LAN gaming is one of those attempts at socializing while, at the same time, spending countless hours avoiding face-to-face time with your buddies. It’s as good a place as any to verbally joust with your friends and go on that…
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While the outright processor performance tests will heavily favor Intel’s latest and greatest CPU when it comes to gaming things aren’t so clear cut. Many of today’s latest titles depend more on the graphics card in order to achieve higher…
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The thought of a pre-built gaming rig is enough to scare most enthusiasts off, a machine from one of the largest PC manufacturers around would make them run at an even faster clip. This one is different though, they’ve got…
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Integrated network chips have eased the cost of networking your computers…so why would you want to buy an addon card for your gaming rig? Well your favorite operating system, namely Windows, usually has the system’s CPU take care of the…
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AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 4000 series has set the mark for performance and affordability in this generation of graphics cards. Their top of the line Radeon HD 4890 has been out long enough now to get the proper performance tuning…
Read more A Gaggle of ATI Radeon HD 4890s, The Tweakers Choice
There comes a point in time when you question if your hobby might be taking too much of a toll on your finances, but we’d never question our computing hobby! CyberPower prides itself on building systems to consumer specifications and,…
Read more CyberPower's Black Mamba Venom Core i7 975EE, Yes It's Fast
There tends to be certain issues that crop up when motherboard, graphics card, power supply…well pretty much anything in your computer that uses a size able amount of power can exhibit a high pitched whine under high load if it…
Read more MSI Solves the Squeal, Whine Free Nvidia Cards Coming Soon
Perhaps the thought of dropping a few hundred dollars on a new video card isn’t all that appetizing a thought, heck you could fund a whole new build for the cost of one of those high-end monsters that are available.As…
The high end pre-built computer market is chock full o’ companies that tend to come up with insane designs with the price tags to match them and give you something that resembles a high tech cheese grater rather than the…
Read more Digital Storm Core i7-965, Extreme Gaming Computer
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 old gaming notebook trend was to slap as many colors on to the product in order to attract attention to it, those models also tended to be desktop replacements instead of a portable gaming option. Here comes the new…
