With the much anticipated release of the Radeon HD 5 series a success on many levels, the ATI crowd has much to celebrate. The new 5 series cards put ATI back on top of the video card market. They can now boast of the new DX11 capability and the Eyefinity technology introduced with the higher-end [...]

It’s the 1st of another month again, and as always, that means it’s time to pick a winner of our monthly blogging giveaway.  This past months giveaway was sponsored by AMD with the prize being a brand new Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition processor. The winner of the June Blogger Giveaway is… Archer! Thank [...]

A rough overview on budget PC building- no, not your run-of-the-mill budget PC building, college-kid’s-budget gaming PC building, since college kids like me belong to a fantastic little niche, filled with people in situations I like to describe as, “Mommy, I have no money but I love expensive things.”

All registered Bloggers have the chance to win free hardware at least once a month forever! That’s right! FREE HARDWARE! Just for being a registered and active blogger of TechREACTION.net. How do I sign up? Simple, first register at this page to become a TR blogger. Once you receive your account information, half the job [...]

It’s the 1st of another month again, and as always, that means it’s time to pick a winner of our monthly blogging giveaway.  This past months giveaway was sponsored by AMD with the prize being a brand new Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition processor. The winner of the May AMD Phenom II X6 Giveaway [...]

Kingston HyperX DDR3 ‘LoVo’ OC testing Just a quick look at a memory kit from Kingston, namely a set from their somewhat new ‘LoVo’ series. Judging by the name its a low voltage kit, so not a kit directly aimed at the enthusiast market. But word has it they might be worth a look after [...]

Chew* does it again!  There I am, waiting for my eyes to bleed as I sit in my cubicle, and suddenly my old pal Chew* delivers this little gem.  Apparently Brian has been very busy tweaking his Corsair GTX2′s on Asus’s new Crosshair IV Formula.  While playing around with timings and ganged mode, Chew* was [...]

Introduction Eight months ago AMD introduced their 2nd generation of Phenom 2 X4 Processors that was designed to use the AM3 socket while remaining backwards compatible with previous AM2/AM2+ motherboards. Although the Phenom II X4 965 was AMD’s flagship desktop processor, it wasn’t the performance that glued users on to it but rather the value [...]