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The upcoming high-end CPU battle could depend on motherboard prices

With X570 motherboards demanding huge premiums, Intel's cut-price Cascade Lake-X could benefit from more affordable motherboards compared to 3rd Gen Threadripper.

October 21, 2019 | 14:00

Stormforce Crystal 3600 RX 5700 Review

Stormforce's £1,300 rig sports a six-core 3rd Gen Ryzen CPU, RX 5700, and NVMe PCIe SSD.

October 21, 2019 | 09:30

Video: Project Toreador (Bloodlines 2 Mod) Part 1: Intro and 500D Teardown

Alex is going to bring the Toreador clan from Bloodlines 2 to life - in case mod form!

October 18, 2019 | 17:00

Microsoft apologises for Surface Pro 4, Surface Book glitches

Power drain fix due early 2016.

December 14, 2015 | 11:40

Intel plans to deliberately limit Sandy Bridge overclocking

We've learnt Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge CPUs might have some serious OC issues.

July 22, 2010 | 13:38

My PC is a teenager – it won’t wake up in the morning

March 22, 2010 | 10:14

Does Nvidia have a future?

In the first of a regular series of articles looking at the giants of the tech industry, we focus on Nvidia - it's had a torrid time over the past 18 months, but in the past, it's always come back stronger when under pressure, so what does the future hold this time for Nvidia?

August 20, 2009 | 12:41

TSMC 40nm problems ‘have been solved’ – sources

COMPUTEX 09: Sources close to AMD and Nvidia have revealed that TSMC has 'fixed' the horrendous yield issues it has with its 40nm process technology.

June 3, 2009 | 06:12

Radeon HD 4770 has yield problems, in short supply

COMPUTEX 09: RV740 yields are apparently down the toilet and it’s causing headaches for all parties involved.

May 28, 2009 | 15:24

The Dark Side of Overdrive

LCD monitor manufacturers have constantly pushed response times down with overdrive technology, which increases the voltage to force the liquid crystals to change colour states faster. Sadly, there are some side effects associated with this - we explain the cause and detail how to spot the problems yourself.

February 6, 2009 | 08:08

Shiny, but not polished

Google surprised just about all of us in the bit-tech office when it announced Chrome - its first foray into the browser market. Tim Smalley has been playing around with the first beta for a few days and has some thoughts on the browser's direction.

September 6, 2008 | 07:55

Zen and the HFX Mini HTPC case

Sometimes, things seem like such a good idea - like the HFX Mini HTPC case (and kit). But are they? Resident modder Robin Paijmans gives his first-hand account of whether this case is dream or disaster.

August 16, 2008 | 09:29

Gartner: Windows is collapsing

Research firm Gartner has said that Microsoft's Windows operating system will collapse under its own weight if changes aren't made. This is bound to be controversial.

April 14, 2008 | 16:52

Yorkfield still has availability problems

IDF SPRING 08: Intel's 45nm Yorkfield desktop processors are still not as widely available as they should be. We have some answers... kinda.

April 3, 2008 | 07:41

XFX Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2 600M 1GB

Nvidia has launched its GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card today - we have a look at XFX's model to see whether Nvidia can make a dual-GPU card that everyone wants to own. Read on to find out whether it delivers...

March 18, 2008 | 18:01

MSI no longer supports 125W CPUs in the K9A2 CF

MSI appears to have problems with its K9A2 CF - it is now not supported with 125W CPUs like the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and 6400+.

January 28, 2008 | 14:28

Lian Li answers cries from Xbox 360 owners

CES 2008: Lian Li is looking for ways to branch out this year and it could have hit gold with this Xbox 360 replacement enclosure.

January 10, 2008 | 03:35

Microsoft to compensate Xbox Live Gold members

It looks like Microsoft will compensate Xbox Live Gold members after the network issues that many members had over the festive period.

January 3, 2008 | 13:12

Assassin's Creed glitchy on PS3?

Owners of the PS3 version of Assassin's Creed are finding bugs galore, according to reports.

December 5, 2007 | 14:40

Nvidia pulls 162.15 driver from nZone

On Friday, Nvidia pulled the 162.15 driver from its nZone portal after a number of complaints from end users.

July 2, 2007 | 12:18

PS3 Launch in the UK: Police issue warning

Police have issued a warning to UK retailers that there may be trouble at Friday's PS3 launch

March 22, 2007 | 15:28

R600 is delayed until Q2

AMD's upcoming and eagerly anticipated R600 graphics processor has been delayed until the second quarter.

February 21, 2007 | 13:46

NVIDIA Vista shenanigans continue on

A week after Vista's release, there's no stable driver for gamers looking to run an 8800 on the new OS. There's no sign of one forthcoming either - we look at the 8800 / Vista gaming problems.

February 7, 2007 | 11:16

USC students are a bunch of pirates - RIAA

The University of South Carolina is one of the worst colleges for piracy in the US, as the RIAA sent the institution over 900 copyright infringement notices last year.

January 29, 2007 | 11:20

Vista SP1 release scheduled for 2H07

The latest round of leaked emails from Microsoft has revealed that the software giant has put Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on fast track.

January 25, 2007 | 11:41

NVIDIA releases new 680i BIOS - fixes problems?

There have been some well-documented and widely experienced problems with NVIDIA's nForce 680i SLI reference motherboard. The company claims that the latest BIOS revision fixes the problems that many end users have had. Hopefully it fixes ours, too...

December 19, 2006 | 18:29