Earlier this month, NVIDIA released their new powerhouse card, the GeForce GTX 580. ASUS has sent us their GTX 580 to put through our strenuous suite of testing. The reference design used by ASUS was somewhat surprising as they will typically use their own custom PCB. The GTX 580 is supposed to bring improvements in power consumption [...]

One of my co-workers is a hardcore gamer and power user. Since we’ve met, he’s become more and more interested in the hardware aspect of computing, and recently asked me to help build him a new system.

In an effort to better serve the enthusiast community. TechREACTION is working on defining a long term methodology for testing various products. Our desire is to be consistent, accurate, and transparent with out methodologies….our CPU cooling testing methodology follows….

Introduction: The Scythe Rasetsu was officially released on July 19, 2010 which is exactly 6 months after the release of the Scythe Yasya. The Rasetsu CPU cooler has it’s roots from the Yasya CPU cooler and is an improved follow up design. Scythe implemented much of the same design and thermal characteristics and technologies in [...]

Hey guys, here is my most recent run. As you can see, I improved my results from my last run slightly. I also took a lot of video of the setup and of how I do my sessions. This is to give you an idea of what it is like to benchmark on dry ice. [...]

Thanks for all the feedback, those of you who have posted comments around the web concerning the Corsair Dominator review that was published yesterday.  Based on the of the comments I’ve received, I wanted to write a brief follow up with a few more results. Originally, I planned to test the memory kit subjectively with [...]

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

Introduction: A motherboard is probably the single most important component to the enthusiast. For a person in the know, this is pretty obvious, but for a newer user this may come as new information. Many forums as well as review sites fail to reveal the big picture, and there are a plethora of components used [...]