VIA’s Rhine Ethernet Family Driver supports a number of the company’s networking products under both Windows 7 32bit and 64bit operating systems. The driver supports the following chipsets: VT8251 Integrated, VT8231, VT8233, VT8235 & VT8237 Integrated (Rhine & Rhine II), VT6103 Rhine (PHY), VT6105/L/LOM and VT6106/H/L/S series (Rhine III), VT6105M Management Fast Ethernet Controller (Rhine […]
April 2010
The cooling landscape seems to change every few months as manufacturers pump out newer and slicker designs which either one-up the competition or carve out a nice little price/performance niche for themselves. HardwareHeaven has a look at four heatsinks from Akasa, Gelid, Noctua, and Spire determining how well they perform at various fan speed levels: […]
Most case designs are now focused on getting as much airflow to your components as possible and supplying some much needed cable management options. That’s somewhat unfortunate for those that enjoy their drive bays. The Xigmatek Utgard PC Case has enough drive bays for you to toss in fan controllers, hotswapping bays, and whatever else […]
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Normally the trade offs you have to make when going for larger memory kits means that performance usually comes secondary which is fine when you’re working with large sets of data but a bit of a bummer when you want the best frame rates possible. The Corsair Dominator 12GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM Kit offers enough […]
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There are certain PC connections that are long past due to head to greener pastures, specifically those that can’t transfer data quickly enough to our multi-TeraByte external drives. Luckily the Icy Box IB-318STU3-B USB3 HDD Enclosure has rolled around which allows for much quicker transfer speeds, so long as your motherboard (or addon card) supports […]
Read more Icy Box IB-318STU3-B USB3 HDD Enclosure enables speedy external storage
As most motherboards have their built-in audio chips everything is fine and dandy in the realm of the normal computer user but audiophiles rage at such equipment and demand nothing but audio bliss pass through their ears. For them there’s the Asus Xonar HDAV 1.3 Deluxe Soundcard that comes equipped with enough bells, whistles, and […]
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Business class laptops used to be as dull as possible in order to lull workers into staring at their work rather than anything remotely flashy on their work platform. At least they were bulky and unwieldy right? The HP EliteBook 8440p Notebook sports a sleeker design and a fancy endoskeleton which should make it quite […]
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While custom built water-cooling setups can offer very impressive performance there’s quite a bit of effort and money to be sunk into such systems. Going the pre-built route can save you that headache and still offer commendable results. The CoolIT ECO A.L.C. CPU Watercooler sees the company move away from the pump attached to the […]
Read more CoolIT ECO A.L.C. CPU Watercooler continues the pre-assembled trend
