Hardware

Enforced with a military design, we review In Win’s 2009 Red Dot Design Award winning 2.5″ enclosure, the Ammo.

Eagle Tech has brought out a set of speakers that sound both good and looks good. And are perfect for those who need just a set of stereo speakers with a bit of kick or for those who need to compliment their 5.1 speakers for true 7.1.

  Many of you surely don’t need a full ATX motherboard to run the one graphics card you have, so you could save yourself a few bucks with the MSI X58M, and still have all the features of a larger board.

We have some early preview shots of the Gigabyte GA-EP55-UD6 which is slated to be the top of the line Lynnfield Gigabyte board for core i5 CPU’s.

  When you cant stand any noise coming from your computer, it can be hard to find a card that suits your needs. Every high end card no a days has a loud fan, but not this one.

  With 1600 mhz RAM being the norm what can a company do to distinguish itself? Today we have Nanya’s best performing RAM, which hopes to overclock to high speeds, giving you more performance.

One of the hotest running video cards on the market today is undoubtably the champion is the 4870X2 video card. Does Artic Cooling have what it takes to cool this video card?

The Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB drive is a “Green” based drive that offers a huge storage capacity, uses less voltage and still offers good performance..

A relative new player in the cooling industry, the Prolimatech’s first entry into the CPU cooling with their Megahalems has proven to be a force to be reckon with.

WHen it comes to the best of the best in thermal paste GELID Solutions is so far the best I have used to date. Look inside and find out why.

The WWF Panda 16GB USB drive comes in a variety of sizes and Active Media Products makes a contribution to the World Wildlife fund for each one purchased.

USB Drive storage capacities have skyrocketed up to 128GB on select models. Kingston a leader in memory technology has fielded DataTraveler DT200 drives in 32/64/128GB Capacities.

XTrac, has come up with a super thin, washable, that sticks to just about any surface giving these mouse pads a non slipping capabilities. Lets look at XTracs newest addition the Logic Mouse pad.

The X-Fighter is In Win’s latest gaming enthusiast chassis. Accommodating water cooling, big video cards and good air flow, we review the X-Fighter to see how it competes.

Not all laptops can sit on your lap for too long due to the heat they generate. We review the NZXT Cryo S to see how it keeps your lap, and laptop cool.

Need a portable mouse? Check out the Rosewill’s latest RM-8500 as it is designed for those who game on the road. It is packed with five buttons and has the ability to switch between 800 and 1600 DPI settings all at the cost of $40.00 MSRP. Is it worth sheading …

Synology has recently launched a budget version of their flagship DiskStation DS209+ at whopping $200 cheaper in the price. Today, we are going to put it against its older brother and see how much performance hit would you expect by saving $200.

With all the thermal paste solutions out there, exactly who is the best? Step on inside the Dragon Lair and let’s find out.

IN-WIN has added a couple more PSU’s to there allready popular commander series. We at Bjorn3d going to look at there 650/750 watt power supplies.

  When the stock cooler isn’t enough for you, then you generally buy an aftermarket heat sink to keep your graphics card cool. Well Asus has decided to do this for you with their new Formula edition of the HD 4770.

Needing a 5.25″ HDD bay enclosure that allows you to remove the HDD when it is need? The ICY DOCK MB877SK-B might be right up your alley.

  You may not be a business owner, but you can still benefit from a removable HDD rack. The HDD can quickly be removed from the rack for use in another computer or as a hard drive replacement.

ASUS has made an allready Flexable video card, more flexable. Lets see inside on what ASUS did to an allready good performing video card the 9600GT.

The PC Power & Cooling Pro-Source is an industrial quality Pure Sine Wave Uninterpretable Power Supply capable of keeping your system running for 12 minutes under a 600 watt load.

We have decided to take a second look at the Kingston KHX12800D3LLK3/6GX six month since the inception of Core i7 and see if the matured BIOS has any effect on its performance and overclocking result. Also, we will be looking at the performance gain of the faster memory on the …

  In this day and age you can never have enough power for your computer. Why not give the Kingwin 1000MAIS power supply a spin? With 1000 watts of power, you’ll be able to power your new super computer.

  Does that new hardware require a bit more power? How about your want for a modular design? Well, how about checking out the Ikonik Vulcan 850 watt power supply for your new rig?

  With Intel’s new socket right on the horizon, there are not a whole lot of coolers equipped to fit on the new socket. Today we have the Cooler master Hyper TX3, which will fit this socket.

Razer gives us their new mouse pad before launch, the Sphex. Being the thinnest gaming pad available, we give it a run to see how it holds up against its heavyweight competitors.

If you have the need to transcode a large volume of high definition contents, you must check out the Leadtek’s Winfast PxVC1100. It uses Toshiba’s SpursEngine to assist high definition transcoding and also enhances the video images. We put it against a Core 2 Quad processor running at 3.0GHz and …

MSI has come up with a way on making the 285GTX video card even better. By making it run faster and cooler.

Kingwin has come up with another good replacement of the nasty stock coolers that AMD and Intel uses for there CPU’s. Lets take a sneak peek at the XT-1264 CPU cooler.

ICY DOCK has come up with a good way for us people to use them extra SATA hard drives that been taking up precious space.

When it comes to our computers, the actual slowest device we use constantly in it is the HDD itself. IS there any way we can relive ourselves of this type of constraint?

  What happens when you want great performance from a CPU cooler without breaking the bank? You look for alternatives! The OCZ Vendetta 2 is the perfect starting point for your quest.

The HIS HD4890 Fan Turbo is a factory overclocked HD4890 from HIS. We have compared it to both the HD4870 1 GB and the GeForce GTX275 to see how well it performs.

  Are you tired of just a plain old case? How about getting this bad boy with twin quad 80mm rads, and plenty of room for expansion, you can be sure you wont run out of room for the most amazing liquid cooling system.

Our last MSI board gave us the essentials and a few more toys. Their enthusiast board offers everything a hardcore enthusiast would want and a whole lot more.

Just when you thought that the older socket 775 CPU motherboards came to an end ASUS, breeds new life into this CPU socket type.

  With new cards just on the horizon, you will need evermore powerful PSU’s to run them. SilverStone is no new kid on the block. You can trust them for a reliable PSU such as the Element 850w.