It's so incredibly hot in Bath at the moment the PC Format team has increased the height of the River Avon by two inches, merely through sweating. It's a good thing the latest issue's out then, as it includes a humongous guide to cooling your PC, and potentially, yourself. Provided you have some Socket 775 heatsink adapters dotted around your body.

If you've invested in cooling, you're going to want a decent PC to go with it. Like a cockney market trader, Alec Meer promises to upgrade your rig from fifty quid. Not literally - he won't come to your house and do it - but he has written an informative guide so you can run Grid without spending a fortune.

Asus have decided one graphics processing unit is not enough, so they've bunged two of the little fellas in their latest graphics card, the 9800GX2. It's affectionately referred to as a "space coffin" due to it's size and morbid looks, but is it up to scratch? Jeremy Laird uses his dual-core brain to find out if it's any good.

Our round-up this month is on hard disk drives, and we pit eight of them head-to-head, including Western Digital's mighty Velociraptor. Which came out on top? You'll have to read the mag to find out.

It's been a good month for games, with Mass Effect and Race Driver Grid both winging their way onto the PC. They're both AAA titles, and it's good to know that these games are still coming out on the PC, and still far far prettier than their console counterparts. Kieron Gillen has the rundown on Deep Shadows' forthcoming open-roaming game White Gold and their sci-fi epic Precursors.

All this and a lot, lot more are to be found in the latest Format. It's in the shops now, and it's less than a fiver. Okay, it's a penny less, but that's still less than a fiver.