It seems such a long time since AMD had anything to truly match Intel's mainstream processors, but with the recent 45nm Phenom II X3 and X4 processor launches, AMD has at last been able to give ...

Cyberpower has a name for making fast, overclocked, high-end and, it must be said, expensive gaming systems, many using exotic features like watercooling. But here's a gaming system at the other end of the spectrum: the ...

The last Sony all-in-one we looked at, the VAIO VGC-JS1E, nodded its head in the direction of Apple when it came to styling. Not so its bigger - much bigger - brother, the VGC-RT2SY, which, it ...

Here's a rare beast: an overclocked gaming system that doesn't use an Intel processor but instead uses a watercooled AMD one. But don't let that put you off, as YOYOTech's Water Dragon 940 is a capable, ...

Intel's Core i7 920 may be the slowest of the trio of new processors that the company launched late in 2008, but it has a neat trick up its sleeve. It's highly overclockable, able to reach ...

After creating a whole new notebook concept with the netbook, Asus turned its attention to creating an all-in-one desktop PC - or as the company called, it a net top - based on netbook technology. Hey ...

Intel's latest Core i7 range of CPUs offers plenty of performance straight out of the box, never mind about overclocking. However, the one thing they do excel at is being tweaked to run faster than standard ...

The all-in-one PC is a strange beast. The concept is sound enough - build everything into the back of a TFT monitor so you don't have a big, ugly box to find a home for - ...

The Vortex from PC Specialist is the first machine we have seen that uses Intel's new Core i7 processor architecture and its accompanying X58 chipset technology. Although you may baulk at the price of the review ...

Following its success with the Eee PC, where it virtually founded a new class of sub-notebooks on its own, Asus has decided to try to do the same for the desktop, with the Eee Box (why ...

As the price of digital cameras and HD camcorders continues to fall, many people are now using their home PCs to do video and photo editing - or rather trying to. There is nothing more frustrating ...

It may not be the first name that springs to mind when shopping for a desktop PC, but the NEC PowerMate range has a lot to offer. Particularly the new ML470, a professional looking business desktop ...

Mention the word ‘Alienware' to any hardened PC gamer and inevitably a strange change comes over their battle-hardened features: a misty longing appears in their eyes, their jaw starts a slow drop to the floor and ...

Here's a neat trick. In addition to being “ultra-slim”, the latest member of the HP Compaq dc7800 family can be made to almost disappear. OK, maybe not, but it can be made to take up hardly ...

PC Specialist is a Yorkshire-based company that specialises in custom built personal computers. We say Yorkshire-based, but really the organisation is Internet-based with no retail premises. The theory is this keeps overheads down, and using hefty ...

With many other companies now seizing the small form factor initiative, times have been a bit tougher for Shuttle of late. But its latest release, the SG33G6 Deluxe Barebone PC, shows why its products remain held ...

Here is a health warning - under no circumstances should you attempt to remove Evesham's Cosmos Gaming PC from its packaging without the assistance of at least two sturdy friends. Fortunately the space-age, ultra-sexy, silver, Cooler ...

If you were looking to buy an overclocked, liquid-cooled, fire-breathing gaming system, whose name badge would you expect to see on it? Very few would opt for Dell, but that's exactly what Dell's flagship XPS 720 ...

When Intel launched its quad core processors they were aimed at the enthusiast, costing so much money that the rest of us mere mortals could only look on and sigh. But thanks to some frankly insane ...

The m8070 is a stylish addition to HP's Pavilion Media Center range of PCs and features a quad core processor, 2GB of memory, plenty of storage for your media files and Vista Home Premium, all housed ...