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Sunday, 12 August 2012 16:57
Cooler Master's CMStorm Stryker Enclosure Drops By the Lab And Decides To Stick Around Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the world of computer enclosures things can get boring pretty fast; after all how much can you do with a box? For too many companies the way to differentiate their products is to put in a window and extra…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Tuesday, 07 August 2012 20:06
Thermaltake's Tt eSPORTS Challenger Pro Stops By For Some Gaming Time Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Gaming keyboards have become popular over the past couple of years with multiple manufacturers working to outdo the other with their features and of course performance. The market has become big enough that we have even seen the return of…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Wednesday, 01 August 2012 21:59
Thermaltake's Water 2.0 Performer Self-Contained Cooling System Stops By The Lab Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Water cooling for high-performance cooling has been around for a very long time. It started (as many things do) with super computers and the need to maintain a specific temperature envelope. From there advanced cooling broke into the consumer market…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Sunday, 29 July 2012 09:05
We Check Out the Asus Republic of Gamers Rampge IV Formula For Its Design, Features and Component Choices Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the enthusiast world you can never seem to have enough power or enough headroom for your system. Although you might hear rumors of the “post PC” era or that the desktop is dead nothing could be further from the…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Tuesday, 10 July 2012 07:47
Western Digital Launches Their New WD Red Line of HDDs Built for NAS *** Update with Pricing *** Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the years the need for more storage has exploded. I have seen systems with 750GB drive packed with pictures,…
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Consumer Storage and Networking
Monday, 09 July 2012 12:12
Cooler Master's CMStorm Sonuz Make A Lot Of Noise For A Little Cash Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
A rather long time ago (in computer years) when real audio first came out on the computer the market was pretty bare for not only sound cards, but also for anything to use to listen to them. I can vividly…
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Enthusiast Audio
Thursday, 05 July 2012 18:57
Asus ROG Rampage IV Gene Performance Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
As we round out our coverage of the Asus Republic of Gamers Rampage IV Gene we are taking a look at both the synthetic and real-world performance of this board. As we have mentioned before the Gene is the gateway…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:12
Thecus N2800 2-Bay NAS Design and Feature Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have another network storage device in our labs; the Thecus N2800. This is a 2-bay NAS with dual network…
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Pro Storage and Networking
Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:31
Synology DS1512+ Five-Bay NAS Performance Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
As the push for cloud based storage and services becomes greater we have been taking a look at the value…
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Pro Storage and Networking
In our continuing coverage of the Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H WB we are moving into the performance side of things. Here is where it becomes difficult to differentiate between companies. The problem is that if you are testing Z77 Express based motherboards…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Saturday, 09 June 2012 18:14
Accessory Power Speaker Pals Review; Panda and Koala Edition Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Every now and then in the midst of products that are intended to make your system more powerful or impress…
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Peripherals
Saturday, 02 June 2012 13:00
Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Performance Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
After spending some time working with the Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H and all of the features that are packed into this board…
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Consumer Motherboards
Friday, 25 May 2012 20:22
Asus ROG Rampage IV Gene Design and Feature Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
With all of the news about the Z77 Express motherboards and Ivy Bridge we thought we would step back and take a look at our old friend the X79 and the Sandy Bridge-E CPU. This platform still represents the top…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:04
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H WB Wifi Design and Feature Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Moving through some of the more prominent Z77 motherboards that are out right now we come to another one from Gigabyte. Here we have the Z77X-UD5H WiFi Motherboard (Model number GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB). The UD5H is typically their second in line for…
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Enthusiast Motherboards
After what seemed like a long time we are finally getting into the full performance section of our review. The Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe is a board that really has quite a bit going on which makes properly covering everything something…
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Monday, 21 May 2012 17:15
Kingston's DataTraveler Elite 3.0 32GB Flash Drive Gets Run Through the Lab Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Although not as sexy as a new CPU, GPU or Motherboard USB flash drives are still used on an almost…
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Peripherals
Friday, 11 May 2012 21:57
Thermaltake Tt eSports Saphira Gaming Mouse Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
As we expand our coverage from core computer products to peripherals (and in the end everything else) we are moving into gaming first. We have already tested out more than a few mechanical gaming keyboards (and have more to come).…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Friday, 11 May 2012 14:12
Kingston MobileLite G3 USB 3.0 Multi-Card Reader Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
With the increasing popularity of the SD form factor for media storage (SDHC, SDXC, etc) in modern devices like Cameras,…
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Peripherals
Wednesday, 09 May 2012 18:33
Asus P8Z77-V Motherboard Performance Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
So now that we have covered all of the features and design choices for the P8Z77-V we are about to…
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Consumer Motherboards
Tuesday, 08 May 2012 22:32
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H Design and Feature Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
As we continue our coverage of both Ivy Bridge and the Z77 Express chipset we now head over to Gigabyte.…
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Consumer Motherboards
Monday, 07 May 2012 16:01
The CMStorm Trigger Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Gets the Once Over; Twice Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
There was a time when the only type of keyboard you could buy was one with mechanical switches. This was pretty much it for the old AT days of computing. This style of keyboard later extended into the first ATX…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Monday, 30 April 2012 13:46
The House of Marley Stir it Up Headset Brings Full and Vibrant Audio to the Lab Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have had a couple of products from the House of Marley in the lab and in the whole have found them to be excellent offerings for the price that they go for. The Reggae themed headsets combine renewable materials…
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Enthusiast Audio
Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:09
Thermaltake Tt eSports MEKA G1 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
In order to combat the growing popularity of console gaming (and also to support a growing population of gamers) many peripheral companies began to invest money into making real devices to support gaming on the PC. We have seen many…
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Friday, 27 April 2012 23:40
Ausu P8Z77-V Deluxe Design and Feature Review Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
Now that we have taken a look at most of the rest of the P8Z77 line up we are going to check out what was originally the flagship for the mid-range line the P8Z77-V Deluxe. Earlier today Asus announced and…
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:15
We Take Ivy Bridge for a Spin Running Windows 8 on the Asus Maixmus V Gene Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
You knew we were going to do this eventually (after all we told you we would) so here we go with a complete review (performance numbers) of the Asus Maixmus V Gene with our Core i7 3770K running the same…
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