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ZOTAC GeForce GTX 770 Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

When it comes down to it, the GeForce GTX 770 is a great graphics card and when a company such as ZOTAC improves upon the performance on multiple fronts it just makes it that much better.

DEEPCOOL Gamer Storm Assassin CPU Heatsink Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

The DEEPCOOL ASSASSIN heatsink is designed for extreme overclockers that want the best thermal performance from an air-cooled heatsink. Just looking at the ASSASSIN you know it is going to be efficient, because this thing is a behemoth with dimensions of 5.5 x 5 x 6.2 inches

The Haswell Storage Performance RAID Review

Author: Jon Coulter

Haswell has arrived. This is big news to storage enthusiasts like myself. Haswell brings with it 4 more native Intel SATA III Ports, giving us a total of 6 powerful Intel SATA III Ports.

Infortrend EonNAS 510 Pro Review

Author: Tyler Bernath

Over the last few years I have had the much appreciated pleasure of testing many NAS appliances from Thecus, Qnap and recently Asustor. All of these aforementioned companies have been around the block a time or two and have made a name for themselves. One company that doesn’t readily come to mind is Infortrend, but their aim is to change that.

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost features two key improvements over the reference model; the first is this card utilizes their advanced Dual Silencer thermal solution and it also features improved performance out of the box via higher clock frequencies.

Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 Dual-X OC 1GB Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

The Sapphire Dual-X OC also comes with a faster than average GPU core that is overclocked to 1075MHz, and the card also features a 1GB GDDR5 frame buffer that is factory overclocked to 1600MHz

Noctua NH-U14S & NH-U12S CPU Heatsink Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

The Noctua S series is designed to offer superior thermal and acoustic performance while supporting more memory configurations

EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SuperClocked ACX Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 is already one hell of a graphics card, but the EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SuperClocked still managed to best it in nearly every regard.

SanDisk Extreme II 240GB SSD Review

Author: Jon Coulter

Today SanDisk is launching a new line of SSD’s, dubbed the Extreme II. This new series is SanDisk’s flagship performance offering, and of course the successor to the Extreme.

Intel 4th Generation Core Processor " Haswell" i7 4770K Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

The Haswell architecture has been redesigned to provide users with the best all-around experience by offering exceptional performance-per-watt and a more powerful graphics via the new Intel HD 4600 IGP.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 SLI Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

If the Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan has taught us anything it is that there is a market for extreme graphics cards

Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

The second graphics card to be launched within the 700 series is the GeForce GTX 770 and unlike its older brother the GTX 780, the GTX 770 is based on the GK104 architecture the same architecture that is currently used in the 600 series.

Nvidia GeForce Experience Overview

Author: Chris Ledenican

Along with the launch of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 780, Nvidia is also releasing their GeForce Experience program.

The Next Generation: NVIDIA Geforce GTX780 in Review

Author: Chris Ledenican

Continuing on its success, Nvidia is bringing the Titan architecture to a wider audience in the form of the GeForce GTX 780, which ushers in a new graphics series for Nvidia and also lowers the price of the GK110 architecture.

How To Secure Erase Your Solid State Drive

Author: Jon Coulter

The first time you use your brand new SSD you can’t help but be blown away by the performance. It’s as if your computer has been transformed into a completely different animal.

All EA games to be optimized for AMD ?

Author: News

According to a report from IGN, EA and AMD have entered an agreement where EA Frostbite 3 games will be optimized for AMD hardware.

PureOC's 2013 Annual Summer Giveaway !

Author: News

Look at all those sponsors!

Diamond & RWLabs Giveaway coming up on the 21st

Author: News

We have a giveaway starting on 6/21/2013

Old school EVGA Shirt

Author: News

ASUS GeForce GTX 760 listed at Online Retailer

Author: News

You know a hardware launch is getting close when listings start to pop up online and this is just what we are seeing with the GeForce GTX 760.

Affiliate Review 6/18/2013

Author: News

Nvidia prepping GeForce GTX 760

Author: News

A new Nvidia graphics card could be on the horizon and according to a leaked GPU shot it the performance could land just between the GTX 660 and GTX 660 Ti.

AMD FX-9000 series processors show for pre-order up at PCSuperStore

Author: News

AMD FX-9000 series chips available for pre-order at PCSuperStore.com

Affiliate Reviews 06/17/2013

Author: News

[Rumor] Xbox One games at E3 were running off high-end PCs

Author: Tyler Bernath

Come on

Affiliate Reviews 06/14/2013

Author: News

Don't hold your breath for the AMD Radeon HD 8970 XT

Author: News

The AMD Radeon HD 8970 announcement at E3 never came and rumors surround the graphics card have tapered off. Once again it appears as if a rumor was started to drive traffic to a site.

Affiliate Reviews 06/13/2013

Author: News

Ivy Bridge-EP Based Xeon E5 Processors details hit the net

Author: News

Thanks to AsRock we are getting an inside look at Intel’s next gen lineup after they updated their CPU Support list.

AMD Shows off the AMD FX-9590, 5 GHz CPU processor, in action at E3

Author: News

Even though the CPU has a 220 watt TDP AMD used their stock AiO water cooler. There was no word on what temps the chip was running at, but as you can see they had it on a closed display at E3.