Review: Gigabyte Radeon HD7790 1GB OC Edition
Graphics card
Wednesday, 22 May, 2013 | 1 comment Over the last twelve months, AMD has had a gaping hole in its product line-up around the $200 to $300 mark. The Radeon HD7790 plugs that gap, and competes directly with Nvidia's GTX 650 Ti.
Review: CM Storm Scout 2
PC case
Thursday, 28 March, 2013 The CM Storm Scout 2 replaces the venerable CM Storm Scout, and sells for roughly the same price as its predecessor, around the $199 mark.
Review: Intel Core i7-3970X
CPU
Monday, 25 March, 2013 It's been over a year-and-a-half since Intel launched the behemoth Core i7-3960X six-core HyperThreaded CPU. In the intervening time, it has only produced one barely-upgraded successor: the Core i7-3970X, that we've tested here.
Review: Lamptron Fan Controller Touch
Fan controller
Friday, 1 March, 2013 This Lamptron fan controller makes a good first impression with a sleek black design and minimalist fascia – no knobs or buttons here; everything is controlled via the backlit touchscreen interface.
Review: Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 7770 1GB OC
Graphics card
Friday, 4 January, 2013 | 2 comments This factory-overclocked version of the AMD Radeon HD 7770 features Sapphire's patented Vapor-X vapour chamber fan-cooling technology.
Review: Gigabyte Windforce GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3GB OC
Graphics card
Tuesday, 1 January, 2013 Gigabyte sent us a new addition to its line-up in late 2012: a factory-overclocked GTX 660 Ti with 3GB of memory and custom Windforce cooling.
Review: Gigabyte Windforce GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB OC
Graphics card
Monday, 31 December, 2012 The GeForce GTX 650 Ti could either be considered Nvidia's best ‘budget’ card, or its entry-level ‘performance’ card.
Review: AMD A10-5800K
Accelerated Processing Unit (APU)
Friday, 28 December, 2012 | 1 comment The A10-5800K is from AMD’s mid-range A-Series family of processors, and features strong on-chip graphical capabilities.
Review: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5TH
Motherboard
Wednesday, 24 October, 2012 The big selling point of this motherboard, an update to Gigabyte's existing GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB, is its pair of Thunderbolt ports.
Review: FSP Aurum Pro 1000W
PSU
Monday, 22 October, 2012 FSP has been making power supplies for about twenty years, but only in the last ten has it sold any under its own brand name. It recently sent us a PSU rated at 1000W from the Aurum Pro series, which also includes 850W and 1200W versions.
Review: Nvidia GeForce GTX 670
Graphics card
Thursday, 23 August, 2012 The Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 costs less than it's similar sibling, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680, but more than the AMD Radeon HD 7950 - how does it stack up for gamers?
Review: CoolerMaster X6
CPU cooler
Tuesday, 31 July, 2012 The Cooler Master X6 CPU cooler is a multi-platform HSF (heatsink and fan) which is compatible with every current consumer desktop platform.
Review: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB
Motherboard
Friday, 13 July, 2012 Out of the half-dozen or so motherboards that Gigabyte has released for Intel’s Ivy Bridge platform, the GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB is one of the most feature-packed (second only to the G1 Sniper 3).
Review: Intel Core i7-3820
CPU
Tuesday, 10 July, 2012 Late last year Intel released the Sandy Bridge-E (‘Enthusiast’) line of processors. Since the launch of the initial pair of six-core CPUs, the i7-3930K and i7-3960X, only one other chip has emerged, in the form of the quad-core i7-3820.
Review: Corsair Carbide Series 400R
PC case
Tuesday, 26 June, 2012 Corsair has made a habit of releasing awesome hardware. None of this awesome factor is lost even when they make an “affordable” product. Case in point: the Carbide 400R mid-tower chassis.
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