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Top Stories This Week

Welcome to Atomic by David Hollingworth | September 10, 2008 Your favourite enthusiast computing and gaming site has just finished levelling up. Ding!		Lich King gets a release date by David Hollingworth | September 15, 2008 World of Warcraft's latest expansion will be in stores this year.
CSE Revue on in Sydney this Wednesday by David Field | September 12, 2008 Computer Science students make funnies, sing and dance. You should be there for many good reasons.		Antec Skeleton by David Hollingworth , Justin Robinson | September 12, 2008 Antec's new PC testing station has found a place in our hearts... and desktops, labs, and anywhere else we can think of.
AMD brings Vista into Stream SDK by The Inquirer | September 12, 2008 Complete with HD 4800 Radeon support		Beta Blog 4: Wrath of the Lich King by Liz Skuthorpe | September 11, 2008 Liz Skuthorpe ponders the nature of beta testing and flashbacks to the past.

News

Reviews

Dell's premium gaming brand is still big bright and shiny, but does its latest machine actually perform?

Antec's new PC testing station has found a place in our hearts... and desktops, labs, and anywhere else we can think of.

Josh Collins goes [for] broke chasing HyperX speed.

The PC, and nothing but the PC.

David Hollingworth got a chance for some hands-on time with the new EA horror game, as well as having a chat with its producer.

Group Tests

Atomic takes a look at the pre-built gaming PC market. Does a retail PC beat a custom made machine?

LCDs have come a long way in the last 18 months, when anything bigger than a matchbox would set you back a grand and image quality was always a wildcard. But we have moved on from these dark times into a new and enlightened era of affordable, big panels that also perform really well.

Features

When your drinks are getting warm, keeping your computer cool comes a distant second.

Liz Skuthorpe ponders the nature of beta testing and flashbacks to the past.

Who knew creating life could be so much fun?

What is this crazy 'third dimension' you speak of? Well, we're glad you asked...

Tutorials

Ron Prouse gets back to basics and blows us away