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The G0 stepping of the Core 2 Quad Q6600 is awesome. The sSpec code to look for is SLACR - surely not a coincidence given that Intel is an American...
Given the succes of its GeForce 8800-series desktop graphics cards, all eyes have been on Nvidia to release an equivalent mobile card that can play DirectX 10 games at decent...
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Scan has been submitting systems to our annual Dream PC Labs test for longer than any other company that took part this year. Over the years, Scan's entries have sported heat-reactive paint,...
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Building your own PVR has its joys, but they usually centre on activities that take place when everything is up and running. Installing and configuring Windows XP Media Center Edition...
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With Christmas approaching, manufacturers are frantically churning out their merchandise. New products range from silly stocking-fillers to huge items that won't even fit under the tree. The new GeForce 8800...
Nvidia's GeForce 8800 graphics card range is almost indecipherable at the moment. The confusion is caused mostly by the outgoing 320MB and 640MB GeForce 8800 GTS cards still cluttering up...
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Samsung is generally a little behind the curve when it comes to launching new, high-capacity drives, but its latest models are usually well worth the wait, due to their high...
Samsung is one of the largest DRAM and flash memory manufacturers in the world, but it's taken a long time for the company to get its own branded flash drive...
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The GeForce 8800 GTX wasn't only the first GPU for PC graphics cards that supported DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4, it was also the first to introduce the idea...
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The original models of the GeForce 8-series were so successful for Nvidia that it didn't need to release any new GPUs for almost a year. However, as ATI has finally...
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A case can make the difference between a reasonable PC and a good one. On the one hand, a case is just a box to put your PC's bits in....
You'd expect a budget PC case that costs less than £30 to be some kind of ugly metal or plastic box that's only slightly preferable to heaping all your prized...
When it comes to midi-tower cases for the air-cooling masses, Antec is king. When it produced the P160, and later, when it refined the design with its CPC Labs-winning P180,...
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The current sweet spot of TFT monitors is in the 22in sector, with anything larger becoming significantly more expensive, and anything smaller costing almost the same. However, 22in TFTs are...
Although a true 500W PSU will provide enough power for high-end PCs, if you're planning on building a really high-end system with multiple graphics cards and lots of disk drives...
Modern motherboard audio is so good that many people don't bother with a dedicated sound card. In an effort to keep the sound card market healthy, Creative is sprucing up...
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Raw power and stunning performance; you expect them from your PC, your monitor and even your mouse, so why not from your speakers? Sadly, while some big claims are made...
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Zalman's new GPU HSF, the VF900-Cu, retains the large, all-copper flower design of its predecessor, the VF700, although the fins have now been stretched to accommodate an 80mm fan. The...
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Despite the huge popularity of overclocking, water cooling has taken a back seat to the humble HSF in recent years. A £30 Tunic Tower 120 can keep a heavily overvolted...
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The Infinity is a development of the superlative Scythe Ninja, the only heatsink on the market that's able to passively cool an overclocked and overvolted Athlon 64. However, while the...
While it's becoming increasingly pointless to water cool an Athlon 64, we never thought we'd say the same thing about cooling an overclocked and overvolted Pentium 4. However, the latest Arctic...
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Wanting to overclock your CPU as far as possible doesn't necessarily mean that you need memory that sounds like an American wrestler (ahem, OCZ), and is accompanied by heatsinks that...
OCZ currently produces several different series of high-speed DDR2 modules, which are differentiated by their speeds, latency timings and cooling systems. Sitting near the top of this list, the Reaper HPC...
Crucial currently produces two ranges of DDR2 modules: its standard modules, which don't have a series name, just a part number, and the Ballistix range of high-performance RAM. As a member...
Motherboard names often appear to be just strings of arbitrary code, so to see a motherboard called simply 'Crosshair' makes a refreshing change. We still can't shake off the feeling...
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The P5K Premium WiFi-AP resides near the top of the P5K-series, Asus' all-encompassing range of Intel P35-based motherboards. The P5K Premium WiFi-AP may be a top-tier motherboard but, as it supports...
Of the two current ranges of Antec PSUs, only the lower-wattage Neo HE series has modular cables, while the TruePower Trios soldier on with captive (and unbraided) cables. ...
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In a category that contains units ranging from 20in to 22in, you might expect us to recommend a screen at the top end of the size spectrum. However, while bigger...
Dell's original 2407WFP was legendary, as indeed was the 2405WFP before it. These TFTs made high-resolution widescreens much more affordable for the masses, and set the yardstick by which other...