Dan's Olympian 1.5 P4 is a powerful, if very expensive, well-built system that's aimed at the grey area between high-level business use and entry-level workstation territory. Most of the high price comes from the P4's reliance ...

The Performance is a power desktop with enough leisure-orientated features to qualify it as an all-rounder, suitable for spreadsheets and shoot -'em-ups alike. It's based on a 1.4GHz Pentium 4, teamed up with Intel's 850 motherboard ...

Okay, serious buyers only need apply here. If you're the sort of person who drives a Fiesta but likes to take a Ferrari or some other monster manhood extension for a test drive at the weekend ...

Based around a Pentium 933MHz PIII, the Tiny Powerhouse Pro is housed in a stylish micro-tower case and is also available in desktop format. It's a shame that you still need to attack the case with ...

Despite the mouthful of a name, the Systemax P933RV is a well-built system with some good, sensible component choices. On opening the case, which unfortunately is not tool-free, the interior is tidily laid out with all ...

The Elite 933B from Mesh is a well-specified system, but it appears to be aimed more at the business market than the corporate market. There's no manageability software, for example, and there are no security features ...

No corporate PC group test would be complete without a system from Big Blue and, since we strive for completeness, here it is. Built to the normal high quality we've come to expect from the IBM ...

One of the bigger players in the corporate marketplace, Hewlett Packard's desktops tend to be well-built systems with specialised features that set them apart from the pack. The Vectra VL400 continues that trend and is the ...

The Optiplex line of corporate PCs has always had one of the best desktop cases around, and the GX150SD takes this one step forward with a new clamshell-style design. The new black case flips open with ...

For those among you with limited desk space, the latest version of the all-in-one NetVista range, the X40, may be worth a gander. It may look like an LCD panel with a larger than normal stand, ...

If your idea of a top-spec PC is a complete package, rather than just the PC itself, you should look seriously at this Time offering. Starting with a typical tower-cased PC based on a 1.1GHz Athlon ...

The main competitor in price and specification to the Evesham machine is this Matrix 1100T from Mesh. Like the Evesham system, it's based around an Athlon processor, though this one is a 1.1GHz device, with 256MB ...

Evesham's 1200 GTS Ultra is a very well specified PC, with nearly all the components you could want in the proper places. The core system is based around a fast 1.2GHz Athlon processor with 256MB of ...

The first thing you notice about Dell's Dimension 4100 system is its LCD screen. This is a fully flat screen, like you'd see in a notebook, but considerably bigger than would squeeze into any portable's lid. ...

Compaq likes to keep its ideas for a top-spec consumer PC in proportion. The Presario 7EL 7000T is one of the top models in its range, but it's still not going to cost you several important ...

When you say 'money is no object', you really have to mean it with this Armari system, although it's not, strictly speaking, a consumer system unless you're seriously into making and editing home movies. The company ...

There is a market for systems that offer workstation power at a reasonable cost, without relying on a multi-processor platform. Compaq's new Deskpro Workstation 300 is aimed directly at this market. Powered by a 1.4GHz Pentium ...

IBM's NetVista range of PCs is available in a variety of flavours, with different displays, processors, software and other components. The one we looked at, the A40, is aimed at the SME (small- to medium-sized enterprise) ...

Nothing serves so well to illustrate the progress AMD has made against its arch-rival Intel than something like the NEC Direction SM-1200A+. One of the first of its kind, the Direction features the new double data ...

Null points for the name, which is as cheesy as they come, and conjures up images of 1980s arcade games. But this system from Best Price has a lot going for it; don't judge a PC ...