It’s not often that a good set of components comes along that allows for a new class of computer, or in this case laptop, that changes what people think of a previously under-performing segment of PC. Here’s to game changers! The Alienware M11x notebook computer sports an impossibly small footprint and Nvidia GeForce GT 335M […]
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The trend towards even larger tower heatsinks causes a bit of a problem in the confined spaces of small form factor cases and there are very few slim profile coolers on the market so it’s always nice to see some added competition. Xigmatek’s Durin D982 CPU Cooler brings the direct heatpipe cooling technology to the […]
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Dropping tons of money on a new PC doesn’t make sense in every case and budget constraints likely keep most builds on the sane side. A cheaper CPU might just let you splurge on extra memory or better graphics card for that added performance. The AMD Athlon II X2 255 is one such processor offering […]
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PC speakers tend to get very little attention due to heavy headphone usage and general noise complaints. Of course nothing beats a good pair of speakers, and many of us actually want to keep our hearing, so manufacturers will continue to make them for the rest of us sane users. ITShootOut has a look at […]
The inevitable future for the computer processor is the addition of more and more cores to improve performance for those tasks that are highly parallelizable or just enjoy warming up a datacenter as quickly as possible. AMD’s Opteron 6174 “Magny-Cours” processor is a parallelized application’s dream with 12 cores to play with and some tweaks […]
Read more AMD Opteron 6174 Processor packs 12 cores of crunching power
Universal remotes come in various flavors which are highly hit or miss when it comes to controlling everything in your home theater setup and, sometimes, beyond. Digital Trends has a look at the Logitech Harmony 650 Remote Control which sports a surprising ability to handle just about any IR equipped home entertainment component: This is […]
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Depending on who you ask Nvidia’s “Fermi” based lineup of GPUs was supposed to be released many months ago in order to go up against AMD’s Radeon HD 5000 series of graphics chips. Ah the best laid schemes of mice and men. Well the NDAs have been lifted and Nvidia’s GTX 480 and GTX 470 […]
Read more Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 / GTX 470 is upon us…finally
The key to a computer’s longevity is picking up hardware that sports the most up to date feature set which usually means grabbing the top new chipset available for any given platform. Thankfully there was just one such release. Foxconn’s A9DA-S Motherboard sports AMD’s latest and greatest 890GX chipset which will allow for the best […]
AMD’s performance line Black Edition processors are best known for their “unlocked” cores that allow for fine-grain tweaking that the overclockers are sure to love…of course there are those that want more out of their processors. The AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition CPU may just allow for some core unlocking that will push […]
Read more AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition CPU presents intriguing tweaking possibilities
Air cooling has certain limitations due to the amount of surface area and the speed with which heatpipes can dump the heat to the fins attached to them. Thankfully it would seem heatsink manufacturers haven’t hit the limit yet. The Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B CPU cooler manages to cram in 6 heatpipes and a whole lot […]
Read more Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B CPU Cooler pushes air-cooling performance to new heights
The latest and greatest graphics chips are more than capable of pushing insane frame rates but are often stymied by less than adequate amount of memory available at higher resolutions. Sapphire’s Radeon 5850 Toxic 2GB video card comes along with more graphics memory than the norm which should help out in those Eyefinity situations. PureOC […]
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