Rumours of an ASUS -Gigabyte takeover scotched, but this is the next best thing.

Nick Ross gets gadget fever on day two - a laptop with a built in projector, Sapphire's latest, the Asus v Gigabyte fight, extreme cooling, 3D monitors, GPS, and the Eee-killing Acer One.

The P45 chipset takes the stability of the P35 chipset and introduces support for PCI Express 2.0 - the latest standard for graphic cards. If you were waiting for the best choice of upgrade for an existing LGA775 system, or want a board for a budget system, this is definitely the chipset of choice. It's great time to bag an upgrade. What better gift for the DIY geek in your household?

We’ve examined the data from more than 8000 readers to reveal exactly what sort of reliability, customer service and satisfaction you can expect in 2007.

Prepare to say goodbye to the Pentium as we reveal the next generation

Your photos, music and data are just a virus or hard disk failure away from oblivion. Build a triple-layer defence using PC Authority's practical guide.

The full set of results from Australia's biggest ever tech survey are now available online.

The results are in...

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

Breathe some life into your old PC in time for a Vista upgrade with these budget AGP video cards.

Our full guide to saving cash-saving secrets is here, from how to get discounts on PCs, to SIM only phone contracts, the best DSLR cameras deals, and discount licensing from Adobe, Microsoft and others.

Guarantee your data is secure by backing it up remotely. We test six of the most popular services.

Blu-ray takes another tentative step towards the mass market, but is now the time to buy?

Stuart Andrews shows you how to set up and maintain the perfect backup routine.

The best plans, the hidden costs, and is it really the best broadband deal on the market?

There are almost as many acronyms for the various standards of DVD as there are companies involved in DVD development.

More than 20,000 people voted for the best and worst technology in this year's Awards, including the best ISP, laptop brand, wireless router, and best online retailer. See who won and who lost.

Whether you're after something small, portable and cheap - such as the Creative Zen Mozaic - or something more fully featured, we've got the latest and greatest in portable music on test. The benchmark they all try to meet is the iPod Classic, which at $300 for 80GB of storage and 45 hours of audio battery life is still the clear leader.

Nick Ross is on the show floor in the Thunderdome of component-land - Taipei. Check out the pics.

Unlike a silicon CPU, the brain isnt a synchronous device that needs regular clock pulses to keep its operations in step, but we can get a sense of its effective clock speed by seeing how long it take