BitFenix Colossus E-ATX Case Review
BitFenix is a a new player in the PC enclosure market and their first prototype is a bold and innovative design that should stand out against other high-end cases. The Colossus's deep dimensions allow for two 230mm fans and support for E-ATX motherboards. Check out our preview of this beast before it is available to U.S. consumers....
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Gigabyte H55N-USB3 LGA 1156 Mini ITX Motherboard Review
Today's mini ITX motherboards are slowing starting to support quad-core CPUs, advanced chipsets, and PCIe 2.0 graphics cards, but only a few vendors are actually taking advantage of it. Gigabyte jumped on the mini ITX train and suited up the H55N-USB3 with support for today's latest LGA 1156 processors, USB 3.0, and DDR3 memory. It should be interesting to see how this board fairs against other form factors that use the same chipset....
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Podcast #128 - Radeon HD 6800, NVIDIA Price Cuts, the Corsair H70 Cooler, Lian Li Pitstop T60, Viewer emails and more!
This week we talk about the Radeon HD 6800, NVIDIA Price Cuts, the Corsair H70 Cooler, Lian Li Pitstop T60, Viewer emails and our hardware/software picks!...
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Dell Inspiron M101z Review – Laptop Power in a Netbook’s Frame
The question of whether the M101z is really a netbook or laptop is certainly open. Its size, price and performance makes it difficult to categorize. Given the uncertainty, I will bow to Dell’s marketing department – they’ve made the M101z a part of the Dell Inspiron laptop line rather than a part of the Dell Mini netbook line....
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Lian Li Pitstop T60 DIY Test Bench Review
Lian Li is considered one of the premier PC enclosure vendors in the world, and this year they have expanded their PC case offerings to include open-air test benches and other hardware accessories. One new test bench to come out of the Lian Li camp is the T60 TIY. This compact and portable test bench includes everything DIY builders and hardware reviewers need to easily swap out new components while saving precious real estate on your desktop....
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Corsair Hydro Series H70 CPU Cooler Review
After the buzz and success generated from the H50 last year, Corsair took note of consumer feedback (and hardware reviewers) for a push-pull fan configuration and made it one of the key features on their new H70 CPU cooler. This configuration, combined with other optimizations by Corsair, should make the H70 stand out again as a top self-contained CPU water cooling system....
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AMD Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 Review - Barts Architecture Refresh
The new AMD Radeon HD 6800 series cards are here! Do the new HD 6870 and HD 6850 live up to the hype surrounding them over the past months and can their new $200 price tag stick it to NVIDIA's GTX 460 cards like AMD is hoping? Stop in and read the full review for the details!...
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MSI GeForce GTX 460 1GB HAWK Review - Custom Everything
The MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK graphics card is one of the best GF104 cards we have tested with a potent combination of hardware, software, cooler and overclocked settings. Of course with a design like this the stock settings were just the beginning as we pushed the clock speeds over 900 MHz!...
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Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB Review
2.5 and 3.0 TB is here! Western Digital has pushed internal 3.5" drive capacity to 3 TB, breaking past the 2 TB barrier. Pushing platter density to 750 GB is quite an achievement, but taking a single HDD past 2^32 available sectors introduces some serious compatibility issues at both the OS and driver level....
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Toshiba T235-S1345 AMD Turion II Notebook Review - Entering the Nile
Earlier this year AMD released big news: 135 new design wins with major manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, Dell HP, Lenovo, Toshiba and more. These victories are a badly needed boost for AMD, which has been trailing Intel in the mobile space for years. These many of these new designs are based on a new platform AMD is calling Nile - and the Toshiba T235 is among the first Nile notebooks to hit the market....
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Silverstone Sugo SG07 Mini ITX Case Review
Silverstone has rivaled the likes of Lian Li, Antec, and others in quality, craftsmanship, and overall style for several years now and their newest case to the Sugo family called the SG07 continues to add more options for the mini ITX platform. This case's claim to fame is definitely its ability to hold up to a 12.2" graphics card!...
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ECS A890GXM-A AM3 Motherboard Review
ECS continues to bring more aggressively priced motherboards to market in both Intel and AMD flavors. Their newest AM3 lineup includes six motherboards sporting the AMD 890GX chipset. We have the A890GXM-A (v1.0) on our test bench to evaluate some of the performance advantages available with this platform as well as the addition of native SATA 6GB/s support via the SB850....
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Galaxy GeForce GT 430 1GB Review - NVIDIA moves Fermi to HTPC
The new GeForce GT 430 GPU is a replacement for the GT 220 that was never quite card that we fell in love with. NVIDIA's Fermi-based GF108 chip is definitely a better performance than anything from the GT200 generation but can it keep up with the AMD Radeon HD 5570 and HD 5550 GPUs and make a case for itself?...
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Lenovo Z560 Core i3 15-in Notebook Review
This is a fairly basic laptop, but it also appears well equipped for multimedia duty. The review unit specifications are representative of the most basic Z560, which costs $699. There is a lot of competition in this segment from other solid laptops like the Sony EB series, the Samsung R580, the Toshiba E205 and others. LetÂ’s see how the Z560 stacks up....
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ASUS Radeon HD 5870 ROG Matrix and V2 Graphics Cards Reviewed
ASUS is known for creating some truly unique graphics cards that differ wildly from the reference designs we are used to seeing. The ROG Matrix HD 5870 card with 2GB of memory is just that with overclocking options you need to see. For the more tame of us, there is the V2 HD 5870 that is cheaper and much simpler in feature set....
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Lian Li PC-T1R Mini ITX Spider Test Bench Review
PC enthusiasts and hardware reviewers alike like to make their rigs stand out through custom paint jobs, acrylic windows, custom LED lights, and by installing additional hardware. Vendors want to help those end users with two left thumbs have options for having a case that stands out from the other rectangular enclosures they see at school or at gaming parties. Lian Li has been creating custom PC cases for years now, but this year has been extra special with the introduction of the PC-T1R Spider Mini ITX Test Bench....
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Video Perspective: Antec LanBoy Air Customizable Case Review
The Antec LanBoy Air case has been in development for a while but is finally going on sale. This is a very unique case that is almost completely perforated mesh and completely customizable with over 34,000 total configuration options according to the marketing materials! Come see the case in action!...
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Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX Motherboard Review
Asus has quite the history of designing fairly spectacular motherboards with outstanding performance and near limitless overclocking potential. Ok, perhaps their reputation is more down to Earth than that, but it does not mean that Asus does not design a fine motherboard. The AMD 890FX based Crosshair IV goes under the microscope today, and the results are still pretty good....
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OCZ Ibis High Speed Data Link (HSDL) 240GB SSD Review
Today we take a look at OCZ's newest offering in next generation Solid State Storage technology, coupled with a completely new take on storage interface technology. When USB3.0 and even SATA 6Gb/sec are not fast enough, just invent something new!...
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Video Perspective: Corsair Graphite Series 600T Chassis
Corsair is known more from their SSDs, coolers and cases than memory these days, and the company's commitment to enthusiast products continues with the Graphite Series 600T. This full-size case is able to offer a ton of features for a price well below Corsair's previous designs....
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Fans Not Shutting Down
Fans will not ahut down I have a Asrock G31 M-8 running Win 7 Ultimate The problem is when I shut down the hard drive shuts down but the fans keep...
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PSU question
Hello, I am interested in upgrading my video card. As you can see in my system dropdown, my video card needs an upgrade. i am settled on a 5750 or a...
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HELP - Folders just disappeared!?!
Last night I was sorting through files and folders and sorting them out to various drives. I opened My Computer to go to a 500GB Seagate drive that...
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budget rig help please
k ik the HW leaderboard but seems kind of out dated and not exactly the best i could be wrong tho i want a budget rig for around 500 i can go up some...
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Old Monitor
I have a monitor for a Gateway (year 2002) computer. If I buy another brand of computer can I hook the monitor up to it?
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MSI K9A2 Platinum Post-Reboot
Hi all, I'm new here :) I have a MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard that has been working for years and has suddenly decided that it doesn't like...
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black screen upon boot
This is my brothers computer and is running WinXP. He had a virus on this and found an online fix to remove it. Everything seemed to go well until a...
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