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AMD brought their newest Piledriver architecture to their APU chips first with the release of Trinity. We have already looked at the Trinity chips themselves, so lets take a better look at the motherboards designed to support them. Today, our AMD A10-5800K APU will be paired with three great FM2 socket motherboards with three leading manufacturers and we’ve selected the MSi …
So what the heck is a GOTTACON? Well, according to their website, it offers “tournaments in miniatures, collectible trading cards, role playing games, board games, and video games as well demonstrations, contests, discussion panels, a variety of exhibitors” and more. The event itself takes place in Victoria, BC Canada this weekend (February 1 – 3, 2013) which is an …
Power supply manufacturers are really focusing on 80Plus efficiency standards versus max wattage. And, it seems that many of them are paying closer attention to what we the consumers want. For example, we recently tested one of Rosewill’s strategically focused 750 watt Fortress Platinum power supplies and found that the OEM, ATNG, manufactures decently efficient units for them. While the …
When was the last time that you went out and bought an INTEL desktop board for your next DIY build? I’m willing to bet that most of you would say rare to never. It’s not that their desktop boards weren’t good, but compared to the innovations, features and variety provided by all the great companies in the market like ASUS, …
Today ‘s most elite PC systems feature elaborate custom cooling systems to manage CPU, GPU and occasionally even chipset temperatures. While the process has come a long way in the last 10 years, it still takes a bit of home work to choose the right parts and patience in assembling them a system properly. Fortunately, all in one liquid cooling …
First of all, on behalf of Sapphire USA, NCIX PC and the team at Futurelooks, thank you to all our fans for entering this amazing contest that we started on December 14th, 2012! As a result of your enthusiasm, we managed to grab over 1824 entries in less than a month. That’s why Futurelooks fans totally rule and …
Normally, you have to rely on the graphics card–integrated or discrete–on your notebook if you want to add an external monitor, but what if you want to have two external monitors? That sounds like it would be monumentally more challenging, but it’s actually quite simple with a product like the Diamond DV100 Dual View USB 3.0 Graphics Adapter. All you …
The third and final instalment of our CES 2013 coverage from Las Vegas is upon us and it features even more stuff for people who like computers! And of course, it’s in glorious 1080p HD and nice and beefy so that you can lose yourself for 20+ minutes as you make a new wish list for your next system build. …
In our quest to bring you more of the stuff for people who like computers from CES 2013, Episode Two of our continuing CES 2013 video coverage in glorious 1080p HD takes us to see even more great companies. In this episode we feature Cooler Master and their CM Storm line, ROCCAT, and Kingston Technology with goodies from their HyperX …