Components

By Darren Allan AMD has unleashed a new range of processors which bring the company’s Bristol Ridge tech – previously seen on mobile CPUs – to desktop PCs. The seventh-generation AMD Pro processors are APUs (accelerated processing units) meaning they have built-in graphics, and they’re targeted at businesses, and will be available in HP and…

By Kane Fulton Best PC gaming headset Updated: We’ve added the HyperX Cloud Stinger to our shortlist of the best gaming headsets you can buy today No PC gamer worth their kill/death ratio would skimp on a decent headset. Arguably more important than a mechanical 6. HyperX Cloud Stinger Great sound at a price for…

By Darren Allan HyperX has unleashed what it claims is the best budget gaming headset going in the form of the Cloud Stinger. The company reckons that the peripheral will make any casual gamer feel like a pro, boasting a high quality sound and an impressive level of comfort which comes for a price tag…

By Darren Allan HyperX has unleashed what it claims is the best budget gaming headset going in the form of the Cloud Stinger. The company reckons that the peripheral will make any casual gamer feel like a pro, boasting a high quality sound and an impressive level of comfort which comes for a price tag…

By Darren Allan Logitech has unleashed the C922 Pro Stream webcam, with which the company aims to cater for the needs of serious game streamers without breaking the bank. Of course, you want to look your best when streaming to your Twitch or YouTube audience, and we don’t mean making sure you’ve done your hair…

By Kevin Lee Razer has introduced a new pair of headsets with the Kraken 7.1 V2 and the Kraken Pro V2. As the name might suggest, the Kraken 7.1 V2 is Razer’s second generation 7.1 surround sound headset. While it doesn’t offer a true surround sound space, Razer claims its virtualization technology grants gamers complete…

By Darren Allan The Surface range is going great guns these days, so why wouldn’t Microsoft want to expand it beyond detachable tablets? It would certainly make sense to push the name, and beyond news of an all-in-one Surface PC, there is now word of a Surface-branded keyboard. This speculation comes from a listing, spotted…

By Lewis Leong Self-driving cars are the future, and Nvidia wants in. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced today at the inaugural GPU Technology Conference Europe that the company is developing a simplified supercomputer that can power self-driving cars. The supercomputer, called Xavier, is a system-on-chip (SoC) design that features both CPU and GPU on a single…

By Mike Jennings Introduction It’s tempting to dismiss PC cases as big black boxes, but that’s dismissing huge swathes of the market – and one of your system’s most important components. There’s a huge amount of variety and quality in every corner of the market. At the top are the full-tower behemoths that can house…

By Darren Allan In the battle of increasingly affordable SSDs, Toshiba has a new weapon in the form of a fresh range of value-oriented drives. Toshiba’s OCZ TL100 series comes in 120GB and 240GB capacities, and it’s nippy enough for a budget SSD with sequential read speeds of up to 550MB/s and writes of up…

By Kane Fulton Making magic takes time, you know Some say Apple perfected the keyboard in 2007. We’re not one of them, which is why we’ve spent more money than we care to think about getting my supple digits accustomed to different Mac keyboards throughout the years. The Cupertino, California-based firm pulled off a one-two…

By Kevin Lee On the heels of introducing its Mecha-Membrane Ornata keyboard, Razer is also introducing custom-made mechanical switches to the DeathAdder Elite. The new flagship gaming mouse comes with new mechanical switches designed to shorten the lag time between actuations while increasing durability to 50-million clicks. At the same time, the DeathAdder Elite has…

By Gary Marshall Introduction In the fifty-odd years since its invention we’ve seen the humble mouse improve considerably, with the addition of weight systems, laser sensors and masses of buttons and flashing lights. The best mice combine all these elements in sleek, ergonomic shells or have a unique selling point that justifies their consideration. Choosing…

By Darren Allan It seems that when it comes to Apple’s computers, there may soon be a switch in the company providing discrete graphics solutions, with Nvidia potentially set to step in. While the majority of Macs simply run with integrated graphics courtesy of Intel’s processors, those beefier models (or custom configured affairs) which do…

By Duncan Geere The amount of data storage it’s possible to cram onto the same area of magnetic hard drive platter rises every year – we’re fast approaching multiple terabytes per square centimetre. As it does, a problem arises. Hard drives are a bit like vinyl records, y’see. Data is stored in the magnetic equivalent…