TechSpot PC Buying Guide

Our buying guides provide an in-depth list of today's best hardware, ranging between three unique and yet typical budgets. Whether you are a first time builder seeking guidance or a seasoned enthusiast we've got you covered.

Hardware Guides and Tweaking

Enter the PC enthusiast territory: BIOS, video, audio, networking, overclocking and more PC hardware tweaking madness is waiting for you.

What you will find here: Crysis videocard performance, Quake Wars performance, Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD, Building a Core 2 Duo PC for under $1000 and lots of game benchmarks to guide your next videocard upgrade!

Operating System and Software Resources

Don't be fooled believing that optimizing PC resources is restricted to old systems only. No matter how fast your PC is, Windows will hog your resources unless you take preventive measures.

What you will find here: Windows Vista tweaks, Firefox 2.0, Winamp, Windows XP Memory, Internet Explorer, Windows XP/2k/9x tweaking all-around: security, services, start-up, and more.

Gaming Guides

Game tweaking is not just about squeezing every bit of performance possible, but also getting everything running harmonically in your system, troubleshooting & fixing bugs, and obviously getting the best visual quality at the lowest cost of performance.

What you will find here: Crysis, Quake Wars, Bioshock, Doom 3, America's Army, UT, Company of Heroes.

TechSpot Holiday Gift Guide 2007

The TechSpot holiday gift guide is not your standard catalog-esque gift guide but one aimed at technology lovers and PC aficionados. So, dads, brothers, husbands and sons, feel free to share this useful list with the rest of the family so they can get you something you actually want, or use it to guide yourself through the load of tech products available these holidays.