Shopping for the latest motherboard can be a confusing process especially to new users. With a lot of great looking boards, it’s not hard to base ones final decision on looks and a little on price, rather…
It is always a good idea for a company to grow into other markets as it expands. As they say “It’s simple: Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It’s slow death.” I will not argue the validity of this…
This past Mother’s Day weekend (May 12 – 13th, 2012), in the heart of Richmond, BC Canada, NCIX had their first annual Tech Fair. Canada’s largest destination for PC enthusiasts welcomed over 30 different companies from every…
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been neck deep in heavy Intel Z77 motherboard testing. I’ve been scrutinizing every last feature, and weighing each board’s performance potential. One of the Intel Z77 platform features I’ve been testing is
The question I always find myself asking is when it comes to my next graphics card purchase, what is more important? Is it processing core count or clock speed? The answer is often not clear with so…
A few months ago, we awarded the Kingston HyperX series SSDs an Editors’ Choice Award for very sound reasons: great performance, excellent firmware, and a great upgrade bundle. All of this helps ensure that you benefit from…
Coolermaster has been busy pleasing gamers this past year with a plethora of products. This included the new Sirus True 5.1 Gaming Headset, QuickFire QuickFire Rapid Mechanical Keyboard, Storm Trigger Mechanical keyboards and more. Now they’ve put…
It’s for another processor launch from Intel. The new Ivy Bridge is a 22nm architecture based on the same LGA1155 socket as Sandy Bridge. It’s basically a shrunken die from Sandy Bridge (32nm) supporting many of the…
What is Z77 and what does it do? It’s Intel’s latest motherboard chipset (codenamed Panther Point) that supports Intel’s 2nd Generation Sandy Bridge processors, but was actually designed for their new Ivy Bridge LGA1155 3rd Generation parts,…
