Components

By Mike Jennings It’s no good if you’re in the middle of some important work or an intensive gaming session and your laptop starts to slow down or even crash. If that’s happened to you before – or you’re worried it might in the future – then it’s worth investing in a laptop cooler. These…

By Dan Grabham,Matt Hanson NAS (Network Attached Storage) essentially connects a hard drive to your router via an Ethernet cable (often fast Gigabit Ethernet), therefore creating a storage share that can be accessed by your desktop PC, your tablet and sometimes even remotely. They tend to be platform-agnostic, able to work with almost any device…

By Darren Allan Were you thinking of getting a new graphics card, and also bagging Watch Dogs 2 when it comes out on the PC next week? Well, now’s the time to strike with a nifty deal which bundles a free copy of the game with some of Nvidia’s new Pascal-based video cards. Anyone who…

By Desire Athow Even in a world replenished by the wonders of cloud computing, the external disk drive, or HDD for short, has its place. With desktops on the wane and laptops favoring quick and mobile SSDs over high capacities, our virtual file cabinets are running out of space for not only our original files…

By Kane Fulton Logitech has been making keyboards for many years now and, like its mice, cater to everyone from desk-bound professional office workers to gamers who rely on their sharp reflexes to be victorious online. Whether you’re looking for a keyboard that pairs with several devices including your tablets and smartphones, a smartly-designed board…

By Kane Fulton Logitech is one of the oldest mouse makers around having outed its first computer mouse, the P4 Mouse, back in 1982. Today the company has you covered for just about any activity. There’s both wired and wireless options for gamers, alongside larger mice with highly precise sensors designed for productivity, and smaller…

By Joe Osborne Just look at that thing. The folks at Geek Seek went and built an insane, all-AMD gaming PC shaped and style like a minigun. In a homemade video, the younger of the two Geek Seek guys describes wanting a black-and-red color scheme for the build, thus his choice in graphics and processor.…

By Seth Macy Building your own PC is a rewarding experience for anyone interested in computers. The process of picking components and then assembling them into a working computer is probably the easiest it’s ever been. In fact, when it comes to building a PC, the trickiest part might just be getting all the disparate…

By Desire Athow Despite the rise of cloud and solid state storage, demand for hard disk drives has never been so high. Regardless of whether they are internal or external hard disk drives, businesses and end-users can’t get enough of them. The arrival of ultra-high definition content delivered via personal devices like smartphones means that…

By Joe Osborne Look, despite being PC gamers, not all of us have gaming rigs that we’re immensely proud of. At least not proud enough to show them off on Instagram. Even yours truly, an editor on a technology outlet, no less, has a gaming PC that, well, “gets the job done” – the thing…

By Joe Osborne If you’re a true PC games fan, you understand and respect the pride in a player’s setup, even if you don’t feel it yourself. If a gamer wants to show off where they get in their frags and in what kind of style, that’s fine. That was the same kind of logic…

By Darren Allan You may have noticed some new Nvidia drivers have just popped up, but it would seem like the best course of action is not to update right now, as the company has acknowledged a number of problems including an issue which seriously messes with memory clock speeds on certain graphics cards. Nvidia…

By Darren Allan If you’re in the market for a good mechanical keyboard, then Razer’s BlackWidow Ultimate could put some bite into your gaming skills without wounding your wallet given that it’s currently £69.99. The peripheral has a recommended price of £135, so with this discount, it’s almost half price. You can buy the Razer…

By Darren Allan Rumor has it that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be launched at the beginning of next year at CES, and the latest from the graphics card grapevine is that this powerful card will carry 10GB of video RAM. This comes courtesy of Videocardz.com which spotted a shipping listing for an unnamed…

By Darren Allan Research is underway to develop processors which can help to sniff out viruses, providing another line of defence against malware aside from traditional antivirus software. The project, which is a partnership between researchers at Binghamton University and UC Riverside over in the US, has just received a grant of $275,000 (around £220,000,…