The desktop Llano board in the lead at the moment

The HP SimpleSave External Hard Drive is an excellent choice for backing up your files

It's small enough to take anywhere, but is the LaCie FastKey 120GB worth the money?

RAM modules automatically programmed for high speeds, but how do they perform?

Getting on board the Bulldozer-ready motherboard bandwagon before it even starts, but is it too premature?

A portable and fast external SSD

A monolithic case for your tiny motherboard

More food for thought at the business end of quad-core CPU market

Military-grade graphics cards. It's what your granddad fought for…

The pinnacle of overclocked GTX 560s, but at what price?

The cheapest of the overclocked GTX 560s

The 990FX chipset shows off its features while Bulldozer's stuck in traffic

Last month saw the launch of the Llano motherboards from AMD, and if that isn't enough alliteration for you we've now got the release of the desktop Llano APU code-named Lynx. The AMD A8-3850 Fusion APU is the current top-end desktop Llano chip, and is a bit of a doozy.

A tiny motherboard with some serious ambition

A quality HD 6950 graphics card with good overclocking capabilities

An affordable Intel Z68 chipset motherboard has landed

If you're putting down serious money on graphics cards, motherboards and other top-of-the-range components, then you don't want to stick them in a cheap and tacky case. You want something that will show off the quality of your PC.

Astoundingly, while other manufacturers have yet to get one out the door, there are 12 different variations on the theme from Gigabyte already, including this, the Z68X-UD3H-B3.

AMD's second fusion processor ups the performance ante with more cores and better graphics

AMD's long-awaited, and even longer talked-about, Fusion technology has finally seen the light of day with a few motherboard manufacturers offering boards built around it. Fusion is the world's first APU (Accelerated Processor Unit); a combination of a dual core processor, Northbridge controller and a DX11 supporting graphics processor all built into the same piece of silicon and is AMD's belated riposte to Intel's dual core version of the Atom.

Questions, questions, questions. That's our first impressions of the AVerMedia AVerTV Vola HD. It's a budget USB TV tuner that makes us ask things like this: TV on a PC?

750GB reinforced external hard drive to save your files from disaster

The easy way to watch TV on your Mac or iOS device

A good value GPU that goes toe-to-toe with the GTX 460

A plucky little GPU that puts up a good fight at the lower end of the market