Excessive heat is the enemy of all processors, and the Corsair Air Series A50 CPU Coolers sole purpose in life it to help extend the lifetime of your CPU by quietly and efficiently drawing that heat away. The Corsair A50 CPU Cooler can be found for just $20 shipped right now as well, which makes is a cost sensible upgrade for those still running the CPU cooler they got with their system. Join us as we put it on our Intel Core i7 test system and see how it holds up.
This morning the video card market got a little more crowded as NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 560 Ti and AMD released a variant of the Radeon HD 6950 with 1GB of memory on it. Over the past week we’ve had a chance to test both of these cards that are aimed at the gamer that has around $250 to spend. Read on to see how both of these cards perform on our Intel Core i7-970 test system!
Looking to get every last bit of performance from your new Intel Core i7 or Core i5 Sandy Bridge processor? Not sure how much impact memory speed has on performance? Take a look at our article today and you might be surprised at how much more performance a good 2133MHz memory kit will gain you as we take the latest Kingston HyperX Genesis kit and put it to the test!
SanDisk is a long time competitor in the consumer flash drive and portable media player market, with most of their life spent with producing and developing flash memory based devices. Today we’ll have a look at the new iteration of the Sansa Fuze player from SanDisk called the Sansa Fuze+ (plus) with its updated design, new User Interface and updated codec support. Can the Sansa Fuze+ from SanDisk bring to market everything you’re looking for in a portable media player? Read on and we’ll see.
Samsung has released their 470 Series line of SSDs which feature Samsung components exclusively. This is a refreshing change from the legions of SandForce clones out there but can they compete with the best drives we’ve tested and how will they stand up over time? We’ll answer one and unveil our plan for the other in our review.
The Patriot Extreme Performance Xporter XT Rage is a USB Flash Drive with both performance and functionality. Featuring an innovative Quad Channel configuration, data is intelligently managed and transferred simultaneously to 4 NAND chips resulting in vastly enhanced performance, particularly write speeds: Rage improves on traditional USB 2.0 Flash Drives to offer up to 27MB/s read and 25MB/s write transfer speeds. Read on to see how it performs!
While at CES 2011 we stopped by the booth of Super Talent to check out what they had on display. Super Talent had all sorts of useful new USB 3.0 and Sold-state drive based products for the coming year. Read on to see some of the new products you’ll be seeing from Super Talent! You might just be surprised by what you see!
The Sharkoon X-Tatic Digital Gaming Headset is made for both PC and console gamers and was deigned to give them great sound quality. The Sharkoon 5.1 Digital headset uses two 40mm drivers and comes with all the cables and accessories that you’ll likely ever need. Read on to see if this headset will give you a sound advantage for gaming of if it will leave you wanting more.
Noctua is known for their near silent fans, and the high build quality. The new NH-C14 we are looking at today is a top down cooler with twin 140mm NF-P14 fans and supports all of todays popular CPU sockets. Join us as we put the new NH-C14 on our Intel Core i7-930 processor test system at both stock and overclocked speeds!
Mad Catz is well known for their gaming hardware and they had some really great things to show us at their private suite during CES 2011. The two products that we focused on were the MIDI PRO-Adapter and their gaming lights using AmBx technology which Alex gave us an overview and we recorded some video so you can have a virtual tour as well.
One of the perks of CES, or any trade show for that matter, is the presence of multitudes of enthralling women stationed at booths to be the shiny gem that catches our eye and draws us over. It’s a proven ploy that rarely fails to work as intended and we did our part to digitally capture as many as we could for your viewing pleasure.
At CES 2011, DisplayPort is demonstrating the latest products that expand how DisplayPort delivers their technology. We DisplayPort over fiber, ethernet, DVI, VGA, USB, and even HDMI. Also very interesting was watching DisplayPort’s wireless implementation called WHDI. Read on to see what all we got a chance to see at CES 2011!
Sapphire has just announced that for the very first time it will introduce Intel based mainboards in the high-end sector. This might come as a shock to many, but back in June 2010 news broke that several key EVGA motherboard team members left and headed over to Sapphire. Read on to see the Sapphire Pure Black motherboard series that has boards for P67 and X58 chipsets!
QNAP’s Turbo NAS TS-419P+ is an updated version of the company’s 419P Model released more than two years ago. With an updated processor and boasting the ability to stream to a multitude of devices including Apple iOS Devices, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and Sony’s PlayStation 3, it could just be the device every Home Theater Enthusiast is looking for to help tame their DVD Collection. Read the full article to see if it delivers on its promises.
At CES 2011 we stopped by the Wynn Hotel to visit with EVGA and one video card really caught out attention. The dual-slot video card was 11-inches long and was clearly packing the power of two GPU’s. EVGA would only let is know that it’s an early prototype of an upcoming video card that they have not released. Read on to see some images and even a quick video clip of this new video card!
