Everyone’s fascination with the full-tower monster case seems to be waning in favor of smaller, more robust looking, “gamer” style cases. The black motifs and rugged designs are more agreeable than the designs of old yet still offer plenty of the features we’ve all come to expect from a case. LANOC Reviews has a look […]
When it comes to storage performance you may think what’s included with your motherboard is as good as any other product on the market, unfortunately that’s not always the case as some companies devote considerable more time to perfecting their storage solutions than others. Benchmark Reviews has a look at the Marvell SATA-6G controller and […]
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Apple’s workstation/professional level series of desktop wouldn’t stay very competitive if it stuck around with old computer gear now would it? The company has added Intel’s 3.33GHz “Xeon” processor to its single CPU lineup which should speed up those Mac-like tasks quite a bit over the old 400MHz slower chip that was previously the top […]
Read more Apple’s Mac Pro receives a 3.33GHz upgrade…and other stuff
It’s somewhat difficult to innovate in the laptop segment, after all there’s a limit on how slim you can go before you start losing the thing between the couch cushions. So for inspiration some developers go to great lengths to bring new ideas to the mobile PC user. The Acer Aspire AS5738DG sports a 3D […]
Read more Acer Aspire AS5738DG attempts laptop 3D screen magic
Intel’s stab at a consumer level graphics chip that makes use of many many X86 cores and SIMD instruction sets to make for a powerful GPU is, apparently, a thing of the past. VentureBeat writes that Larrabee’s development was behind where Intel had hoped so they’re cutting their plans to release it as a consumer […]
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If you’re really into computing hardware you tend to seek out information on the top-end products that are available, unfortunately many of those high-end processors are cost-prohibitive for some…that doesn’t mean there aren’t speedy bargains to be found however. X-bit labs tests some of the most inexpensive processors out there and comes up with a […]
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Direct heatpipe contact was something of a simple solution that showed quite a bit of a performance gain when heatsinks with the technology popped up for processors…it’s about time they brought it to video cards. Benchmark Reviews has a look at the Xigmatek Bifrost VD1065 HDT VGA Cooler and its 5 heatpipes which will whisk […]
Read more Xigmatek Bifrost VD1065 HDT VGA Cooler does the direct heatpipe contact on your GPU
Full tower cases with tons of drive bays used to be popular because nothing got people more excited than a bunch of optical bays. We’ve moved away from that and now we just want our drive bays to be used to store a large number of hard drives instead. Testseek labs has a look at […]
Read more LanCool Dragonlord PC-K58 PC Case sports more drive bays than you’d imagine
Normally there isn’t much to be excited about when you’ve got yourself a notebook with integrated graphics but with some careful tweaking and a beefy enough processor sometimes you can get something special out of it. The Dell Studio 14z sports Nvidia’s somewhat capable low-end 9400M chipset with the speedy Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 […]
Read more Dell Studio 14z is greater than the sum of its parts
It’s difficult to keep up with all of the high-end gear that keeps rolling out from motherboard manufacturers, most of it tends to bleed into each other making it hard to distinguish them. Then there are those boards who’s features make them stand out quite a bit. The ASUS Maximus III Formula does its LGA1156 […]
Read more ASUS Maximus III Formula oozes high-performance greatness
Optimizing system performance used to be about defragmenting every so often and limiting the number of applications you’re running. Unfortunately, today’s modern PC needs a whole host of support applications doing their own thing in the background in order to maintain a usable system. TuneUp Utilities 2010 attempts to corral your PC and whip it […]
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