Performance cooling can be separated into two segments, air and water. On the air side we have some very impressive heatsinks dominated by dual cooling towers and fan sizes around 140mm. The reason for this is to both increase performance...
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Today we take a look at the Shock 3D 7.1, filling an important role in the USB powered virtual 7.1 surround headset market. The stylised design of the earcups are quite bold in design, having a stretched pentagon come hexagon...
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The X99 Chipset has been around for a while now and it’s about time we had a look at another offering from Intel’s premium desktop chipset. There are not many PC enthusiast motherboard manufacturers these days, with a few of the major players disappearing over the last decade.
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Skylake is here and it’s time for Intel’s Moore’s Law evolution, or is it? Last year Intel released their high end desktop CPU’s in the shape of the Intel Core™ i7-5820K, i7-5930K and the i7-5960X Extreme Edition. They haven’t been replaced and are still very strong, so should you overlook the Haswell-E?
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As Intel launches 14nm Skylake procs we review Intel Series 100 motherboards. In this review we cover the ASRock Z170 Gaming K6. These new puppies come with a cool design, USB 3.1 and some very nifty features. Next to that...
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We review the Intel Core i7 6700K flagship quad-core processor fabbed at a 14nm node. This little puppy is fast and agile, but will it be worth an upgrade? For this review we look at the performance of this processor...
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In this article we review that hot ‘n feisty ASUS Z170 Deluxe aimed at that new Core i7-6700K processor this product is bound to please. The Deluxe comes with a nice black & white design with added benefits in USB...
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We review the Intel Core i5 6600K processor. Developed at 14nm node these processors are very energy friendly. For this review we look at the performance of this processor in a wide variety of benchmarks and situations. Link
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If you are in the market for a top of the line cooler, you will need to consider AIO or All In One Coolers. Basically the middle ground between the mystery of watercooling and the predictable land of air cooling limitations. Unless you have a large chassis and can cope with a be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 or the superb Noctua NH-D15 then you are going to be need to compromise in some way. Either in the way of overheating or increasing the decibels by pushing more air though the case.
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Vienna, August 3rd 2015 – Noctua today announced that it will continue its tradition of supplying customers with its premium-class SecuFirm2™ mounting kits for novel platforms free of charge. While most Noctua heatsinks support Skylake’s LGA1151 socket out of the...
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Crucial, a leading global brand of memory and storage upgrades, today announced it is unveiling a complimentary white digital camo heat spreader and unique white printed circuit board (PCB) option as part of its Crucial® Ballistix® Sport LT DDR4 memory...
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We’ll be testing the A10-7870K APU, a quad-core CPUs with eight activated Radeon cores totaling towards a nice 512 shader processors. The APU memory controller these days supports up to DDR3-2133 and 2400 MHz with selected memory MHz memory speeds....
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The MSI Gaming line has a very rich history starting with enthusiast hardware tailored to match what gamers wanted. The brand would later become a premier name in eSports while simultaneously supporting some of the top gamers in the world....
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Today’s review unit of the Noctua NH-C14S arrived in a standard corrugated cardboard box via United Parcel Service. Flying all the way in from Noctua’s headquarters in Austria, this medium sized box was in a condition I could only expect,...
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is not a new card and has been around for 8 full months but that’s obviously not enough to take the spotlight off since it’s still one of the best-selling models in the market (fully...
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