Monitors aren’t the most exhilarating of subjects for most people but a good display will make your computing time a lot more enjoyable and less painful to yours eyes and, in some cases, can even entertain you all by its lonesome. The Samsung SyncMaster FX2490HD might just look like any other PC monitor, flashy chrome […]
A slow PC can usually be attributed to a weak storage system that can’t pump data out fast enough for today’s top-end processors and graphics cards…interestingly two technologies can solve that without having you crack open your PC. The Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 128GB USB 3 SSD drive crams a solid state drive and USB […]
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Getting maximum cooling performance takes up a whole heck of a lot of vertical space which leaves you at a disadvantage should your case not supply enough headroom. Noctua has announced their new NH-C14 cooler which takes a decidedly horizontal approach while still allowing for a pair of 140mm fins to be added for some […]
Read more Noctua NH-C14 goes for the horizontal cooling crown
People’s performance needs vary greatly so while someone might need the fastest, and most expensive, video cards or processors you might need fast storage to speed up your particular applications. The OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCI-Express SSD cobbles together 4 separate flash controllers and addresses them in a RAID 0 configuration packed into a PCI Express […]
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It seems that every once in a while a company comes along and mixes things up with the big names in high-end air cooling. The ZEROtherm ZT-10D has all of the right features to challenge the top performers on the market. Six heatpipes and the capability to mount two fans pushes it to levels that […]
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It takes quite a bit of energy to satiate a gaming rig once it gets going on the latest and greatest gaming titles especially since they make full use of GPUs and multi-threaded games are making huge strides in using all available resources so now your CPU is being pegged at full load as well. […]
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Everywhere you look there are high performance heatsinks that do a wonderful job of cooling your processor but leave a lot to be desired in he noise department. Zalman’s CNPS8000A processor cooler carries on the company’s tradition of creating heatsinks the perform well and stay as quiet as possible when doing it. It’s a low-profile […]
Performance solutions that hide under reference cooler designs can be worrisome but considering how cool the AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics chip runs you don’t have much to worry about. The ASUS EAH6870/2DI2S/1GD5 doesn’t stand out in a sea of reference cooled graphics cards but it does boast a minor clock boost above the norm […]
The GeForce GTX 480 suddenly isn’t getting as much attention due to the dominance of the new 580 graphics chip but if a GPU served people well for a while it stands to reason that it should still provide a useful gaming experience. The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 480 SOC video card sees no need for […]
Read more GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 480 SOC knows how to treat a GPU
When you launch a new product the inevitable comparisons with solutions around your price range will begin. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 video card is one of the fastest single card graphics solutions around but its pricing, including sizable markups due to lack of supply, puts it extremely close to the AMD Radeon HD 5970 dual […]
Read more NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 and AMD Radeon HD 5970 battle at the top end
Most people don’t need much computing power but the increasingly faster high end CPUs of today have loaned their cores, sans some cache, to the budget models. Fortunately for under $100 you can find some powerful processors regardless of platform you choose. AMD has some triple core value chips to get their point across while […]
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