Descriptions of our awards can be seen below. We no longer give products or games scores; the reasons for this are detailed in this article, but in short, we feel that scores do not really add much to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

1 - Introduction 2 - CRT components 3 - LCD technology 4 - Refresh and response 5 - LCD disassembly 6 - LCD disassembly 2 7 - The Future Next We all spend an awful lot of time sat in front of ...

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 ...

We don't hold it against Creative that it can't spell "extreme" because it has traditionally made great sound cards for gamers, no matter how much some would like some more competition. Since A3D died ...

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 ...

Cooler Master is a great company for cases in my opinion because it covers a very wide range of prices and needs. There’s the Praetorian for the old-schoolers, the 832 for those who want buttons ...

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 ...

It’s not been fun being green for the last ten months or so – ATI has been dominant in the DX11 fight, with Nvidia late with its first next-gen GPUs. Worse still, when these did arrive, they were hot, ...

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 ...