Drew and I met with Joe Darwin, Technical Marketing Director, over at EVGA’s suite bright and early this morning.  Joe had interesting things to report about the company and some of the newer products that they had been working on.  Aside from the typical enthusiast computer hardware that EVGA is known for, EVGA has been [...]

Many users are searching around the net these days looking for advice on how to overclock their new systems, but aren’t sure where to start. To help everyone out, I decided a how-to guide was in order. Searching around forums can be confusing and intimidating. There are so many people willing to give advice, but who can you trust? It’s hard to know, and I have seen many users sent on wild goose chases because they follow advice that doesn’t solve or even address their specific problem. I have also seen too much trial and error overclocking, and unless you get lucky, it tends to be far too time consuming and frustrating. What I have attempted to do is create a very simple three step guide for overclocking Sandy Bridge based CPUs. If you want to continue searching out other opinions, please consider each suggestion with caution. Some will undoubtedly be great, while some will not.

My subject today is the new Asus Maximus IV Extreme, a Republic of Gamers (“ROG”) branded model which represents the top end of the P67 offerings from Asus. As always, they’ve managed to pack an overwhelming number of technologies and features into this product….it’s my goal to give you honest feedback based on my experience with each. Does this product deserve the ROG name? Is it truly worth your hard earned money?

I’ve been using this Dell Optiplex for awhile now. It acts as my spare rig to use while I’m benching my other one, and I also use it for word processing and other simple tasks. I was just looking at the CPU-Z screen out of curiosity today, when I realized that an overclock on this [...]

One of my co-workers is a hardcore gamer and power user. Since we’ve met, he’s become more and more interested in the hardware aspect of computing, and recently asked me to help build him a new system.

Check out the new ASUS boards based on the next generation Intel chipset

In an effort to better serve the enthusiast community. TechREACTION is working on defining a long term methodology for testing various products. Our desire is to be consistent, accurate, and transparent with out methodologies….our CPU cooling testing methodology follows….

Not just another pretty face? ASUSTeK is the most prolific motherboard manufacturer in the world. They command 40% of the motherboard market for PCs today. Their motherboards are in all manner of PCs from ASUS designed and sold PCs, as well as larger builders like HP and Dell, to the enthusiast user who purchases components [...]