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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lian Li is a company with a proven history in case design, but one that I was unfamiliar with until around nine months ago. The company has a history of creating stylish, lightweight aluminium cases ...

This year has been an interesting year for PC gaming and if you’ve been reading the site over the past few days, you will have already seen that we’ve published the top ten PC games of the year, as ...

I’m sure you’ll be pleased to hear that sound cards have started getting interesting again after years of a boring one horse race. It wasn’t too long ago when ...

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 ...