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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Overclocking Intel's Core i5 750

We dive through a variety of motherboards to investigate what BIOS settings are best over a range of motherboards to overclock the only Lynnfield that UK customers should buy: the Intel Core i5 750.

September 21, 2009 | 11:43

MSI P55 GD65 Review

MSI's performance-orientated P55 motherboard is the GD65. With the looks and some of the features its bigger brother, the GD80, but a price closer to its cheaper brothers, we had a look to find out if this board is the Lynnfield board to buy.

September 11, 2009 | 11:18

MSI NGTX275 Lightning Review

MSI has applied its lightning technology to the GTX275. We've put it through its paces to see if it can add more pizazz to the equation than the MSI NGTX260 we looked at in July.

August 31, 2009 | 13:13

Five LGA1156 coolers tested on Lynnfield

We've tested five coolers that are not only on sale now, but are also ready to fit Intel's forthcoming LGA1156 Lynnfield CPUs. Get ready for Lynnfield by bagging your LGA1156-compatible cooler before the rush. Read on to find out which can handle a big overclock the best.

August 13, 2009 | 09:09

Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H Review

In conjunction with AMD's new 785G chipset, the elaborately named Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H is setup for AM3 and DDR3 support, as well as the latest integrated graphics with nifty home theatre features to boot. Is it worth the upgrade from 780G and how does it compare to a discrete HD 4350?

August 4, 2009 | 10:30

DFI LANParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 Review

DFI's latest LANParty board is built on the 790FX platform for AMD AM3 CPUs is a yellow and black update to the AM2+ M2RSH. Has DFI changed anything underneath to make it a better buy? Or is it in the same mould with the same limitations? Read on to find out.

July 22, 2009 | 10:52

MSI GTX 285 HydroGen OC Review

Sporting a Watercool Heatkiller GPU-X² full cover waterblock, MSI's GTX 285 HydroGen looks stunning. However we're more interested in whether it can keep Nvidia's fastest single core GPU cool.

July 9, 2009 | 10:50

AMD releases TWKR Edition CPU

AMD has quietly launched its Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition processor for the overclocking community. You won't be able to buy this one.

July 1, 2009 | 11:03

AMD creates TWKR overclockers' chip

AMD is sending out small quantities of a secret new processor called the Phenom II 42 TWKR, specifically aimed at overclockers and top-end gaming systems.

June 18, 2009 | 10:11

Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Finals 2009

During Computex 2009, Gigabyte held the worldwide finals of its Open Overclocking Championship 2009. Winners from heats in Europe, China, America and Asia were competing against last year's champs for a $5,000 first prize.

June 12, 2009 | 12:42

Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB

After being impressed by the AMD's new ATI Radeon 4770 HD 512MB graphics card, we're taking a look at our first partner design from Gigabyte. At £88 it's more expensive than both the reference design and other models on the market, so we take a look at what we get for our extra few quid.

May 12, 2009 | 09:09

Netbook graphics given a boost

Vladimir Plenskiy has launched a new package dubbed GMABooster which offers a 22 percent speed boost to the graphics chips found in most netbooks.

April 30, 2009 | 10:05

AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU

Another Kuma is on the loose and it's 100MHz faster than the last one. Has anything else changed and does AMD have a bargain processor to take on the Intel Penium Dual Core E5200? We test their stock clocks and comparative overclocking potential to see which is the best bargain buy.

April 28, 2009 | 07:03

Asus M4A79-T Deluxe

With DDR3 prices dropping faster than the FTSE, AMD's AM3 motherboards, like the Asus M4A79-T Deluxe, are becoming really quite attractive. Built on familiar M3A79-T technology - one of our favourite AM2+ boards - does the latest generation offer an equally great buy?

April 21, 2009 | 09:46

Palit GeForce GTX 275

With its latest graphics card, the GTX 275, Nvidia seems to be onto a winner, and board partner Palit is getting in on the action with a custom cooled, custom PCB version of the GTX 275 that sells for a bargain price tag. Is it too good to be true? We find out!

April 17, 2009 | 10:57

OCZ launches laptop XMP RAM

Memory manufacturer OCZ has announced a line of high-performance Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) SODIMMs for laptops that use the Core 2 Extreme processor.

April 13, 2009 | 09:17

AMD releases Catalyst 9.4 driver

Catalyst 9.4 is released just three weeks after Catalyst 9.3, featuring a new Auto-Tune tool in the Overdrive section of the Catalyst Control Center.

April 9, 2009 | 14:59

Foxconn Renaissance

Is it a cupcake? Is it a speaker? No! It's a heatsink! Armed with its novelty wares the Foxconn Renaissance is branded with the slogan for 'Digital Life', affording 'high performance computing, connectivity and digital entertainment'. Is that ambiguous marketing or part of a bigger idea?

April 7, 2009 | 09:16

Foxconn Blood Rage

Ostentatious good looks and over engineered to the limit - the Foxconn Blood Rage is another Quantum Force extreme overclocking board that has lots of new and lovely bits, but also a price tag to match. Is "the best Foxconn board we've ever seen" really all there is to say?

February 26, 2009 | 09:29

Team Finland clocks Phenom II to 6.5GHz

Team Finland - with a little help from AMD - has snatched the 3DMark 05 crown with a liquid helium cooling system helping a Phenom II to hit 6.5GHz.

January 27, 2009 | 09:08

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P and DS4 mobos

Who needs extreme behemoths when there are more affordable Core i7 options like this pair from Gigabyte. The UD4P and DS4 are still very capable and well featured, but aren't as expensive as other X58 boards - we see if they're powerful enough to take on the big guns.

January 21, 2009 | 08:40

AMD Phenom II X4 940 and 920 CPUs

AMD's 45nm consumer CPUs are finally here: the Phenom II X4 940 and 920 are the latest quad cores with bigger cache, more MHz, more overclocking potential and yet, still AM2+ with inexpensive DDR2! Does Intel finally have some worthy competition?

January 8, 2009 | 05:23

Athlon X2 7750 vs. Intel E5200 OC & Value

We've seen how AMD's new Kuma CPUs perform at stock speeds, but what's the best CPU to buy for us overclockers: Intel's ever popular E5200 or AMD's new inexpensive monster? We evaluate overclocking performance to see which platform affords the best value.

December 22, 2008 | 08:26