Introduction If you haven’t already seen our complete Asus Maximus IV Extreme (MIVE) motherboard review, Parts ONE and TWO, you’re missing out. Part 1 covered synthetic testing with the i7 2600K CPU at 5.1GHz to give an idea of the power that this platform contains. Part 2 was a full blown comparison between X58 and [...]

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 [...]

The hunter has been released, again, but most people will come to know it as the GTX 560 Ti. The Ti on the end may bring back memories to many of the old-school gamers. Around 2002, Nvidia came out with the Ti line. First with the GeForce 3 series and later with the GeForce 4, however, [...]

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

SilverStone has created a mobile storage product, the Treasure TS04, to help protect hard drives not installed in your case. It connects to the PC via USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 interface which enables data transfer with maximum compatibility and stability. If the needs for maximum data transfer speed and versatility are a priority, the [...]

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?

Solid State Drives are quickly becoming an important upgrade in most consumer PCs. They offer increased performance with decreased power consumption and heat, and are smaller and lighter than standard mechanical drives. Corsair has been making high speed memory modules since 1994, so for them the move to NAND based storage systems seems almost expected. [...]

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 [...]