Mention the word ‘Alienware' to any hardened PC gamer and inevitably a strange change comes over their battle-hardened features: a misty longing appears in their eyes, their jaw starts a slow drop to the floor and ...

Here's a neat trick. In addition to being “ultra-slim”, the latest member of the HP Compaq dc7800 family can be made to almost disappear. OK, maybe not, but it can be made to take up hardly ...

PC Specialist is a Yorkshire-based company that specialises in custom built personal computers. We say Yorkshire-based, but really the organisation is Internet-based with no retail premises. The theory is this keeps overheads down, and using hefty ...

With many other companies now seizing the small form factor initiative, times have been a bit tougher for Shuttle of late. But its latest release, the SG33G6 Deluxe Barebone PC, shows why its products remain held ...

Here is a health warning - under no circumstances should you attempt to remove Evesham's Cosmos Gaming PC from its packaging without the assistance of at least two sturdy friends. Fortunately the space-age, ultra-sexy, silver, Cooler ...

If you were looking to buy an overclocked, liquid-cooled, fire-breathing gaming system, whose name badge would you expect to see on it? Very few would opt for Dell, but that's exactly what Dell's flagship XPS 720 ...

When Intel launched its quad core processors they were aimed at the enthusiast, costing so much money that the rest of us mere mortals could only look on and sigh. But thanks to some frankly insane ...

The m8070 is a stylish addition to HP's Pavilion Media Center range of PCs and features a quad core processor, 2GB of memory, plenty of storage for your media files and Vista Home Premium, all housed ...

If you know your Intel product codes then you will know by the code number of Hi-Grade's Tachyon which CPU it uses. For the rest of us (i.e. the non-anoraks), it's powered by Intel's entry model ...

Not everybody wants a thumping great PC on their desktop and there's a growing trend to provide slimline or low profile PCs as alternatives to the standard mini-tower. Evesham's Prestige VP Plus is one such system ...

Packard Bell's iMedia 8500T is the latest in a long line of reasonably well-featured systems for the home user, but at £700 for just the base unit it's also very expensive and you can't really see ...

HP's latest personal workstation series, the xw6400, is aimed at mid-range business users and, housed in a new mini-tower case, it's ideal where desk space is at a premium yet a system with plenty of grunt ...

Yet another high powered, high spec system from Chillblast and yes, it does carry a high price tag. But that's no more than you'd expect from a system built around Intel's quad core CPU, a case ...

If you're thinking about upgrading your complete system, or buying an off-the-shelf Vista machine, then Mesh's Elite E6600 Express isn't a bad place to start, offering a decent blend of features, hardware and price. Housed in ...

The eMachines range is the budget brand from a newly reinvigorated Gateway and the E3042, while not a technology leader, certainly leads on price. You can buy this machine for £199 without a monitor or £299 ...

Chillbast is well known for producing stunning systems, in terms of both performance and low noise - and also, it has to be said, price. Part of the Fusion range, the new Tsunami 8800 C2D is ...

We all know that the phrase "world's first" is very short-lived when it comes to PC technology, so it's easy to raise a sardonic eyebrow when Evesham uses the phrase in connection with its new desktop ...

Businesses that deal with masses amounts of data, and creative people who are involved in design, modelling and animation, may be interested to learn that Evesham has come up with a custom-made workstation that should take ...

So, just what kind of desktop PC do you get if you only have a budget of £500? Well, if you choose the Zoostorm 1-3301 Economy PC you'll get a neat Micro ATX-cased PC, powered by ...

There are plenty of barebones Micro PC chassis around, where you just add drives, but few are built into the back of an LCD monitor. ENlight's LP772 LCD PC chassis is designed this way and the ...