Introduction For years, I have always been most drawn to value and mid range components with good overclocking potential, in order to extract high end performance, for a fraction of the cost. Having strayed into the extreme end of the spectrum, this often is no longer a viable option for me, as the high end [...]

Today I’ve got a quick look at a top-down cooler from Zalman, the CNPS8000A, a 4 heatpipe design with an integrated fan.

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 [...]

EVGA has sent us their first factory overclocked GTX 570 card to hit the market. The SuperClocked edition of the GTX 570 will be followed by two more factory overclocked editions, the SSC and FTW. The latter two have not yet reached the marketplace, so until then, the EVGA GTX 570 SC will have to quench our thirst [...]

Another addition to the MSI Lightning line is the GTX 480, which we will be reviewing today. MSI has slightly overclocked the GTX 480 Lightning by 50 Mhz on the core and 75 Mhz on the memory. This is also not a reference designed card from MSI. They have installed improved voltage controller circuitry and [...]

Introduction: We have a sample from the house of Noctua today, the NH-C12P SE14. This cooler has been in Noctua’s line up for about two years now, and it has been updated several times during. The “SE14″ is the latest update from the original NH-C12P. This update is replacing the NF-P12 fan with the larger [...]

I was really surprised to see what these lovely sticks did today. This is the Mushkin Ridgeback 1600MHz 6-8-6-24 kit. On AMD, it is extremely difficult to run any ram above 2000MHz. Well today I broke a personal record and clocked these sticks all the way up to 2240MHz 8-10-6-15-1T. I used my trusty Gigabyte [...]

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 [...]