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PC News, Hardware, Software
NEW LIAN LI VECTOR V150 INF PC CASE
LIAN LI announced the VECTOR V150 INF, a compact mATX chassis featuring a tempered-glass infinity-mirror…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
HYTE Teams Up With SQUARE ENIX for a Limited‑Edition FINAL FANTASY XIV Y70 Case
HYTE’s limited‑edition FINAL FANTASY XIV Y70 case, featuring panoramic character art and a serialized “Warrior…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
Thermaltake Retro Series Brings Classic PC Style Back
Thermaltake just dropped something fun — the new Retro Series, a pair of cases that…
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PC Cases / Accessories
Is the In Win Prism Worth It? Full Review, Airflow Test
Bottom line: the In Win Prism is just a killer case. It looks insane on…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
G.SKILL DDR5 Memory Kits Confirmed as Intel XMP 3.0 ‘Ready’ for Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus Series Processors
G.SKILL announced that its existing and new DDR5 memory kits have gained Intel Extreme Memory Profile (Intel XMP) 3.0 overclock readiness to support the new Intel® Core™ Ultra 200S Plus…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
BIOSTAR INTRODUCES THE BITWL-IHT MINI INDUSTRIAL MOTHERBOARD
BIOSTAR introduces the new BITWL-IHT, a Thin Mini-ITX industrial motherboard engineered to deliver stable and scalable performance for modern intelligent infrastructure. Built to smoothly run with the Intel® Alder Lake-N,…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
New Case by Antec and Noctua the Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition PC Case
PC case specialist Antec and Austrian quiet cooling expert Noctua have teamed up to create a custom, further refined Noctua Edition of Antec’s award-winning Flux Pro chassis. Upgrading the Flux…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
Kingston New Next-gen XTS-AES 256-bit Hardware- Encrypted USB Drive
Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., announced the launch of the next-generation IronKey™ Locker+ 50 G2 (LP50 G2) hardware-encrypted USB flash drive. The drive…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
The Audio Ecosystem Powering a New Era: Elgato Unveils Wave Next
Elgato, a brand of CORSAIR, has announced Wave Next, the company’s next generation of audio products and the most significant evolution of the Wave platform since its debut in 2020.…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
Phanteks Drops the New 360M25‑LCD AIO
Phanteks is pushing into the large‑screen AIO arena with the new 360M25‑LCD, a 360mm liquid cooler built for high‑end Intel and AMD systems. This thing doesn’t just cool — it…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
CORSAIR Adds Two New Limited‑Edition Cases to the FRAME 4000D Lineup
CORSAIR is expanding its FRAME 4000D series with two limited‑edition models: Nova and Galaxy. Both cases use a new color‑shift paint finish that changes tone depending on how the light…
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PC News, Hardware, Software
AMD Rolls Out New Ryzen Chipset Driver 8.01.20.513
AMD has pushed out a fresh update for its Ryzen™ chipset drivers, landing at version 8.01.20.513, and it’s mainly focused on tightening things up under the hood. While this isn’t…
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PC Hardware Reviews
Cooler Master NotePal A1 Laptop Cooler Stand
Introduction The NotePal A1 is a notebook cooler from the world leading expert on cooling stuff… Cooler Master! A dual fan setup that is designed to efficiently and quietly assist…
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Why is it so flippin difficult….
Modding and LAN parties… chocolate and peanut butterfrick and frakStarsky and HutchYin and Yang You see where I go with this? LAN parties are out there and prolific. And people who…
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PC Cases / Accessories
In Win X-Fighter Mid Tower Case
We are going to be taking a look at a spacecraft inspired mid tower chassis, the In Win X-Fighter. As with many of the other components of the PC, choosing…
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CPU Cooler
Cooler Master Hyper N620 CPU Cooler
This time around Cooler Master sent in the N520’s big brother, the Cooler Master Hyper N620. The N620’s main difference is the use of two 120mm fans instead of the…
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Keyboards
Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard
Adding to its “G” series of gaming peripherals, Logitech has released the G13 Advanced Gameboard. The G13 offers 25 programmable keys, 3 quick switchable profiles, a 4-way control stick, and…
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PC Hardware Reviews
Patriot Torqx SSD (Solid State Disk) 64GB
Smaller, faster, and better is what we all want in our PC’s today. One design that has not changed to much is the hard drive. Storage sizes and speeds have…
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Lessons of Painting a PC Case
Harsh Lessons of Paint: Undoing with Mineral Spirits
The astute reader may notice that my HLOP articles carry a theme: paint is hard. People (especially me) make mistakes. Imagine you botch a spray paint job; is the piece…
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Lessons of Painting a PC Case
Dupli-Color Copper Plate Coating Review
The Dupli-Color Copper Plate Coating is an interesting paint product I recently came across in an auto-parts store. This two-can product is primarily marketed for giving chromed rims a durable copper color. It…
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Modder Spotlight
Interview with BSMODS the winners of the NVIDIA MOD24 Contest
If you are like most of us that are into computer case modding you probably spent a good amount of time watching the MOD24 event that was put on by…
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Lessons of Painting a PC Case
Harsh Lessons of Paint: Leaking Lacquers
Lacquer-based paints are a fussy class of paints used to create high-quality paint jobs. If you’re thinking of experimenting with this type of paint, you might make a lot of…
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Millennium Falcon PC / MAC Case Mod
A long time ago… Yeah we have heard that before and many Tatooine moons ago we also saw the first PC case mod that involved putting hardware into a Star…
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Modder Spotlight
Modder Spotlight: Richard Clinton (8-Bit Builder)
While roaming isles of PAX East we came upon a casemod that looked very familiar. Come to find out it was one of our frequent readers and forum contributor Richard…