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Resident Evil Village Review

Village's scattershot scares results in an entertaining, if inconsistent, horror romp.

May 11, 2021 | 10:00

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator Review

Offering silly yet sharp physics-based fracas' TABS is an unmitigated delight.

May 7, 2021 | 09:38

Ten Years On: Portal 2

Valve had to make a second game, because it got a hole-in-one.

May 6, 2021 | 10:24

Enermax MaxRevo 1350W Review

The MaxRevo 1350W is loaded with features, but is it a worthy successor to the Revolution?

June 29, 2011 | 07:49

ASRock reveals Socket AM3+ CPU details

ASRock discloses some details about the new AM3+ socket, as well as the CPUs that will fit in it.

April 27, 2011 | 16:45

Zero Noise: Seasonic's X-Series fanless PSU Preview

Seasonic's new version of its highly efficient X-Series PSU does away with the fan altogether.

August 1, 2010 | 10:22

Energy Efficient Hardware Investigated

How green are green products? We evaluate the benefits, or lack of them, in new "low power" and "energy efficient" hardware to see what makes the biggest difference to the power drawn from your wall socket.

February 24, 2010 | 08:46

First Look: Seasonic X-Series PSU

We take a gander behind the technology that powers Seasonic's latest 80Plus Gold, fully modular power supplies: the X-Series. We strip apart what's inside to find the details.

October 29, 2009 | 13:14

Enermax has mainstream 80Plus Gold PSUs

COMPUTEX 09: Enermax is lining up with three 80Plus Gold PSUs at a modest 450-650W.

June 2, 2009 | 12:14

Larrabee more efficient than GPUs at rasterisation

In a talk at GDC, games programmer Mike Abrash claims that Larrabee can be more efficient at rasterisation tasks than traditional GPUs.

March 30, 2009 | 14:42

Home Theatre PC Buyer's Guide - Q1 2009

Interested in expanding your TV, film or media consumption to an all capable home theatre PC? Check out our latest buyer's guide to see what the bit-tech team recommends - from ultra tiny mini-ITX, to gaming HD behemoth!

February 4, 2009 | 09:30

Hiper Type R II 680W PSU

If you like a bit of bling in your case and don't care for extreme wattages, Hipers Type R II with its shiny blue casing, LEDs and metallic fan could be right up your street. We test this feature filled mainstream performer to see if it's cheap for a reason, or just fantastic value for money.

January 6, 2009 | 09:56

J&W MINIX 780G mini-ITX HTPC mobo

This cute little 17cm square motherboard is absolutely jam-packed with features from PCI-Express to HDMI and High-Definition to 65W full AMD CPU support. Could this be the ultimate low power, ultra small form factor home theatre motherboard?

September 17, 2008 | 08:19

Gigabyte GA-GC230D Atom Mini-ITX

The Atom platform bounces out of the netbook and onto a mini-ITX motherboard for Gigabyte and we test it to dispel the myths about what Intel's new low power, low cost prodigy can and cannot do.

September 10, 2008 | 08:14

First Look: Enermax Revolution 85+ PSU

We take a quick look at Enermax's spangly new power supply that will replace the popular Galaxy DXX range later this year. It has an 80Plus Silver award already, as well as a few new features but does it deserve to be called the Revolution?

September 4, 2008 | 10:02

Early Look: MSI X58 Eclipse

Hot on the heels of Asus' announcement last week, MSI lets bit-tech in on a sneak peek of its new X58 to Eclipse all others. From the looks of things, it's a fresh start in the right direction!

August 26, 2008 | 11:27

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ EE (65nm)

We have a look at one of AMD's first 65 nanometre Brisbane processors. Does AMD's move to more advanced process technology change the landscape in the processor marketplace, or will Intel's Core 2 processors continue to rule the roost? Read on to find out...

January 17, 2007 | 15:40