Published: Friday, April 6, 2012 - Motherboards
Asus introduced the concept of a TUF (The Ultimate Force) motherboard to address a market that demanded higher quality components that have passed rigorous stress tests covering extreme heat, cold and thermal shock to ensure the utmost in reliability.
Published: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - Power Supply
I am often surprised when I get together with friends to see the power supplies driving their otherwise high end PC builds. The same, otherwise sane, friends will often spend hundreds on video cards and high end CPUs but skimp on building a solid foundation, a proper power supply.
Published: Friday, March 30, 2012 - Modding
By offering all of the common core cables together NZXT has created a sort of PC dress up kit for the majority of system configurations. The kit is offered in both black and white and if you need additional colors you can purchase the red cables individually.
Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - Cooling
In this review we will be looking at a new heatsink from Cooler Master called the X6 Elite. As the name would indicate this is a six heatpipe cooler in the tower configuration supporting a variety of rather unique features.
Published: Monday, March 26, 2012 - Cooling
With the advent ultra small Mini ITX motherboards now supporting Sandy Bridge processors the quest to find a compact aftermarket cooling solution can be quite a challenge. In fact, this is such a challenge that many users opt to use the OEM cooler only to deal with excessive heat and noise depending on their case design.
Published: Thursday, March 22, 2012 - Video
Nvidia claims that the GTX 680 is the fastest and most efficient GPU ever built and evidence of this can be seen in almost every aspect of the video card. In terms of efficiency we can contrast the older GTX 580 and can see a 50w drop in TDP giving the GTX 680 a clear advantage in power consumption. Combine that with the performance enhancements of the Kepler core and you have a GPU we can talk about.