If there’s one thing that’s true of most enthusiast motherboards it’s the fact that they all sport some form of high contrast color combination in order to draw your eye to their product and given how much surface area there…
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The general idea behind the Intel Core i5 was to bring the company’s high-end Core i7 performance down to the mid-range level and cut some costs along the way. Oddly enough the changes they’ve made and improvements they’ve added, most…
As far as processor lines go Intel’s Core 2 processor will go down as one of the most beloved chips for the enthusiast class. With the Core i3 and Core i5 coming up to take its place in the mid-range…
Read more ASRock P45X3 Deluxe Motherboard, Core 2's last hurrah?
Intel’s X58 Express chipset has been a solid partner to the company’s Core i7 processor for a good while now but in the hands of some experience engineers and, lets face it, performance crazed individuals things can be taken to…
Read more EVGA X58 SLI Classified, high-end multi-GPU gaming starts here
AMD has had a bit of a problem rolling out a CPU to match up with Intel’s top of the line processors, and at the rate things are going they might not catch the performance crown again any time soon….
Read more Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H Motherboard, nondescript name but plenty going for it
There are heatsinks that do their cooling work with the oddball amount of work to put in yourself, usually that involves placing a bracket on the back of a motherboard in order to stiffen it up a bit and protect…
The Intel Core i7 lineup has been the fastest consumer processor on the market for quite a while now, in fact you’re pretty much stuck if you want to go any faster than what you probably already have. If you…
Read more Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, for those in Need of Speed
AMD has a habit of putting reasonably powerful graphics cores into a number of their chipsets. Their upcoming 785G is another example sporting a custom built Radeon HD 4200 core that might enable your low-power build to do something other…
Read more AMD's 785G Chipset Graphics Performance AKA Your HTPC can Game
The miniITX form factor has been making a bit of a name for itself, what with all of the hype surrounding the Intel Atom which has led to quite a few motherboards based around the design (although you’ll find some…
There’s that fine line in overclocking where a few more MHz here and there add up to an unstable computer. Spending hours in the BIOS finding all the right settings then trawling around forums for those specialized overclocking tools that…
It’s maddeningly difficult to choose a notebook computer based on specifications alone, even more so when you have to deal with the variable known as battery life. AMD and Intel differ quite a bit spec wise but when it comes…
