Category: External reviews - Published: May 1, 2007
“Foxconn may not be a name that hardware enthusiasts instantly recognize but they are one of the largest electronics manufacturers in the world with their hands in numerous products from Apple’s iPod, Microsoft’s XBox 360, and Intel’s motherboards. They cover a wide range of products and now they’ve expanded out to the graphics card market […]
Category: External reviews - Published: May 1, 2007
“By the fact that you are reading this article about high end memory, you’re likely not an average computer user. More likely, you’re the user who knows his way around a BIOS is and knows the performance increases you can get by tweaking a few values. You’re an overclocker and know that to get the […]
Category: External reviews - Published: May 1, 2007
“Last week NVIDIA unveiled their new mainstream GPU offerings in the form of the 8600 GTS, 8600 GT and 8500 GT graphics cards. Our first article covered only the new BFG Tech 8600 GTS OC card and compared it to the similarly-priced card from AMD’s ATI Radeon line. This time we are testing […]
Category: External reviews - Published: May 1, 2007
“Peltier Air Cooling for the Masses?
When I was approached to do this review, I was a little bit skeptical. An air cooled peltier? I had always heard that peltiers needed watercooling, and had a massive power draw. I was thinking to myself, this cooler must cost a fortune. You could say that I was a […]
Category: External reviews - Published: April 27, 2007
“The Platinum range is feature filled, but MSI’s most high-end product. Today, we have the P6N SLI Platinum, which is based on Nvidia’s nForce 650i SLI chipset. Though the P6N SLI Platinum isn’t the top dog in the line-up, it’s far from being a no-frills SLI motherboard - MSI has opted to kit this out […]
Category: External reviews - Published: April 27, 2007
The Inno3D iChiLL 7950 GT Accelero S1M is currently the flagship product in Inno3Ds iChiLL range. Combining Nvidia’s fastest available DirectX 9 GPU (GeForce 7900 GTX and GeForce 7950 GX2 are pretty rare these days — Ed) with a completely passive cooler and boosted clock speeds it should prove quite the silent competitor. This isn’t […]
Category: External reviews - Published: April 27, 2007
“Thermaltake Incorporation, based in Taipei, Taiwan is the global leader Thermal Solution and Thermal Management for PC & Industrial Market. Its Engineering Staffs masters in Airflow Analysis, Material Conductivity and Heat Dissipation Efficiency. Thermaltake offers a wide range of products and services, providing effective and cost-conscious cooling devices. The Company has more than 1,000 employees […]
Category: External reviews - Published: April 27, 2007
“We have already tested the first version of the “Taiwanese Rocket” before. Now it is high time we checked out the new and improved Rocket II from Gigabyte. Stylish looks, universality, relatively simple installation, what else brings us this new air-cooling solution? Let’s find out now!
We have recently tested a new CPU cooler from Thermaltake […]
Category: External reviews - Published: April 22, 2007
“Earlier this week, AMD significantly upped the ante in their ongoing price war with Intel. Prices on AMD’s entire Athlon 64 lineup were slashed; CPUs ranging from the Sempron 3000+ all the way up to the Athlon 64 FX-74 were affected. As a result of the cuts, buying a high-end dual-core CPU has never been […]