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In Pictures: Top 10 performance desktop PCs

Intel's Sandy Bridge processors are still the popular kids on the block, but the new Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition has arrived, taking top honours on our performance PC benchmarks.

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In Pictures: Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chips

Nano-transistors powering big gains in power, efficiency

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In Pictures: If it ain't broke, don't fix it: ancient computers in use today

From 1970s minicomputers used for military programs (including nuclear weapons) to an IBM punch-card system still keeping the books at a Texas filter supplier, these are the computers that time forgot.

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In Pictures: Serious smartphones with QWERTY keyboards

Software keyboards have come far, but sometimes the best way to tackle work on the go is to use a physical keyboard.

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News about Components

Article | 24/05/2012 Smartphones with quad-core chips and 4G LTE coming soon
Quad-core processors have not yet been combined with 4G LTE in smartphones, but that could change soon.
Article | 24/05/2012 Sony pulls out of LCD JV with Sharp, gets US$126 million investment back
Sony said Thursday it will pull out of its over three-year LCD TV panel joint venture with Sharp, part of Sony's ongoing attempts to reform its founde...
Article | 23/05/2012 UPDATED: HP slashes 27,000 jobs as part of restructuring program
It's official. Hewlett-Packard will cut 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan, the company said when it announced quarterly fin...
Article | 23/05/2012 Windows 8 touchscreen devices to be priced higher: Dell
Touchscreen laptops and tablets with the upcoming Windows 8 OS will be priced higher than their non-touchscreen counterparts, according to Dell's CEO,...
Article | 22/05/2012 Thunderbolt cable options open up for Apple Mac users
The number of options available for Mac users to buy Thunderbolt cables from outside Apple is growing, with companies announcing longer and competitiv...

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Tutorials about Components

Article | 14/01/2011 There's never been a better time to upgrade RAM
In case you haven't noticed, memory prices have dropped through the floor. As such, I've been busily upgrading every computer I can get my hands on. F...
Article | 4/11/2010 Connect a graphics card to your PC's PSU
QUESTION: I bought an ATI Radeon HD 5750 graphics card, but my motherboard doesn't recognise it. When I plug the monitor cable into the graphics card,...
Article | 13/08/2010 How to get more from a quad-core PC
QUESTION: My Windows 7 Home Premium computer has a quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM. I've not found any advantage to using four cores. How can I use...
Article | 17/07/2010 Add RAM to a laptop
So my dad was griping that his Acer Aspire 9300 laptop takes forever to boot. I inspected it for spyware, excessive startup programs, and the other us...
Article | 15/07/2010 Upgrade your motherboard the easy way
Even accomplished geeks shy away from motherboard upgrades on their main PCs. Years ago, I would often upgrade gaming and test systems in my own basem...

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Features about Components

Article | 16/03/2011 Display tech to watch this year: Haptics create a buzz
If multitouch display technology is proliferating, haptic feedback is helping to fuel the trend. Haptics provide tactile feedback to your fingers as y...
Article | 12/01/2011 ARM CEO: PC market not our target
Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS wo...
Article | 11/01/2011 What's new in PC components
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't just all tablet, cameras, and laptops; there's plenty of news for the PC component geek, too, ranging from t...
Article | 8/01/2011 Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?
Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forwar...
Article | 16/08/2010 Ways to share spare CPU cycles
A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worth...

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Reviews

AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics card

AMD Radeon HD 6990 review: AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990 is the world's fastest single-slot graphics card. But with that power comes a massive price tag