Two of Nvidia's most powerful GPU's on one card. What could be better that that?

There are some exciting ideas in the Z68 package, but at least in the short term the results they yield in real-world application are a little underwhelming. Buy for the igpu implementation and power saving features, set up an SSD cache, but don't expect your technological world to be blown apart.

A safe and affordable motherboard for next-gen Intel chips

This overclocked graphics cards offers improved performance at a cheap price. So what gives?

We had high expectations of this Fusion processor, especially when AMD changed its initial sales pitch and suggested Fusion APUs would take aim at lower end Intel netbooks based on the Core i3 processor. However, despite out-of-order instruction execution, the AMD E-350 is not dramatically more powerful than Atom.

So you could get a wonder chip with crazy performance, or you could just get a little bit more for your money. It's a decent card, but the vagaries of GPU headroom could be a worry.

Slapping a new brand name to give an old chip a leg up is a popular ruse in the PC industry. Do not, therefore, assume that the Asus M4A785TD-M EVO and its AMD 785G northbridge is necessarily old hat.

Riffing on the 'small, but perfectly formed' design ethos, Asus P8P67M-Pro is packing a lot into its teeny, tiny footprint.

When it comes to new PC components, odes to awesomeness are often overwrought. But take it from us, Intel's new Sandy Bridge desktop processors proved worthy of our finest prose. The Intel Core i5-2500K and Intel Core i7-2600K chips are preposterously quick. Of course, to get the best out of them what you need is a damn fine motherboard. For example, the Asus Maximus IV Extreme RoG.

The release of Intel's Clarkdale chip and its accompanying H55 chipset means new boards all round for Intel's LGA1156 boys. The shiny new P7H55-M from ASUS aims to offer a full-bloodied experience at little more than budget price and comes with a raft of overclocking tools to keep the most dedicated explorer of performance tweaks happy.

Can this excellent flagship Republic of Gamers board revive hardcore interest in HydraLogix technology?

Nvidia's Fermi finally goes mainstream

Asus has established itself as a player in the high rollers' hi-fi lounge with Xonar soundcards like the Xense, D2 and mighty Essence ST. Although still relatively new to the audio game, it can look old timers like Creative and Auzentech in the face without shame.

This TOP Edition's overclocked loving though does give it the edge, but the cost here too is going to make things tricky when you're making your buying decision. It's still a good card, but it's really only as good as the AMD offering. Unfortunately then for NVIDIA it's not quite the card-killer that it might have hoped it would be; maybe worth a look in SLI but for now it's still far too close to call definitively.

With its highbrow hi-fi spec, Xonar Xense from Asus is part of a relatively new trend of sound cards that are looking to win back audio buffs who have been avoiding the pitfalls of PC sound processing by offloading everything to an external amp or sticking to vinyl

Does this stylish and feature rich AMD motherboard offer good value for money?

If, in some perverted alternate reality, Watty Piper had been more interested in PCs than trains, Asus' latest piece of Republic of Gamers rolling stock would be the The Little Board That Could. The Rampage III Gene has more features per square inch of PCB than almost any other we can think of, nearly matching its stablemate, the Rampage III Extreme for extras put packing it into a micro-ATX format

We've already seen the stock GTX 460 768MB, and now it's the turn of the overclocked cards in the shape of Asus' GTX 460 768MB TOP edition.

If, and only if, you're the kind of person who enjoys torturing silicon until it screams by increasing clockspeeds and voltages purely for the hell of it is the Matrix HD 5870 the card for you.

Asus ups the ante again with a new X58 motherboard for the budget focused

DirectX 11 support and ATI's latest GPU for the budget gamer

A cool and power efficient graphics card, but not one for the hardcore gamer

AMD gets back its competitive edge with this i7-worrier

The Asus ENGTX480 gives us our first taste of Nvidia's new DirectX 11 wonder-GPU - The GeForce GTX 480

Only the extreme need apply, only the extremely rich can afford