I'm just about recovered from the reverie and associated jetlag of CES. But the good ship HEXUS steams on, and here's a selection of tasty morsels from this week.
Making a compelling case for the world's best single-GPU graphics card is the Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 OC. Clocked in at 1,000MHz core, find out just how fast it is.
Spending £500 on an upgrade will be too much for most readers, mind, so Intel hopes to help you out with a 'budget' Core i7-3820 chip, cut from Sandy Bridge-E cloth.
Bringing plenty of bling and individualism to high-end PCs is the Dell Alienware Aurora M4. Priced at £3,000, beauty needs to be more than skin deep.
Everyone needs a USB drive, or six, and ADATA makes a decent case for its £20 USB 3.0 stick.
In other news, readers are having their say (170+ comments) on Richard O'Dwyer's fate, Wikipedia took the day off, Intel began offering insurance for Core i5 and Core i7 chips, Kodak falls on hard times, and Microsoft details a new file system for Windows 8 Server.