James Gorbold

Hailea HC-500A Water Chiller Review

Want to overclock your CPU to 5GHz? Then you'll need a water chiller (aka, a fridge)

July 20, 2010 | 08:46

Intel Core i7-970 CPU Review

Want a 6-core CPU but can’t afford the i7-980X? How about an i7-970?

July 19, 2010 | 08:31

Gigabyte reinvents the Batmobile

July 7, 2010 | 10:37

Arma II: Operation Arrowhead Review

More guns, more tanks, more aircraft, more maps and more things to kill for Arma II.

June 29, 2010 | 08:00

Portal 2 E3 trailer

GLaDOS makes its first appearance in the Portal 2 teaser trailer.

June 16, 2010 | 10:57

New Arma II: Operation Arrowhead trailer

The new trailer for Arma II: Operation Arrowhead introduces the new Takistani army.

June 10, 2010 | 16:50

Asus Rampage III Extreme Motherboard Review

We take a look at Asus’ third attempt at an extreme overclocking Core i7 motherboard.

May 13, 2010 | 08:12

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Motherboard Review

Gigabyte trims the fat from its latest Core i7 board, but leaves in USB 3 and SATA 6Gbps.

May 7, 2010 | 09:11

Asus P6X58D Premium Motherboard Review

Asus adds USB 3 and SATA 6Gbps to its latest LGA1366 Core i7 motherboard.

May 5, 2010 | 10:48

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition

Intel was first to six-core, but AMD's six-core Thuban CPU is £600 cheaper. Is it any good?

April 27, 2010 | 05:05

EVGA X58 SLI Micro Motherboard Review

Who says a Core i7 system has to be large? We put EVGA's X58 micro-ATX motherboard through its paces.

April 26, 2010 | 01:03

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Motherboard Review

Gigabyte's new X58 motherboard has tons of ports, but can it tame the mighty Core i7-980X?

April 21, 2010 | 11:23

Intel Xeon X7560: Nehalem EX Review

Fresh from the launch of its second generation six-core workstation / server CPUs, the uber-fast and Xeon 5600-series, Intel is now ready to unveil its first ever eight-core CPU. Meet the Xeon X7500-series, codename Nehalem EX - we put it through its paces in a 64-thread test system.

April 7, 2010 | 08:24

AMD Opteron 6174 vs Intel Xeon X5650 Review

If the 6-core Core i7-980X Extreme Edition wasn't fast enough for you, we've another treat for you today. Meet the world's first 12-core CPU and its Intel rival, which hopes to get by with six physical cores and six logical Hyper-Threaded cores.

March 31, 2010 | 08:26

Silent Hunter 5 Review

Ubisoft has boasted about the innovations it's made with the latest Silent Hunter, including a new first person mode, but the real question is whether James can learn to look past Ubi's new DRM system. Also, how many seamen jokes can we make over the course of the review?

March 23, 2010 | 10:27

Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Review

Intel has finally released a CPU worthy of its premium Extreme Edition brand - the first six-core desktop processor. Previously known as Gulftown, the Core i7-980X Extreme Edition is not only brutally fast out of the box but also a fantastic overclocker thanks to its 32nm transistors.

March 11, 2010 | 04:50

No new flight sim to play? Try Steambirds

March 8, 2010 | 10:30

Intel Core i7-930 CPU Review

The original Core i7-920 is the best selling high-end CPU, but as it's now nearing its 18-month birthday Intel has decided it's due for retirement. We check out its replacement, the i7-930. Clocked at 2.8GHz, it's only 133MHz faster than the i7-920 - but thanks to overclocking, it's still the chip to buy.

March 1, 2010 | 08:15

First Look: EVGA W555 dual-Xeon motherboard

EVGA's next big project is a gargantuan motherboard for a pair of overclocked Xeon processors, 12 DIMMs and up to seven graphics cards. We take a closer look at one of the early engineering samples to see what all the fuss about is, and ask 'who needs all that power?'

January 27, 2010 | 08:56

CPC/bit-tech folding team completes GPU countdown

Join our folding team today to contribute to scientific research and help us climb the leaderboards.

November 30, 2009 | 11:51

Six-core Core i7s photographed in the bit-tech lab

First look at the new six-core CPU from Intel - will it be a Core i9? Who knows...

October 30, 2009 | 15:25

5th Dream PC unveiled - Scan Jellyfish

Every year we challenge the world's leading professional PC builders to craft the most technologically advanced, innovative, eye-catching PCs they can. We call this competition Dream PCs, and here is the fith and final entry - the TEC water-cooled Scan Jellyfish.

October 23, 2009 | 10:10

4th Dream PC unveiled - Kobalt Daedalus

Every year we challenge the world's leading professional PC builders to craft the most technologically advanced, innovative, eye-catching PCs they can. We call this competition Dream PCs, and here is the fourth entry - the TEC water-cooled Kobalt Daedalus.

October 21, 2009 | 10:14