Begin Rant: “Absurd:  the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.” Welcome to the absurd world of premium random access memory.  Here today I have some of the latest and greatest from a company which needs no introduction as they have defined this segment for years.  There are many memory vendors from whom I [...]

Introduction Over the recent months I have watched and observed as the Phenom II CPU found its niche within various enthusiast communities and online forums. Users have been provided with an excellent, all around, 45nm AMD quadcore. However, there is one factor that people still find confusing and unclear. Overclocking the Phenom II. Why are [...]

Luckily for me and many other enthusiasts, Corsair was listening to the criticism, and they also seem to have identified what I mentioned earlier…..the price gap. Why not make something that does top all the air cooling solutions, for a small price premium? Hence, the Corsair H70! This was built to dominate all air coolers on the market without becoming excessively expensive.

Introduction the Rampage III Extreme In 2006 ASUS® started Republic of Gamers (ROG) to provide quality components and maximum performance to gamers and power users.   ROG caters to the hard core gamers as well as the overclocking community.  Whether users are overclocking on air, water or even using extreme cooling such as liquid nitrogen, the [...]

I decided to name this new revision “MAX11L”, which represents the maximum amount of performance I could stuff into 11 liters of volume.

Not to long ago G.Skill sent us there flagship set of DDR3 memory specifically tuned for the AMD platform. Unfortunately, due to a busy schedule we are a little late to the party, but better late than never right? What this delay did allow me to do was to scan forum results, however, and one [...]

With the new release of the GeForce GTS 450, Nvidia has targeted a specific segment of the market with a suggested MSRP starting at $129, which makes this a very budget-minded card. They went after, or as they say “laser targeted”, the gamers who don’t play everything on max settings with super high resolutions.  Instead, [...]

Introduction So many users are searching around the net these days looking for advice on how to overclock their new systems but don’t know 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, [...]