Love is in the air here at PC Format towers - the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Intel and AMD both have quad-core processors available. We take a look at the budget, affordable and extremely expensive chips and get the lowdown on what's worth...
Tuesday February 12, 2008
Issue 211 on sale
Love is in the air here at PC Format towers - the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Intel and AMD both have quad-core processors available. We take a look at the budget, affordable and extremely expensive chips and get the lowdown on what's worth...
Competition - Win a super cool OCZ makeover for your rig
The cool guys and girls over at OCZ Technology have scrabbled together a serious bundle of hardware that will transform the cooling and power of your PC. This will enable you to overclock your rig to new heights, and sort you out with some serious cooling and...
WiFi Booster Template
The template for the paper WiFi booster (yes it really does work) didn't make it on to the disc in time, so please find it here.
Wednesday January 23, 2008
Issue 210 on sale
The collective PC Format wallet has been wiped out following an expensive Christmas and New Year, so we're looking for ways to cut back. Thankfully, Neil Mohr's on hand to show us how to throw together a Crysis -running DirectX 10 gaming rig for less than...
Competition - Win an incredible Alienware gaming rig
To celebrate the release of Asian Dynasties , the second expansion pack for the ever-popular Age of Empires , Microsoft has pooled together its pocket money to bring one lucky reader a brand new Alienware gaming rig. First prize is a top of the line...
Thursday January 17, 2008
Crysis or drama?
There's lots of debate flinging around the office about the recent few titles that are either great examples of storytelling and level design or generic shooters dressed up with pretty graphics (you might be able to guess which camp I'm in). So then, Crysis....
Tuesday January 15, 2008
Thursday January 10, 2008
Issue 209 on sale
Most of us celebrated the arrival of 2008 with a sniffle rather than a bang, as that nasty Christmas bug struck us down like an evil Jesus. Worse still, Alec Meer revealed a worrying amount of manlust after the perfectly-formed pixellated posterior of Call of...
Monday January 07, 2008
TechRadar now live
Just a quicky to say happy new year to everyone and tell you about TechRadar.com. This is Future Publishing's new technology website, with the latest news and analysis of just about anything and everything related to technology. www.techradar.com
Thursday January 03, 2008
New Year's wishes do come true
So it really is going to be a happy new year, I can feel it in my bones. And my lumbago's playing up a treat – but I think that might just be down to the promise of snow...or the new year excess.
Anyway, stumbling out of the festive fug...
Friday December 21, 2007
Competition - Win Alienware's Desktop Powerhouse
So, you've just spent all your hard-earned cash on the black hole that is Christmas. Presents, fancy chocolates, festive booze and tacky decorations all cost big money, so that expensive PC upgrade is looking further away than ever. We share your pain, so...
Competition - Win yourself an 8800GTX
We can spend all day trying to convince you that you don't really need to upgrade to DirectX 10 just yet, but the truth is you'd be mad to miss this opportunity to win an 8800 GTX, complete with 768mb of RAM - mainly because it'll power DX9 like a god. And...
Thursday December 13, 2007
Fastest XP ever?
Friends, Bloggers and countrymen, lend us your noggins. With reports that the latest service pack for Windows XP -the long-awaited SP3- is making XP perform around 10% faster than previously, coupled with the news that Vista's SP1 offers no noticeable...
Monday December 10, 2007
Quake Wars: Enemy Territory or Enema Territory?
Happy December bloggeroonies! It's your chance to step into the future and get into next year's magazine simply by scrawling down a few lines of (hopefully) printable ramblings. This month we want your views on Quake Wars: Enemy Territory, a multiplayer...
Wednesday November 21, 2007
Competition - Win Peep Show Series 4 DVDs!
To celebrate the release of Peep Show Series 4 on DVD, we have five copies to give away, worth £19.99 each. This series sees Mark, after accidentally proposing to Sophie, facing the horror of having to go through with it, while Jeremy does something...
Monday November 19, 2007
Medal of Hono[u]r: Airbo[u]rne or Airbiscuit?
So, the latest installment of increasingly geriatric WWII shooter series Medal of Honor has air-dropped into the PCF office and submitted itself to our reasoned scrutiny. You know what we think, but what did you think a) about the game and b)about our review...
Friday November 16, 2007
Competition - BT Home IT Support
Are you always the one everyone calls with their IT problems? Are you sick of desperate calls from your family about how to use the new digital camera, of friends who are having problems with their laptop?
Well PCFormat has teamed up with BT...
Friday November 09, 2007
Vote for your favourite gear of 2007!
Wishlist 2007 is a brand new annual awards event from the team behind Windows Vista: The Official Magazine, and by taking part, you could win a fantastic prize. Prizes include digital photo frames, MP3 players and more.
As we look back on the...
Tuesday October 30, 2007
Portal Puzzles
A third 'creative solution' to Portal's notoriously perplexing vent puzzle. ...
Thursday October 25, 2007
Facebook - do you love it or hate it?
So, Facebook. It's been around for a while. Everybody's had a play with it and been spammed to death by Zombie, Movie Trivia and other pointless invitations. So the question is, do you love it or hate it? Me, I used it for a while. I liked the concept - an...
