Introduction We got some Voodoo in the lab. No seriously, some Venom Voodoo. I think you got it now. Correct, The Akasa Venom Voodoo spooked it’s way in our labs. Let’s hope that the black magic doesn’t effect the results. The company Akasa is well established. Akasa has development and manufacturing operations in Taiwan, China, [...]

Cooler Master sent us one of its newest cooling products, the Hyper 212 Evo. Some words from Cooler Master about their newest HSF: Succeeding the popular Hyper 212, the Hyper 212 Evo carries on the legacy of providing a great balance of performance and noise level during high and low speed operations. The Hyper 212 [...]

Introduction A sample from our next contender comes from Gelid. The company is based in Hong Kong with management in Swiss. The company is a fairly young player in the industry and was founded in 2008 by Gebhard Scherrer and VC Tran. Gelid is Gebhard Scherrer’s latest project after co-founding the well known Arctic Cooling [...]

The Gigabyte GA-990FX-UD5 is the first AM3+ board reviewed by TechREACTION, and could not have been a better product to review. Coming from the overclock-minded Gigabyte company, the 990FX is built on the Ultra Durable platform that is well known to overclockers the world over. Bulldozer is just around the corner, and this board will [...]

Introduction Coming a long way to use, all the way from Germany, today we have the Noiseblocker TwinTec in the house. The TwinTec from Noiseblocker is Is one of the few ventures the company made into actual CPU cooling hardware. Noiseblocker has impressed so far with it’s products and it’s ability to live up to [...]

Micro Star International, or MSI as it better known, brings us one of their new G3 line of Intel Z68 motherboards today. The MSI Z68A-GD65 G3, is a feature rich, socket 1155 motherboard, designed for use with the current Intel Core i second generation series, Sandy Bridge CPUs as well as the forthcoming Ivy Bridge [...]

Spending a few hours testing at this speed using Unigine Heaven in DX11 mode as well as Tropics, Sanctuary, Stalker CoP and AvP everything was set; until 3DMark11 refused to do anything but freeze the system. At that point lowering the GPU to 992 and memory to 1388 incrementally was the only way to stabilize the benchmark.

All things considered this is a fun card to clock. Speeds ramped up easily and the results scaled quite well with the clocks.

Introduction Last but not least in our Xigmatek review lineup is the Xigmatek GAIA SD1283. We have been talking about the company in previous reviews already and won’t go into much detail again. Xigmatek has impressed consumers with a good quality product line up and performance that can be shown off, remaining at an affordable [...]