Descriptions of our awards can be seen below. We no longer give products or games scores; the reasons for this are detailed in this article, but in short, we feel that scores do not really add much to ...

The subtle clue is in the name – the X means this is the PCI-Express x1 version of the Xonar D2 soundcard that we reviewed in September of last year. Since then the promised PCI-Express x1 version has ...

Going back some, the invention of the spinning metal disk and moving head was a huge innovation over old(er) school tapes, bringing down random access times and increasing density and life-spans.

We’re pretty sure that most computer enthusiasts are aware that CPUs are made from silicon. Far fewer are likely to realize exactly how much work goes into making what is effectively a wonder of the ...

After a long design and development period, a full retail version of forum-member Peter Brands' (l3p) desk PC has finally been made available for pre-order in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia.

Our Core 2 Quad Q6600 is a fairly old engineering sample with a B3 stepping and although many of you will argue that an engineering samples tend to overclock further than retail samples, our ...

As PC gamers, we tend to be as much about the good games of old as the up and coming new releases. We know that, while Crysis is all very pretty and fun, there’s a lot of nostalgic joy to be had by ...

If anything, AMD's 7nm Zen 2 architecture suits the mini-ITX form factor more than any other range of CPUs right now due to the fact that AMD is cramming so much horsepower into small places, but with ...

AMD has claimed a new world record Cinebench R23 nT score with a system packing a pair of its Epyc 7763 CPUs. The 'feat' was shared on the latest episode of AMD's Bring Up vlog (9 minutes in), as ...

As regular readers of the Hardware and CPC forums will probably have already spotted, we've been playing with a water chiller for a while, using it to reach some epic overclocks and set some new ...

Although the choice of heatsink or waterblock/radiator has a huge effect on the temperature of the components they cool, without a suitable fan blowing air over said components and fans mounted in the ...

With the launch of the GeForce GTX 295 last week, Nvidia has started to roll out its 55nm GT200b GPUs onto the market. Today the company is rolling another new graphics card – the GeForce GTX 285 – ...