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With the amount of USB devices that you can attach to your computer, people are always running out of room for them. Well, today weve got the Synology USB Station 2, which plugs directly into your router to allow access to any USB device over your network. Its small and can be placed anywhere, but how well will it perform? …

Digging into my NZXT file to grab the template I write with for NZXT, I realized it has been almost four months since I wrote anything for NZXT as far as cases go. This might explain the sudden explosion of submission to me for testing as of late. This review will be the first of four coming up from NZXT …

The external hard drive market has been long established and heavily saturated. In order to succeed a company must do something different or else risk falling into line with the hundreds of other virtually identical products. Does the HornetTek Defender have what it takes to stand out from the crowd? Full story at TechWare Labs.

We recently received a case from a company called Raidmax who have apparently been around since 1988, in some shape or form.  They have quite a large range of products which includes cases, power supplies and a CPU cooler. Full story at Kitguru.

The GTS 450 from NVIDIA launched a little over a year ago; on September 13th, 2010 to be exact. For that reason, you can’t help but imagine my surprise when ASUS wanted to shoot over a new version of the card as it was introduced to the new Direct CU Silent family. Knowing there’s a clear market for low end …

A few months ago, we tested seven methods for applying thermal compound in order to determine which was the best. At the time, we concluded that a small dot in the center of the CPU is the best method to apply thermal compound. But this conclusion may be applied only for the hardware we used, and, since we ran our …

Talk about cutting it fine this month. Literally just days before the end of the month, AMD finally release the latest Catalyst driver release. The worst thing is, like me, most people probably don’t really care about it as just a few  days earlier a pre-release 11.10 driver came out which brought with it a focus on Battlefield 3. What …

A few weeks ago we were sent a SATA II MemoRight 115GB SSD for review and as we expected it got nailed in the performance tests when compared against the latest SATA III SandForce SF-2281 powered drives. MemoRight intervened and asked us to review their latest performance oriented SATA III 240GB solid state drive. Full story at Kitguru.

Never before in the history of cinema has one film been so anticipated as the Star Wars prequels, which was the first issue that Phantom Menace had to grapple with.Unfortunately, Lucasfilm did little to hose down the anticipation, signing promotional deals with hundreds of brands including a $2 billion deal with PepsiCo,  ensuring that there wasn’t a person alive who …

Kitguru often focuses on the ultra high end hardware, but today we are building a system around the Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Z68 motherboard, a new product which aims to deliver the best price point possible. At a shade under£85 we wanted to test this new mobo with the award winning Intel 2500K processor. Can we upgrade your older system to a …

Today we are reviewing the Intel D525MW Mini-ITX motherboard, which comes with an on-board Atom D525 CPU. Check it out!” Full story at Hardware Secrets.

Unless you have never exposed yourself to the outside world before, chances are that you have heard of Nero. No, I am not talking about Ahead Software’s Nero Burning ROM, but rather, Roman Emperor Nero from AD 54 to 68. Known for his obsession with fire, historical sources say he could be the one who started the Great Fire of …

Just when you thought there was nothing new when it comes to external hard drives, Seagate has found a new angle with their GoFlex Turbo 750GB USB 3.0 hard drive – something extra special that most folks don’t even consider until it’s too late – disaster recovery protection. It all stems from Seagate’s philosophy that it’s not the hardware that …

With Apple having already released new MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, iPad 2 and OSX Lion this year, 2011. Everyone seems to have forgotten about the much loved iPod Touch! However, various leeks and rumours have popped up over the last few months, and heres what we know so far about the Apple iPod Touch 5 specs. Full story at tech-reviews.

Alienware have a well earned reputation for creating some of the most exotic, ludicrously specified gaming machines and today we look at their M18x laptop which features the latest flagship Intel Core i7 2960XM Extreme Edition processor, Bluray drive, 8GB of 1600mhz DDR3 memory and dual Nvidia GTX560m graphics. Full story at Kitguru.