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Fractal Design Define R3 (USB 3.0) Arctic White

A PC case with great build quality that's also very quiet

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Sapphire Radeon HD7750 Ultimate

Graphics cards using the latest technology don’t have to be noisy beasts

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  • £108
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  • 17/04/2012
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Deliveries of Raspberry Pi begin

Online store reopens as orders for £16 computer are sent out

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Western Digital details internal hard disk range

The Western Digital Caviar range has three different hard disks designed for specific types of user

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Club Exclusive: Win a Retrak accessory bundle for your laptop or Amazon Kindle

These packs of retractable cables won’t leave you in a knot

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Minor delays for Raspberry Pi thanks to manufacturing mistake

Problem has been rectified and bare-bones computers should be available soon

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How to upgrade a PC's memory

Upgrading a computer’s memory is not difficult and could save you having to buy a new PC. We show you what to look for when you shop for those extra gigabytes

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Sapphire Radeon HD 7970

An incredibly powerful graphics card.

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  • £435
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  • 20/02/2012

This useful planning tool is now on sale from Amazon in the UK

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The Zotac Geforce GTX 560 Multiview is a powerful graphics card with support for three monitors

A good performing card, but we'd prefer more options for connecting all three monitors

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  • $280
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  • 02/02/2012
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Crucial speeds up Windows 7 with Adrenaline Cache Solution

Solid-state memory that learns which files you use most often and speeds up Windows 7 launch

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Nvidia confirms launch of Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Asus CEO joins Jen Hsun Hwang on stage at CES

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AMD FX-8150 computer processor

The first of the long awaited Bulldozer CPU architecture

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  • £210
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  • 29/12/2011
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HIS Radeon HD 6670 iSilence 4: graphics card

A clever, cool and quiet graphics card

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  • £80
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  • 22/12/2011
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Akasa All in One 2: drive-bay USB extender and fan speed monitor

A clever device for keeping tabs on your PC

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  • £39
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  • 19/12/2011

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