In the market for a new gaming rig for playing the latest games? PC Authority has the answer to your gaming performance woes with five of the hottest machines around.

Great gaming performance has never been so affordable. We test 22 current cards from Nvidia and ATI to find what works and what doesn't

The first place to start tweaking is your BIOS. Enter your BIOS by hitting a key combination on system boot (look out for F1, Del etc). A word of warning though, the BIOS is a very powerful tool, but can cause damage if pushed the wrong way.

All the current chipsets from both the big gaming guns – ATi and Nvidia – tested, reviewed and rated.

From Celerons to Core i7s, Semprons to Phenom IIs, David Bayon tests Mainsteam desktop processors and finds the best budget, mid-range and enthusiast (gaming) choice for you.

Speed up your home network with these wireless routers, including faster speeds, better gaming and VoIP handling and automatic security.

How much notebook will $2500 actually buy you? The PC Authority Labs team investigates.

Play your video, photo and music files on your TV from a networked PC. We put five network players to the test

Notebooks have been an essential tool for the workforce for years and are becoming a popular entertainment platform. While it’s rare that you’ll find a portable workstation that provides enough grunt for gaming, Intel may just have the answer with its new breed of mobile technolgy – Sonoma.

At last, the days of 56K modem connections to the Internet are over. There can be no doubt that the Internet has a lot to offer, both for home and business users, and it is also a simple fact that you

All the power of a desktop PC in a fraction of the space. We put a selection of desktop replacements to the test.

All the power of a desktop PC in a fraction of the space. We put a selection of desktop replacements to the test.

Why bother buying a big screen that takes up part of your wall, when you can buy a cheap projector and take up the entire wall?

We've taken seven top business PCs and run them through their paces to find out which should be your next upgrade.

Are you kicking around an old clunky PC that looks like a relic from the Stone Age? Google Zeitgeist (www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html) tells us that while Windows XP accounted for 46 percent of the OSs used to search Google during February 2004, 24 percent were still using Windows 98 and Windows 95, indicating there are still a lot of late-1990s PCs kicking around. Even if you’re running something from the 1GHz days, it’s probably time to think about an upgrade. But it can easily get to the point where you’re upgrading just about every component. In that case, you should seriously consider looking at the excellent bargains available in new PCs today.

Early last year we predicted that 2003 would be the year of the TFT, and we were proven right. TFT prices tumbled to affordable levels, and for the first time TFTs were arriving that had comparable quality to CRTs.

This month the Labs team cast a critical eye over the latest Intel Pentium 4-based desktop replacement notebooks. Traditionally, desktop replacement means fully-featured, premium notebooks with

Finding a good PC or notebook for the family is not as hard as you might think. PC Authority  puts the latest models to the test.

Will home media centres do to the entertainment industry what video did to the radio star? With new technology reshaping our lounges, homes could soon become fully functional media hubs.

The 19" LCD fits now represents outstanding value for money, and is so much nicer to use than a 17" screen. We round up and test the best.