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Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:58
Gigabyte's X79-UD5 drops in for a video shoot Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Intel is in full swing with the X79 and their Sandy Bridge-E CPUs. We have watched as they have broken and re-broken records for performance and in some cases overclocking. Behind all of this we have the X79 chipset with…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Monday, 23 January 2012 07:19
Asus' Maximus IV Extreme Performance Leaves Us Very Impressed Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Asus’ Maximus series has always been a great line for the user than demands top notch performance. We have tested them going all the way back to the original Maximus and each one has brought new performance features to the…
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 06:16
Maingear's EPIC180 Liquid Cooling System Video Review- Part 1 Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the world of boutique computer builders Maingear is a name that really does stand out. Their Shift line of custom-built, high-performance systems are some of the best you can get on the market. The reason for this is that…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Tuesday, 27 December 2011 07:13
Asus' P9X79 Deluxe stops by for a Photo Shoot Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
As 2011 comes to a close the big name in desktop CPUs is Intel. AMD’s Bulldozer failed to impress the market and while it is not a terrible product it does not have what it takes to grab the CPU…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Monday, 19 December 2011 23:42
Asus' Maximus IV Extreme; Designed for Performance Perfection Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
So the X79 is out along with the fastest CPU family on the planet (consumer CPU that is). This means that all of the P67, H67, H61 and Z68 boards are history right? Well you would be wrong. There are…
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Monday, 12 December 2011 00:01
The Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 gets its shot at the Lab Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have now had the G1.Assassin2 up on the test bench for a little over a week now and are ready to talk about our experience with it. The G1.Assassin2 is Gigabyte’s current top of the line x79 motherboard and…
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Friday, 02 December 2011 23:35
Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 Design and Feature Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Intel is enjoying some of the most successful quarters of their life. They have launched what is arguably the fastest desktop CPU that you can buy and have coupled it with a chipset that is clearly set to perform. We…
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Sunday, 27 November 2011 22:23
Kingston's DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 Zips Through the Lab Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
As the devices we carry around with us get smaller and smaller there is going to be an increasing want (or need) for larger and faster portable storage devices. We have watched over the last few years as the storage…
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Sunday, 13 November 2011 23:48
Intel's New X79 Chipset and Motherboard poked and prodded Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Normally when a new chipset hits the market we like to try and get a motherboard from one of the major companies for use in our reviews and initial testing. This goes for any new CPU regardless of if it…
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Sunday, 13 November 2011 20:49
Intel's Core i7 3960X Drops By Just to Show Off Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Intel has been enjoying a rather successful few years. After the launch of their first generation Core processors Intel managed to slide neatly by AMD who had been running rings around the Pentium 4 CPU. Things did not stop there…
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Enthusiast CPUs
Saturday, 01 October 2011 19:11
We Find Snow at the Beach, Thermaltake's Level 10 GT Snow Edition Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
ThermalTake has launched some bold designs (and some rather gaudy ones too). Some of these have been successful while others have received ridicule from the online community and gamers (even coining the phrase “Friends don’t let Friends use ThermalTake” at…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Wednesday, 28 September 2011 00:44
The CM Storm Sirus Gaming Headset Brings Life to Our Gaming Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
For those of you that have not guessed it yet, I am something of an Audiophile (ok snob). When it comes to the audio on my TV, PC, Car Stereo, etc. it needs to be very good quality. This is…
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Enthusiast Audio
Sunday, 11 September 2011 13:39
Asus' Rampage III Black Edition in the Lab Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Quite a while ago we talked to you about the virtues of the Asus Rampage III Black. This board can best be described as The Flagship of the Flagship Rampage III line. It has everything, wireless, Bluetooth, Overclocking, Tri-SLI and…
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Monday, 05 September 2011 23:11
TRENDNet's TEW-692GR Dual Band 450Mbps wireless router stops by the lab Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
One of the nice things about the latest generation of the 802.11 wireless specification (802.11n) is that there is a lot of headroom available in it before there is a need to move to a new generation. When 802.11n first…
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Saturday, 06 August 2011 22:16
Gigabyte's 990FXA-UD5 performs for us in the Lab Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have taken our walk around of the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 and found we like the design and many of the features packed into the system. In the second half of our test we will be diving into what you can…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Ok, we have taken a look at the MSI Z68A-GD80 B3 and its design, and features. We uncovered a few things that gave us some concern. Will the board be able to handle being loaded up with cards or other…
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Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:20
Gigabyte's 990FXA-UD5 stops by for a photo shoot Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
AMD is a company that not too long ago was on top. They had done something that no one thought possible; they were able to outperform Intel clock for clock. But they had a problem; they had a winning CPU…
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Sunday, 17 July 2011 00:06
Asus Crosshair IV Extreme Performance Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Asus has a flare for design and for choosing the right parts to go on their products. Over the years of working with them I have often had them tell me “wait for our design” instead of tinkering with the…
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Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:06
Asus' Crosshiar IV Extreme in the Lab for some testing Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
When you hear the term Crosshair several things come to mind. The first is probably the two lines that intersect inside the optics on a targeting scope (which were originally real hairs). The next could be the options in most…
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 00:09
MSI Big Bang Marshal Performance Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
So we have taken a look into how well the MSI Big Bang marshal was put together and now we are ready to put this board through its paces. We will be taking a look at this product from as…
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Monday, 04 July 2011 20:19
MSI's Big Bang Marshal shows off for us Part I Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
The term Big Bang is used by many scientists to describe the moment of creation. They say that before this event the universe was a chaotic mass of gasses and unformed matter. The gravity and heat combined to compress this…
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Tuesday, 28 June 2011 00:26
Thermaltake V9 BlackX Edition in for a spin Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
When people think about cases many different things come to mind. To some the best case is a simple black box (or beige) that they put their components into and that is that. Others want more style to the box…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Sunday, 26 June 2011 19:25
MSI's Z68A-GD80 Design and Feature Preview Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
At the request of some of our readers we are going to start splitting up the way we do our reviews. However, instead of the normal “unboxings” that we find out on the Internet we are going to break up…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Monday, 20 June 2011 23:33
450Mbps in a little package; Meet the TRENDNet TEW-684UB Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
The launch of the 450Mbps segment of the 802.11n specification was sort of backwards. We saw some of the first routers last year in the September – October time frame. Then at CES we got our first glimpse of one…
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Sunday, 19 June 2011 13:29
The X58A-OC from Gigabyte hits our Lab for some OC time Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Overclocking is a big deal these days. I can remember when it was just a bunch of crazed guys with too much money and free time on their hands. We used to do things like solder new resistors onto CPUs…
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