Do you still remember the days when Intel’s Pentium 4 was duking it out with AMD’s Athlon 64, almost every enthusiast owned an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, having 1GB of RAM was the gold standard, and 160GB hard drives were...
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If the lack of support for integrated graphics doesn’t bother you, Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 is a good and promising choice. It stands out among typical mid-end solutions by having richer functionality (two USB 3.0 and two additional SATA 6Gbps controllers), comes...
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HIS first introduced its IceQ coolers in 2003 to its Radeon 9800PRO series of video cards, eight years later HIS return with the IceQ X cooler, which thankfully performs much better than it looks. In this review the IceQ X...
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Day 3 was actually quite busy for me with the first half of the day being dedicated to finishing off my official meeting schedule and the rest of the time making new contacts and checking out some of the random...
Read More...To help make up for the lack of a proper EFI solution, GIGABYTE has given its Z68 users what it touts as being a “Hybrid EFI” – or in non-marketing speak, a piece of Windows software for interfacing with an...
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In this review I’ll be taking a look at a really interesting set of Gaming headgear and by this I mean a headset that can be used with across three different gaming platforms called the X-TATIC SP. Sharkoon have came...
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Now that Intel’s finally released the Z68 chipset, motherboard vendors are scrambling to meet the demand. With the odd restrictions of the P67 and H67 chipsets removed, the Z68 allows users to make use of Sandy Bridge integrated graphics as...
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The Patriot Memory Supersonic 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive performed just about as expected, which means a new level of performance when upgrading from a USB 2.0 capable flash drive. The write speeds were almost as good as the published...
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It’s the start of Computex today and as many of you already expected, it’s time for AMD to release its new motherboard chipset. Now before we begin, let me just state .. it is all extremely weird, as today the...
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When we tested the GeForce GTX 580 Lightning from MSI roughly a month ago, we stated that the product might become product of the year, it really is that good. But little did I know about an Xtreme edition that...
Read More...A lot of companies are pushing 3D hard right now; its tipped by many as the next big thing and manufacturers are positively queuing up to sell consumers anything with the word 3D in the title. However, there is one...
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The manufacturing partners have put together their offerings, eachputting their personal touches to the design. Benchmark reviews is here with alook at the ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX motherboard and the all new 990FXChipset. It’s been a long time coming,...
Read More...Ching Chang Ping Pong Chan Zhou and Jing. I wonder, if you had to take a guess, would you say that those random sounds and letter combinations are of Chinese origin? Well, you have guessed right. In fact, nowadays, with...
Read More...Power supplies are reaching the end of their development cycle and seem to have changed very little ever since the last year. Over the past years we’ve seen the move from low Wattage 350W power supplies in the dull gray...
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The market for Radeon HD 5870 video cards has matured since the launch of this top-tier GPU in September of 2009. Development has continued on both the hardware side and the software side of the ATI family, and the ASUS...
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