This is a game that pushes PC hardware to the limit, and puts so called ‘next-gen’ consoles to shame.

Ideal for a bedroom or kitchen, but it lacks the quality for streaming a music library.

The NIP-2000 is effectively a massive heatsink designed to siphon thermal energy from the bottom of hot-running notebooks and keep them performing optimally.

A great combination of features at an excellent price makes this our new A-List board - suitable for just about everyone.

What could have been the perfect RTS game is marred by poor performance.

The new Nikon D90, due to hit shelves in September, boasts unique 720p movie HD capabilities, a much improved sensor and surprisingly, a GPS option.

Sempron offers decent performance at rock-bottom prices for those on tight budgets.

Big screen HDTVs are beautiful, but if you’re looking for an upgrade at the moment, you will have come across the killer question: LCD or plasma?

Eye-catching, but the meagre specification and lack of features harm the Air’s prospects.

Portable and solid-sounding, it's a great iPod dock for the money

A capable little package at an attractive price

A training watch with amazingly advanced exercise-analysis tools

Certainly not a speed merchant, but it delivers plenty of backup facilities, good security and unique design concepts.

Very powerful and, with few features missing, it’s good value at the price.

TI's current workstation-class 3D graphics accelerators - dubbed X1 - are the company's latest effort to keep a hand in the high-end 3D graphics market. Consumer-level 3D hardware is now massively powerful, of course, but for all-out 3D performance and rock-solid driver integration you need a card dedicated to the purpose, and ATI claims the X1-128 is it.

The core of SATOs SS51G is an incredibly tiny Shuttle XPC. These bare-bones boxes have been on the market for close to six months now, and have proven effective (if not over-whelming) performers and a very popular choice for building a lounge-room PC for playing music and DVD movies.

The Sony SDM-X82B was one of the most consistent performers in this Labs, gaining clean passes in 16 out of our 19 test screens.

Yes, it’s bigger and dearer than ever, but it’s also the most usable and well-made Eee PC yet.

The battle for position in the palm-sized PC market is set to explode in the coming year, and Compaq is determined to lead

A real prizefighter of a laptop: powerful, well-built and reasonably mobile, too