For most people an ordinary router will suit them perfectly but when you are a gamer you demand the best latency money can buy. The Sitecom gaming router (WL-308) is a router that is targeted at the hard core.

As can be expected from this sort of product, the N52TE is one of those gadgets that take some getting used to before you actually start enjoying it. After all, years of gaming with the keyboard and mouse have a way of consolidating the link between mind and machine to near Cyborg-like status.

One thing that hybrid Crossfire or SLI configurations may be useful for is taking the strain of physics off the CPU.

New cards means another new round in the ongoing multi-GPU battle.

Way back in the day, games were developed with both DirectX and OpenGL in mind. When Unreal and Unreal Tournament were the best in FPS gaming, OpenGL reigned supreme as far as looks went. Coders of the open source API seemed to have a gift for rendering much better-looking textures with D3D looking like a sub-standard copy.

The very technically minded amongst us will know exactly what an API is. For the rest, a short explanation is in order. API stands for Application Programming Interface and without this little software creation that powerful graphics card sucking up everything it can from both your PSU and bank balance would be so much circuitry and scrap.

One of the key differences between the Atom and the Nano is the architecture of the chips. The Atom uses ‘in order’ processing – in which instructions are passed through the chip linearly, and instructions have to wait for an available slot.

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It’s not always easy deciding on what memory solution best suits your needs. If you’re after the fastest RAM on the market and price is not an issue, consider the Viper PC3-14400.

Of course, it's one thing to know the theory behind how new technologies can be connected together on a motherboard, but it's another to know where you're going to physically pop your processor, memory and expansion cards.