Reviews & Articles

Patriot Xtreme Viper Series features a custom aluminum and copper-core heatshield for greater heat dissipation. Made for the Intel P55 chipset, the memory runs at 2000MHz at 1.65V.

Equipped with latest features, Dragon Rider is bound to satisfy any enthusiast looking to create a computer worthy of admiration.

The G1 Killer lineup of motherboards will be the ultimate weapon for gamers, with its built-on Creative audio chip and very low latency Bigfoot Killer network card.

We tested the SLI performance of the ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme board’s Lucid Hydra chip.

Patriot Memory just announced their new Javelin S4 Media Server NAS, capable of up to 12TBs of storage for a massive home theater movie/music/photo collection.

Day 2 at CES2011 we visited PowerColor to get a view on some of their upcoming products including a passively cooled HD6850 and a water cooled HD6970.

Cooler Master showed us some of their new products at CES 2011, including a new CM Storm case and a couple of new CPU coolers.

The PowerColor PCS+ HD6870 1GB GDDR5 is a factory overclocked HD6870-card with a interesting cooler. How does it compare to the regular HD6870 and the GTX460? Read the review to find out.

Zalman unveiled some new products today at CES 2011, including cases, coolers, and more.

Nvidia has announced the Tegra 2 chip, which will bring in a new generation of superphones like the LG Optimus 2X.

The GIGAYBTE P67A-UD4 motherboard is designed with mid- to high-end users in mind, providing enough performance and features that an average user would want in a motherboard.

The P67A-UD7 is GIGABYTE’s flagship motherboard, running the P67 Express Chipset with 3-Way SLI and CrossFireX support, and plenty of overclocking potential.

The Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition clocks in at 3.6GHz and provides an unlocked multiplier to aide in easy overclocking from the factory.

ASUS kicks off 2011 with a total of eight Sandy Bridge motherboards based on the Intel P67 Express Chipset. We will examine two of them: the P8P67 Pro and P8P67 Deluxe.

Intel’s latest processor microarchitecture, Sandy Bridge, is finally here. The processor promises greater performance, and we put it to the test.

  The new 32nm Sandy Bridge Intel processor microarchitecture hits stores today with exceptional performance and a lower thermal output that previous Quad-Core CPUs couldn’t achieve.

I-NA215U USB 3.0 enclosure with maximum transfer rate of 5 Gb/s is an excellent choice for anyone that is looking for a light and stylish casing for their 2.5” format drive.

Gigabyte’s lush Aivia K8100 provides more than just smooth looks.

The Vantage A.L.C. from CoolIT Systems is a liquid cooled, close-looped CPU cooler that is designed to cool well without breaking the bank.

Kingston has recently launched the SSDNow V100 based on the updated JMicron JM618 controller. How would the new controller from JMicron fares against the other SSDs? Let’s find it out.

The GIGAYBTE P67A-UD4 motherboard is designed for mid-to-high end users in mind, providing enough overclocking performance and other features that an average high end user would like to see in a motherboard.

The HIS HD5450 Silence PCIe 1x is a card that promises to give some more life to computers stuck with just a 1xPCie slot.

The HD 6950 is the latest graphic card from AMD’s Cayman family that is designed to fill the $300 price bracket. With new and improved shader processor and architecture, can it compete against the new Fermi….

The AMD HD6950 and HD6970 are the update to the popular HD5840 and the HD5870. Can AMD repeat the success with these two cards?

A serious contender for the enthusiast looking for supreme cooling, the In-Win Ironclad has great cooling and excellent expandability.

  The PhotoFast IPADock not only can hold 2 iPad’s, 4 iPhone’s or 6 iPod Nano’s, it also has a card reader and USB-hub built in.

AMD once again bumped up the speed of their Phenom X6 processor by launching the Phenom X6 1100T that is clocked at 3.3 GHz with 3.7 GHz Turbo mode. Stayed at 95W power envelope, this maybe the fastest Phenom II processor we will seen before next generation of CPU.

A month after the release of the GTX 580, Nvidia is back again but this time to launch their GTX 570 enthusiast video card. The GTX 570 offers a 25% performance increase from the GTX 470, and also a slight performance increase from the last generation GTX 480.

The Silicon Xpower DDR3 Dual Channel RAM has an eye-catching design, and is a great tool for those who do extensive video, photo, or music manipulation.

We put the Zalman CNPS9900 Max against the Noctua NH-D14 and the Prolimatech’s Megahalem. See how this heatsink performs?

Zalman surprised us with their latest N Series SSDs, proving to be one of the top performer SSDs on the market from our collection of 20+ SSDs. With the SandForce SF-1222 chip, Zalman hit the perfect spot for excellent performance and capacity at an affordable price point.

ASUS is one of many manufacturers that have factory overclocked video cards even during hard launches like the GTX 580 was. ASUS’ ENGTX580 (GTX 580) Voltage Tweak edition video card is slightly clocked higher than the reference GTX 580s.

When AMD released the Radeon HD 6850 and 6870, they had their sights set on one thing. The GTX 460. Read along as ASUS employs a custom cooling solution to their EAH6850 DirectCU.

By modifying the cooling to provide up to 20% better results than a standard GTX 460, ASUS has provided a videocard that meets performance standards while still keeping cool.

The P67A-UD7 will be the newest flagship motherboard from GIGABYTE, scheduled to be released early 2011 to go with Intel’s new Sandy Bridge architecture.

The ASUS Rampage III Extreme is the ultimate weapon for enthusiast gamers, and overclockers. The Rampage III Extreme spiced up with the latest technologies and breakthroughs makes this motherboard a dream for any user.

Following in the lineage of ASUS boards before it, the Gene III adds another notch next to the ‘I WIN’ button. Great build quality, USB3 and Sata6 in a small package.

ASUS has given us a preview of their new P67 series of motherboards, made for Intel’s newest architecture of processor

We have retested the Sapphire HD 6850 with 960 shader unit and compare it against the card with 1120 shader unit. How does the retail card compare against the card with more shader unit? Let’s find out and also find out how the cards perform in CrossFireX.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 is finally here! With the newly improved and optimized Fermi architecture (GF110), the Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 is capable of higher performance vs power, temperature, and noise ratio.