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Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-29-2008 Category: Hardware In my last review on the HD4850, I discussed price/performance. The 4850 was an excellent buy for $199 as the card outperformed any variant of the 9800GTX card available. Today’s 4870 card is an excellent value for the MSRP of $29...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-26-2008 Category: Hardware The Personal Computer has been kicking it for many years now, with the first IBM PC launched in 1981 with a 4.77MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM. That was almost 27 years ago, a long time in computer history. One of the problems with the ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-20-2008 Category: Hardware ATI has been manufacturing video cards for many years and has been in a catfight with their archrival NVIDIA for as long as NVIDIA has been around. As a rule the battle has been back and forth with NVIDIA winning in the GeForce er...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-16-2008 Category: Hardware Wow, there is fast and then there is faster and then there’s the fastest. The new EVGA GTX208 FTW Edition VGA card is the fastest single card solution we have ever had to grace our labs period; it’s as fast as an entry level 9800G...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-13-2008 Category: Hardware Cooler Master builds cases, cooling solutions, power supplies and other computer components. Their Stacker 830 case is the basis for this Custom Painted Warfare case as the name implies. CSX stands for Custom Style experience. One... Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-12-2008 Category: Hardware ASUS is a leading provider of video cards, motherboards, and other computer components. ASUS sells video cards based upon both NVIDIA and ATI graphics chips. ATI released the HD3870 late last year offering high performance at a re...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-06-2008 Category: Hardware CoolIT systems are a company that specializes in various cooling units based on both liquid and Peltier solutions for the end user client. They have made advances in the cooling industry by making High-End cooling easy for the com...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-06-2008 Category: Hardware OPPO is known in the Audio Video community for building high-quality components for inexpensive prices. They make HDMI cables, the HM-31 HDMI switch being reviewed here, and Universal DVD players with HDMI connections. The HM-31 i...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-01-2008 Category: Hardware The video card market is defined today by the battle between NVIDIA and ATI, the last men standing from a group of over 30 video card companies back in 1996. Companies like 3DFX, Evans and Sutherland, S3 (the original S3), Renditi... Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-27-2008 Category: Hardware The Silverstone KL03 is a mid-priced case with a price online of $180. At this price, the case has a lot going for it as it has the space of an EATX case while easily fitting long video cards like the X1950XTX and 9800GX2 video ca...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-23-2008 Category: Hardware Cases are the cornerstone upon which a system is built upon. After all a mini-ATX case is rather limited with respect to the amount of expansion cards and hard disks available to it due to its small size. The case also determines ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-21-2008 Category: Hardware Enough of politics though let’s talk about the subject at hand the all new Black Edition series that XFX is releasing to satisfy the overclocker and enthusiast. It seems as if the Alpha Dog series will be now become the second fas... Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-21-2008 Category: Hardware Hiper is best known as a power supply manufacturer but have also branched out into cases, keyboards, Media Center PCs, Case Fans and more. They are based in the United Kingdom (England) and were formed in 2001. The Hiper business ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-16-2008 Category: Hardware Today ECS is releasing another 8800GT card. So why release an 8800GT card when there are 9800GTX cards and 9600GT cards for sale? Good question. The 8800GT is still a great card and while the 512MB versions of the card are expensi...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-07-2008 Category: Hardware ATI has been at the forefront of the push towards higher graphics standards, being the first video card company to use DirectX 8.1 graphics with the Radeon 8500, the first to DirectX 9.0 with the Radeon 9700 Pro and the first to D...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-25-2008 Category: Hardware The EVGA 8800GT 1GB AKIMBO is an interesting card in many respects. The performance is not up to the 9800GTX but it is close being that the two cards share the same video chip just with 16 SPs disabled. The main selling point of t...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-24-2008 Category: Hardware Everyone who is heavy into their PC knows what a Raptor drive is, and what it stands for, fast drives that exceed the competition and enhance system performance. The Raptor was introduced as a SATA (Serial ATA) drive series to co... Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-22-2008 Category: Hardware A Phenom 8750 with a 780G motherboard would cost around $290 today. This will give you excellent integrated graphics with full compatibility across DirectX 10 titles, with nearly the performance of the HD3400 series discrete graph...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-18-2008 Category: Hardware XFX is one of the big dogs in the United States when it comes to NVIDIA based video card sales in the retail channel, along with EVGA and BFG Technologies. XFX has been a major ally of NVIDIA in good and bad times. They have bran... Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-11-2008 Category: Hardware Palit is a European and Asian based video card manufacturer that builds NVIDIA video cards, ATI video cards, motherboards and other computer equipment. They have built a name for themselves in Europe but have also begun selling vi...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-04-2008 Category: Hardware XFX has made a solid place for themselves in the VGA community and the dog has put many other companies in the dog house, especially when it comes to performance based VGA cards for the gamers who like top end products. The mid le...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-02-2008 Category: Hardware Silverstone has been around for a few years building cases and PSUs, CPU Coolers, Storage Devices and fans. We’ve reviewed many SilverStone cases over the years with some having gotten Editor’s Choice Awards. Today I’m reviewing t...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-02-2008 Category: Hardware NVIDIA has had a massive amount of releases in the past few months and the last few weeks have seen an onslaught of VGA cards and the new 790 series motherboards. The 9800GX2 we reviewed last week was a really fast video card bein...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-30-2008 Category: Hardware . The fact that the QX9770 has 12MB of L2 Cache, and the clock speed difference makes it a losing battle. The thing with the CPU market is the Phenom 9850 is designed for the $266 market, not the $1450 market that the Intel QX977... Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-21-2008 Category: Hardware The E8500 is the fastest Core 2 Duo solution on the market with the clock speed set at 3.16GHz, fully 266MHz higher than the next fastest E series CPU. For a MSRP on the Intel CPU price list of $266 this makes an affordable soluti...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-07-2008 Category: Hardware ATI launched their HD3xxx series of cards late last year. The main impetus of the new cards was the features DirectX 10.1 and the new 55 nanometer process node. The performance rivaled that of the previous HD2900XT on their HD3870...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-05-2008 Category: Hardware The 4850e X2 CPU does what it is designed to do, namely bring the performance and features of the 4800 X2 into the 45W maximum power draw domain. From a performance point of view this new CPU is in line with the 4800+ X2 with simi... Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 02-28-2008 Category: Hardware Logitech has been helping gamers get the edge on their opponents for some time now. From gaming headsets to the venerable G15 keyboard, if it’s for gaming chances are they make it. Today we take a look at one piece of their high ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-27-2008 Category: Hardware Keyboards are important pieces of hardware that are used by every computer user today without exception. Without a keyboard of some sort, there would be no Email, no Instant Messaging, no typing on the computer of Word Documents. ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-21-2008 Category: Hardware NVIDIA’s new 9600GT card is targeted at the $199 and below price point and EVGA says this card should come in at $200-220. At this level of performance and pricing, the 9600GT competes against ATI’s HD3850 card and almost competes...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-20-2008 Category: Hardware The HD3850 is an interesting card in the grand scheme of ATI’s lineup and Diamond’s 512MB version of the card is also interesting in that the card lies right in the middle of the 3850 to HD3870 price range. The price for this card... Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 02-19-2008 Category: Hardware Computers have become your complete multimedia entertainment center. You them for music, movies, games, photos, and more. When you’re playing your favorite game, watching a movie or listening to music it is fun to turn the volume... Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-13-2008 Category: Hardware It has been a long drought for ATI in the high-end of the video card market. NVIDIA’s 8800 GTX has been the king of the video card market in terms of performance of single card solutions since its introduction over a year ago, wit...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 02-04-2008 Category: Hardware At this point the system is a mixed bag of high performance as the drivers are very immature and improvements surely will come in later releases. As much as I want to say wow about the entire event, I am still left wishing that th... Author: Doc Overclock Date: 02-01-2008 Category: Hardware Rosewill is a division of Newegg and is a company like Ingram Micro’s V7 group that finds quality products and then re-labels them under their own Rosewill branded name. This is becoming a more common thing as large distributions ... Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 01-28-2008 Category: Hardware A case is sometimes the last part of our pc built that we think about, and often it gets the least amount of thought at that. You spend hours pouring over motherboard, CPU, Memory, and Video card reviews to narrow your choices do...
Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 01-22-2008 Category: Hardware At the end of the day the Sidewinder mouse really comes across as a solid mouse with an excellent feature set. Couple that with Microsoft support and you have a product that you can rely on for years to come. ... Author: Vlad Mihaiescu Date: 01-15-2008 Category: Hardware After a quick glance at the box, one thing is for certain: if I perform poorly in a game, I can’t blame it on the joystick, more precisely on the lack of available buttons or customization options. As a matter of fact, the Saitek...
Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 01-14-2008 Category: Hardware With no real down side this keyboard is a definite winner in my book. I was happy with the functionality of the previous Xgene keyboard that we looked at and this new one does not disappoint either. Though it is longer than the ot...
Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 01-10-2008 Category: Hardware The Black Siberia headphones represent a good midrange option when it comes to gaming headsets. The extra long cord, detachable microphone as well the independent controls are great additions that set these headphones apart from m...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-04-2008 Category: Hardware Overall I would have to say that if you are looking for large monitor over the 22" size, the V7 D24W33 is something to seriously consider. If price is also a point in your buying plans the D24W33 also offers an excellent price poi...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 12-15-2007 Category: Hardware Wow another week went by and NVIDIA has already made its own card to compete with 8800GT, and it comes in the form of the new 8800GTS 512MB Edition. This comes in the wake of more than a few new releases that we have seen in the l...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-30-2007 Category: Hardware XFX is first out of the gates with the latest gunslinger for the NVIDIA family, the all new XFX Alpha Dog XXX 8800GT 256MB Edition card. This card is priced at the same level as the ATI 3870 and is rumored to be thee card to have ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-25-2007 Category: Hardware Diamond has been making quite the comeback for themselves recently, it’s just a shame that ATI is in a slump and falling behind NVIDIA at every turn. The launch of the 2000 series added a bit of spark to an otherwise dull lineup o... Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 11-14-2007 Category: Hardware The TJ10 from SilverStone is a full size chassis made entirely from aluminum. This allows the case to be light weight, anyone who has had to move a full tower loaded with components can attest to the need to keep weight down. If ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-12-2007 Category: Hardware Swiftech has been around for many years now and is a company that has helped pioneer the entire PC cooling industry. This is a company that is a hand’s on get down and dirty bunch that revels in excelling in their field and this s...
Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 10-29-2007 Category: Hardware Today we have a ThermalTake Armor JR case to poke and prod and see what we can make it do. But first a little about ThermalTake, not that they need any real introduction, they have been around for eight years. With numerous groun...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 10-29-2007 Category: Hardware EVGA is no stranger to the VGA game and unless you are just as green as fresh picked lettuce to the PC world you should know their name by now. EVGA is one of the strongest brand partners NVIDIA has, and is a company who is almost...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 10-18-2007 Category: Hardware Most of us by now have at least some knowledge of CoolerMaster and their products as they have made quite a name for themselves in this business. From cases to coolers to fans they have a wide variety of products to offer the end-...
Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 10-09-2007 Category: Hardware Glacial Power formed in 2006, though they are a new company their engineer staff has around 15 years of experience with power supply units. In the past this assembled engineering team has been involved in designing numerous produc... Author: Chris Gump Date: 09-17-2007 Category: Hardware Logitech is a household name amongst gamers, known for making great products. I've been using a G7 wireless mouse for just about a year and love the thing. I was excited when I was given the opportunity to get my hands on the G15 ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 09-12-2007 Category: Hardware CoolerMaster has always been a company that has delved headfirst into the thermal and enclosure market dedicated to the vast PC industry. I have been using their products for many years now and their product always fluctuates betw...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 08-30-2007 Category: Hardware In the world of CPU processors, whose is the best is always in question as the balance has swung in both directions in this war of the silicon wafer. Intel has been the leader many times and on many levels and markets, and althoug...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 08-15-2007 Category: Hardware The reason I built this system was after seeing the new 2900XT 1GB series cards (I finagled out of Diamond) in action; I started noticing that there were areas in some games that actually had more background detail than my other s...
Author: Tolemac Date: 08-08-2007 Category: Hardware Targus has been in the mobile technology cases and accessories business since 1996, and has a very wide range of products; from notebook, PDA and camera cases; to mice, keyboards, mobile CD-R/DVD drives, iPod accessories and more....
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 07-27-2007 Category: Hardware I first heard of HANNS-G when I was surfing the Newegg website looking for an affordable 22" monitor for my test labs, and of course one that wouldn't break the bank either. After doing some intense web based research, I found....... Author: Tolemac Date: 07-26-2007 Category: Hardware Jetart, while not a huge name in cooling solution circles, even though they've been in business since 1989, does have a wide variety of cooling products from CPU and GPU coolers to Notebook and Hard Drive coolers. Today I'm checki...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 07-16-2007 Category: Hardware Intel has dominated the playing field of CPU technology for the last two decades, and even though rival company AMD for awhile stole some of their fire with their FX series CPUs, Intel is once again leading the pack, and without c...
Author: Evan Oliver Date: 07-15-2007 Category: Hardware Logitech is an extremely well known name when it comes to peripherals such as keyboards, mice, joysticks and PC speaker systems. They seem to be constantly striving to improve their product lines in each area, as they never rest...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-26-2007 Category: Hardware The monitor we looked at today, the V7 D22W12 will be selling at right around $250.00, a much more affordable and end user friendly price. Not to mention that 22" LCD screens are currently the latest and hottest selling monitors f...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-25-2007 Category: Hardware The positives of the 8800 Ultra are that it is the fastest video card available bar none. The 8800 Ultra is an Overclocked 8800 GTX and performs as such. Video cards like the 8800 GTX and Ultra have the capability of doing DirectX...
Author: Shannon Piel Date: 04-25-2007 Category: Hardware Between the lack of thought and the even more apparent lack of craftsmanship this HDD enclosure puts itself damn close to being useless. With a current market flooded with HDD enclosures a manufacture has to employ careful planni...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-17-2007 Category: Hardware XFX and NVIDA have once again teamed up to bring us another outstanding product in the form of the 8600GTS as it has the right balance of performance versus price ratio. Overclocking seems to be very good as well as the card comes...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-29-2007 Category: Hardware The 4800+ is an interesting CPU. Energy efficiency is more and more important as the Green initiative makes computer manufacturers work on lowering power requirements and the 4800+ does this as advertised. The 4800+ consumes 30W l...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-20-2007 Category: Hardware The abit AirPace Wi-Fi Wireless card is an interesting computer accessory for today's expanding market. With virtually every computer user going Wireless in one form or another, there is a growing need for PCI Express Wireless Net...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 02-28-2007 Category: Hardware The X1950XTX and X1950 Crossfire Edition cards are designed to work together and despite my misgivings about the Crossfire cable, the combination of a X1950 Crossfire Edition + X1900XTX or X1900XTX card work together well in both ... |
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