When you launch a new product the inevitable comparisons with solutions around your price range will begin. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 video card is one of the fastest single card graphics solutions around but its pricing, including sizable markups due to lack of supply, puts it extremely close to the AMD Radeon HD 5970 dual […]
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Most people don’t need much computing power but the increasingly faster high end CPUs of today have loaned their cores, sans some cache, to the budget models. Fortunately for under $100 you can find some powerful processors regardless of platform you choose. AMD has some triple core value chips to get their point across while […]
Read more Budget Processors Run the Gauntlet for your Amusement
System memory should rarely require much in the way of cooling unless you’re doing unmentionable things to their clock rates or voltage ratings. The OCZ Flex EX PC3-17000 8GB memory kit offers you the choice of air cooling your memory via the many fins on its heat spreader or water cooling as evidenced by the […]
Some companies just manage to coax more performance out of chips than their competition which bodes well for the overclocking crowd. The ASUS Crosshair IV Formula relies on more than just tweaking by offering up four physical PCIe x16 slots for some interesting multi-GPU possibilities as well as SATA 6G and USB 3.0 support. Who […]
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I’ll admit to preferring simplicity over blatant showmanship since I don’t feel the need to have a million and one LEDs pointing back at me. The Fractal Design Define R3 PC case wants to shield you from those light sources by offering no visible LED lit fans…heck there isn’t even a side panel window to […]
It’s tough finding a dependable cooler for a processor that’s better than the boxed cooler manufacturers toss in and aren’t all that expensive either. The Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 continues the company’s quiet cooling line with some significant changes. This new model sports four heatpipes compared to the older model’s 3 pipe designs and the […]
It’s no secret that NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 was something of a let down as it had a delayed launch and struggled with all manner of problems like excessive heat production as well as insane power consumption. NVIDIA has gone back and refined their design which has lead to the introduction of their new GeForce […]
If there’s one thing that makes inexpensive laptops less than appealing is their tendency to include integrated graphics chips that can’t cut it past playing some video. AMD’s Vision processor lineup will be the company’s first chips that combine a graphics chip and processor for the consumer market. Normally the integrated graphics solutions are hosted […]
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The mid-range graphics card segment used to be in a tough bind when it came to providing performance labeled products since the chips they were pushing weren’t really designed as performance solutions. That time has passed and ASUS is taking full advantage of the situation with their GeForce GTS 450 DirectCU TOP graphics card. The […]
Read more ASUS GeForce GTS 450 DirectCU TOP lives life on the wild side
There are those certain PC products that stick around despite their age and still prove their worth as the years pass. The Cooler Master Centurion 5 II takes the previous model version and provides some renovations that bring it up to very modern standards. The new version pushes the power supply to the bottom of […]
Read more Cooler Master Centurion 5 II proves the good ones don’t fade away
Network storage comes in a dizzying array of flavors all of which come with a hefty price tag if you want something that will accept your information in a timely fashion…or at least that used to be the case. The Synology Disk Station DS211 supports a pair of hard drives, which is the right size […]
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