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Intel Ivy Bridge 7-series motherboards tested

What's the best Intel Ivy Bridge-ready motherboard for your PC? Twenty Z77 motherboards tested.

Add a second hard drive or an SSD to the Apple Mac mini (Mid 2011) with the iFixit Mac Mini Dual Hard Drive Kit.

New Intel Ivy Bridge i5 and i7 processors tested, vs Sandy Bridge and AMD chips.

The Intel 520 Series 240GB SSD is a high-performance 2.5in solid-state drive with 6Gbps SATA interface and the latest 25nm flash chips.

Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 review

The largest hard disks ever are now in production. Hitachi is first to market with the 4TB…
Lite-On iHBS212 review

The Lite-On iHBS212 is an internal writer of Blu-ray and DVD optical discs, now specified to a…
Samsung 830 Series 256GB review

The Samsung 830 Series 256GB is a SATA 6Gbps SSD built with Samsung silicon throughout.
A-DATA S599 64GB review

The A-DATA S599 is a solid-state drive with the older SATA 3 Gbps interface, available in…
Corsair Performance Pro 256GB review

Corsair’s latest high-performance SSD range, the Performance Pro Series, differs quite markedly…

The nVidia GeForce GTX 670 is a powerful graphics card that equals the performance of its high-end predecessor, the GTX 580, with a less rarified…

Asus Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II review

The Asus Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II is a powerful graphics card. But can it compete with the…
AMD Radeon HD 7770 review

Not every PC game enthusiast can spend £200 or more on a graphics card. If your budget is tight,…
AMD Radeon HD 7750 review

Improving integrated-graphics are killing the sub-£100 graphics card market, but the AMD Radeon…
Intel Ivy Bridge review

We tested the Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K processor. Our Ivy Bridge review shows that Intel's…
Zotac GeForce GTX 680 review

The Zotac GeForce GTX 680 is a high-end graphics card based on nVidia's Kepler chip. Our GeForce…

The nVidia GeForce GTX 670 is a powerful graphics card that equals the performance of its high-end predecessor, the GTX 580, with a less rarified…

Asus Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II review

The Asus Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II is a powerful graphics card. But can it compete with the…
AMD Radeon HD 7770 review

Not every PC game enthusiast can spend £200 or more on a graphics card. If your budget is tight,…
AMD Radeon HD 7750 review

Improving integrated-graphics are killing the sub-£100 graphics card market, but the AMD Radeon…
Zotac GeForce GTX 680 review

The Zotac GeForce GTX 680 is a high-end graphics card based on nVidia's Kepler chip. Our GeForce…
nVidia GeForce GTX 680 review

The nVidia GeForce GTX 680 is the most efficient high-end graphics card in its class. Even at…

While Intel saw a big drop in revenue from its Atom processors, it still managed to post a net income of US$3.5 billion in the fourth quarter.

Free USB Guard 1.20

Be warned if you shut down your PC and forget to remove a CD, DVD or…
Wise JetSearch 1.14

Replace Windows’ search tool with something more powerful
Toolwiz FlipBook 1.4.0.0

Easily turn any text file into a stand-alone 3D ebook
XFile 2.30

Explore your PC's files and folders with this old-style XTree Gold clone
VistaSwitcher 1.1.5

Boost your PC productivity with this versatile task switcher and application…