Half the noise and a few extra degrees? Seems like a win. The design elements seem to come together perfectly on what – at first glance – appears to be a heat sink that would be lacking in many ways. It appears to lack surface area; it is not lacking. It appears to not have enough heat pipes; the numbers do not agree with this assumption. It only has one fan and can not keep up with dual fan coolers; it stayed within a few degrees at half the noise level…

The Secret World is a massive multiplayer online role playing pay to play game developed by veteran developer Funcom. The game’s publisher is Electronic Arts (EA). Funcom has been responsible for such titles as Dreamfall, Blood Champions, and Age of Conan. The Secret World sets itself apart from other MMO’s currently available by doing away [...]

Good morning! Trion’s new game, End of Nations, is having a closed beta weekend on August 10-12th, and they’ve graciously provided us a crazy amount of keys to give away. So, we thought we’d extend the invitation over to our readers. To enter in the Beta key giveaway, just tell us your favorite game you [...]

Introduction and Photo Gallery We thank Giada for presenting us with – for our scrutiny – the D2305, dual core i5 (3427U) miniPC. Up front we liked the look and feel (solid) of this unit and in the end came to respect its functionality and capability. What we did not like are the things that [...]

Today, we have the ASUS GTX 570 DirectCU II, with a custom PCB design, that will be going onto our test bench to see how closely it performs to the marketing hype. The DirectCU line of cards from ASUS are catered to the overclockers out there in the market. The DirectCU has precision mounting, putting [...]

Recently, GELID Solutions sent over some of there flagship cooling products. First up, is the Icy Vision Revision 2 GPU cooler. Some words from GELID themselves: The “Rev. 2 ICY VISION” cooler contains 5 power heatpipes in a unique heatpipe constellation. The heatpipes are interlaced into 85 optimized high-quality Aluminium fins. Together with a flat [...]

Many in the PC community know the name iBuyPower for offering quality PC desktops, and laptops in use for gaming, workstations, and media. The California-based company has been around for ten years, and in that time they have accumulated many awards from sites like Maximum PC, AnandTech , PC World, and Gamepro just to name [...]

Introduction If extreme overclocking had a name, it’d be k|ngp|n. Vince Lucido (a/k/a “k|ngp|n”) is arguably the man who got such things started in the United States. Back when most people were still gawking at the extreme ventures of a few folks pushing overclocking to new heights with water cooling, this guy started to bring [...]