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The best gaming mice for UK buyers in 2026, from the £32 Corsair Katar Pro XT to Razer's 56g DeathAdder V4 Pro, based on Tom's Hardware's testing and prices on 13 November 2026.
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Two 1440p gaming PC builds for about £1,500 at 13 November 2026 prices: an upgradeable AM5 system with an RX 9070, and an AM4 alternative with an RX 9070 XT and 32GB.
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The best 27-inch 1440p gaming monitors for UK buyers, from a £279 Mini LED screen to a 480Hz OLED, based on independent reviews and prices checked on 13 November 2026.
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You don't need to spend much to cool a modern CPU. Our picks, from an £18 air tower to Arctic's 360mm AIO, draw on Tom's Hardware's testing and UK prices on 12 November 2026.
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Running AI chatbots on your own PC depends on video memory more than speed. We pick the best-value 16GB and 32GB graphics cards for local LLMs at UK prices on 12 November 2026.
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B850 is the sweet spot for most AM5 builds. We explain the chipsets and pick boards from £90 to £310 using TechSpot's 47-board roundup, plus the ASRock X3D caveat.
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For gaming, any decent NVMe SSD loads games almost as fast as a PCIe 5.0 drive. We pick the best-value PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 drives at UK prices on 12 November 2026.
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Under £1,200, our pick spends on a 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT rather than DDR5, at about £1,128. We compare it with an AM5 build and an RX 9070 stretch build at 12 November 2026 prices.
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At 12 November 2026 prices, £800 buys a capable 1080p gaming PC only on AM4 with DDR4. Our build pairs a Ryzen 5 5500F with an Arc B570 for about £792, with safer and faster alternatives.
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Current-generation graphics cards are easy to shortlist and hard to pay a fair price for. Here is how we would spend UK money in mid-November 2026, from 1080p upgrades to 4K, without pretending the market is normal.
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AMD still leads for gaming, Intel is competitive for heavy multi-threaded work, and the memory market has changed what an upgrade should cost. Here is how we would pick a processor in the UK in mid-November 2026.
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