Simon Crisp

Like its little 330 series sibling and its bigger brother, the 520 series, it's based around the LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller, but unlike the other two this one uses Intel's latest 20nm MLC NAND.

A reasonably priced and feature-packed motherboard that performs well and shows some intelligent design choices.

The name KingSpec may be new to you, and indeed us, but the company has been in the flash storage business since 1995.

With the current crop of solid-state drives already knocking very hard on the door of SATA 6Gbps bandwidth limit, we might have to start looking elsewhere for speedy SSDs.

ARCTIC has taken the bull by the horns and released a DIY liquid cooling kit, but this time not for a CPU - instead it's for keeping a graphics card cool.

Can this latest Crucial drive compete with its SATA 3Gbps connection when it's competitors are chucking around the 6Gbps standard?

The Plextor M5 Pro comes sporting Marvell's new firmware and Toshiba's new NAND memory to deliver some seriously quick SSD speeds.

If the thought of using desktop drives in a NAS environment used to concern you, worry no more - WD now has the answer.

The first thing that catches your eye when the PC-Q03 is unboxed is just how good the build quality is and, in the case of our review model - the PC-Q03B - the quality of the black anodised finish.

The third generation Spire TherMax Eclipse (TME) III is the latest CPU cooler to come out of the Spire manufacturing plant, and it's a decent little chiller.

The Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme is the flagship model in Thermaltake's new all-in-one cooling line-up. But does it perform?

The Kingston HyperX 3K is a serious performance drive with a price tag that makes it hard to ignore.

The ARCTIC Freezer i30 CPU coolers have been designed to support wattages up to a staggering 320 Watts. So, they're not just a clever name.

There's no doubt that 2011 was the year that SSDs hit the mainstream, and 2012 is certainly going to cement their place.

UPDATED The win-win nature of the latest Marvell SSD controller

UPDATED Wouldn't it be great if you could somehow combine SSD speed with traditional HDD capacity? Well, Crucial's latest effort, the 50GB Adrenaline Solid State Cache Drive, aims to do just that.

A feature-rich router ably catering for the beginner and advanced user alike. Though that comes at a price.

Rapidly becoming as well-known for its mini PCs as it is for its Nvidia-based graphics cards, Zotac has released yet another version of the ZBox.

When Sapphire launched the first Edge-HD mini PC back in early 2011, it claimed it was the world's smallest PC - and at under half a litre in volume, it was hard to disagree.

The launch of yet another Z68 board is puzzling with Intel's new Z77 chipset imminent, but this is all about PCIe 3.0 now.

For the launch of its AMD Memory branded modules it has decided to cosy up to Patriot Memory for this dual 4GB stick kit.

We looked at one of Plextor's first 6Gb/s rated drives last year (the PX-128M2S) and barely nine months later, the next generation is upon us in the shape of the M3 series.

The Core 3000 is the first in a new range of budget cases from the award-winning Swedish manufacturer, Fractal Design.

It may not have the looks, but it's got it where it counts

An absolute must for any HD6990 owners