To kick-start the series we're going to begin, as it were, at the top – with the fine art of motherboard and CPU installation. Whether you're building your machine anew, or upgrading your current one with more powerful components, the following guide will help make installing these two key components a breeze.

Want to perform an extreme makeover of your system's motherboard, processor, memory or hard disk? We'll show you how.

The In Win o3 case is a solid effort worth some merit, but is let down by a few key internal design flaws and a rattle effect loud enough to shake your senses.

System case - AOpen ATX Midi tower case or Lian Le midi tower aluminium case. As discussed earlier (see Case closed), the system case is an important consideration when building a

It might not look like a serious case, but it’s got some chops where it counts, and for the price, it definitely has us impressed.

A generic, value case for of mum and dad buyers only. And even then, that’s pushing it....

The In Win B2 Stealth Bomber case goes for Top Gun thrills, but ultimately lacks the grunt to make it off the runway.

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A thin and versatile media PC case, with enough space for almost any piece of high end componentry.

A budget case that delivers almost everything you’d want at a great price.

Austere is the new brash, and nothing yells 'look at me' more than understated elgance.

What kind of case do you need for extreme four-GPU graphics intensity?

The humble beige box is an area of PC hardware that many people overlook. However, the quality of system cases varies significantly, and a bad design can cause no end of problems in the long run. Unfo

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Was the underdog unfairly crippled in its quest to get chips in PCs? No says Intel, AMD chips just aren't as good.

It’s one of the facts of the gaming hobbyist’s life: cutting edge games require cutting edge hardware. It’s as set in stone as Moore’s Law (which is itself now 40 years old). Every 12 to 18 months you need to upgrade or get left behind. Our contenders this month make a very good case for starting with a clean slate, and none more so than this month’s winner, the Modtech Civic-64FX.

If you've ever wondered what the difference would be between a system you buy off-the-shelf, and the same system overclocked, Trinity International Computers sent us two systems that answer exactly that question

With the increasing size of operating systems, games and the broadband smorgasbord of music and movies, it's just a matter of time before that dreaded message box pops up to tell you just how little space you have left.