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Remember when you could purchase a high-end AMD motherboard for around $100? You have to look all the way back to the Barton glory days, when the Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Abit NF7-S v2 dominated the talk of bang-for-buck ratios. But that was years ago, and inorder to get a top-of-the-line motherboard today, you’re looking [...]
Corsair is no stranger to benchmarking records, and it can now add another notch to its belt. Give the assist to both “splman” (Roger Tanner) and “Mat” (Matthias Zronek), a couple of overclockers who used Corsair’s Dominator GT memory with Intel’s Core…
If you subscribe the motto that air is for breathing, not for cooling, then MSI’s new N580GTX HydroGen is exactly the type of videocard that should float your water cooling boat. MSI ditched the reference air cooling solution and replaced it with it…
At one buck shy of a Benjamin, Enermax’s new Hoplite mid-tower computer case falls into budget territory, a fact belied by its feature-set. With a focus on “optimal cooling performance,” the Hoplite features a front mounted 120mm blue/red combo LED fan…
Plextor has come out with a new solid state drive line the company says is “currently one of fastest SSDs available in the market.” A bold claim, one that’s backed up by marrying the new M2 series SSDs with a Marvell 88SS9174 controller. By doing so, t…
Do you think it’s too early to talk about Sandy Bridge’s successor? Well, Intel might have you talking about its Ivy Bridge processors as early as Computex Taipei 2011 (May 31 to June 4). According to a Digitimes report, which in turn cites a Chine…
The brave new world of LGA1155
There’s good news and bad news for Intel lovers. The bad news is for folks who just bought a motherboard using the LGA1156 socket: Yup, it’s obsolete already. The good news: The LGA1155 motherboards using Intel’s pe…
The next generation of Windows Home Server enables video streaming and transcoding operations, so we built a WHS system that can handle the load
[Editor’s Note: This story was originally written in November 2010 and published in our January 2011 issue….