Everything you need to know about maxing-out your broadband connection, including interleaving, fine tuning MTU settings, firmware updates, ADSL filters and splitters,and that old chestnut - electrical noise in your wiring

Looking to build your dream machine? We explore the latest components on the market, and give you advice on which ones to hunt down, along with the general price you can expect to pay for each major component.

Want to perform an extreme makeover of your system's motherboard, processor, memory or hard disk? We'll show you how.

The move to a new platform brings credible new challengers to Intel’s Core 2 processors

An old PC is like putty in your hands. Tim Dean looks at how you can shape it into a new system with a few easy upgrades.

This motherboard is a promising appetiser – although the real meal is yet to come.

Intel has officially launched its first Nehalem-based Xeon chips for servers and workstations, bringing increased performance and greater power efficiency in the biggest overhaul of the Xeon platform for years.

Everything you need to know about AM2 -- without the headache.

Curious to see what powers the Nehalem and Core i7 architecture? We reveal the tech behind the fastest Intel-powered computer on the planet.

A decent board, but the Hybrid SLI feature doesn’t justify the high asking price

An expensive board, but a fascintating way of getting a powerful, quiet system, especially if you're prepared to tweak.

A beautifully tiny computer-on-a-board that you should only consider if you have a specific use in mind

Upgrade to an AM2 Athlon 64 system now

Clever corner cutting gives us an affordable, upgradeable performer.

We test AMD’s first quad-core processor for both speed and power efficiency

Despite the processor industry being driven for so long by the now dispelled 'Megahertz Myth', AMD's budget conscious 1.833GHz Sempron 2600+ CPU put in an very good showing.

The creme de la creme of Athlon 64 products, the 4000+ is a socket 939 CPU with all the bells and whistles. This bad boy clocks in at 2.4GHz, features a 1MB L2 cache and 2GB HyperTransport memory interconnect to work in conjunction with its on-die memory controller.

In the performance stakes the 3200+ came up trumps, finishing middle to top of the pack and clearly cementing itself as a solid performing processor for home, office or pure entertainment.

LGA 1366 is Intel's first new desktop socket in four years. It uses the same ZIF design as the familiar LGA 775 architecture, but it incorporates many more contacts