 Western Digital VR150 300GB Velociraptor Review
Everyone who is heavy into their PC knows what a Raptor drive is, and what it stands for, fast drives that exceed the competition and enhance system performance. The Raptor was introduced as a SATA (Serial ATA) drive series to co...  AMD 780G Chipset / AMD Athlon X2 4850e Platform Review
Integrated graphics on modern computers is pretty much a joke these days. The Intel G35 platform has the features but not the drivers to support the latest DirectX 10 games, NVIDIA's 7xxx series is still based upon their four year...  Intel Skulltrail Platform Review
Intel has been on a major campaign to take-back all of the market shares they previously lost to AMD in the last few years and the word wow comes to mind when you the changes they have made. Intel is now dominating all platforms, ...  AMD 5000+ Black Edition Review
We’re going to take a look at this processor not only at its factory setting, but we’re going to take advantage of that unlocked multiplier as well. Overclocking has been made easier and more accessible for all of us. I know I’m l...  Alienware DOOM-BOOM A Graphics Revolution
Nostalgia sets in when gamers reminisce about the 1993 release of id Software's DOOM(tm). Its cutting-edge graphics in the three-dimensional world made DOOM one of the hottest games of its era. The first-person shooter revolutioni...  Alienware Overclocking
However, as popular as overclocking may be in desktops, it has yet to experience the same popularity in notebooks – mainly due to space limitations and current technology that prevent notebooks from being cooled effectively.........  Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad Core and i975XBX2
The Quad Core QX6700 is an intriguing chip. To take advantage of the 4 processor cores, the application has to support multi-threading and not everything supports it. There are instances in the benchmarking where the QX6700 is slo...  4GB Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go USB HD Disk
USB Hard drives, both big and small are really nothing new to the market place these days. All across the globe, you can easily find yourself thumb drives, miniature hard drives (such as the one being reviewed today), all the way ...  Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel 965 chipset launch
The X6800 and E6700 exhibited none of the heat problems I’ve come to associate with fast Intel CPUs of the last year or so, and for that I’m grateful. I can easily recommend an Intel CPU for the first time in a long time without.....  AMD AM2 and NVIDIA nForce5 Launch
The new AMD FX-2 CPU is quite simply the fastest CPU on the market today. Whether that will hold true in the near future when Intel releases their next platform, Conroe, is debatable. The high-end enthusiast will have no qualms be...  LCG PSUs 350 & 500W
The Question on many minds is now – will these units be worth my money, yes, or no. Dependant on how they are priced, I can foresee that the 350W unit will handle lower end systems well, while the 500W unit wouldn’t have too much ...  Ultra Products 2GB PC2-6400 Kit (ULT31904)
With our newfound hope in this memory, we made the jump from 240 to 250MHz on the FSB, a jump which would result in a memory clock of 1,000MHz… and a tasty black screen. Unfortunately, the strength which had carried the memory thu...  Plextor PX740A
Plextor has long been known as an excellent CD-ROM manufacturer. Founded in 1918, its parent company Shinano Kensui first concentrated on Spun Silk Yarn one of the most “high-tech industries of 1918.” Anyway, Plextor was founded i...  Justcom JC-104A KVM with Audio
For some of us users out there, there’s just never enough hardware on the table. But with the gaining need for a growing collection of systems crunching, downloading, rendering etc now we face the issue of keeping track of all of ...  Thermaltake Big Typhoon
After seeing a sink as large as the Big Typhoon, we’re left to only reminisce about the days of heatsinks with small fans and soldered fins, way back when a 92MM fan would have been considered extravagant, even by the standards of...  AMD Athlon X-2 3800+
The cache structure of the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 is split among the two cores. Each core has a 64KB L1 data cache and a 64KB L1 Instruction cache. This compares favorably with the Intel Dual core 16KB L1 data cache and 12 million ...  Intel 3.8 and 2.8D
The first dual-core CPUs were announced a couple of months ago in the form of the 840 Extreme Edition. The 840 EE won some of the benchmarks against it’s single core brother and lost others. The target price for the 840EE was $100...  GIGABYTE DVD Dual GO-W1616A
There are two types of CD drives, CLV and CAV drives. CLV stands for Constant Linear Velocity. When CLV is present, the drive reads data at a constant rate whether on the outside or inside track of the disc. As speed of drives hav...  ASUS DRW-1608P
Optical drives have really come a long way since the first 1X CD-ROMs from way back when. My first optical drive was a Sony 4X CD-ROM from 1996 on a Pentium 120 MHz computer with 8 MB of RAM and a 1.2 GB HDD. Today, optical drive...  Intel 660 and 3.73 GHz Extreme Edition
The first new feature found on the Intel Pentium 4 6xx family and P4 3.73 Extreme Edition is 2MB of on die L2 cache. These CPUs are a 31 pipeline design, giving high latencies compared to the previous Pentium 4s (non Prescotts). O...  Shuttle SB77G5 Xpc
Shuttle redefined the small computer with the launch of the SK41G back in 2001. Since then they have released many models and special edition small form factor computers including the ST62K, the ST61G4 and SB75G2 XPCs. I use a ST...  GIGABYTE DVDdual
DVD drives have come a long way since their introduction in 1994 by Sony Computer Entertainment and their associates in the DVD Consortium. We’ve gone from the 1x DVD players of that timeframe to the 16X speed DVD-ROMs so popular ...  Shuttle Xpc ST61G4
Shuttle has many models of XPC and has defined what the small form factor should look like the last 3 years. It’s amazing the number of models currently available based upon the simple premise of full size desktops taking up too m...  Intel 925X/915G
It’s been a long time since we’ve changed chipsets in the Intel world. While AMD has moved from the Socket A (Athlon XP) to the Socket 754 and now the 939 in the last year, Intel has stuck to their Socket 478 875/865 chipsets, unt...  AMD Athlon64 Socket 939 FX-53/3800+
The future is bright for the AMD Athlon FX53 and Athlon 64 platforms. In the near future we will likely see motherboard manufacturers include PCI-Express in the 939 platform, making this the way to go if you want to go down the AM...  AOpen DRW-8800 AAN Dual
Mass storage has come a long way since the first computers came out. In recent history we’ve gone from 20 MB HDDs in 1990 to the 250 GB monsters available now. Transportable media has evolved from the 1.44 MB floppy disk to the CD...  AMD Athlon FX-53
AMD has really been pushing their 64-bit architecture over the last couple of years. While the competition (Intel) has been stuck with 32-bit architecture for many years, and is only just now talking about 64-bit instructions for ...  AMD Athlon 3400+ CPU
AMD has been making CPUs for a long time. Their first CPU was the 8080a in 1975. Their first 32-bit chip was the 29300 in 1986. But Intel dominated the CPU market back in ancient history of the 1980s to 1991, when AMD released the...  AOpen DRW4410
AOpen has released many CDROM/DVDROM drives over the years. The first one I had was the AOpen 8X based CD-787E that I have sitting in the closet. AOpen has delved into Combo CDRWs, DVD players, and now DVD+RW drives. The DRW4410 ...  Shuttle SK41G Xpc
Mini-PCs have always been a fascination of mine. As desktop computers take up a lot of space, computer manufacturers designed some systems to conserve space. Mini-ATX systems, Flex-ATX systems ITX systems and others have been arou...  Compaq Evo N1015v
Notebooks have primarily been the tool of the traveling business man and never quite made the grade to play 3D games in an efficient manner so gamers never really took them as serious products for their playing environment until n... |
