ATI finally brings usable multi-monitor technology to the mainstream gamer, but is it any good? Ian Jackson shares his thoughts in his special report…

Sennheiser is a brand with a sterling reputation for audio products, so there’s a degree of quality we’ve come to expect even from something as simple as this headset. The PC 300 G4ME isn’t short on features or build quality, so we weren’t disappointed when we opened the pocket-sized, magnetically sealed case to a very functional pair of ear buds…

Lefties haven’t been left out of Roccat’s latest innovative gaming mouse design. Ben Biggs lines Roccat’s latest innovation up against the competition. Read on to find out how it fared…

It’s nearly 30 per cent cheaper than its bigger brother the HD 5870, but is it 30 per cent slower? Russell Barnes tests HIS's latest high end DirectX 11 card to find out…

To avoid going insane, Luis Villazon keeps taking the tablets 1. Be not a skinflint Trying to network on the cheap is the single biggest cause of LAN hassle. I’m talking about that horrible, Indonesian, no-name, two-port router that you thought was all you would ever need and those scabby Cat5 cables with no sleeve at the connectors. Cheap components like these make your network more complicated, less reliable and harder to troubleshoot. Overspecifying your kit at the start will ...

Rock’s latest Xtreme desktop replacement sets its sights on Alienware, but can it compete?

Everyone messes up their backups. If we even bother at all, we back up the wrong data or we put it in the wrong place or we do it at the wrong time. When people ask me to take a look at their broken PC, Ialways ask if everything is backed up, just in case something goes wrong. Without exception, the reply is ...

Computers are deterministic machines. Logic gates are open or closed, bits are one or zero, algorithms march implacably from one program instruction to the next. When things go wrong, they generally go wrong in a deterministic way: if you plug this in, smoke comes out the back and when you unplug it, the smoke clears. This is the cornerstone of PC troubleshooting. We isolate the error by reproducing it and so identify the piece we need to replace or patch or uninstall or upgrade…

Most people treat a PC like a sofa. You buy the best one you can afford and it’s strictly no shoes or snacks for the first six weeks. After that, things gradually slip until four years later, the dog is sleeping on it and there are suspicious stains on the underside of all the cushions…

When Vista was first released, Microsoft was brazen enough to list 512MB of RAM as the minimum requirement. By minimum, it meant that you wouldn’t actually be tried as a war criminal at the International Court of Justice in the Hague if you booted Vista with this much RAM…

MESH, the popular maker of PCs for home, business and gamers has recently announced immediate availability of a new 'customer-friendly PC' that's affordable, stacked with features and designed to sit in your lounge and used with your existing HDTV.

Arbico certainly knows how to put together a sub-£1000 gaming PC. It boasts many of the same manufacturers and options you’d see in much more expensive base-units, yet it has worked hard to push the price down. One of the ways it’s done this is by working with AMD’s Phenom II platform. It’s still the cheaper option up against Intel’s i7 platform, but there are compromises to consider…

Thermaltake has been producing cases and peripherals for PC since 1999. A large part of its business is gaming cases – usually on the more elaborate side. We won’t be burning any bridges to say that its usual customer is the younger gamer looking for ‘go faster stripes’ and a somewhat more garish finish, perhaps to match their tricked-out Vauxhall Nova. The Element S is a distinct departure from this…

We don’t often receive ‘complete’ systems for review these days, so it was something of a rare treat to get a fully fledged rig – complete with LCD screen, keyboard and mouse – from Mesh recently. Its Elite Ice 7 is rarer still when you look at the price tag…

NowGamer.com has the inside scoop on an impressive piece of console technology from a major manufacturer, due to hit our shelves within the next couple of years. It incorporates Natal, solid state technology and incredibly, an integrated handheld! Read the feature here - and remember folks, you heard it on NowGamer.com first!