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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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DDR Memory Reviews
XPG SPECTRIX D40 RGB DDR4 3000MHz Memory Review
The XPG line of memory modules from ADATA is considered to be its enthusiast line. The XPG SPECTRIX D40 is the first DDR-4 4 RAM that features RGB LED. The…
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PC Cases / Accessories
Raijintek THETIS Window Aluminum Case Review
Raijintek is not a highly known name in the US market for pc cases, but is a well-respected manufacture in other countries. During this review, we will be taking a…
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PC Gaming Headphones / Audio
Sound BlasterX AE-5 Sound Card Review
Over the last few generations, motherboard manufacturers have really stepped up the onboard audio on their motherboards, especially on the higher-end boards. This has sparked a debate in the community…
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CPU Reviews
AMD Ryzen R3 2200G & R5 2400G Raven Ridge APU Review
Since its launch, AMD’s Ryzen CPU has been making waves in the CPU market. With Ryzen, AMD’s performance has become relevant once again and the CPUs are able to compete…
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Storage Devices
ADATA SX950 SSD Review
Fast and affordable flash storage is no longer difficult to find. Nowadays every custom build rig is equipped with some kind of flash SSD. It seems that the craze for…
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PC Cases / Accessories
Cougar Panzer-G Video Review
Tempered Glass has been making its way into more than just the side panels on cases lately, and the Panzer-G from Cougar turns that up to 11. If this case…
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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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Bluebeards Revenge : by Tazz
Bluebeard’s Revenge is a mod that I recently did for Corsair on their new Obsidian 800D chassis. The main idea behind the mod was to focus on the Obsidian 800D…
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Events and Trade Shows
Quakecon 2015 Twenty years of Peace Love and Rockets.
Quakecon is once a year convention in Dallas, Texas that celebrates the gaming community as well as one of the most iconic multiplayer first person shooters ever made: Quake. 2015…
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Americanfreak
Fallout 3 Case Mod by Dewayne Carel
My thoughts with this build is to try an create a PC case mod that has some of the items from the Fallout 3 game that people will recognize, yet…
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PC Case Modding News and Events
Canada Amateur PC Modding Competition 2017 Launched
Canada finally has their own modding competition! Hosted by DazMode, the signups for the Canada Amateur PC Modding Competition 2017 start September 4th and ends on November 6th. As the…
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How To PC Case Mod Tips and Tutorials
Water Cooling Your PC: Making of an Eye Candy Part 4: Tube Bending and Fitting Installation
It’s time to bend some pipes! What I will be using for this part of the water cooling series is Acrylic tubing. Yes there is the ever popular battle between…