We wanted to build an Intel Ivy Bridge powered Small Form Factor (SFF) PC that is water cooled and be able to run an NVIDIA GeForce Kepler video card, so we did it! We thought that you might be interested in what our dream mini-ITX system would be and wrote up a guide that shows you what hardware we used and how we put it together. We also include some benchmark along with power consumption and temperature testing results of the complete project!
ROCCAT’s website says “A Desert Eagle isn’t worth its fancy name, if you don’t know where to aim.” Their Kave 5.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset is designed to give gamers the ability to naturally locate their enemies while gaming. Find out how this gaming headset performs in our review as we put it to the test to see what it is all about!
Considering buying a Powerline adapter to connect that Xbox or PlayStation to your high speed internet without drilling holes and running cable in your wall? Maybe you are just tired of the lag your wireless connection gives you when you are trying to stream movies to your television. We take a look at some of the most popular brands of “Gigabit” Powerline Ethernet Adapters from Belkin, D-Link, Netgear, and TRENDnet. Read on to see which one comes out on top.
The Corsair Vengeance 1300 Gaming Headset is designed to pair with your high-end sound card using dual 3.5mm headphone and microphone connectors and accurately reproduces the 3D positional audio generated by X-Fi CMSS-3D and other sound card-based positional audio systems. With custom-engineered 50mm drivers this headset should sound good, but read on to see what we think after using them for a couple weeks.
If you are a hardcore MMO player, one of the most overlooked peripherals is your keyboard and mouse. These are the link between you and taking down Deathwing so Corsair came up with a mechanical keyboard and mouse duo to make that linkage as strong as possible. Do they improve your game play or just get in the way, read on to find out.
We were about to give up on an affordable triple monitor stand that had articulating arms for a sweet AMD Eyefinity or NVIDIA Surround gaming setup when we ran across the MonMount LCD-1930 Triple LCD Monitor Stand Desk Mount that costs just $48.88 plus shipping! Compared to the other three monitor stands on the market this one looks like a bargain! Read on to see what we think of this space saving mount!
Scosche Industries recently introduced the reVOLT c2 – dual USB car charger. The reVOLT c2 is the first and only shotgun shell sized car charger to fit two 2.1 Amp USB ports into such a compact form factor and pack enough juice to refuel two power hungry tablets simultaneously. Read on to find out more about it and to see if it sits flush in our cars 12V accessory charger!
Roccat, a name that may be unfamiliar to some, brings us an aggressive “Max Customization” gaming mouse with a 6000 dpi laser, 4 adjustable weights, and support for 22 macros in its onboard memory, this mouse might be the best gaming mouse available. Read on to see what this $80 gaming mouse is all about!
Are you sick and tired of needing power adapters for all your devices that need to be charged with USB connections? The NewerTech Power2U AC/USB Wall Outlet is a traditional outlet that has two USB ports built-in. This eliminates the need for power adapters and should make life easier. Read on to see what we think of the Power2U after getting one in for testing!
SteelSeries recently released another gaming mouse for World of Warcraft players called the SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse: Legendary Edition. Designed for World of Warcraft, this gaming mouse features 130 predefined commands for easy macro creation and 10 profiles that let multiple users save personalized settings. The 11 programmable buttons help you create a customized gaming style. Read on to see how it performs
The Stem TimeCommand is an iPod, iPhone and iPad audio alarm dock that features a
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) stereo as well as the ability to control a connected bedside lamp with the touch of a button. You can download the Stem:Connect App to get even more user-customizable features and the best part of it all is that the device costs just under $100.
Yesterday roughly 600 people headed to Eddie Deen’s Ranch in downtown Dallas, Texas to attend the AMD and HardOCP FX GamExperience. The FX GamExperience was a a free event that showcased the AMD gaming technologies available for PC gamers and to make it really special over $50,000 worth of prizes were given away from 21 sponsors during the eight hour event! Read on to take a quick peak at the event!
AMD conducted a reality check for gamers down in Dallas, Texas for the FX GamExperience today that we were able to watch and tally up the results with them. For the challenge AMD setup up an area of the FX GamExperience venue with four test systems for two heads up tests. One system was powered by an Intel platform and the other by AMD and gamers had to pick which system played games the best.
Corsair usually makes a ton of noise when they launch new products, but for some reason the company silently launched a new product line on Facebook yesterday that went unnoticed by most tech sites. Corsair has announced individually sleeved modular cables! We bumped into Corsair at the FX GamExperience down in Dallas, Texas today and got a chance to check out the cables in person. Read on to check them out!
ioSafe has created a reputation for attempting to creatively destroy one of their rugged external storage enclosures. Since Thunderbolt was very popular in the external storage markets for CES 2012, ioSafe decided their new Thunderbolt Rugged Portable drive should be put to the ultimate test of its name. So the guys over at ioSafe justifiably used a tesla coil to generate nearly one million volts and zapped the drive to see if it could take a direct lightening strike.
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