We examine the features of Intel's newest chipset and review the first motherboards to use the chipset.

We've put AMD and Intel’s new processors to the test, and there's one clear winner.

Squeeze that extra bit of power out of your existing hardware. Tim Dean looks at the principles of overclocking and examines the potential performance increase.

From budget laptops to ultra-tiny netbooks, ultraportables and high performance, we explain the tricks to finding out the ultimate laptop at the right price.

Prepare to say goodbye to the Pentium as we reveal the next generation

All the acronyms and obscure new technologies got you in a jargon jumble? Tim Dean busts it up to help us make sense of it all.

The Nehalem-based xeons are a landmark release, with exceptional performance married to great power.

The new quad line will go head to head with AMD's triple-core CPUs. Another reason to stick with Intel?

They’re faster than hard drives, and save battery life, but do they last? Intel says yes, and has 80GB and 160GB SSDs on the way.

Not very competitive on price, but there’s plenty of scope for performance

A feast of features for those willing to pay

Is Centrino 2 the leap ahead that Centrino was? Zara Baxter investigates.

What happens when multiple-core processors are no longer sufficient for our demands? Stuart Andrews looks at the future of CPUs.

Can Intel steal Phenom's performance thunder with this top-end quad core chip?

A hybrid spawn of Alien and Michael Bay’s Transformers – this 4TB, Quad Core predator from Acer shows no gaming fear.

Over a year ago, the PC Authority Labs team was speculating about the possible union of DDR-RAM with the Pentium 4 processor as an alternative to the problematic pairing with RDRAM. While many of the