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.

In recent years, there has been a changing of the guard in display technology. LCD & plasma screens have replaced the century-old Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), bringing us large-yet-thin displays used ...

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 ...

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 ...

As you can see, there's a fair amount of variation between the highest and lowest presets. This is indicative of how scalable the Frostbite 3 engine is, something that should allow it to run on ...

It’s not been fun being green for the last ten months or so – ATI has been dominant in the DX11 fight, with Nvidia late with its first next-gen GPUs. Worse still, when these did arrive, they were hot, ...

Ryan Leng is an independent technology consultant and auditor for corporations in computer systems involving hardware, software, networking, security, IT policy formulation and training. Originally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you’ve seen the might of the GeForce GTX 480 and the majesty of the GTX 460, it might be hard to get too excited about a follow-up card costing around £110 (guestimated). However, the Steam ...

UK price (as reviewed): MSRP £139.99 (inc VAT) (reference cards) US price (as reviewed): MSRP $179 (ex Tax) (reference cards) The £140 R9 270 is billed by AMD as the best GPU at the 150W power point ...