If you haven’t heard about ASUS by now, let me fill you in on the most important details. They’re good at developing motherboards. Always have been. And in the past few years the company has made it a tradition to release boards under the “republic of gamers” brand. These are meant to be top notch gaming enthusiasts motherboards that provide everything a mad overclocker could desire. So when the time came to launch the new line of socket 1366 motherboards for the Intel Core i7 CPU, there...
[read more >>] Since 1986, Antec has maintained its position as one of the leaders in power and enclosure solutions for today's personal computers. With a solid line of chassis build with quality and performance in mind the company was among the first to start the “silent computing” trend at a time when manufacturers bundled more and more loud fans with their chassis.
As most chassis manufacturers, Antec also produces a line of media accessories designed primarily to be used as add-ons to their cases. ...
[read more >>] Graphic card companies don't actually design their cards by their own. The main part of the graphic card, the GPU, is in fact designed by another company that, in the end, sells the chip to a graphic card manufacturer along with the standard board layout.
In the early years, companies used to fine tune their own board layout, but today not much can be obtained with such a process, since the chip manufacturer already has the best possible solution. But sometimes, companies like Sapphire develop custom des...
[read more >>] The success which Alienware recorded with their high-end gaming systems lead them to the release of a multimedia system as well. The Hangar 18 was announced somewhere in the first half of 2007 and was to become the company's first multimedia desktop rig. The little Martian figure on all of the Alienware configurations was to make itself present on something radically different, a computer that is meant to entertain, rather than offer high benchmark results.
The case of the Hangar 18 made the system look p...
[read more >>] Gaming is more than a habit with some of you out there. It can sometimes take a lot of your time in order to get those perfect results you are expecting. And talking about competitions, gaming can take you all over the world. And if you got yourself the perfect desktop gaming rig, it can sometime be difficult to take your system all over you go. But it seems that a company saw this issue as an opportunity to release something that can suit your gaming gear.
NZXT is a manufacturer of computer chassis units and ...
[read more >>] Data can be transferred and stored through a number of devices and standards. Among those devices that stood tall in face of the technology advancement is the optical drive. CDs have been around for quite some time now and over the past few years the same place occupied by the CD has been taken by DVDs and later-on Blu-ray discs. The Blu-ray technology greatly improved the technical setbacks of the earlier formats, offering users the possibility of recording up to 50GB of digital data on a single disc.
The fir...
[read more >>] Western Digital is one of the leading manufacturers of computer storage devices. They take great pride in a product range that can satisfy the needs of both business, enthusiast and normal users. As far as enthusiasts go, the company's Raptor series are known for achieving some of the most impressive performance rates for ultimate gaming rigs. It seems that the company decided to take the success they had with the Raptor hard drives and offer users an evolved version of these HDDs.
Born from the first Rap...
[read more >>] If you had the opportunity of going to computer shows you probably came across a desktop computer system that looks pretty damn cool, not only on the outside but also on the inside. Tweaking and overclocking stock computer systems has become a general practice and there are a serious number of products that come to support the idea. Cooling is a major aspect of a desktop computer system's structure, that is why cooling devices are used in order to fine tune a computer and make it look out of the ordinary.
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[read more >>] One of AMD's latest releases in the mobile systems market is a new version of the already famous “Tyler” series. Released back in December 2007, the TL-68 model is a par of AMD's dual core processors' line, built on the 65nm manufacturing technology. The new central processing unit is meant to deliver increased performance rates for your mobile notebook systems.
The first dual-core 64 X2 processor was released back in August 2007 and could render clock speeds from 1700 MHz to 2200 MH...
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