Will AMD blow its lead again in graphics? An analysis of the current state of play in the race for processor and graphics superiority

Intel has released a short animated video illustrating the process by which sand is turned into silicon and a CPU. But the over-simplicity has us leaning towards AMD's older and more interesting video

Here's what's in store for 2010, including Intel's big gun - the Clarkdale CPU - and the highly anticipated new netbook platform

Nothing incredible in terms of design, but it’s an impressively cheap way to get quad-core in your PC.

Test and examine your new PC

A stunning piece of design matched with excellent battery life, but with an Atom inside the price is surely too high

Run Windows or another OS on your Mac

AMD is opening the champers after its six-core AMD Opteron processor based system was named as the world's most powerful supercomputer.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has put together a supercomputer that's based around a cluster of graphics processing units (GPUs)

Defragment your hard drives

Keep your system tuned and drive optimised with this toolkit

The m15x is another out-of-this-world laptop design from Alienware. Is it onto something, or just on another planet?

Quit unresponsive tasks before you reset your system

Some of the wildest, weirdest and most useful gadgets and gizmos for kids - or big kids at heart

Give your PC a performance boost

A stunning piece of design to rival any Apple offering, and the price is surprisingly reasonable

It’s not cheap, but it’s powerful and cleverly constructed to make the most of the components.