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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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Motherboard Reviews
MSI X99A Gaming 9 ACK Motherboard Review
Have you ever purchased a product, installed and used it for a while, and said to yourself “Man, I wish it had X (as a feature)”? Not that said product…
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PC Cases / Accessories
Phanteks Enthoo PRO M Case Review: Quality Without Compromise
“All progress depends on the unreasonable”, wrote George Bernard Shaw more than a hundred years ago. It is his argument that the reasonable adapt to the conditions surrounding them but…
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PC Gaming Accessories
AKRACING Player Gaming Chair Review
Like any skilled trade, the person is only as good as the tools they use. Taking that statement to the gaming perspective we, as gamers, tend to invest time and…
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PC Cases / Accessories
Bitfenix Aegis Case Review: Maximizing mATX
Water cooling a PC has long been a luxury with required components carrying a high price tag compared to air-cooling equipment. Needless to say, the prices of cases that are…
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PC Cases / Accessories
Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Case Review
For over 10 years PC case design really and truly didn’t change much. Sure, the outside would change but the overall interior layout stayed pretty much the same. HDD cages…
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PC Tech Articles
IT Crowded: Did I Lose It?
Hi, my name is Alex and I am addicted to hardware. I have been doing IT for a very long time and I am constantly running in to the newest…
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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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PC Case Modding
The GeForce RTX Custom Matrix Resurrections PC Giveaway
To celebrate the launch of The Matrix Resurrections in U.S. theaters and on HBO Max on December 22, Nvidia and Geforce Garage partnered with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring you…
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PC Case Modding News and Events
TRON: Legacy Nintendo 64 Case Mod: Project Virtual Reality
Well I had no idea that people were posting case mods over at deviantART, so I guess I learned my one thing for today. Anyways a member over there has…
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Lessons of Painting a PC Case
Harsh Lessons of Paint: Confounding Caps
It can be hard to find the perfect spray paint for your case, and confounding caps certainly don’t help. For example, look at this comparison of a Rust-oleum lid next to a…
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Case Mods, Interviews, Gaming for Charity all at LANFest 2012
This past weekend was Sacramento’s Intel-sponsored LANFest 2012, where gamers and hardware vendors amassed to benefit local charities, play some games, and show off their systems. We had a chance…
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PC Case Modding How To
Soldering Tutorial from Ben Heck
Soldering is one of things that is a must to learn if you want to get into some heavy modding. With a few tips and practice you can go some…