Reviews

As much as everyone wants a high-end video card, the premium price often means that it is out of reach for a majority of users out there. While there are many who upgrade with every generational release, most users choose to upgrade their graphics card every other generation or every two or three years. This mainstream market segment is often ... Read More »

The All-in-One liquid CPU cooler market is bursting with coolers with so many brands to choose from. In case you did not know however, most of the liquid CPU coolers are manufactured by a single company called Asetek. Not that Asetek makes a bad product, their products work fine but the fact that most are OEMed by one company means ... Read More »

To win in the game you need to customize your controls for maximum speed and comfort. It is very important to feel in control of your character whether you are playing an FPS game or an RPG. If you think all of the peripherals are equal in performance, comfort or customization; you are wrong. There are numerous types and styles ... Read More »

Two years ago, I walked into the Emperor’s Ballroom in Caesar’s Palace hotel in Las Vegas Nevada wearing khakis and a golf-shirt, feeling woefully underdressed for the venue as I did not exactly pack a ball gown nor do I look good in one. The room had high ornate coffered ceilings, triumphal arches, elaborate carpeting and real marble floors, all ... Read More »

Technology is on a relentless march toward efficiency with each new design an improvement over the previous. Some are small, some are big but it is always moving forward. Even on something as simple as a fan and heatsink, improvements in manufacturing and fan design to balance performance, noise and cooling are expected. Larger coolers were on demand a few ... Read More »

When it came to selecting parts for a small form factor PC you had to be very careful as to what you put into it as they usually did not have much in the terms of cooling. Thus resulting in a PC capable of being used as a Home Theater PC, but not very much more than that. However, with ... Read More »

It is an odd way to start the new year with a review of what many enthusiasts consider old technology (990FX mainboard) but the ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer is an interesting and unique in that it incorporates many modern comforts not found on other 990FX mainboards. Plus, with the release of lower power 95W FX processors a few months ago, ... Read More »

One size fits all? This is the question the guys at FUNC were asking when they were engineering their next creation. What I will be taking a look at today is one of the newest products by FUNC: the MS-2. The FUNC MS-2 is a mid-size mouse designed specifically for gamers. From the first few looks at this mouse, it ... Read More »

How much data do you have and how much storage space do you need? Are you a data hoarder? In addition and  more importantly, are you protected against data loss in case of hardware failure? Network storage is no longer just about  massive disk pools sitting on the network waiting to gobble up the vast amounts of 1’s & 0’s ... Read More »

It hasn’t been since the last few years that the case fan has evolved from the same standard design to companies now introducing fans that serve a specific component purpose. With watercooling setups becoming more and more common among mainstream systems, it was only a matter of time before the standard case fan became obsolete and the enthusiast market demanded ... Read More »