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Sunday, 17 May 2015 06:04
Kingston HyperX Cloud II Gaming Headset Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
After the success of the Hyper X Cloud Pro Gaming headset Kingston went back to the drawing board to make a product that would be a worthy successor. The question was, how do you top something that is that good?…
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Enthusiast Audio
Monday, 30 March 2015 13:38
Tesoro Kuven Pro 5.1 Gaming Headset Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the last year or so the PC Gaming market has seen an interesting re-birth. Although many developers seem to have embraced the new x86 console craze the peripheral manufacturers for the PC did not get the memo. One company…
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Enthusiast Audio
Tuesday, 25 November 2014 14:26
Kingston HyperX SKYN Gaming Surface Review; Speed and Control Flavors Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
The PC Gaming market has not short supply of great gaming mice. There are so many these days that someone could get lost looking through them all. You can even go so far as to choose a mouse that works…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Anyone who’s been involved with PC building and modding for any length of time has seen their share of oddities when it comes to PC cases. These are the first thing people see after all, and as such they were…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Sunday, 21 September 2014 17:48
Kingston SM22080S3 120GB M.2 SATA Drive Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
As the computer market moves to smaller and smaller form factors the need to decrease the foot print of storage devices is growing. The problem that many manufacturers face is that a reduction in component size has traditionally meant a…
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
I’ve had the privilege of watching the PC industry change over the years, especially from an aesthetic standpoint. I’ve seen PC cases go from the beige and boring to the neon and gaudy to the sleek and subtle and back…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Sunday, 17 August 2014 15:19
Tesoro Tizona G2N Mechnical Gaming Keyboard and Number Pad Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
One of the fastest growing verticals in the PC market is the peripherals market. There are so many different companies that are pushing out keyboards, mice, headphones and more to the masses. While this growth is a good thing, it…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:29
Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming 5 Design and Feature Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
They say that competition is good for the soul, and they are right. In just about any area you can think of having a little competition makes you better at what you do. In the computer world this is especially…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Sunday, 06 July 2014 15:27
Asus Z97-A Review Part II - Performance Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
While a nice layout, cool colors and a good feature set listed on the box might be nice performance is what most people are looking for in a motherboard. A good feature set does not matter so much if the…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Thermaltake Technology has always had a full lineup of cases, from elegant to subdued to downright loud. I’ve had the chance to get my hands on several of their cases over the years in all different sizes and shapes, and…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Sunday, 08 June 2014 13:42
Asus Z97I Plus Design and Features Review - Packing a Lot into a Little Space Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
The small form factor crowd has grown in leaps and bounds over the last few years. Every day on Facebook or some other spot on the internet you will see some pretty impressive builds with tiny motherboards stuffed in them.…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Saturday, 07 June 2014 17:43
Thermaltake Level10M Headset Review - Style and Performance Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
A few years ago Thermaltake decided to introduce a new line of hardware, the Level10. The thought behind it was that this was the top of the line, period. The broke into the market with a case that was almost…
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Enthusiast Audio
Sunday, 01 June 2014 18:38
Kingston HyperX Cloud Pro Gaming Headset Review - Setting a New Audio Standard Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
As we have said many times before the peripherals market seems to be one of the PC related markets that continues to grow at a very rapid pace. Everyone wants to get in on the gravy train these days and…
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Enthusiast Audio
Today we are continuing our testing of the primary line of CPU coolers from Raijintek. In previous reviews we’ve already covered the low-profile Pallas and the smaller tower cooler dubbed the Themis Evo. Both of these coolers performed well, with…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Tuesday, 06 May 2014 21:08
Thermaltake tt eSports Level 10M Hybrid Gaming Mouse Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is no doubt that gaming is a huge part of the PC market. This one “segment” has so many verticals inside of it that it can be difficult to keep track of. You have GPUs, Keyboards, Mouse, Headphones, Speakers,…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Tuesday, 29 April 2014 11:48
Raijintek Themis EVO CPU Cooler Review Featured
Written by Shane McAnally
Last week we brought you a review of the Pallas low-profile CPU cooler from a new company called Raijintek. We put it through our torture test and we were actually surprised at how well the little cooler did. With plenty…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Tuesday, 22 April 2014 22:05
Genius DeathTaker Professional Gaming Mouse Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the gaming world there are few things as annoying as not having the right tools to keep up in your favorite game. Just ask any gamer about trying to play with a bad internet or LAN connection, or a…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Competition is one of the cornerstones of innovation, in the tech world and in many other areas. When we have several different companies marketing products to us that serve the same function, they will each strive to bring us, the…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
CPU cooling one of the prime considerations in any build. Once a new system builder decides if they’re going to use air or water for the purpose the next step is usually research. If they’re smart they’ll look at reviews…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Saturday, 08 March 2014 18:17
In Win 901 Case Review, Or How To Build an SFF Case With Style Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
PC enclosure reviews are not exactly the most exciting things on the internet. In far too many cases (no pun intended… ok well maybe) we find that the differences between one company and another is wholly cosmetic and are not…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Monday, 30 December 2013 22:51
Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H Review Part II - Performance Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
In part one of our review of the Gigabyte Z87-UD3H we looked at the design, features and layout of the board. Now in part two we are going to see if those choices were good or bad. Gigabyte has a…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Sunday, 08 December 2013 23:52
Gigabyte X79-UP4 Design and Feature Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
The X79 chipset is nothing new, in fact in motherboard years it is quite old. However that does not mean that is it obsolete. If anything there are still many people that use the platform for their Sandy Bridge-E CPUs…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Monday, 04 November 2013 22:38
Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H Review Part I - Design and Features Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Gigabyte is not a company to be left out of any market and they are certainly keeping pace in the motherboard arena. They are one of the companies that not only leads sales, but also helps to drive innovation and…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Sunday, 03 November 2013 22:29
Asus Z87-Expert Review Part II - Performance Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
So now that we have covered the design and features of the Asus Z87-Expert it is time to dive into how well the board performs. Asus has always been a company that talks up the performance that their products are…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Sunday, 27 October 2013 17:45
Asus Z87-Expert Rview Part I - Design and Features Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
With the launch of Intel’s Haswell there was the normal shift to a new chipset. This is Intel’s Z87 chipset and everyone rushed to get their version of this new chipset out onto the market. Many of the boards that…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
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