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One of the best things about owning a PC is that if you're prepared to open the case up, you can upgrade your system any time you choose. In addition, because it's a modular design you can concentrate on upgrading the oldest parts, or even add completely new functionality with the addition of ...
Motherboards and Memory
For the price of a decent netbook PC, early adopters can get a step ahead of the pack if they want to splash out and pick up the world's first USB 3.0 Blu-ray burner. The device in question is the, wait for it... BR-X1216U3 from Buffalo and it also happens to be the first USB BD drive to write ...
Other
Blu-Ray
USB 3.0
Top 10 fastest graphics cards in the world today Three years ago today, AMD was just about wrapping up the purchase of Canadian graphics company ATI in a deal worth around £2.9bn. At the time, ATI graphics cards were lagging badly behind the Nvidia GeForces of the time, and things didn't look ...
Video Cards
AMD
Top 10 fastest graphics cards in the world today Three years ago today, AMD was just about wrapping up the purchase of Canadian graphics company ATI in a deal worth around £2.9bn. At the time, ATI graphics cards were lagging badly behind the Nvidia GeForces of the time, and things didn't look ...
Video Cards
AMD
Out of all the many things I detest, the worst is paying for items and still not owning them. With the world the way it is, I have no option but to disobey the laws of economics and open my wallet for gadgets that curb my freedom to use them to their full potential, and then pay for a ...
Displays
LaCie, the makers of frankly lovely looking storage devices, has just announced that its LaCinema Classic HD Media Centre is now available in the UK. This 2TB device is 1080p Full HD compatible and lets you sync up your media – whether stored on a PC or games console – and pipe it to your TV, ...
Storage
LaCie
Asus will show off its latest Republic of Gamers (ROG) P55-based Maximus III Extreme at Dreamhack, which intriguingly allows wireless overclocking via Bluetooth mobile phones. The ROG board will be shown off starting later this week, with attendees getting the chance to get a glimpse of the ...
Motherboards and Memory
Bluetooth
OCZ has declared that it wil partner up with Symwave to deliver next generation SuperSpeed USB devices – with a high-performance external solid-state drive the first product. The USB 3.0 external SSD will be shown off at CES, and the partnership between flash-based storage experts OCZ and ...
Motherboards and Memory
OCZ
USB 3.0
SSD
Consumer Electronics Show
Japanese monitor makers Ilyama have released a new multi-touch enabled monitor for the UK. With touchscreens beginning to make a major splash following the release of the touch-friendly Windows 7, Ilyama has decided that the time is right to release the T2250MTS monitor. As the name suggests, ...
OS
Windows 7
BenQ has added a 19 inch and unusual 18.5inch 16:9 monitor to its 'Green' LED display lineup. BenQ states that the widescreen 18.5 inch G922HDL is the world's first in that particular size – priced at a fiver under £100. Sub £100 is also where the 16:10 G920WL is priced, albeit only by a ...
Other
IBM has announced that it has cancelled its plans to release an update to the Cell processor chip, which was meant to pack two PowerPC processors and 32 Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). The Cell processor is the thing that makes the PlayStation 3 the most powerful console on the planet ...
CPUs
IBM
Cell Processor
Have you read our coverage of AMD's new Radeon HD 5870 graphics card? If you have you'll already be marvelling at the sheer, giddy silliness of the frame rates it's capable of, not to mention basking in the glory of nearly three teraflops of raw processing power. It's simply the sexiest slice ...
OS
DirectX 11
MSI's next-gen H57 motherboard has appeared online, with the Clarkdale-ready board featuring a whole range of snazzy features. We have pictures of the H57M-ED65 uATX board – with a bigger brother clearly likely to surface at some point soon. The H57 board features DrMOS, Superpipe and, as you ...
Motherboards and Memory
Intel
Chip designer ARM is excited about the prospect of Google Chrome OS, according to the company's EVP of Marketing Ian Drew. Speaking to TechRadar after being name-checked by Google at the unveiling of Chrome OS , Drew admitted that he couldn't predict whether the revolutionary principles behind ...
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Chrome
AMD is on top of the graphics world right now. Its 48xx series has redefined gaming on a budget, while the brand new ATI Radeon HD 5870 is shredding all comers in the benchmarks stakes. Is AMD unbeatable? Not quite. The Radeon HD 5870 may be an incredible force of silicon-backed nature, but it ...
Video Cards
DirectX 11
TechRadar has teamed up with Asus to offer you the chance to give your PC some much-needed upgrades. You have the chance to win the brand-spanking-new Asus P7P55D-E Pro P55 motherboard, coupled with the ATI-powered EAH 4770 graphics card. The P7P55D-E Pro motherboard is one of the first ...
Motherboards and Memory
MSI has unveiled its flagship graphics card – with the R5970-P2D2G taking advantage of the latest AMD ATI technology and claiming to be the best performing product in the market. Boasting ATI Eyefinity – which allows you to connect multiple monitors – MSI has also packed in its own technology ...
Motherboards and Memory
AMD has announced the ATI Radeon HD 5970 – the fastest graphics card ever created, supporting Direct X 11 and immediately available in a host of Alienware PCs The Radeon HD 5970 supports AMD's new Eyefinity tech – meaning that multiple (in this case three) monitors can be connected together ...
Video Cards
Radeon HD 5970
AMD
Alienware
Dell
Area-51
AMD has announced the ATI Radeon HD 5970 – the fastest graphics card ever created, supporting Direct X 11 and immediately available in a host of Alienware PCs The Radeon HD 5970 supports AMD's new Eyefinity tech – meaning that multiple (in this case three) monitors can be connected together ...
Motherboards and Memory
AMD
Alienware
Dell
Area-51
Radeon HD 5970
OCZ has unleashed its Colossus 3.4 inch solid state drive series for high-end desktop users and enterprise clients. Announced in August , the Colossus series comes in sizes ranging from 120GB to 1TB, and boasts maximum read and write times of 260MB/s and a 1.5 million hours mean time between ...
