I pitted my dream PC from 2017 against an RTX 5090 monster in 2026 in a fight to the death - here's what happened

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I was fourteen or so when I went to the Gadget Show Live (once a big tech event in the UK which showed off the latest technology) in 2016 as a punter and overheard someone on a stand I'd visited mention they'd spent £1,000 on a custom gaming PC. A thousand pounds. On a computer. I remember turning that figure…

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