Based in Sweden, Fractal Design has been designing cases and marketing them in the UK since 2007. Over the last couple years, they’ve continued to carve a swathe out in the American market thanks to their immaculate and contemporary designs. …
Rosewill Fortress 750Watt 80PLUS Platinum ATX Power Supply Review
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It was just a few years ago that the most extreme computers sucked the life out of 1000 or even 1500 watt power supplies. While a few of those PSUs are still around, we’ve noticed a shift in the power …
Corsair Vengeance 1500 USB 7.1 Gaming Headset Review
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Corsair started their Vengeance series to allow them to create specific products designed for PC gaming. This currently includes memory kits, gaming mice, mechanical keyboards, and gaming headsets. Today I will be taking a close look at the Corsair Vengeance …
A few weeks ago, we got a hands on look at Patriot Memory’s new Viper III DDR3 memory in the 2133 MHz flavor. We discovered that the ICs underneath the light weight, attractive spreaders were Hynix and offer about …
AMD’s NEW “Vishera” FX-8350 8-Core AM3+ CPU Reviewed
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We have all seen a glimpse into what the new AMD Piledriver architecture is capable of with our recent review of the Virgo Platform and Trinity APUs. This time around the graphics processor is out and the massive shared …
bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 2 CPU Cooler Review
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be quiet! is a company that strives to design and manufacture quiet products without sacrificing the look. For the most part this has proven successful as their products are typically right up there with the top performers, but their fit …
Corsair recently added the Neutron series SSDs to their existing line up. Previous asynchronous and synchronous Force series SSDs all made good use of the SandForce controller. However, the latest Neutron series changes things up adding a Link-a-Media LM87800 controller to …
GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UP5-TH ATX Motherboard Review
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GIGABYTE has been slowly refining their Z77 series and have added a couple new features that you’ll want to know about. For example, the new revisions now feature their Ultra Durable 5 technology which builds even more longevity into their …
NVIDIA’s GTX 650 Ti “Mini-Kepler” Graphics Card Reviewed
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NVIDIA has finally completed their Kepler line up which means there is a GPU based on their latest architecture at every price point. The GTX 650 Ti was the final piece that finishes off the series at an entry level …
AMD’s Virgo Platform and Trinity A8-5600K / A10-5800K APUs Reviewed
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AMD finally moves forward with implementing a completely new module architecture across its processors. This move has been met with a lot of controversy thanks to high expectations from the first all new design in over a decade. While the rest of …
ASUS AMD HD 7970 DirectCU II Video Card Review
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GPU heat is the by-product of any awesome gaming experience and managing it is a never ending task. ASUS’ DirectCU II series video cards feature an impressive custom designed cooler for this reason. It is a flagship among ASUS video cards that …
be quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 650W ATX Power Supply Review
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About six years ago, I reviewed, tested and installed a be quiet! 550 watt power supply in my son’s gaming computer. It was a decent budget power supply and provided surprising efficiency of 50% at the time. In fact, the …