Desktops

By Phil Iwaniuk If you’ve had the pleasure of trying out Kingston’s superlative HyperX Cloud headset and sampled its thunderous bass, you’d say its 53mm driver units were big enough to power any gaming audio kit. The industry, however, apparently disagrees. We’ve had Asus with its Strix Pro boasting 60mm drivers and now Turtle Beach…

By Les Pounder When the Raspberry Pi appeared In 2012 few could have envisaged how popular the Raspberry Pi would be. In the years after its release the Raspberry Pi has become the most popular single-board computer on the market and spawned many imitators, but none with the rich community that has grown organically around…

By Les Pounder When the Raspberry Pi appeared In 2012 few could have envisaged how popular the Raspberry Pi would be. In the years after its release the Raspberry Pi has become the most popular single-board computer on the market and spawned many imitators, but none with the rich community that has grown organically around…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction With the launch of Haswell-E, Intel has introduced three new desktop processors and an updated chipset to support them, called X99. Although the new chips are based on a similar 2011-pin layout to the previous Ivy Bridge-E enthusiast processors, these processors are not backwards compatible with older generation motherboards. If you…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction With the launch of Haswell-E, Intel has introduced three new desktop processors and an updated chipset to support them, called X99. Although the new chips are based on a similar 2011-pin layout to the previous Ivy Bridge-E enthusiast processors, these processors are not backwards compatible with older generation motherboards. If you…

By Mike Jennings Introduction and features Introduction Toshiba has become one of the biggest names in business laptops thanks to its wide range of effective, no-nonsense office systems, and its latest attempt to nail the ideal corporate portable comes from the Satellite Pro R50-B-12U. This system includes a Core i5 processor inside a slim body…

By Mike Jennings Introduction and features Introduction Toshiba has become one of the biggest names in business laptops thanks to its wide range of effective, no-nonsense office systems, and its latest attempt to nail the ideal corporate portable comes from the Satellite Pro R50-B-12U. This system includes a Core i5 processor inside a slim body…

By Dave James We’ve seen some outstanding monitors appear recently. From the massive-o-monitor that is the Philips BDM4065UC to the wide-screen awesomeness of the LG 34UM95, we’ve had some great new screens hit our test benches. What we haven’t seen recently though are any budget-oriented screens, just high-spec panels. So what do you do if…

By Dave James We’ve seen some outstanding monitors appear recently. From the massive-o-monitor that is the Philips BDM4065UC to the wide-screen awesomeness of the LG 34UM95, we’ve had some great new screens hit our test benches. What we haven’t seen recently though are any budget-oriented screens, just high-spec panels. So what do you do if…

By Alan Stevens Introduction Introduction On the face of it the OfficeJet Pro 6830 appears to offer just about everything the small business could want when it comes printing, scanning, copying and, should the need still arise, even faxing documents, and all for less than £100 inc taxes (around $156, AUS$190). It can also print…

By Alan Stevens Introduction Introduction On the face of it the OfficeJet Pro 6830 appears to offer just about everything the small business could want when it comes printing, scanning, copying and, should the need still arise, even faxing documents, and all for less than £100 inc taxes (around $156, AUS$190). It can also print…

By Kevin Lee Introduction and design Chrome OS has revolutionized the way we look at “inexpensive” and “capable” in the computing world. After producing some truly long lasting laptops, including the Acer Chromebook 13, the Taiwanese electronics maker has turned its attention to desktops with the Chromebox CXI. No bigger than most wireless routers, the…

By Kevin Lee Introduction and design Chrome OS has revolutionized the way we look at “inexpensive” and “capable” in the computing world. After producing some truly long lasting laptops, including the Acer Chromebook 13, the Taiwanese electronics maker has turned its attention to desktops with the Chromebox CXI. No bigger than most wireless routers, the…

By Dave James The words ‘Sound’ and ‘Blaster’ are as indelibly etched into our old-school PC gaming psyche as ‘autoexec.bat’ and ‘config.sys’. We spent unknowable hours configuring DOS-based games to make sure we got compatible audio out of them. Sound Blaster basically became synonymous with PC gaming audio right from the outset. And then onboard…

By Dave James The words ‘Sound’ and ‘Blaster’ are as indelibly etched into our old-school PC gaming psyche as ‘autoexec.bat’ and ‘config.sys’. We spent unknowable hours configuring DOS-based games to make sure we got compatible audio out of them. Sound Blaster basically became synonymous with PC gaming audio right from the outset. And then onboard…