A great way to extend your desktop once you’re out of DVI ports

A vibrant gaming LCD, but it becomes jarring in everyday use

Graphics card manufacturers’ obsession with multi-GPU boards continues this month. The Asus HD 3850 X2 brings to market the novel formula of two ATi Radeon 3850 GPUs on one card.

Classy looks and light weight make for a fine ultraportable, but it’s got some tough competition.

A teaser of a great workhorse PC, we just hope Asus can get the price down on release.

A genuine step forward for the laptop, with unbelievable capabilities for the price, plus an ultra-low weight.

A useful card for more relaxed gaming, and a quiet cooler to boot.

Great audio, but gaming ability hinges on the success of Dolby and DTS

An incredibly light and practical notebook for frequent travellers, but not without its quirks.

Packed with extras to target some of Vista’s interesting new features, but it isn’t quite the marvel we were hoping for.

This early Nforce 570 for Intel board lacks luxuries and speed compared to Intel chipsets, but boasts a good price.

Nvidia's first HDMI graphics card, complete with HDCP compatibility and decent performance.

A laptop of luxury, but practicality suffers and you pay a hefty premium.

With CrossFire performance more erratic than SLI, and NVIDIA outgunning ATI with its Shader Model 3 cards, it's hard to recommend this board.

A potentially stunning card -- but don't buy one just yet.

Stylish and packed with features, it is not the cheapest 12 inch notebook available. This said, if you simply must have the features on offer inside this 'book, then this notebook does it all with style.

For such a high specification machine with a large display, we didn’t have high expectations of battery life. We were wrong. Not only is this one of the best looking and functional notebooks we’ve played with in some time, but this notebook managed to stay operating at full load with a looping productivity test for well over three and a half hours – enough for students, road warriors and home users.

We love hardware. As users ourselves we feel your pangs of wanting the newest, fastest rig and components. Unfortunately it's hard to justify the cost of bleeding-edge hardware at the best of times - more so with the cost of single graphics cards at times exceeding the $1000 price barrier. This is as much as some users would spend on a total system upgrade.

Devices that attach storage to the network aren't new, but until now they've been either very expensive or limited in ability. But this little marvel from Asus changes all that. The WL-HDD can put a hard disk on the network with no drivers or client software required, and it can do this wirelessly via 802.11g.