Custom design watercooling and some judicious overclocking make for a showstopping performance and price.

HP’s latest PC blends power, useful business features and a keen eye for detail

A very fast computer with decent features at a great price, whether for gaming or an all-round powerhouse

Beautifully engineered and constructed, the Mac Pro is also the fastest PC we’ve ever seen by some margin.

We’ve had some great competitors knocking on the mid-range A-Listed door, but TI’s all-rounder wins through.

A big brash, powerful pc with loads of features and a giant screen. It’s a good thing, because the orange case distracts from the DDR5’s true purpose: performance.

A monster PC thanks to some very high-end components. But it’s noisy and expensive.

A fast, quiet, good-looking PC that's great value.

A very fast, well-built high-end PC. But a few niggles and high price keep it off the A-List.

A few quirks can’t detract from the fact that this system is fast and good value

Quad-core makes it powerful and good value at the price. Noise and stability suffer though.

Nvidia’s 8800 GTX graphics card is the crowning glory of this very-fast, great-value, PC.

Very fast, but the top-end components offer poor value in the face of competition.

Excellent features and performance, but it’s pricey and you need a suitably powerful PC to make the most of it.

A Media Center Extender, upscaling DVD player and great games console

Some will prefer it to TI’s system, but a few quirks see it finishing in second place.

Powerful, well price and a worthy addition to the A-List. The PacStar Core i7 is a PC we wouldn't be unhappy to take home and spend the weekend gaming on

Fantastic design and highly-configurable power make this XPS useful, desirable and good value.

Incredibly fast and silent, too, but solid-state is still far too expensive for the mainstream.

An absolute steal at this price – great performance and superb value make this a must for next-gen WiFi junkies