With the top of the CPU cooling market being decided by a 1C or 2C degree difference there isn’t much in the way of differentiating your product, unless of course you go for the pricing jugular. The Scythe Yasya CPU Cooler hits all of the wonderful feature points with six heatpipes, staggered fins, and a […]
Gamer cases tend to take on a more menacing design cue partly because it stands out but when you’re dealing with smaller form factors you’ve got to have a bit of skill when pulling it off. The NZXT Vulcan Micro ATX PC Case manages to pull it off with its LAN party friendly handle and […]
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You’d expect for companies following the same heatsink design features to come up with top of the line products but there’s some magical voodoo at work when it comes to top-end cooling. The Thermaltake FRIO CPU Cooler managed to sneak into the high end of the heatsink market and will likely stay there, at least […]
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Getting yourself up to speed on the video card overclocking front usually takes quite a bit more cash in the form of added third-party heatsinks and the warranty voiding that entails. HotHardware has rounded up a trio of ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics cards that are overclocked from the normal speeds straight out of the […]
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With an increasing focus on aesthetics you’re starting to see many more PC peripherals shutting the straight lines for something a little more curvy. The ASUS MS236H Monitor keeps it all business up front with its piano black finish and capacitive touch controls meanwhile you’ll find easily accessible ports in back for that ease of […]
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The concept behind overclocking is to get as much as you can out of the components you’ve purchase which sort of loses that price/performance ratio when you’re buying expensive top-of-the-line gear. The ASRock P55 Deluxe Motherboard supplies a tweaking friendly environment all at a very reasonable price. PC Perspective has the review: We’ve had great […]
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The smaller a PC case gets the fewer places there are to mount fans for cooling and with some powerful processors, chipsets, and graphics cards requiring as much cooling as they can get things will go south quickly. The In Win Dragon Slayer PC Case sports a 140mm fan up front and allows for mounting […]
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If you want to run a high performance rig you’re going to need a good deal of air moving through your case in order to keep your components in proper working order. The Antec P193 Advanced Super Mid Tower Case comes prepped with 4 fans and can accept an extra 3 for some serious air […]
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The majority of home theater PC users like their movies loud and their HTPCs extremely quiet which is why they invest in things like sound dampening material and large slow spinning fans. Sapphire’s Radeon 5550 Ultimate Video Card trumps any silencing measure by operating completely passively so there’s one less whining fan to worry about […]
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While the high end motherboards are peppered with a huge number of options that are best suited for an over the top gaming rig most system builds don’t require all-out spec sheets but a barebones feature set isn’t what you want either. The GIGABYTE 890GPA-UD3H 890GX Motherboard will accept your AMD AM3 processor and allows […]
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Going with the high-end in performance computing can get you those extra couple of frames a second that probably won’t make the latest and greatest title any more playable at high resolutions so might as well save some energy here and there. The Kingston HyperX LoVo 1866MHz DDR3 4GB Memory Kit is capable of running […]
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