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ATI's new catalyst drivers, 10.2 and 10.3 are being released currently and there's several articles looking at the upgrades found with the new drivers. Full story

If "Formidable" Describes Your Gameplay, Keep Reading. And if "Exclusive" catches your eye, look closer. Full story

OCZ has now officially released the Limited Edition Solid State Drive which is rumoured to be the first to utilise the Sandforce controller. Using MLC NAND flash memory, the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition has a 3.0Gbps SATA interface as well as including TRIM support. With reported read and write speeds of up to 270MB/s and 250MB/s respectively, not to mention a sustained write of 235MB/s, ... Full story

ATI are releasing more and more budget cards as part of the DirectX 11 GPU series; as a result there's lots of the reviews on the HD 5450, HD 5670 and HD 5570 cards plus lots more... Full story

Synology® UK, leaders in open source network attached storage solutions announced today the DiskStation DS710+ aimed primarily at SMB and home enthusiast users. Shipping with Synology’s award winning DiskStation Manager 2.2 web-interface, the DS710+ can be set up and configured within minutes without the requirement of extensive technical knowledge. Full story

Intel is set to release the first of its ultra low voltage Arrandale CPUs in the first quarter of 2010; the i5 520UM (a 1.06GHz clocked dual core) has similar features to the desktop processors including "Turbo Boost" which allows the 520UM to hit speeds of 1.86GHz, a 0.8GHz rise. Full story

The launch of ATI's sub £50 HTPC HD 5450 brings with it a host of reviews, many of which sing the virtues of this latest DirectX 11 card - take a look... Full story

The first Fermi cards to be released are now set to be named the GeForce GTX 480 and the GeForce GTX 470. Naturally, the 480 (being the bigger number) is the beefier GPU and is therefore more expensive. It is now also known that the 300 series branding is reserved for Nvidia's new DirectX 10.1 chips hence the 480 and 470 instead. Full story

The sub £50 DirectX 11 sector was filled recently with the launch of AMD's passively cooled HD 5450 aimed at HTPC and small case users. Just days after, AMD have detailed yet another card, the HD 5570 which should fill in between the HD 5450 and HD 5670 cards. Full story

Release day for the ATI Radeon HD 5670 budget graphics card is upon us and plenty of reviews to check out the new member of the ATI DirectX 11 series. Full story