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.

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 ...

Intel's first 45nm processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX9650, launched last November and it was shortly followed with the launch of the QX9770 - a 200MHz faster, 1600MHz FSB CPU that came at an even higher ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Verdict: Superb quality case at a reasonable price. The Wave Master from Cooler Master is something of a strange animal. It is a true full blooded aluminium case with lots of sexy curves but with an ...

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 ...

It’s fascinating to look back at Dark Messiah through the lens of Dishonored. So much of what made Arkane’s magical murder sim special is built atop of foundations originally laid in this curious ...

Here is a simple mod to allow the speed of any 12V fan to be varied. All we need to do is insert a rheostat or variable resistor in the 12V wire to the fan. The rheostat should be rated at least 3 ...