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While we like to take a look at a lot of hardware at eTeknix, some other accessories can make a large difference to your overall gaming experience, or even to your general computer experience. Today is the turn for a mousepad by the gaming brand of Thermaltake, Tt eSPORTS. Tt eSPORTS have been producing mice, keyboards, headsets and mouse pads …

Corsair certainly seem to have the Midas touch “ earning a great reputation with whatever market they decide to target. Their reputation in the power supply sector is already one of the best and today we are looking at the follow up to the original CX430 “ the new CX430 V2, created to offer a solid, reliable power supply at …

Cooler Master is a name well known to enthusiasts for their extensive line of enthusiast computer equipment, including cases, CPU coolers, power supplies, and more. They’re probably best known for their coolers, though, and today Benchmark Reviews has the Cooler Master Hyper 612 PWM to test against a collection of other coolers. This appears to be an update of Cooler …

It’s been a while since we’ve looked at anything from PowerColor, but after seeing their showings at Computex, it’s great to see something new from the company. Made even better is the fact that we’re not talking about a card with a new cooler or anything like that, we’re talking about a new card that PowerColor themselves have been working …

I just got off the phone with someone before I started writing this and came to the realization that we’re just four days away from the end of another month. We’ve just about finished the first third of quarter three. The start of the year was pretty crazy, but the rest of it is going to be even more so …

The controversy surrounding OCZs lack of inclusion of the Revo 3×2 240GB SSD in its product specifications is about to come to an end. The SSD Review has just received word from Jessica Luken, Global Marketing Director of OCZ, that the Revo 3×2 240GB version is prepping for release and has a product code of RVD3X2-FHPX4-240G – 84202402723.  Can you …

The GeForce GTX 560 is a strange GPU, in the sense that its manufacturer, NVIDIA, doesn’t set default clock rates for it. Therefore, it is up to the video card manufacturer to decide which clocks to use. The GeForce GTX 560 Multiview from Zotac works internally at 820 MHz, accesses memory at 4 GHz through a 256-bit interface, and has …

Back in 2008, NZXT released the Avatar gaming mouse featuring an ambidextrous design. As with all of NZXTs PC accessories, Avatar was designed to provide gamers with an advantage over their competitors. Move forward to summer of 2011 and NZXT has released the Avatar S, the successor to the original Avatar Gaming mouse. Full story at Kitguru.

The Silverstone CW02, with the black brushed-aluminum exterior, has a classy look which stands apart from most other cases. The front panel sports a nice LCD screen that posts information on whatever you set it up to display.  This is another great addition. Hiding the I/O area behind a door helps keep a nice, clean, minimalist look to the CW02. …

If you are a regular of The SSD Review, you may have noticed a new set of benchmarks in our past few reviews as we were politely asked to do a bit of beta testing. The software is called Anvil Storage Utilities and we think this report (and introduction) is going to grab the interest of consumers, enthusiasts, reviewers as …

We have reviewed a number of wireless keyboards over the years, from the tiniest Logitech Dinovo Mini to the oblong shaped IOGear GKM581R.Every wireless keyboard has its pros and cons based on what exactly you are looking for and how often you will use it. Genius is a relative newcomer to this world and are coming in with a full …

The time for monster CPU coolers may be drawing to a close: the latest generation of 32nm CPUs from Intel and AMD produce much less heat and thus require less cooling, even when heavily overclocked. Still, there are a lot of  very power-hungry, heat producing CPUs out there, and if you have one or are contemplating buying one, then Thermaltake’s …

If you are in the market for a system overhaul, then todays review will be particularly interesting. Due to some recent price drops it is possible now to pick up a HD6870 for less than£150. If you have£300 to spare, how about buying two of the latest XFX HD6870 Black Edition cards for a Crossfire system? For only£280 is this …

In the world of computer-based gamers, having a sweet rig is only half the battle. You’re only as good as your Mouse/Keyboard/Monitor. Now, we all know of  some other brands that really make buying a mouse a decision between the mouse or gas for the month. Gigabyte has come up with a solution: A comfortable mouse that doesn’t break the …

Contemporary computers are becoming more and more integrated in the home and having a different box of electronics for each role:  playing movies, gaming and even receiving TV, will soon be completely behind us. Today we’re looking at a product that brings the functionality of one of  these boxes to your PC, and thanks to it being a USB device…even …