If there’s something that can ruin your brand new PC build it’s a massive tower heatsink that sticks out way too far stopping your PC’s panel from closing properly. Of course the majority of new coolers sport such a configuration…
Read more Thermaltake ISGC-100 CPU Heatsink, An Alternative to the Tower Style
You know that type of machine build, the kind that has more memory, storage, and graphics power than should be allowed on a desktop PC? We don’t either as you can never have enough performance when it comes to computing.The…
Read more Enermax Revolution 85+ 950Watt Power Supply, For The Eco-Conscious Power User
There’s a segment of the notebook market that slots in between the inexpensive integrated graphics toting models and the high-end game destroying monsters. The Asus F70 comfortably fits in with its Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and Nvidia GeForce…
Read more Asus F70 Laptop, A Budget Mobile Multimedia Wonder
There was a time when every single component in a notebook computer was a generation or so behind what could be found on desktop computers, nowadays you’ll find feature parity in almost every category outside of the latest and greatest…
Read more Notebook SSD Upgrades, Are They Viable?
It used to be that the microATX segment was underserved, relying on expensive boards that didn’t have much going for it other than a smaller form-factor. Those performance hungry engineers got their hands on to everyone’s favorite miniature spec and…
Read more ASUS Rampage II Gene mATX Motherboard, Extreme Performance in an Itty Bitty Formfactor
Solid state drives are quite speedy at what they do regularly trouncing spindle based hard drives of old quite easily much to the joy of PC enthusiasts everywhere. There are some things that it can’t do however and that is…
Read more Acard ANS-9010 RAMdisk Versus OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD, Plain Not Fair
Nvidia’s Ion platform has been touted as a great compromise between good performance and low power usage. Hard to wonder why considering its powerful, yet integrated, GPU and Intel Atom CPU combined make it an intriguing choice for HTPC…
Read more Zotac's MiniITX Nvidia Ion Motherboard
There’s no getting around the glut of graphics cards in the low-end to mid-range segment of the market and with Nvidia’s rebranding efforts things get even more confusing if you’re in the market for an upgrade.Hardware Canucks hopes to clear…
Read more Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 Roundup, Mid-Range a Plenty
The previous standard for a DDR2 memory kit called for dual channel support, namely in the form of two DDR2 memory sticks fortunately, with memory prices so low, the new manufacturer one-up-manship standard was bumped up to four sticks of…
Read more Patriot Extreme Performance 8GB DDR2 Memory Kit, That's a Lot of RAM
The European Union has been looking into Intel’s dealings with computer manufacturers over the past few years, checking allegations into whether or not they took anti-competitive measures when dealing with their chief rival AMD. Reuters is claiming that EU regulators…
Read more EU Likely to Find Intel Anti-Competitive, Fines Inbound?
Microsoft’s DirectX 10 graphics API promised us all a much richer visual experience when titles and graphics cards made full use of the technology, given how long new features take to work into game development things didn’t turn out so…
Read more Microsoft's DirectX 11, More Gaming Joy?
