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Asus' Crosshiar IV Extreme in the Lab for some testing Featured
Posted on Thursday, 14 July 2011
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Enthusiast Motherboards
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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Sprint's EVO 3D from HTC hits our lab Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 12 July 2011
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Gadgets
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Not too long ago I made a comment about the iPhone losing ground in the smart phone market. Not too…
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The Asus Sabertooth P67 Part I - Design and Features Featured
Posted on Saturday, 09 July 2011
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Pro Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
We have been following Asus and their progress as a company for a very long time. When we first began…
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MSI Big Bang Marshal Performance Review Featured
Posted on Thursday, 07 July 2011
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Enthusiast Motherboards
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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The Cooler Master Notepal Infinite EVO keeps its cool in the lab Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 05 July 2011
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Power and Cooling
Written by
Sean Kalinich
There was a time when if you were talking about gaming you were talking about a desktop system. There was…
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MSI's Big Bang Marshal shows off for us Part I Featured
Posted on Monday, 04 July 2011
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Enthusiast Motherboards
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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The Lenovo USB 2.0 Dock with Digital video trys to impress Featured
Posted on Sunday, 03 July 2011
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Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
So you bought a new Windows 7 Based tablet. If you are like me you and you picked up the…
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Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Scene I Featured
Posted on Thursday, 30 June 2011
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Consumer Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
The Z68 has been touted as “cougar point done right” and many other things. I have been asked if the…
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Thermaltake V9 BlackX Edition in for a spin Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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Enthusiast Peripherals
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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MSI's Z68A-GD80 Design and Feature Preview Featured
Posted on Sunday, 26 June 2011
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Enthusiast Motherboards
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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450Mbps in a little package; Meet the TRENDNet TEW-684UB Featured
Posted on Monday, 20 June 2011
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
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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The X58A-OC from Gigabyte hits our Lab for some OC time Featured
Posted on Sunday, 19 June 2011
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Enthusiast Motherboards
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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We bring 450Mbps wireless into the Lab with the TRENDNet TEW-687GA Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 15 June 2011
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Home networking is something that everyone knows a little about. Often times what they know is not accurate (to put it nicely). I have heard some of the most bizarre “facts” about home networks, wireless networking and pretty much everything…
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ThermalTake Element Q in the lab Featured
Posted on Sunday, 12 June 2011
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Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As motherboards get smaller and CPUs run cooler the demand for smaller cases grows. The idea of the small form…
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PowerSkin for EVO 4G Heats things up Featured
Posted on Sunday, 12 June 2011
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Gadgets
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Anyone that owns a smart phone these days knows that there never seems to be enough battery life. This is…
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Sometimes Control is good. Featured
Posted on Saturday, 04 June 2011
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Pro Memory
Written by
Sean Kalinich
The net is full of articles talking about how this or that technology company is controlling their software, hardware, IP…
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Logitech's new Solar Keyboard K750 puts some green in the lab Featured
Posted on Monday, 30 May 2011
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Gadgets
Written by
Sean Kalinich
You know there is nothing like a good keyboard; whether it is for work or for play you really cannot…
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Gigabyte's X58-USB3 stops by during the Computex Chaos Featured
Posted on Monday, 30 May 2011
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Consumer Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
With all the news about the Z68 and P6x chipsets these days is seems that many people feel the X58…
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Kingstons' Data Traveler Ultimate G2 hits 100+MB/s Featured
Posted on Saturday, 28 May 2011
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Gadgets
Written by
Sean Kalinich
One thing that you can never seem to have enough of is storage. As more and more people store large…
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Asus' EAH6870 DirectCU gets a turn in our gaming machine Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 18 May 2011
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Enthusiast GPUs
Written by
Sean Kalinich
AMD’s 68xx series GPUs have been out for a little while now. This means that the boring time of stock and reference designs is well past and now we get to see what happens when a manufacturer puts their best…
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The Field Monitor Pro Drops by the Lab, Decides to stay Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 18 May 2011
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Gadgets
Written by
Sean Kalinich
One of the interesting items with today’s computer market is the use of multiples in so many components. When I…
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Cooler Master's CM Storm Spawn germinates in the lab Featured
Posted on Sunday, 15 May 2011
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Cooler Mater is a company that is certainly moving up. It was not that many years ago that they were not well thought of. This was until they released a lineup of cases and coolers that showed they were serious…
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Asus' EEE Slate EP121 1A011M Poked and Prodded Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 13 April 2011
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Pro Systems
Written by
Sean Kalinich
With every new product that hits the market there are going to be winners and losers. This is true from…
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The Asus Xonar Xense sounds off in the lab Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 16 February 2011
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Enthusiast Audio
Written by
Sean Kalinich
In the PC world audio components are often overlooked. There are only so many items that your average consumer can keep track of. They know CPU, GPU Motherboard. Some will know about the power supply but really not much else.…
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Asus P8P67 WS Revolution hits our labs Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Pro Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
For our second review of 2011 we thought we would take a look at a P67 board (despite all the…
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