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Graphics Cards

Volt Mod Guide: NVIDIA 8600GTS

By Josh Collins | 13:31 Aug 8, 2007 | Comment Now

Juice up your mid-range NVIDIA DX10 card for peak 3D performance.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Overclocking Adventures: Dry Ice Party

By Josh Collins | 10:06 Jul 12, 2007 | Comment Now

The Atomic Overclocking madness – 8kg of dry ice, excessive amounts of hardware, 1 day of insanity.

Graphics Cards

Radeon HD2900XT review

By Craig Simms | 16:14 Jul 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

Is red dead? Can the R600 give AMD the fight it needs to stay in the ring with Nvidia?

Operating Systems

Linux vs Linux

By Leigh Dyer | 13:16 Jul 5, 2007 | Comment Now

Five flavours of Linux, all pitted head to head. Which one's best for what? We tell you.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Bearlake: MSI P35 Platinum, ASUS P5K/P5K3 Deluxe, GIGABYTE P35-DQ6

By Craig Simms | 11:19 Jul 2, 2007 | Comment Now

What does Intel's Bearlake platform offer to take us into the next generation?

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Intel Core 2 QX6800

By Craig Simms | 13:12 Jun 29, 2007 | Comment Now

Intel's current King of the CPU Hill, looking down on all beneath it.

Peripherals

Atomic Computex report: Day 5, El Grande Finale

By Craig Simms | 10:46 Jun 14, 2007 | Comment Now

Our last and possibly greatest Computex report. Girls and gear, guys, girls and gear.

Peripherals

Atomic Computex report: Day 4

By Ben Mansill | 16:34 Jun 13, 2007 | Comment Now

With one Computex report to go, Craig heats up the tech love.

Modding & Cooling

Practical case painting

By Ron Prouse | 11:11 Jun 13, 2007 | Comment Now

Coat your case in liquid fun.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Atomic Computex Report: Day 3 - How they make motherboards

By Craig Simms | 11:53 Jun 8, 2007 | Comment Now

Craig Simms visits the Gigabyte factory and answers the eternal question "where do motherboards come from?"

Peripherals

Atomic Computex report: Day 2

By Craig Simms | 10:45 Jun 8, 2007 | Comment Now

More wonders of technology from the land across the sea.

Peripherals

Atomic Computex report: Day 1

By Ben Mansill | 11:54 Jun 6, 2007 | Comment Now

Craig Simms reports from the world's hottext PC tech show in steamy Taipei.

Graphics Cards

MSI 8500GT, 8600GT OC, 8600GTS OC

By Craig Simms | 10:17 Jun 5, 2007 | Comment Now

Nvidia's first mid-range 8-series cards leave us unaroused.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

History of Overclocking Part Two

By Craig Simms | 12:22 May 25, 2007 | Comment Now

Craig Simms still hasn’t removed his head from the turbulent past of overclocking. He’s heard surgery can fix that.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Silicon photonics

By Ashton Mills | 11:53 May 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

More than just cool-sounding, silicon photonics is the future of computing. Ashton Mills sheds some light on the subject.

Graphics Cards

From the Labs, on the Slab: HD2900XT, 8800GTX Ultra!

By Craig Simms | 17:05 May 16, 2007 | Comment Now

Close encounters of the lab kind...

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

A History of Overclocking Part One

By Craig Simms | 11:18 May 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

For as long as enthusiasts have had fingers to flick DIP switches, so too has existed their desire to overclock all manner of processors.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Bringing the Antarctic to the processor

By David Field | 14:37 Apr 20, 2007 | Comment Now

David Field and Craig Simms do their part in a world record overclocking attempt.

Peripherals

Intel's winners for future PC comp

By Ben Mansill | 15:18 Apr 17, 2007 | Comment Now

Gauntlet thrown down to case manufacturers gets picked up, hope for the future of PC cases alive and well.

Security

Firewalls 101

By Ashton Mills | 10:09 Apr 16, 2007 | Comment Now

Ashton Mills straps on some flame-retardant clothing and attempts to venture through a few walls of fire.

Peripherals

Budget Gaming LCDs

By Craig Simms | 10:21 Apr 5, 2007 | Comment Now

LCDs prices are falling, screen sizes are on the up and image quality and speed scream "Hello gamer!"

Peripherals

X-Fi hardware finally enabled in Vista

By Ben Mansill | 15:17 Mar 29, 2007 | Comment Now

Creative Alchemy driver enables X-Fi hardware effects in Vista for EAX and DS3D games.

Peripherals

Seagate Savvio 15K

By David Field | 11:06 Mar 23, 2007 | Comment Now

15,000 RPM in a laptop-sized hard drive. Can I get an amen?

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Core 2 motherboard overclocking roundup

By Craig Simms | 17:24 Feb 28, 2007 | Comment Now

Craig Simms overclocks 14 Core 2 motherboards. The results of his insane but spectacular testing can be found here.

Graphics Cards

DirectX 10 demo finally released

By Ben Mansill | 14:29 Feb 23, 2007 | Comment Now

The world's first $650 non-game tech demo is released.

Systems

101 Ways to Hack your PC

By Logan Booker, Craig Simms | 15:44 Feb 15, 2007 | 11 Comments

Optimise, damn it! Atomic's definitive guide of the most ultimate tweaks, hints and performance tips.

Graphics Cards

Budget graphics card roundup

By Craig Simms | 14:50 Jan 30, 2007 | Comment Now

A selection of graphics cards for the cash-deprived but performance hungry.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Atomic 72 special bonus online content...

By Ben Mansill | 13:46 Dec 13, 2006 | Comment Now

...that Craig didn't have room to include in his awesome HSF roundup this month.

Networking

CSIRO to demonstrate 6 Gbps Wi-Fi link; 12 Gb/s link planned

By David Field | 16:47 Dec 6, 2006 | Comment Now

Read it again slowly: six (6) gigabits per second. Over wireless. With more to come.

Peripherals

Microsoft and Razer announce the Gaming Snake

By David Field | 15:48 Dec 4, 2006 | Comment Now

The input device formerly known as a mouse will hit stores soon. And crikey, isn’t she a beauty.

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Atomic Magazine

Issue: 137 | June, 2012

Atomic is a magazine aimed squarely at computer enthusiasts, gamers, and serious PC upgraders.

Every month we bring you the latest reviews of new technology and PC components, in depth features on everything from overclocking to console hacking, and gaming previews and interviews.

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