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Episode 22 of the Custom PC podcast

Posted at: 7th November 2008 by Clive Webster

The latest episode of the Custom PC podcast sees James, Antony and Clive talk about Intel's brilliant new processor Core i7 and how easy it is to overclock, as well...

Intel Core i7 - all you need to know

Posted at: 3rd November 2008 by Clive Webster and James Gorbold

Custom PC takes you through everything you need to know about Intel's amazing new...

Asus EAH4870 TOP

Review Date: 24th September 2008

We currently live in a rare golden age of super-close competition in the graphics card world. The major news is that ATI is back, with its Radeon HD 4870 bashing the more expensive Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 in many tests.... Read more

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Purple 'Project Violet'

bassdominator

Posted at: 12:33am 20th November 2008

Project Violet Introduction: Started upgrading my pc just before christmas 2008, early pressies was the excuse and from there I seemed to have got the modding bug I named my rig 'Project Violet' in May when I purchaced 6x30cm UV CCFL's and 20x3mm UV led's, it seems to have spiraled from there. Rig spec : Q9450 @ 3.47 Ghz OCZ Flex XLC 2x1GB @ 1151mhz 700W OCZ Sli PSU 74GB Raptor 2x 320GB HDD's Zotac 8800GT AMP @...

khenry

Posted at: 9:09pm 19th November 2008

Whilst I wasn't as hardcore as Combatus regarding Left 4 Dead and waited until last night to give it a quick play, it's hard to imagine that after pre-ordering on Steam the economy would kill the dollar-pound exchange rate and a pre-order price war would erupt with Amazon as the winner with £19.97, or £21 if you want it first class and definitely have it arrive by the weekend. Previously...

mitzy1002000

Posted at: 7:54pm 17th November 2008

Well... taking advice from my previous blog comments, I decided to buy a Sapphire HD 3850. But I was just wondering, would my current rig be satisfactory for gaming. I'm not one who's adament to have top notch graphics and awesomly high frame rates. As long as games work, are playable and graphics are distinguishable; I'm not fussed. This is my current rig: Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 512mb DX10 CPU: Intel Pentium...

Rumour control: GeForce GTX 260 GX2 in January

Posted at: 19th November 2008

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 280 chips might be the fastest single-GPU offerings at the moment, but they’re having a tough time competing with the Radeon HD 4870... Read more