Back at CES (during the G1-Killer launch) we were shown something pretty special; besides the G1 we mean. While Tim Handley was telling us about the virtues of the G1-Killer line-up, he flashed us a picture of a new board that was still under development. This was an early image of the X58A-OC. The concept was a streamlined product intended …

Many casual gamers dont appreciate the benefits of owning a proper gaming mouse as they may not have ever used one. Once you do decide to take the plunge and buy one, though, the decision gets even harder because there are so many different models on the market which are designed for slightly different purposes and will give you different …

Today Kitguru are partnering with YoyoTech to provide one lucky reader with a state of the art media center. Over the last year we have given away crates of hardware to readers and forum members “ this competition today is quite easily one of our best. Full Story @ Kitguru.  

We recently took a look at Razers first attempt at a mechanical gaming keyboard which left us with mainly positive impressions.  Throughout our review we compared it to SteelSeries existing mechanical keyboard, the 7G, which has been around for a good few years now and can be found on the desks of serious gamers across the globe. Full story at …

In anticipation of the release of several new SSDs in the near future, The SSD Review has a bit of a treat for you that comes in the form of an exclusive with respect to OCZ Revo 3 x2 PCIe SSD benchmarks. Its not an exclusive in such that that other reviewers couldnt have conducted the same testing while at …

Gigabyte are widely regarded as one of the biggest computer component manufacturers in the world, especially in the motherboard market. They cater for all of the latest AMD and Intel platforms including AM3, socket 1156, 1155 and 1366 and with Sandy Bridge taking over, we still believe that 1366 has some life left in it. Full story at eTeknix.

The last few times out, I looked at a couple of heatsinks from a companies not too well known here in the USA for building high performance cooling solutions, like Evercool and newcomer NZXT. This time I will be looking at the Zalman CNPS9900 Max heatsink from a company that has been in the performance cooling market for years. Zalman, …

Antec’s Six Hundred gaming chassis has proven to be a bit of a mixed bag.   I like the look and the few features that it has are quite good, but Antec touts it as, “The Ultimate Gaming Case.” I’ll take exception with them on  this point. Full story at Tweaknews.

Bringing affordable chassis designs to the masses is what BitFenix has been about since its inception. Not only have they been great at delivering wallet friendly designs, BitFenix has also delivered shapes, lighting, textures and all around good looking chassis’ so far. Up to now it seems they are well known for the Colossus in its many flavors. While that …

When Crucial released the C300 series of Solid State Drives last year they outperformed anything else available at the time. With read speeds around 340MB/s the Sandforce drives had a serious performance disadvantage, only offering around 280MB/s. The market today is in a very different state and the new SATA 6bps Crucial M4 has to compete against the stunningly good …