After a long design and development period, a full retail version of forum-member Peter Brands' (l3p) desk PC has finally been made available for pre-order in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia.

As you can see, there's a fair amount of variation between the highest and lowest presets. This is indicative of how scalable the Frostbite 3 engine is, something that should allow it to run on ...

It's been a while, but it's finally back - our guide on what to buy whatever your budget when it comes to PC hardware. Until quite recently, there wasn't actually a great deal to talk about where new ...

Now that you've read the Intel Sandy Bridge review and seen how awesome the Core i5-2500K is you'll no doubt be eager to own one. With LGA1155 kit due to go on sale on Sunday 9 January, we wanted to ...

Space sims epitomise the wish-fulfilment element of games better than any other genre. One of the first genres to tap into that innate human desire to explore, space sims allowed us to escape confines ...

Despite a tradition of releasing range topping dual-GPU graphics cards since 2006, it’s been over two years since we’ve seen a new multi-GPU graphics setup from Nvidia. Back then it was the GeForce ...

Today marks the launch of Intel's new 9-Series chipsets, specifically Z97 and H97, which are the upgrades to Z87 and H87 respectively. There are only a few key new features to speak of, as the ...

Liquid-cooling has come a long way in recent years, both in terms of what's on offer from all-in-one (AIO) liquid coolers and off-the-shelf components for building custom loops. In general they're ...

AMD has claimed a new world record Cinebench R23 nT score with a system packing a pair of its Epyc 7763 CPUs. The 'feat' was shared on the latest episode of AMD's Bring Up vlog (9 minutes in), as ...

Nvidia has successfully perked the graphics market from its mid-cycle stupor with the launch of the GTX 760 2GB. Sat at the mid-point between the mid-range £150 GTX 660 2GB and high-end GTX 670 2GB, ...

At what point does a mod become a game in its own right? Eight years ago, Crowbar Collective launched the Black Mesa bit of Black Mesa, taking players from Gordon Freeman’s iconic tram-ride to work ...

We’ve seen plenty of cases from Cooler Master’s HAF range over the years. All share the common design ethic of being high-airflow cases and all seem to be designed in a chunky, rugged Weyland-Yutani ...