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Whatever your production requirements, there is a right DVD/CD duplicator or DVD/CD publisher out there to fit your needs.
What the T1000W promises is nothing to do with locating Sarah Conner, but delivering a low-power, upgradeable, one-stop multi-media device. It's a hot bit of kit that won't look out of place in a living room.
NaturalPoint's TrackIR head-tracking system has been maturing for several years now and we've always been big fans, mainly because this is one peripheral that's not a gimmick.
MSI's latest offering, the 790FX-GD70, is a high-end gaming motherboard that not only provides almost limitless DDR3 options but also supports serious overclocking.
We all love performance hardware; that's why we're here and that's why you're here. And that's why we all went weak at the knees over the first Core i7 and why we're blown away by the latest spin of the i7-920. But in real terms, it's still a niche market.
One thing is clearer than the contempt for humanity on Sir Alan Sugar's face - RAM really doesn't have the profound effects upon a System that the processor or graphics card does.
Memory group tests like this tend to get all hung up on speed, but of course there's another major issue when it comes to buying RAM. How much of the stuff do you need?
Today is most definitely DDR3's day in the sun at last and for all the hullabaloo about i7's third channel, the current prevalence of Core 2 and Phenom II means dual channel memory is going to remain the norm for a while yet.
DDR2 isn't quite dead yet. With every processor save Core i7 unable to make all that much of DDR3's increased speed, and years of favor from both AMD and Intel, DDR2 remains the most prevalent RAM around today.
Dust build-up can cause many problems but the main one is heat. The accumulation of dust can impede airflow, which in turn causes temperatures to increase.
Much like McGuyver we're always looking to do interesting and what the kids might describe as 'cool things' with other people's - and frankly our own - discarded rubbish.
As for the Q6600, our latest encounter with this old favorite was peculiar to say the least. Its long-lasting appeal has largely been thanks to its giant-killing overclocking prowess. With the latest GO stepping routinely hitting clockspeeds of 3.5GHz and up, why would you bother with its more expensive Core 2 Quad stablemates?
Praise the Lord for the gift of 45nm silicon. For at last we have a fight on our hands in the CPU market. By that of course, we mean a real alternative to big, bad, beastly old Intel.
What's AMD's up to? You'd assume it would use a high-end chip to launch its new AM3 socket. But here we are with this 2.6GHz quad-core model. AM3 is actually physically identical to the AM2 socket, which means this CPU will also slot into many existing AMD motherboards.
The processor that marked AMD's return to form has grown even more impressive since launch, re-establishing AMD's processors as realistic starting points for building a new system.
Despite the arrival of the improved Phenom II, the lower end of the scale is where AMD still overwhelmingly operates.
It might not be a necessity but once you've used a proper sound card like this there is no going back.
The styling of the X8 is similar to that of the last Sidewinder but some of the sharper edges have been smoothed out and the round forward/backward thumb buttons have been replaced with sleeker, flat buttons.
It looks more like Dell is going for non-gamers with the Studio XPS. The ton of RAM and masses of hard disk space are great for high-definition video editing and billion-pixel photo manipulation - the inclusion of a 64-bit operating system seems to support this.
A specific MagicBright mode makes full use of the dynamic contrast range at the expense of any user controls, not even brightness or contrast. The range is impressive from true blacks to eye-wateringly bright whites, but the colors are far too saturated and unnatural.
