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When the original Vertex and Agility product lines were introduced, we were told that the Vertex had a specific BOM (Build of Materials) list and the Agility had a dynamic BOM. In the end we found the first Vertex to have one set of flash that never changed, but the Agility shipped with three or more different flash configurations. The …

FREMONT, California – May 16th, 2011 – Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the Force SeriesTM 3 family of solid-state drives. The newly announced Force Series 3 models take advantage of the new SATA 6.0 Gb/s (SATA 3) interface to deliver impressive speed at an attractive price. . The …

Workstation. Its not a word typically synonymous with overclocking. It seems like ASUS wants to turn that assumption on its head with their P8P67 WS Revolution motherboard were looking at today. Full story at OverClockers.

Speedlink are a German company who are well known for making budget peripherals,  such as mice, keyboards, cables, speakers, controllers and headsets for PCs, laptops and consoles. With the Strike FX, they have created a Playstation-like wireless controller which is compatible with both Windows PCs and the PS3 itself. Full story at XSReviews.

My obsession first appeared in the CES Press Lobby last January as I wrote a story on my PC laptop.  I’de glance over the screen to catch a glimpse of a Mac loyalist staring me down with this unmistakable  grin as it seemed I was the only press member not in possession of a Mac of some sort. That same …

As we pull on the lid of the laptop we get our first look at the matte screen which was an excellent decision by Samsung as well as a full size keyboard which we recently learned is back lit. The matte screen of the Samsung is leaps and bounds ahead of the MacAir with its 400 nits brightness however the …

The 128GB solid state drive within the Series 9 is Samsung through and through.  It contains their S3C29MAX01 processor along with 4 modules of Samsung K9PFGD8U7M RAM, each being an incredible 32GB in size. Last but not least their is the Samsung K4T2G3140E cache. Quite frankly, we never expected this little SSD to hold the power that it does.  After …

Concurrent to all of this happening, I had mentioned to a good friend David Leong, Marketing Director at Kingston Technology,  that I had purchased the Series 9 and he wondered if he could impose upon me for a bit of a favor.  He went on to question whether their new HyperX PNP DDR3-1866 RAM would work in the Series 9 …

When I tested the GIGABYTE E350N-USB3 in February I was really impressed with what GIGABYTE and AMD were able to do with the E-350 based Fusion platform. One thing really bugged me about the board, though. The fact that it used active cooling was quite a disappointment, because it just felt like it didn’t need it. Well, ASUS have decided …

Taipei, Taiwan – May 16 2011 – ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash application products, today announced the release the S511 Solid State Drive (SSD), which employs the latest SATA 6Gb/s specification. With this cutting edge implementation of the latest data transfer standard, the performance of this SSD has been dramatically raised over conventional …