Components

Taming AMD’s top-of-the-range Radeon R9 290X GPU is easier said than done, and we’ve seen partners achieve varying levels of success with custom-cooled and overclocked cards. With Gigabyte’s…

It won’t be long now until we start seeing industry predictions for 2014, and with the arrival of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, it’s fair to assume that it’ll be a massive year for gaming. Yet,…

We take a look at OCZ’s newest SSD, the Vector 150, to see what performance it offers.

Recommended award Cheap and slightly shonky, but quirky and intriguing mobos. That used to be Asrock’s place in the world. These days, however, the manufacturer has gone a bit mainstream. On the…

Having introduced the gargantuan Obsidian Series 900D and the micro-ATX Obsidian Series 350D , it was clear that Corsair would flesh-out its high-end chassis range with other new additions. Today,…

No sooner had AMD launched an entire stack of ‘new’ Radeon graphics cards , board partners have rushed to get products on to retailer’s shelves. The Radeon R9 280X, priced from $299, is very much…

The AMD Radeon R7 260X is little more than a rebranded Radeon HD 7790 that’s gained a few MHz on its GPU clock and boosted its graphics memory to 2 GB. It’ll need to come down in price a fair bit to…

There’s nothing really new about the Radeon R9 270X, which above all seems designed to help AMD line itself up more effectively against the competition. In absolute terms, it’s still a decent card…

Corsair’s branching out into PSU retailing has, in hindsight, been a good move. Debuting with the HX range back in 2006, Corsair’s current catalogue numbers seven different series that span from…

Those folk over at Nvidia sure know how to wring the most out of a particular graphics processing unit. The current Kepler architecture, first seen on the ageing GeForce GTX 680, has now been…

Intel’s consumer CPU focus is clearly on the 4th Generation Core Processor Family, codenamed Haswell, which launched in June of this year. Offering a smattering of extra performance over last-gen Ivy…

Samsung has been aggressively bolstering its solid state drive line-up for the last couple of years. While some of Samsung’s earliest drives may not have particularly stood-out versus the competition…