So there you are, sitting around with three and a half grand in your back pocket, and you want a fast PC. Not just any old fast PC, mind you, but a scorching, frame-busting, games machine. ...

The eMachines brand started life as a budget Internet sales PC company which flourished for a while but was snapped up in 2004 by Gateway. Its PCs are now sold through major retailers like PC World, ...

Compaq's latest addition to the Presario range is pitched at a market segment that is already heaving with products, supplied by companies ranging from the big corporates like Dell down to the smallest OEM in a ...

The Esaw Mini 110 is a complete PC, crammed into a case the size of a slightly longer than usual 5.25-inch CD drive. It manages to squeeze a 1.4Ghz Intel Celeron M processor, up to 1GB ...

So you want a mini PC but don't want to go down the Mac mini route? Well, help is at hand thanks to AOpen and Evesham. But there is a cloud on the horizon, and in ...

Shuttle, the company that has kept the Cube PC concept alive and kicking for many years, has now produced one of the best 'Media Center' PCs currently available, the stunning looking XPC M1000 Media Centre, based ...

American PC manufacturer Gateway, which recently took over the eMachines brand, has launched a couple of desktop PCs in the UK that are designed for buyers with a fairly limited budget, yet who still want to ...

Not so long ago, the only choice you had if you wanted a dual CPU system was to go down the Intel route or be tied to IBM. Not so any longer. AMD's Opteron is steadily ...

Dell's OptiPlex range of desktops has been the mainstay of the company's business and corporate PC operation for many years, constantly being updated to bring the latest technologies to the end user. The latest addition to ...

All-in-One PCs have been around for while, but while the ideal is sound enough the execution has more often than not been a let-down, and none (with the exception of Apple's iMac) ever seems to have ...

The base price of a desktop PC has to include around £70 for a copy of Windows, making it hard to buy at much below £350. Well, that's the received wisdom, but in practice there's another ...

Small form factor (SFF) PCs are becoming ever more popular. This is partly for reasons of size - after all, why have a huge beige tower when you only really need a small black oblong - ...

The Sony VGC-V2S is one of a new breed of PC that looks like a large TFT display with a keyboard and mouse attached, but which has no actual PC tower because the PC hardware is ...

For the EZ-Buddie 3000, Hi-Grade has taken a small form factor ECS EZ-Buddie barebones system and added some decent hardware. The resulting system has a good stab at being an all-round media centre PC. Powering the ...

It's a sign of how far SFF (Small Form Factor) PCs have come when some of the major system builders start using them as a base for their product lines. Evesham's e-style range is based around ...

The people at Dell are past masters at watching a market segment grow and, when they deem the time is right, launching a product and muscling their way in to try to get the segment leader ...

First there was ISA, then PCI, then AGP and now PCI Express. The evolution of the graphics interface in PCs reflects the increasing importance of fast graphics for games, video editing and digital photography (but mainly ...

The simplistic look of the AOpen case on Carrera's new cube system belies the interesting mix of components inside. The single 5.25-inch drive bay contains an NEC DVD rewriter which records at up to 8x, but ...

Watford has gone for a mini-tower case to house its Aries Prefecta 5100 Pro 120. This doesn't decrease its footprint, of course, just its height, and isn't the only unconventional choice here. It's the only system, ...

NetHighStreet appears to have squeezed more from its budget than any of the others. This is most apparent from the front panel of its beige midi-tower case, which holds both a DVD rewriter and a secondary ...