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Toshiba Qosmio X770-136
The Qosmio X770 is expensive, let’s make that clear up front. It tips the scales at the best part of two grand, and for that sort of money, you’d expect something special. Exactly how special is this high-end Toshiba offering? And what sort of value for money does it represent, at £1,700? Weighty proposition The…
Acer HN274H 3D monitor
An oversized PC monitor may have been – and sometimes still is – a show-off addition to a desktop, but in the 3D era a 27-inch screen, such as the Acer HN274H, is fast becoming a necessity. That’s only true if 3D is of interest, of course – but if it is, then total immersion…
HannsG HS233
Avatar has a lot to answer for. If it hadn’t been the runaway success of James Cameron’s epic 3D movie, we perhaps wouldn’t have seen the overnight explosion of interest in creating three-dimensional films, TV programmes and games. Now it’s not enough to be hurtling through a dense jungle in first-person to kill enemy soldiers…
Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra
It’s been a while since Sapphire ventured into the motherboard market, but with the launch of AMD’s Fusion and Intel’s Sandy Bridge technology the company has decided to re-launch its motherboard line. Using AMD’s technology is a no-brainer, as after all they are AMD’s biggest manufacturing partner in the graphics card sector – but the…
Sapphire Radeon HD5850 Extreme graphics card
Whenever AMD or Nvidia releases a new graphics architecture, there’s a tendency never to look back – the new is always better. That may be so, but in doing so you’d overlook some excellent cards that people raved about when they first appeared. Sapphire latest cards hark back a generation to the 5000 series of…
Asus GTX 590 (ENGTX590)
AMD has held the fastest video card in the world crown for quite some time now, with the ageing Radeon HD 5970 still more than capable of beating off competition from the fastest NVIDIA cards. The first Fermi-architecture release from NVIDA, the GTX 480, was far too hot to spawn a dual-GPU variant, but after…