After a long design and development period, a full retail version of forum-member Peter Brands' (l3p) desk PC has finally been made available for pre-order in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia.

As you can see, there's a fair amount of variation between the highest and lowest presets. This is indicative of how scalable the Frostbite 3 engine is, something that should allow it to run on ...

GPU backplates can completely change the look of a build, especially if your graphics card doesn't come with one at all and just has stock PCB showing. Making a backplate doesn't have to be difficult ...

When you’ve seen the might of the GeForce GTX 480 and the majesty of the GTX 460, it might be hard to get too excited about a follow-up card costing around £110 (guestimated). However, the Steam ...

Today marks the launch of Intel's new 9-Series chipsets, specifically Z97 and H97, which are the upgrades to Z87 and H87 respectively. There are only a few key new features to speak of, as the ...

If anything, AMD's AM4 platform brings a huge amount of choice to the consumer. Not only is every CPU overclockable, which makes for some very interesting choices and sweet spots, but there are two ...

Now that you've read the Intel Sandy Bridge review and seen how awesome the Core i5-2500K is you'll no doubt be eager to own one. With LGA1155 kit due to go on sale on Sunday 9 January, we wanted to ...

At what point does a mod become a game in its own right? Eight years ago, Crowbar Collective launched the Black Mesa bit of Black Mesa, taking players from Gordon Freeman’s iconic tram-ride to work ...

A couple of months back, I slathered my love for Portal 2 all over bit-tech. I waxed lyrical how it’s possibly the best comedy game ever made, how cleverly it introduces new elements to Portal’s ...

AMD has claimed a new world record Cinebench R23 nT score with a system packing a pair of its Epyc 7763 CPUs. The 'feat' was shared on the latest episode of AMD's Bring Up vlog (9 minutes in), as ...

Gigabyte is just one of Nvidia's many board partners, of course, but it has a number of GTX 1060 3GB cards to its name. The one we have in, the WindForce OC, appears to have a decent value proposition ...

MSI has been in the PC component business as long as we can remember, and although it’s been making motherboards since being formed in 1986 and graphics cards since 1997, it’s still a relative ...