The days of a single graphics card composing a high end gaming machine (dual GPU cards don’t count OK?!) are over but those reference designs aren’t exactly cooling or noise friendly. The PowerColor Radeon 5870 PCS+ alleviates that with its own heatsink design that incorporates a much larger fan compared to the impeller designs found […]
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As content rich as mobile devices are it’s hard to be a veritable shutterbug when you’re limited on storage space. Thankfully Kingston has announced their new 32GB microSDHC card which should offer up plenty of capacity for your music, pictures, or whatever else you like to carry around and view on your smartphone or other […]
AMD’s chipset offerings have allowed for some impressive motherboards to be built given their extensive feature sets which should give any performance enthusiast something to be excited about. The Gigabyte 890FX-A UD7 uses the AMD 890FX and SB850 chipsets to power their AM3 design. If cramming in SATA 6G support, 6 PCIe x16 slots, USB […]
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The amount of digital stuff we accumulate is astounding despite the fact that we probably won’t watch, listen to, read, or view the things we decide to back up…then again peace of mind is important. The Seagate 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk, as you can tell by its storage capacity, sports more than enough space to […]
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Yes you’ve heard it all before…high end processors need quite a bit of cooling power in order to operate properly…but you’re going to end up paying out quite a bit to cool off that hot running processor if you go with the top heatsinks available today. The XIGMATEK Dark Knight S1283W uses direct heatpipe contact […]
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The vast majority of desktop computers don’t draw much power at all but high end performance gear has pushed power requirements much higher leading to quite a few options at the top end of the power supply market but little in the way of quality and sensible models for the low end. Antec’s EarthWatts EA […]
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Direct heatpipe contact has been a huge benefit to processors but hasn’t taken much of a foot hold in the graphics chip arena…perhaps this will change some things. The Asus ENGTS450 DirectCU TOP makes fine use of the technique which leads to some noticeably cooler temperatures compared to the competition which should come in quite […]
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High performance processor coolers tend to go for that brute force approach which does provide impressive cooling results but leaves a lot to be desired when the fans they use are going at full tilt. The Arctic Freezer Xtreme Rev. 2 instead opts for a quieter fan that sits between a pair of towers that […]
It would appear that the Lucid HYDRALOGIX has found another fan…a big one. The Asus ROG Crosshair IV Extreme motherboard sports five PCIe x16 slots two that are CrossFireX enabled via the AMD 890FX chipset while the other three use Lucid’s extra special connectivity that allows graphics cards from different manufacturers to work in a […]
The amount of power your system draws isn’t only limited to the hardware in your PC as a power supply’s efficiency has a lot to do with how much is being pulled from a socket. The NZXT HALE90 sports an 80 PLUS Gold rating which translates to less power lost in the conversion process from […]
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Graphics card coolers tend to have a difficult time when GPUs come out since their PCB designs can vary wildly making the best of designs a bit useless on new models. The Gelid Rev. 2 ICY Vision is now capable of cooling off Nvidia’s GTS 450 and GTX 460 graphics cards as well as almost […]
