We may be just days away from NVIDIAs announcement of their latest desktop graphics line (GTX 980/970 models probably) so if that does happen on the 18th of this month i expect that many of you will want to also...
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Month: September 2014
In this review we look at the new PowerColor Radeon R9-285 TurboDuo. Armed with an ultra silent cooler this Tonga GPU based product bring you high-end gaming at a price of 249 USD – With 2GB of graphics memory you...
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While typing the review of a portable hard drive (PHD) roughly a year ago i mentioned that it was the first time that 2.5″ drives closed in to 3.5″ ones in terms of capacity since back then we had up...
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Until recent years small form factor chassis have been exclusive to HTPC or small form factor with older small form factor motherboards aimed at office and HTPC users mainly. With the surge in high quality and gaming focused small form factor motherboards, there has been a growing need to design and release an adequate and acceptable counterpart.
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Intel’s LGA2011 and its aging X79 chipset have soldiered along for that segment of the market that prized core count and memory bandwidth above all. But now there’s a new LGA2011 in town: LGA2011-V3, complete with the new X99 chipset,...
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September 4, 2014, Milpitas CA, USA – Tesoro Technology USA Inc., a manufacturer of high-tech gaming products, today releases the Virtus.Pro gaming mouse pad. A collaboration with the professional e-sport organization Virtus.Pro, this high-performance mouse pad was truly designed by...
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EVGA is probably not the first name that you think of when shopping for a mouse. With the new Torq X10 they aim to change that in a big way. EVGA may be best known for their NVIDIA based video...
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Yesterday we had to turn on both air conditioners to keep the temperature in our lab at 23 degrees in order to wrap up some tests since according to our Oregon Scientific weather station temperature outside was roughly 33 degrees...
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I really can’t figure out how people say the summer’s over when we’re still boiling where i live but all the better for our giveaway since today we have joined with our friends from CRYORIG to make available not one...
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The newest instalment of AMD FX CPUs is finally upon us. September 2014 marks the release of the a few new FX CPUs, including the FX-8370, the FX-8370E, and the FX-8320E. Although I, for one, have been anxious to see...
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The initial consumer graphics card based on Tonga now is the Radeon R9 285, it has 1792 activated stream processors making it perform at GeForce GTX 760 and Radeon HD 7970 level performance levels but with better thermals and lower...
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I’ll admit I had not previously had much experience of Mionix and it was only when my Logitech G500 failed, and the replacement G500S’ really disappointed me due to a design flaw (high pitched whine) that I had cause to...
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NVidia’s 700 series is almost on its way out with the imminent release of the 800 series next month but there are some strong and inexpensive cards out there still worth a look. If like us you have a few Mini ITX rigs kicking about, heat and space are going to be on your mind when thinking of an upgrade to your graphics power house.
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This is an excerpt from a poem in Cantar de Mio Cid or The Poem of the Cid, and it describes the great power of the Tizona. Even before Ferrán González was struck by the Tizona, he knew immediately that...
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It may have taken just a tad longer for SATA solid state drives (SSDs) to finally hit the performance wall specified by the SATA III standard but the fact that we are here means that PCIex solutions will soon cease...
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