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.

When you’ve seen the might of the GeForce GTX 480 and the majesty of the GTX 460, it might be hard to get too excited about a follow-up card costing around £110 (guestimated). However, the Steam ...

Today marks the launch of Intel's new 9-Series chipsets, specifically Z97 and H97, which are the upgrades to Z87 and H87 respectively. There are only a few key new features to speak of, as the ...

As you can see, there's a fair amount of variation between the highest and lowest presets. This is indicative of how scalable the Frostbite 3 engine is, something that should allow it to run on ...

UK price (as reviewed): MSRP £139.99 (inc VAT) (reference cards) US price (as reviewed): MSRP $179 (ex Tax) (reference cards) The £140 R9 270 is billed by AMD as the best GPU at the 150W power point ...

Gigabyte is just one of Nvidia's many board partners, of course, but it has a number of GTX 1060 3GB cards to its name. The one we have in, the WindForce OC, appears to have a decent value proposition ...

Liquid-cooling has come a long way in recent years, both in terms of what's on offer from all-in-one (AIO) liquid coolers and off-the-shelf components for building custom loops. In general they're ...

MSI has been in the PC component business as long as we can remember, and although it’s been making motherboards since being formed in 1986 and graphics cards since 1997, it’s still a relative ...

We were surprised to learn that the Kingston HyperX Cloud, at around £65, is about £15 cheaper than the Qpad QH-90. This did leave us briefly wondering what Kingston's margins are like on the headset, ...

If anything, AMD's AM4 platform brings a huge amount of choice to the consumer. Not only is every CPU overclockable, which makes for some very interesting choices and sweet spots, but there are two ...

Active air cooling is the bread and butter of PC cooling and it can be found in action on everything from the most lowly net top, to insane top-of-the-range gaming monsters. It’s amazing then that ...

Most people aren’t bothered about milliseconds - you’re average commuter won’t notice if his train is 40, 100 or even 225 milliseconds late. Gamers on the other hand are a little fussier; in the ...