Published September 21, 2009 · 0 comments

You may have thought things were good, no great even. We finally got rid of the cable nightmare that was PATA and have a much better cable and signaling system in Serial ATA, unfortunately you’re standing in the way of…

Read more mini-SATA on its way, promises smaller drives

Published September 20, 2009 · 0 comments

Storage drives are getting all sorts of fine tuning for the green segment. While a single hard drive might not consume the sort of power that would change things dramatically the amount of power saved across a RAID array of…

Read more Western Digital 2TB Caviar, your choice of performance or energy saving

Published September 19, 2009 · 0 comments

If you go back far enough in chip cooling lore you’ll find the "orb" design to have been popularized by the good old ArctiCooler followed up by the core crushing power of the other orb designs that followed it. Thankfully…

Read more Themaltake MaxOrb EX CPU Cooler, bringing back the Orb

Published September 18, 2009 · 0 comments

Sometimes you just can’t get enough computers for the tasks at hand so you go and shell out another chunk of change for your next purpose-built computer, at least one computer manufacturer finds that unacceptable. DFI’s upcoming Hybrid P45-ION…

Read more DFI Hybrid Motherboard, we put a computer in your computer…

Published September 17, 2009 · 0 comments

Intel motherboards of the past were an uninspired bunch offering up the basic features to get your computer up and running which made them the stable and reliable option but enthusiasts opted to go for the motherboards with absurd amounts…

Read more Intel DP55KG Extreme P55 Express Motherboard, going the sensible route

Published September 17, 2009 · 0 comments

Zero Assumption RecoveryDeveloper: Zero Assumption SoftwareUsage: Data Recovery SoftwareZero Assumption Recovery WebsiteSometimes, through no fault of your own of course, things tend to go south really quickly on your storage medium due to the slip of a finger or yes…

Read more Utility Spotlight: Zero Assumption Recovery

Published September 16, 2009 · 0 comments

As with most technologies the more time passes the cheaper things tend to get, for some products that day can’t seem to come around soon enough but when the day finally arrives it’s about as sweet as any other for…

Read more AMD Athlon II X4 620, quad core goes budget

Published September 16, 2009 · 0 comments

The big names in the cooling industry used to be the ones to go for when you needed to top performing products but, interestingly, many smaller manufacturers are coming up with designs that are just as effective and on the…

Read more Thermolab BADA, inspired cooling performance

Published September 16, 2009 · 0 comments

In cooling silence is a completely relative term. What may seem whisper quiet to someone is annoyingly loud to someone else. There is of course a way to get complete silence but it used to mean setting your performance sights…

Read more Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 SilentCell 1GB, quiet as a mouse

Published September 16, 2009 · 0 comments

The excitement around Intel’s LGA 1156 has been well deserved mostly because it brings the sort of performance enjoyed by LGA 1336 users at a lower overall cost of entry, sometimes aiming a little lower on the performance scale brings…

Read more Intel Core i7 860, premium performance at a reasonable price

Published September 15, 2009 · 0 comments

With any new platform comes a whole slew of support products aimed at getting the most of the new processors and motherboards, Intel’s Core i5 and i7 CPUs are bringing about a slew of new dual channel memory products.Legit Reviews…

Read more Kingston HyperX DDR3 4GB 2133MHz, speed comes at a price