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 [...]

Doing a comparison with Intel’s latest 6 series chipset on a quality motherboard shows us that this Motherboard has no deficiencies that can really be improved on by Sapphire. The 1333 memory speed can be a turnoff for some but there is really not much sacrificed in that 266 MHz. Yes a benchmark will show you the deficiencies but will they make a difference in the normal operation of this board?

Recently, Nexus sent us their newest product in their war on noise; the Low-7000 Revision 2 Low Profile cooler. Silent Low Profile CPU Cooler Balanced performance Ideal for HTPCs The Low-7000 R2 The heatsink itself comes with mounting hardware for the following configurations: Socket: LGA1366 LGA 1156 LGA 1155 LGA 775 AMD AM3 AMD AM2 [...]

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.

On the test bench this week is Intel’s newest SATA 3Gbps SSD offering, the 320 series 160GB SSD. This is designed to replace the vaunted X25-M SSD. Featuring fast read and write speeds, and vastly improved 4K IOPs specifications, this drive on paper at least, lives up to being a high end SSD designed with [...]

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 [...]

Introduction: Evercool recently sent us the newest model in their Transformer line, the Transformer 3. The Transformer series is known for their consistent silver aesthetics, which can complement the theme of a wide variety of custom rigs with ease. The Transformer 3 is equipped with a single 120mm fan for heat transfer. The heatsink itself [...]