals The only obvious downside is the silly 'Battle Bundle' name.

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News DDR5 hits 8,704MT/s using liquid nitrogen. Begun, the DDR5 OC wars have...

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Deals Dell is already pushing hard on some great monitor deals.

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News Or you could stick with the red team and go for the Aurora R14 instead.

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News Intel's Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs will be every bit as chunky as we'd hoped.

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News The supply chain shortage strikes once again. This time it's bumped the price of the wonderful Raspberry Pi.

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News According to an MSI blog post, expect to pay big for Alder Lake memory.

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News RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3060 currently only turn on the display once Windows loads if you're using DisplayPort.

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News It may not be practical but it's still impressive.

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News Not only can you bypass the system requirements for Windows 11 but you can shrink the whole install too.

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News The latest SSD manufacturer to jump onboard the Phison E18 train.

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News GeForce GTX 600 and 700 cards no longer get major driver updates.

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News Samsung's fastest SSD just got a lot more tempting for the console owners.

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News Rumours build for a swathe of new 30-series GPUs.

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News You'll also be able to bring across your CPU cooler.

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News Slapping way more cache on existing chips gives an average uplift of 15%.

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News That's not great news for manufacturers, but not bad news for us gamers.

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News Though Raja admits "I'm not going to say I have enough supply in this high-demand market."

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News If Ryzen 7000 is happening, HP almost certainly has no idea.

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News The new beta release of Rufus takes the hard work out of ISO burning.

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News The new power connector can deliver up to 600W for high-end GPUs.

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News Now you can move the taskbar to the side again.
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