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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Gaming giant id Software has extended its practice of releasing previous-generation game engines under open source licences, going right back to the founding of the company and the titles it released ...

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 ...

Most people aren’t bothered about milliseconds - you’re average commuter won’t notice if his train is 40, 100 or even 225 milliseconds late. Gamers on the other hand are a little fussier; in the ...

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 ...

1 - Introduction 2 - Board Layout 3 - Back I/O & BIOS 4 - Test Setup 5 - Subsystem Testing 6 - Photoshop, WinRAR 7 - Multimedia Encoding 8 - Gaming Platform Performance 9 - Gaming Performance 10 - ...

We're sure you've heard the hubbub about the upcoming 4K Advanced Format for hard disks, especially as it's likely every new high capacity hard disk product shipping by the end of this year will ...

There have been one or two manufacturers that have flirted with mini-ITX overclocking motherboards over the years. Prior to all the current hype, Zotac and occasionally Gigabyte were the ones you ...