There is a market for systems that offer workstation power at a reasonable cost, without relying on a multi-processor platform. Compaq's new Deskpro Workstation 300 is aimed directly at this market. Powered by a 1.4GHz Pentium ...

IBM's NetVista range of PCs is available in a variety of flavours, with different displays, processors, software and other components. The one we looked at, the A40, is aimed at the SME (small- to medium-sized enterprise) ...

Nothing serves so well to illustrate the progress AMD has made against its arch-rival Intel than something like the NEC Direction SM-1200A+. One of the first of its kind, the Direction features the new double data ...

Null points for the name, which is as cheesy as they come, and conjures up images of 1980s arcade games. But this system from Best Price has a lot going for it; don't judge a PC ...

The Mesh Matrix is one of those PCs built for users who are going to push their machines hard. The emphasis is on speed, so the spec is full of big numbers, kicking off with the ...

£800 can now buy you a very respectable general purpose home and office PC. This HomePro system from Viglen has a lot going for it, though out and out performance isn't top of the list. The ...

Tiny's Entertainment Performance system offers a lot for not too great an outlay. The system is built around an 800MHz Pentium III processor with 128MB of fast 133MHz memory and a substantial 28.6GB hard drive. In ...

One thing you notice about machines in this price band is the common design in so many of them. Viglen's is another machine based around a MicroATX system board using an Intel 810 chipset. This means ...

Simply has made some moves to distinguish its machine from the mainstream of PCs in this price bracket. It starts with a 10-speed DVD-ROM drive, rather than a CD, and includes an LS120 Superdisk in place ...

NEC has been selling PCs direct for a couple of years now and its buying power has a big effect on the value it can build into its systems. The most obvious sign of this on ...

Hi-Grade has put together a PC with a bit more performance potential than some others here. It has a Celeron processor running at a comparatively quick 600MHz as its power source and backs it up with ...

Carrera has spent the budget on this machine in the places where it counts. So, for instance, there's a 17-inch Hansol monitor attached to it, which gives a sharp, well-defined picture on its near-flat face. The ...

This machine is an odd mix of good and not quite so good. It starts well, with a midi tower case which has plenty of room for expansion and contains a Pentium III 550, which gives ...

Imagine a compact, all-in-one desktop system, democratically priced and with the accent on ease of use and general convenience; a computer for the millennium, a computer for anyone to use. You could be forgiven for thinking ...

You've got to hand it to Mesh - they know how to package a PC. I don't just mean sturdy boxes, I mean the little touches, like including an A2-sized leaflet on exactly how to set ...

Now this is a machine with a lot of power under the bonnet. It's based on a rather nippy 800Mhz AMD Athlon chip (not that you'd have guessed that from the name), and this is backed ...

Evesham.com (formerly Evesham Micros) is a heavy supporter of AMD and its Athlon range of processors and the chip is now cheap enough to be built into some quite inexpensive PCs. The cunning name of the ...

Unless we're completely missing the point, and we're quite sure that we're not, the Toshiba Equium 2000 is possibly the most pointless desktop PC we've ever seen. To get straight to the point (or lack of ...

NEC Direct is just what it says, the direct sales arm of the giant NEC corporation, owner of NEC Packard Bell, among others. This neat little midi tower system shows what you can do as a ...

If you still can't get enough speed out of your PC, or want to be the first on your street with a 1GHz machine, you need look no further than Kryotech's Super-G. This is a PC ...