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.

In recent years, there has been a changing of the guard in display technology. LCD & plasma screens have replaced the century-old Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), bringing us large-yet-thin displays used ...

Now that you've read the Intel Sandy Bridge review and seen how awesome the Core i5-2500K is you'll no doubt be eager to own one. With LGA1155 kit due to go on sale on Sunday 9 January, we wanted 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 ...

For better signal quality at higher speed grades, DDR3 adopts a so called “Fly-by” architecture for the commands, addresses and clock signals. This effectively reduced the number of stubs and ...

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 ...

AMD has claimed a new world record Cinebench R23 nT score with a system packing a pair of its Epyc 7763 CPUs. The 'feat' was shared on the latest episode of AMD's Bring Up vlog (9 minutes in), as ...

While the Republic of Gamer series is very popular for Asus, the original Striker Extreme is still the most popular of all sold to date, even despite its £200+ price tag at launch. The Striker II ...

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 ...

Here is a simple mod to allow the speed of any 12V fan to be varied. All we need to do is insert a rheostat or variable resistor in the 12V wire to the fan. The rheostat should be rated at least 3 ...

The humble heat pipe has for years been the backbone of aftermarket coolers for several years, serving as a more expensive, but often vastly more efficient way to cool your hardware than the block of ...