Power up your PC with issue 257 of PC Plus, available now at newsagents around the country. In this issue, you'll find all the latest hints, tips, and tools that you'll need to squeeze every last drop of potential out of your system. We explore the world of hardware cooling, next gen photo printing, and the world beyond 100Mb broadband, as well as the processors, motherboards, storage, graphics, and other components you can use to make your whole system shine.

In features, find out how your PC could save you a trip to the doctors, and how the much hyped world of eVoting is going to fail us. We also pit 8 of the most powerful Mac and PC systems against each other to see which offers more bang for your buck.

In your bonus Make It supplement, we show you how to create your own games, explore the world of mashups, continue our look at the world of disk maintenance with the home-method of recovering data from a damaged system, demonstrate how to make podcasts that listeners will want to tune in for, and plenty more.

And plenty more is what else you'll get with this month's issue. Covering all the latest news and features in computing, it's your must-read buy of the month.