October 2nd, 2009
by Rafael Hernandez
While we’d all like to own the top of the line when it comes to hardware and the like sometimes you’ll settle for the lower cost option because you really don’t need all of that power or the budget is set lower than you’d want. That doesn’t mean you can’t get your game on.
Test Freaks has a look at the iBuyPower Corei5 gaming computer which puts together a competent set of hardware for your gaming needs all at an acceptable price:
Before we get into the comparison, I wanted to touch on the Express Gate Asus Splashtop. It’s a nice feature so you can get some stuff done, without actually having to boot into windows, the entire OS is right on the board itself. I’m not going to go into it all as it’s been covered many other places in depth but it’s a very useful, and quick to do quite a few things.
Heck their test system even includes a built-in OS should you want to do some basic web browsing without the tedious operating system load up.
May 20th, 2009
by Rafael Hernandez
The high end pre-built computer market is chock full o’ companies that tend to come up with insane designs with the price tags to match them and give you something that resembles a high tech cheese grater rather than the insane gaming rig you ordered.
Digital Storm’s Core i7-965 is an insane gaming rig and AnandTech made sure to put together an order that would test the company’s commitment to quality. The CPU is overclocked to 4GHz, there’s triple SLI Nvidia GeForce GTX 285s to game on, and some RAID 0 Western Digital Raptors for that speedy file access. Here’s a look at their revew:
This component mix is the stuff of dreams, with
very good choices all around here. An identical configuration on the
website hovers around the $6000 mark ($6027 at the time of writing), so
clearly this kind of system is an upper end purchase. At this price,
the consumer expects blistering performance. The power supply is
enormous, but the three GTX 285s require a lot of power, and you don’t
want to skimp on this area with a Triple SLI system.
Highly impressive stuff and, from the look of things, a company you should consider for your next high-end purchase.
