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Sound BlasterX H6 7.1 USB Gaming Headset Review

Sound BlasterX H6 7.1 USB Gaming Headset Review

Award-winning PC enthusiasts mainstay Creative, a company that could always grab attention just with their name, has been around for a very long time. Anyone who knows them will know them as Creative Labs, and also acknowledge how they changed hum-drum Personal Computers into a PC with amazing sound capabilities in the mid-'90s. Creative Labs, or Creative as they are now known, have been around for longer than most current PC brands, with humble beginnings in the early eighties, when the likes of Apple, Atari and Intel were becoming household names. [...]

12 months ago 0

Crucial MX500 250GB SSD Storage Review

We have had the Crucial MX500 250GB for a few months now and so it's about time we got round to reviewing it. Crucial sent this over to us a while ago and ever since we have been running the MX500 250GB SSD for a long period of time, allowing us to understand its day to day performance, and by the performance, we don't just mean test results. We have used it as an external drive, a spare drive, and OS drive and it's currently installed in a doc as a MacOS Time Machine back up drive. [...]

1 year ago 0

Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming Motherboard Review

Intel's Coffee Lake was released not even a year ago and it already feels like the standard enthusiasts Intel motherboard, unless you stuck to your Z270 you only just bought! With no backwards compatibility with Skylake or Kaby Lake CPUs, Intel forced you to upgrade to the Z370 if you wanted a piece of the new 8700K for example. You can count on PC enthusiasts to flame about this, and also find a way to actually make the new CPU's work on Z270 motherboards, it's all been a bit cynical. [...]

2 years ago 0

ASRock Z270 Pro4 Motherboard Review

The ASRock Z270 Pro4 motherboard is a familiar site. ASRock is a familiar brand and since the birth of the ASRock company, it has secured a healthy and immediately identifiable place in the component market. With the recent launch of mainstream graphics cards, it's also clear that ASRock is looking for more. The Intel Z270 is getting on a bit now, and though it wasn't apparent at the time of launch, it has become a small part of Intel's chipset masterplan, with the release of the 3xx and other chipset models. [...]

2 years ago 0