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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: 05-04-2008 Category: Motherboards Intel motherboards dominate the market since their CPUs also dominate the market. Their main rival in the consumer business AMD has continued to struggle with their business mainly due to the inability of their CPUs to compete wit...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-30-2008 Category: Motherboards Elite Computer Systems has been around making motherboards and video cards among other computer related components for years. Mostly known as a value motherboard maker in recent years, ECS today has tried to change all of that wit...
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: Doc Overclock Date: 04-21-2008 Category: Motherboards The new Intel E7200 was able to achieve a 3.56GHz speed over its normal 2.56GHz default setting, and the E8500 was able to go from 2.53 all the way up to a 4.2GHz increase completely stable. This is excellent results and shows th...
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: 03-26-2008 Category: Motherboards ASUS has done a wonderful job with their ASUS MAXIMUS Formula board. Based upon Intel’s X38 chipset, the Maximus Formula brings the performance, the features and the stability one would expect from a top of the line motherboard fr... 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: Doc Overclock Date: 03-19-2008 Category: Motherboards EVGA is a company that has pounded the pavement with NVIDIA products for almost a decade now and they show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. For every release NVIDIA has EVGA has a solution based on that product, usually with...
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: Ben Sun Date: 02-29-2008 Category: Motherboards XFX has long been known as one of the top video card makers in the NVIDIA camp, with many overclocked versions of their video cards reaching the market. Recently, they’ve also started manufacturing motherboards based upon NVIDIA c... 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: Doc Overclock Date: 02-17-2008 Category: Motherboards Gigabyte uses the X48 Northbridge and ICH9R Southbridge combo to good effect. You’ll notice the inclusion of DDR2 memory instead DDR3 that the X48 chipset supports. The full feature set of X48 chipset and Gigabyte’s unique feature... 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: Ben Sun Date: 02-10-2008 Category: Motherboards EVGA is best known for building NVIDIA video cards and their excellent technical support, but they have recently gone into making motherboards based upon NVIDIA chipsets as well. EVGA has built motherboards based upon the nForce 6...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 02-08-2008 Category: Motherboards Asus has always been one of the favorites of the hardcore enthusiast community with excellent overclocking potential on every one of their high-end boards, excellent performance and the features that matter most from each chipset....
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: Doc Overclock Date: 01-27-2008 Category: Motherboards Asus reigns supreme when it comes to motherboard sales and they have the biggest selection of boards as well, being that they manufacture products from all the major chipset players including Intel, NVIDIA and ATI to name the majo...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-24-2008 Category: Motherboards The Intel P35 chipset was launched a little over 8 months ago as the replacement for the 965P platform that was the mainstream chipset equivalent to the 975X platform. The Bear Lake platform introduced new features including supp... 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: Doc Overclock Date: 10-09-2007 Category: Motherboards EVGA is one of the hardest hitting players in the VGA business and they plan to make waves in the motherboard market as well as seen in their latest 680i series of motherboards for both AMD and Intel platforms. Andrew Han and team...
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: 09-06-2007 Category: Motherboards Gigabyte is and has been one of the top players in the PC movement and we have worked with them many times in the past on many a project. They are only second to Asus and the number two company that has the enthusiast's ear and ey...
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: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-21-2007 Category: Motherboards I reviewed abit's AB9 Pro a while back and it was an excellent board. In fact, I've found almost every one of their boards to be excellent in almost every respect. The issues I had in the General Usage area of the review prevent m...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-03-2007 Category: Motherboards NVIDIA has launched two new chipsets in the last few weeks, the nForce 680i LT SLI chipset, which has many of the features of the 680i chipset minus the higher memory clocking and a third PCI Express x16 slot for other uses and th...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 04-30-2007 Category: Motherboards The AD580 XR motherboard has all of the features you would expect from a Crossfire compatible motherboard and if you're in the market for an ATI graphics card would make an excellent choice. The board has 6 SATA ports, and many ex...
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: 04-25-2007 Category: Motherboards At the sales counter XFX is a company that can be trusted and that is the priceless equation when it comes to making a buying decision. I give the new XFX 680i LT SLI board a Hot Product Award as we all know it's a very solid chip...
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: 04-15-2007 Category: Motherboards From a features point of view, the ASUS Commando motherboard is more board than many boards on the market. The inclusion of GRAW and 3DMark06 on a motherboard bundle is unique to ASUS's Republic of Gamer's line of motherboards. Fr...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 04-11-2007 Category: Motherboards From a features point of view, the abit F-190HD motherboard is excellent, with everything you would want from a board targeted towards integrated graphics. The unique feature of HDMI on the RX700 chipset means that you will likely...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 04-01-2007 Category: Motherboards As a less expensive alternative to the nForce 680i SLI boards, the P5N32-E SLI Plus board is a good choice for the gamer wanting SLI on their motherboard. Performance-wise the board performs near on-par with the nForce 680i SLI bo...
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: Doc Overclock Date: 03-25-2007 Category: Motherboards In many ways the EVGA 680i LT SLI motherboard is a true enthusiast's motherboard that has many features that will appeal to a variety of users from gamers, to overclockers and those who just want a stable fast board in their syste...
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: 03-12-2007 Category: Motherboards The ECS board is in many respects similar to the ASUS board I reviewed at the AMD launch of the 690G chipset. The motherboard comes with the most bare of essentials in terms of bundle, as the board comes with a single SATA cable a...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-08-2007 Category: Motherboards From a features point of view, the M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition motherboard can't be beat. To go along with SLI technology, the board comes with a remote control, a 512MB USB Flash drive, the ScreenDUO PDA like device and more,...
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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