The entire industry is moving towards dual-core technology, but why? Tim Dean looks at some of the reasons for the shift.

In many ways Itanium represents a change for Intel. Having dominated the desktop PC processor market, the company hopes that its 64-bit silicon will become the de facto choice in the next generation o

New update integrates OpenJDK and adds virtualisation enhancements.

Intel’s announcement that it would finally release its own 64-bit extension to developers next US fiscal quarter has raised eyebrows at rival chip-maker AMD.

Move over, XBox. Officials from The Guinness Book of World Records recently confirmed the highest number of players ever recorded on a single game server at the DreamHack Winter 2004 festival. DreamHack, in Jnkping, Sweden, is the world's largest LAN party and game festival.

Slim and stylish, this isn’t the most powerful quad core we’ve seen, but it’s by far the cheapest.

A mighty dual-GPU board that makes light work of even today’s toughest DirectX 10 games.

A mighty dual-GPU board that makes light work of even today’s toughest DirectX 10 games

Benchmarking PCs is a tricky business. You need to ensure that you stress the systems, but also that the results you get will be relevant in the real world. Previously we have relied heavily on BAPCo's SYSmark2002 for simulating home and office use, with programs such as Excel, Word, Outlook, and web content through Adobe Premiere and Macromedia Dreamweaver. However, due to SYSmark's history of instability as well as the sheer length of time it takes to complete a run, we have put it on the backburner in favour of PCMark04 for this Labs.

Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

Can't handle gaming and beaten by cheaper media cards too.

Scottish supercomputer said to be ten times more energy-efficient.

It may be affordable, but we’d rather spend a little more to guarantee some genuine gaming ability

Offering bags of gaming power for an attractive price, the GeForce 8600 series is an enticing prospect.

An exciting glimpse at future performance, but by the time games appear to make them worth buying, the price will have plummeted.

For a US$34 billion company with almost 90 percent market share, it might be inappropriate to call Intel "the comeback kid".

Emagens entry is a fairly mixed system, with some excellent and some average features

Both graphics card giants have unleashed powerful new additions to their ranks recently, and their battle for supremacy is hotter than ever. We put the new arrivals through their paces

One gigabyte of RAM is enough to get most applications running smoothly, but should you buy the cheapest or the fastest?