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 ...

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 ...

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.

We were mighty impressed when we took a look at Corsair's new all-in-one cooler, the H80i, last week. It upgraded the original H80 in both design and performance for just a fiver more. With us today ...

After spending time today talking in depth to a couple of MSI's P45 engineers and considerably more to Tony Leach from OCZ Technology, who spends a lot of time QAing BIOSes for companies like Asus, ...

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.

To recall, the R9 290 uses AMD's Hawaii GPU with four Compute Units disabled. Compared to the R9 290X, it thus features reduced counts of stream processors (2,560) and texture units (160) but ...

The Abit AB9 QuadGT was a very popular board if word through the tubes is to be believed. Stemming on from this P965 success, Abit has made the IP35 Pro with many elements of the QuadGT in mind. Gone ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've been a gamer and computer user since the age of four and I've been through a fair few different types of speakers in the game between then and now. Surround sound, wireless, 2.0, 2.1, I've done ...

In our recent visit to Lian Li we first saw its PC-Q11 in the early sample stages and in the more expensive UV-white coating. Since the company runs cases off in batches, after its first retail ...