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.

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

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

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.

Not great value for money, but the XPS 700 offers plenty of power and striking looks.

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

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

The dual-core version of AMD's premium FX-series enters the game, and nothing can stand in its way.

Look what four grand can buy you.

A good-value and very powerful system that will appeal to those seeking ultimate performance.

Aztec’s PC is a very different take on our $4000 PC A-List challenge.

We put out the call to Australia’s white box PC manufacturers for a good high-end $4000 PC and PC Express was the first to respond.

Our poor receptionist didn’t quite know what to do when Altech’s monolithic machine turned up. She had a point.

Small form factor (SFF) PCs now have their foot well and truly in the home entertainment and IT/CE crossover market due largely to their aesthetics, functionality and quietness of operating volume. Westan's Biostar product looks to continue along these lines, offering a multimedia PC with all the performance of AMD's 64-bit desktop processor architecture.

When we sent out the call for multimedia systems we were expecting notebooks and PCs capable of DVD playback and some basic gaming. Pioneer not only cleared this bar with their submission - they raised it.

If you're looking for a computer geared for gaming, the Vitesse is it. If you think that a Pentium 4C rumbling at 3GHz with a massive 1GB of DDR400 RAM has a nice ring to it, its gamers'-poetry when you add in a RADEON 9800 PRO.

Looking sleek and a little smaller than your average midi tower, the t134a sits on top of the Pavilion series. This machine is a powerful home/office PC – not rigged purely for gaming.

It's inside that you find a HyperThreaded Pentium 4 3GHz processor with an 800MHz FSB, plus a gig of DDR400 RAM in dual-channel configuration.