Today, day one of our SBM, our highest-priced system sets the performance standard against which the less expensive configurations will be compared.Read more

We look in detail at a diverse cross-section of cases and answer some key questions: What are the features? Which is the loudest? Which provides ... Read more

Our new component charts may not be perfect (we're working on that), but they're still full of useful information. Click here for our quick ... Read more

Silverstone’s Crown CW03 HTPC case is explored and used to build a full system. Various parameters are then measured to assess the case’s ... Read more

We compare three and four core AMD Phenom X CPUs, along with a large number of Athlon 64 X2 and Intel Core 2 two and four core models.Read more

Western Digital's VelociRaptor is here, and it comes with a bang. The new 10,000 RPM 2.5" SATA hard drive's primal scream is loud enough to ... Read more

We explain how to install a Solid State Disk (SSD) in your notebook computer, while retaining a hard disk for data storage.Read more

Yesterday we chose our components, today we’ll test them. Does our $500 gamer make the grade?Read more

How much performance can $500 buy? We set out to find the answer. Today we show you our choice of components. Tomorrow we present test results.Read more

Over the week we build and test low-, mid- and higher-cost systems at standard and overclocked rates. Then we compare them and look at ... Read more

Over the week we build and test low-, mid- and higher-cost systems at standard and overclocked rates. Then we compare them and look at ... Read more

AMD fans who want to overclock their processors can rejoice at news that the CPU maker is offering a Black Edition of its current fastest ... Read more

While graphics drivers and third-party utilities allow you to overclock your graphics card's GPU and memory, pixel shader clock speeds can only ... Read more

Intel introduced it's 45 nm Penryn technology 3 weeks ago. Today, on the same day AMD launched it's Phenom 9700 quad-core processor series, Intel ... Read more

Four cores, 45 nm structures and overclocking up to 4 GHz make Intel's Penryn Core 2 CPUs faster and more efficient. How bad does it look for AMD?Read more

Staying within budget is easy when the limit is $4,000, but can our $3500+ system really prove its worth?Read more

ABS shipped us its latest CrossFire system and it came to play! It clearly provided all of the performance of the big guns but at less than half ... Read more

Now that we've tested them, it's time to compare our three overclocked systems. How does performance stack up when compared to price?Read more

We look at what components make an ideal budget overclocker's system. With a few bucks and some guts, you too can have a low-cost rig that runs ... Read more

The "High-End" build from our first System Builder Marathon is ready to show its overclocking stuff. We show you the results and present our ... Read more

Over the next 3 days we overclock Dell's factory-overclocked XPS 720 H2C, our high-end System Builder Marathon PC and a new budget build. We pull ... Read more

The last day of Computex brought us GPS devices, a supercomputer-in-a-box, perfect HD video applications, DTX cases without suitable ... Read more