Hardware

Our first impressions of mid range video cards is bottom of the barrel performance. Let’s look at the Sapphire HD4770 that uses ATI’s new 40nm process and GDDr5 memory.

The Athlon 2 X2 250 and Phenom 2 X2 550 BE are great price/performance CPU’s that offer a good punch for a great price. See what we achieved with them on an $85 motherboard.

Famous for their non-reference video card designs, Gigabyte announces their Nvidia GTS 250, with Zalman cooling and native HDMI support.

Needing a large, comfortable, smooth mouse surface. The GP-MP8000 mouse pad from GigaByte., might be right up your alley.

With the introduction of the Phenom 2 X4 series DDR3 Dual channel is back in the limelight. We have a 4 GB kit of Kingston HyperX 1600 MHz DDR3 to put through its paces.

Spire has come up with a card reader that is simple enough for us to use, small enough to carry around from place to place. Lets take a peek at the CombiPod from Spire.

Eagle Tech ET-CS2XMESU2-BK is a 2.5 hard drive enclosure that comes with USB and eSATA ports that is also designed to be install completely tool-less. It may just be the perfect enclosure for those who need portability and performance. Check it out.

The Asus EAH4770 is a mainstream video card that has enough power for everyday computing and runs video games respectably for a GPU in the Sub $100 (USD) price range.

We have all been staggered by the raw power of Nvidia’s 295GTX video card. Now, let’s heat things up when we at Bjorn3D stick a water block on this video card.

Asus ENGTX 260 Matrix is Asus’s own design of the highly regarded GTX 260 card. It incorporates a dual cooling solution, a revamped iTracker software, and the ability to overclock the video card’s voltage. Find out if this card can live up to its promise in terms of cooling and …

Super Talent fielded the new UltraDrive ME SSD lineup with the new Indilinx Barefoot controller many of the initial SSD problems go away and what remains, is blazing speed.

Today, we got the HornetTek’s X2-JBOD dual 3.5” SATA to USB enclosure. If you are in the market for a dual bay enclosure to store your data, be sure to check out our review.

HornetTek has launched the D-Slim, a multi format DVD drive that is mained for those who need an optical drive on the go. This slim drive supports wide variety of disc formats and has a very good read and write performance. If you have recently purchased a Netbook and need …

The Gigabyte GK-K6800 is a full featured Luxury Multimedia Keyboard. It features 108 keys with 14 special function keys.

  Cooler Master has been busy lately with releasing a whole slew of mid tower cases. Today we have their latest, the HAF 922. This is the little brother of the HAF 932. Will it perform as well as its big brother?

The Thermaltake Lanbox offers full functionality in an ultra small portable chassis suitable for toting to Lan Parties of for an office/desk area with limited space.

The Asus M4N82 Deluxe is a AM3 motherboard that runs SLI, we’re slamming the X4 955 in this Deluxe board and enjoying all the bells and whistles that come with an Asus Deluxe board.

  The GTX275 from Nvidia is their answer to the ATI 4890. Will the Leadtek version of this card be able to strike fear into the ATI 4890?

GigaByte, has come up with a decent performing video card that will not break your wallet. Let’s look at the 9600GT and see it in action.

The Noctua NH-U12P SE is a socket 1366 CPU cooler redesigned for Core i7 CPU’s. See how the Noctua NH-U12P compares to the TRUE 120 when both coolers use the same fan.

Tired of them so called “Gaming” mice that just do not perform. Well the GM-M8000 miouse from GigaByte is not one of them run of the mill mice we see so much of.

Looking for a capable video card, but don’t want to break the bank? Look no further, as Leadtek brings us the Nvidia GTS 250.

If your looking for a cheap DDR2 kit but want future proofing then you should look at Patriot’s 8GB DDR2 kit we have today.

GSkill’s ability to maintain high frequencies, reliability, and the performance of their memory is what come to expect from this company. So lets look at their new memory line up the Trident.

Thermaltake by nature has hundreds of products and we’ve stumbled on the Element S Chassis. A sleek looking chassis that provides unparalleled cable management and good airflow.

Crucial has proven to be a tough competitor in the memory market. Let’s take a peek inside and find out why that is so.

Flash drives are a very important piece of today’s daily technology, and all kinds of people around the world use them for transporting data. How does this 64GB model perform?

Titan recently released the Titan Fenrir CPU cooler it’s another in a long line of very successful tower cooler designs. Will the Fenrir be able to tame the core i7 965?

  AMD has recently released a slew of new CPU’s, the newest of these CPU’s is the Athlon X2 7850 BE. With an unlocked multiplier, and 64nm technology, will the new X2 be a good replacement for the aging X2 6400?

With today’s computers having more video cards, HDD’s, and anything else we can think of adding, the need for a reliable, safe PSU has become a necessity.

The Thermaltake SpinQ is a new CPU cooler that features a fan inside the cpu cooler itself, it’s not so much designed for overclocking as it is for that modded look.

Today AMD releases their Flagship Phenom 2 955 BE designed for the AM3 platform and DDR3 coming in at a blistering 3.2 GHz and OC ready. Expect speeds up to 4 GHz on Air.

BFG has been a favorite GPU vendor for a long time. Today we’re going to take a look at the BFG GTX-275 OC GPU. Positioned between the 285 and 260 it offers good price/performance.

Thermaltake has been in the CPU cooler business for as long as we can remember and produces some very interesting designs. We’re looking at the Big Typ 14 Pro with it’s 140mm fan.

The Seagate Momentus 7200 RPM hard drive is a 2.5 inch form factor hard drive suitable for laptop, or desktop use. It’s faster than 5200 RPM drives and smaller than desktop drives.

Today we will be looking at two amplified antenna from Rosewill. The RMS-HDA5000 is an indoor/outdoor antenna designed for home-use while the RMS-DA7600 is an portable antenna that is meant for laptop or desktop use.

We’ve waded through some of the highest end Ram on the Planet and now we’re wading through some Cas 9 OCZ Reaper TC 1866 6B ram for Core i7 rigs. The Reaper awaits you.

Asus continues to deliver Nvidia and AMD based boards to keep us SLI guys happy. Well, they certainly know how to deliver a nice package.

We were quite impressed by the HornetTek’s 3.5” SATA to eSATA enclosure that we have reviewed in the past. Today we will look at their 2.5” SATA to USB enclosure. Can this unit impress us as it has in the past? Let’s find out.

  Once again the installed RAM on graphics cards has increased. Will this increase come with higher frames or broken dreams? HIS steps up to the plate with their offering on a HD 4850 1GB.