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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

SilverStone Sugo SG07 mini-ITX Case Review

With a decent 600W power supply, this tiny case can house and power a Radeon HD 5970

June 28, 2010 | 08:06

PC Power & Cooling finally launches new PSUs

PC Power and Cooling breaks a habit of a lifetime with its new Silencer MKII PSUs

May 24, 2010 | 14:36

Does anyone really need a 1Kw PSU?

May 7, 2010 | 09:44

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

600 - 700W PSU Review Round-Up

We grab a dozen of the latest 600-700W PSU products, strap them to the test machine and put them through their paces. With all your favourite brands tested, who is worth buying for your next upgrade?

February 22, 2010 | 09:49

Sony recalls 69,000 PSUs

Sony has issued a world-wide product recall for 69,000 Vaio power supplies which have a fault in the insulation leading to short circuits and potential shocks.

October 29, 2009 | 14:02

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

Win more goodies from Enermax

Enter this easy competition to win some cool stuff, including PSUs, cases and some super-funky fans!

September 22, 2009 | 16:42

Enermax competition winners announced!

We've got the winners for the Enermax competition to win an AMD Dragon PC, and other Enermax goodies!

July 2, 2009 | 11:08

PSU testing and a visit to Be Quiet! headquarters

June 26, 2009 | 15:35

Enermax Liberty Eco 620W PSU Review

Enermax has added a new PSU to its Liberty series and as it's 80Plus compliant it's busted out the Eco branding too. We put this 620W PSU to the test to see how it compares to other competing models.

June 25, 2009 | 11:24

Seasonic's Engineering and Factory Tour

We took a trip to DongGuan, China, to not only take a nose around Seasonic's Factory, but understand the details of its engineering philosophy too. Want to know where your power supplies come from? Take a look to find out.

June 20, 2009 | 09:55

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

BFG MX Series 550W PSU

Made by popular graphics card company BFG, the MX550 might provide some modular competition to the OCZ ModXStream Pro, Corsair VX550W and HX520W power supplies. We dive in to find out if it's any good.

May 21, 2009 | 09:51

Enermax Revolution 85+ 950W PSU

Enermax's premium PSU, the Revolution, claims 85+ percent efficiency. With an enthusiastic and unique design, housing DC-DC innards, Enermax has designed something quite special.

May 13, 2009 | 10:45

Win an Enermax PC built by bit-tech

Enermax wants UK readers to take part in a simple survey about its new website, and in exchange get a chance to win a PC!

May 5, 2009 | 10:30

First Look: Zotac Nvidia Ion Mini-ITX

We've got one of the first ever mini-ITX Nvidia Ion motherboards direct from Zotac's Macau office. To our surprise, it's far more than just a dual core Atom N330 with Nvidia 9400M mGPU...

May 2, 2009 | 09:52

SilverStone SG05

Love the idea of a full fat gaming system in a slim and trim chassis? Then the SilverStone SG05 could be just ticket, with support for the latest line of fully featured Mini-ITX motherboards, including room for a 9" dual slot graphics card. Do good things come in small packages? We find out!

May 1, 2009 | 10:24

Corsair CX400W PSU

For very little money you could have a Corsair designed, Seasonic built 400W power supply for budget builds. Does it retain the usual Corsair quality, or simply cut too many corners to achieve its low price?

April 27, 2009 | 08:05

Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 850W

We constantly recommend the 650W Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro, but does the 850W afford the same awesome efficiency and virtual silence? With the same style of modular cables, shiny box, and a very similar build it be just as good or it might suffer from being just too hot.

April 9, 2009 | 11:45

OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W PSU

500W, modular, not too expensive - an ideal partner to a cost efficient system? We put OCZ's revamped ModXStream Pro to the reviewers block to see if it'll hold up to our barrage of tests in order to evaluate noise, efficiency and power quality.

April 2, 2009 | 09:25

Seasonic M12D SS-850W PSU

We've rounded up and finalised our opinions of the Seasonic M12D, and now it's time for the overall performance results. Does Seasonic's champion 80Plus Silver model hit the spot to overrule the Antec Signature, Enermax Revolution 85+ and Cooler Master UCP 900W?

March 19, 2009 | 15:29