Reviews & Articles

Priced at $124, the Intel Core i3 2100 is the cheapest Sandy Bridge processor. For its price and performance, it may just be the best budget processor on the market.

The Sapphire HD5850 Xtreme Edition is a great reboot of a very successful card. With a low price tag, it looks attractive for buyers, but can it keep up with newer cards? Keep reading to find out.

In March, Crytek came out with the highly-anticipated Crysis 2. We’re bringing you a little taste of the action.

The HIS HD6870 IceQ X Turbo is a factory overclocked card that deserves to be called one of the fastest HD6870’s currently available. Add to that a silent and efficient cooler and we have a winner.

The Kingston 12GB HyperX T1 Black Edition memory is well designed, and looks attractive. However, will it stand up to other memories in performance? Read on to find out what this memory kit can do.

The AMD HD6790 is aimed to bridge the gap between the HD5770 and the HD6850. In essence it is a lesser version of the HD68xx series. Read on to find out what it can do.

Seagate’s latest Barracuda XT brings high capacity to computers. But how well does it really perform? Keep reading to find out.

The HIS HD6850 and the HIS HD6850 IceQ X Turbo are two cards that not only offer a lot of performance for a low price, but also have a lot of headroom for overclocking.

The Razer Ferox is an outstanding portable speaker system with powerful sound. With 360 degree omni-directional this product is bound to surprise.

The GTX 590 is a Dual-GPU GF110 video card capable of playing all the latest video games, including some of the greatest 3D titles. This is done while maintaining reasonable temperatures at a very quiet operation.

The NZXT Sentry LXE is specifically designed for user convenience. Unlike other fan controllers it is unique and is not restricted to either PCI or 5.25″ format, and has an interactive touchscreen design.

  Seagate’s Constellation.2 is the first 2.5” enterprise level 1TB hard drive. With 7200RPM, 64MB Cache, and a 6 Gbps interface, it is designed for the highest level of performance.

  The Noctua NH-C14 is a high-end cooling solution that not only excels in overall quality, but has a better form-factor for smaller cases.

The last time we tested the Thermaltake Max5G USB 3.0 Enclosure, a motherboard issue caused us to publish erroneous results. We’re revisiting this product to bring you more accurate performance results.

The Razer Ironclad is a high-end premium product, that delivers on performance and surface tech.

Can you come up with the most creative ways to incite mayhem, cause destruction, and kill your enemies? If so, Bulletstorm will not disappoint you!

The GIGABYTE G1.Sniper has an outstanding set of software, great features, and high quality hardware components, making it an innovative gaming product.

The AMD HD6990 is AMD’s latest dual-GPU card. This beast is big, power hungry, and quite expensive. It is also very very fast. Read our review to find out how fast.

  Out of the wide range of keyboards available on the market, the Tt eSports Meka G1 mechanical keyboard shows features only found in high-end keyboards.

  The GIGABYTE G1 Killer motherboard series is the ultimate weapon for gamers against the competition. The G1.Assassin comes with high quality dedicated audio and NIC and provides up to 4 PCI-E slots for extreme gaming performance.

Seagate provided their 750GB, 7200 RPM Momentus hard drive for testing and it performed quite nicely. The 16MG cache and high spindle speed really help this drive shine.

The GIGABYTE E350N-USB3 is one of the first motherboards using the new AMD Fusion APU, combining the CPU and the GPU in one package. Does it have what it takes to take on the Intel Atom/NVIDIA ION? Read on to find out.

OCZ RevoDrive is a PCI-E storage SSD that brings excellent performance with its SandForce controller in RAID 0 configuration. Read on to see just how much extra performance this card packs.

HornetTek’s Showcase is an update of the earlier Phantom, adding support for 3.5” hard drives and Component output. We are taking a quick look at the player and the new firmware.

The Sapphire Edge Mini PC is a tiny computer with an Intel Atom D510 processor and NVIDIA ION graphics. It is lightweight and consumes very little power, and we’ll see how it stacks up in utility.

Palit GTX 560 Ti Sonic delivers great performance worthy of its price. It is an ideal graphics card for any gaming enthusiast.

The Thermaltake Max5G Active Cooling 3.5 External Enclosure enhances Thermaltake’s enclosure lineup with USB 3.0 to SATA 3 compatibility and two 80mm fans for added cooling.

The CM Storm Inferno is the second gaming mouse from Cooler Master. Can it perform as well as their first mouse, the Sentinel Advance? Read our review to find out.

Could the GIGABYTE GTX 480 be faster than even the new Nvidia 500 series? We’ll take a look at that in this review.

Hard drive manufacturers are working hard to maintain good performance while reducing power consumption, so we put the 2TB Seagate Green to the test.

  The ASUS HD6970 is not only a beast in specifications, but in size and stature as well. 2GB of GDDR5 and a factory overclock provide the power to crunch through the toughest games.

The ASUS HD 6950 2GB OC Edition is a solid video card that offers very good performance, using little power and producing low noise, though there are better cards available.

The ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DirectCU II demonstrates incredible overclocking stability and astonishing performance, making this card a serious contender on the market.

The MSI GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II / OC delivers top performance and quality versus cost.

The Zotac ZBOXHD-ID34BR-U is a small laptop-sized All-in-One Mini-PC designed for watching High-Definition Blu-Ray 1080p videos straight on your home HDTV.

NVIDIA’s release of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti comes with a new chip (the GF114). The card is intended to replace the old GTX 460 (GF104), and fill the lowest high-end slot for the GeForce 500 family.

Kingston’s latest KHX2133C9AD3X2K2 features a gray heatspreader, and is designed to support the new Sandy Bridge architecture. The memory runs at speeds up to 2133MHz with 9-11-9-27 timings at 1.65V.

The ASUS RT-N56U is a nice looking router that comes with support for both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, a lot of useful features, and an excellent user interface.

The Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 is the first motherboard from Gigabyte using the new AMD Fusion APU’s. We have posted a first look at it with images and some specifications while we are working on the full review.

  A final post-CES 2011 overview of the show floor and some of the latest products showcased this year.