3D graphics cards (3Dfx, ATI, Creative, Guillemot, Pine)

“Graphics! Get your luvverly graphics ‘ere… going cheap; 32MB of gigatexel rendering pleasure, just ‘alf a donkey to you, madam…”
The world of graphics cards is as fast moving as the frame rates of the latest 3D games. Keeping pace with all the latest developments can be tricky, as new technologies and boards come out almost [...]

3D sound cards (Creative, Diamond, Guillemot, Pine, Videologic)

Sound is often an underestimated facet of the PC. Everyone worries about having a graphics card that can shift millions of pixels, a massive hard drive which spins at more RPM than an F1 car on the grid waiting for the lights, and so on and so forth. But they rarely worry about the quality [...]

Portable MP3 Players (Diamond, Maycom, Philex, Pine)

So what exactly is MP3? It’s been closely linked with the Internet although it’s not an exclusively Internet technology, and it seems that record companies talk about little else nowadays.
MP3 files are ordinary music tracks that have been digitised and stored on a computer. The beauty of MP3 is that it shrinks CD-quality music to [...]