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  • SteelSecurity

    23 November 2006, 11:59

    SteelSecurity does exactly what it says on the tin… a bit like a can of Ronseal wood stain.

  • Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H Intel P965 motherboard

    22 November 2006, 01:24

    The Foxconn P9657AA-8ERS2H is a decent proposition in most respects and the low street price is a definite selling point...

  • HIS X1650XT IceQ Turbo Dual DL-DVI 256MB

    21 November 2006, 08:11

    Radeon X1650 XT is a reasonable SKU and HIS' pre-overclocked IceQ Turbo version is decent for the most part. However, when judged against the competition in the same price bracket ...

  • eVGA nForce 680i SLI LGA775 motherboard

    20 November 2006, 00:30

    680i SLI sports a brand new SPP designed not only to support the latest Core 2 Quad processors, but to overclock like nothing else before it and bring new levels ...

  • XFX GeForce 7900 GS Extreme Edition & Inno3D GeForce 7900 GS Zalman Edition

    17 November 2006, 08:49

    We come away from this review pleased in the knowledge that current midrange cards still return decent performance, down to both NVIDIA and ATI's offerings being directly based on high-end ...

  • SOHOUSB Magic Bridge SATA/eSATA IDE/USB bridge

    15 November 2006, 10:34

    What's the opposite of an enclosure? Seems there isn't a direct antonym for the word, following an exhaustive search of the net (well, after two queries I was exhausted). We'd ...

  • MESH Elite E6600 Express PC

    14 November 2006, 20:47

    MESH has achieved what it set out to do - build a relatively stylish mid-range PC with a good balance of performance and features

  • Silverstone Temjin TJ-09 chassis

    13 November 2006, 08:19

    The Temjin TJ-09 has, on paper, everything the recently-reviewed Zalman FC-ZE1 didn’t, and more. So does it make the grade or, like the Zalman before it, does it suffer at ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

    8 November 2006, 19:08

    We concern ourselves with a chip codenamed G80, Windows XP and D3D9, and a bunch of old and new games. The ride will require you to pay a bit of ...

  • SCAN 3XS Triad 'G80' PC

    8 November 2006, 18:58

    Got three grand in your pocket and want a dream PC in exchange? SCAN's 3XS Triad should definitely be put on your shortlist.

  • ASUS EN8800GTX GeForce 8800 GTX 768MiB

    8 November 2006, 18:58

    If you want the fastest graphics card in town it will have to be a G80-based card. ASUS' implementation is as good as any. Recommended.

  • XFX GeForce 8800 GTX 768MiB

    8 November 2006, 18:58

    So my Christmas shopping list just got one item longer, and my family will be taking out second mortgages to afford the graphics card and quad-core CPU I now so ...

  • XFX GeForce 7950 GT XXX Edition

    7 November 2006, 08:33

    In summary, a product whose appeal is limited to a minority of people. If you happen to be one of them, this card is a current no-brainer.

  • Inno3D GeForce 7950 GT 512MB Zalman Edition

    6 November 2006, 08:10

    In summary, then, £200 will buy you a better GeForce 7950 GT 512MiB card for your money, with a higher-quality warranty and stocked at a wider range of e-tailers. The ...

  • Thermaltake Eureka

    4 November 2006, 00:03

    Thermaltake Eureka - Home server-style chassis

  • Intel's Core 2 Quad CPUs

    2 November 2006, 05:00

    We got our hands on all of them, and put them up against a variety of pretenders, from Core 2 Duo and Pentium D stable mates to AMD’s current dual-core ...

  • Cooler Master iTower 930 chassis

    27 October 2006, 10:06

    Cooler Master enter the world of servers, the iTower 930 is an entry-level server solution

  • XFX 7950GT Extreme Edition Passive 512MB

    25 October 2006, 08:28

    The XFX 7950GT Extreme Edition Passive delivers precisely what you'd expect for a 7950GT with slightly increased core and memory clocks.

  • MSI K9A Platinum AM2 mainboard

    24 October 2006, 07:35

    We can't help feeling the K9A Platinum is a bit of a missed opportunity. It's a decent enough package, but for a performance board it doesn't take full advantage of ...

  • Thermaltake Aguila chassis

    23 October 2006, 09:02

    The mid-tower Thermaltake Aguila, with its eagle-inspired design has been put through its paces. Does it soar like an eagle or drop like a stone?

  • Foxconn 975X7AB motherboard

    20 October 2006, 08:14

    You might think from our description so far that the Foxconn 975X7AB is a bit of a disappointment. Compared to Abit's AW9D Max it's not a tour de force. From ...

  • Thermaltake Armor LCS (Liquid Cooling System)

    18 October 2006, 08:38

    Does the combination of chassis and water-cooling kit provide the ultimate package?

  • Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 256MiB

    17 October 2006, 11:04

    The Radeon X1950 Pro, then, nudges the present midrange graphics-card balance in favour of ATI.

  • abit AB9 Pro

    13 October 2006, 19:22

    Has the former darling of the enthusiast crowd created something akin to boards of old; something that can't be ignored? We've run it through the HEXUS mill to see, so ...

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  • Zalman FC-ZE1 Fatal1ty

    12 October 2006, 08:35

    Zalman's latest chassis, the fan-cooled FC-ZE1 Fatal1ty chassis - designed for the gamer expecting more - but does it?

  • abit AW9D Max

    11 October 2006, 08:59

    So, AW9D Max it is then, packing i975X, ICH7R and abit special sauce. Best get on with finding out if it really is smokin' before someone notices the horror of ...

  • Foxconn GeForce 7950 GT

    9 October 2006, 10:11

    We mooted the idea of special signature boards bearing the Foxconn logo to the VGA product manager earlier in the year, wondering if they were going to go down that ...

  • ATI Radeon X1650 PRO 3-way shootout

    4 October 2006, 08:59

    Radeon X1650 PRO is an easy one to explain, thankfully. Think Radeon X1600 XT but with slightly higher clocks and you're bang on, ATI asking its AIB partners to pretty ...

  • MESH Elite Fire X1950 PC

    2 October 2006, 08:58

    Those with £1600± to spend on a full PC system in the coming weeks will wish to pay close attention, and those expecting to pair up Core 2 Duo and ...

  • Quad core Kentsfield benchmarked

    28 September 2006, 19:59

    We've shown you pictures and given you the release date, but just how fast is Intel's Kentsfield processor? We've had the chance to take the quad core chip for ...

  • LaCie Two Big 1TB DAS enclosure

    26 September 2006, 10:51

    We've had some fun with eSATA before, thanks to the Thecus N2050. Today we have a similar product from LaCie on test. We got 1TB worth of storage to ...

  • Origen AE X11 HTPC Enclosure

    25 September 2006, 10:35

    Korean-designed, Chinese-manufactured, the Origen AE X11 certainly has some stiff competition from the lower end of the market nowadays, so does it hold its own or is it a damp ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT head-to-head - XFX vs eVGA

    22 September 2006, 08:43

    Give the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 product line a shufti and you'll see a 4-wide group of base SKUs that fill pretty much the bottom rung of the company's PCI Express ...