Archive for May, 2008

Razer Lycosa

If you respect yourself as a gamer, you know that the best mouse out there is not enough to keep you on the cutting edge. You really need a feature-packed keyboard to go along with the blazing fast mouse. Razer is well known for its gaming products and, to go with their top of the [...]


BFG 9800 GTX ThermoIntelligence

This world is moving faster with each day, and when talking about computers, higher clock speeds require better cooling. One of these days, I was talking with a friend of mine about its next upgrade - he’s going to get an Intel E8400 CPU, and intends to push it somewhere past 4GHz, on water cooling. [...]


MSI N9600GT Diamond

Getting cheap GPUs or CPUs and overclocking them afterwards, thanks to their huge overclocking potential, has been a nice budget trick for some time now. Most of the overcloking world records have been achieved using mid-range products and some manufacturers even started to encourage this sort of performance improvement by introducing special mechanisms that simplify [...]


Gaming Rig

Alienware and Voodoo sure put together some of the best custom-made gaming rigs out there, but it looks like these two will have some new competitors. We know there are several smaller companies that specialize in custom-made PCs in the US, like Falcon Northwest, and a few days ago I told you that even Acer [...]


HD 4800 Features

Despite the fact ATI is still far from having a clear lead in the discrete graphics market (they don’t even hold the first position, anyway), they always managed to arrive first in some areas - first cards using GDDR4, then first cards with DirectX 10.1 hardware support, and now even the first cards with GDDR5 [...]