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An Affordable Titan – NVIDIA’s GEFORCE GTX 780 Reviewed

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When Titan first launched, many of my enthusiasts colleagues spent the day reading reviews and wiping the drool off their keyboards. The gamers saw the Titan as perhaps a card to end all cards, or at least an upgrade to last for years. The Folding and Photoshop crew understood that Titan had the Shaders and cores to process some serious …

Fractal Design Node 304 Mini-ITX PC Case Review

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There are several major factors you must consider when selecting a new case for your current system, or selecting a new case for a new build. Although Futurelooks isn’t in the business of recommending specific PC chassis’ to people, we are in the business of showing people what to look so they can see what they want or need. For …

Fractal Design’s Adjust 108 Fan Controller Review

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There are a number of good reasons to build your own personal computer. The one reason left out of this discussion more than anything is the “control” aspect. Everyone wants to have as much control over how their electronics work as much as possible. Fan controller software is cool, no pun intended, but there is nothing like a physical interface. The …

Cooler Master HAF XB High Performance LAN Enclosure Review

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Some of the most convenient computer enclosures I’ve used for LAN parties and shows in the past have had an integrated handle on top. While handles make it very simple to transport a system, they were still very much your typical vertical tower style enclosures. Some were mid-tower and others were nearly full tower meaning you’re still hauling around a …

The Futurelooks AMD A85 Series FM2 Motherboard Round Up Featuring ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI

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AMD brought their newest Piledriver architecture to their APU chips first with the release of Trinity. We have already looked at the Trinity chips themselves, so lets take a better look at the motherboards designed to support them. Today, our AMD A10-5800K  APU will be paired with three great FM2 socket motherboards with three leading manufacturers and we’ve selected the MSi …

Rosewill Tachyon 1000 Watt 80PLUS Platinum ATX Modular Power Supply Review

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Power supply manufacturers are really focusing on 80Plus efficiency standards versus max wattage. And, it seems that many of them are paying closer attention to what we the consumers want. For example, we recently tested one of Rosewill’s strategically focused 750 watt Fortress Platinum power supplies and found that the OEM, ATNG, manufactures decently efficient units for them. While the …

Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme 240mm Liquid Cooling System Review

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Today ‘s most elite PC systems feature elaborate custom cooling systems to manage CPU, GPU and occasionally even chipset temperatures. While the process has come a long way in the last 10 years, it still takes a bit of home work to choose the right parts and patience in assembling them a system properly. Fortunately, all in one liquid cooling …