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June 30, 2011
ECS’s HDC-I2: The Cheapest E-350 Mini-ITX Motherboard Money Can Buy
Are you trying to build low power PC that has the ability to playback full 1080p HD content on the cheap? If so then the HDC-I2 from ECS may just be what you are looking for.
June 15, 2011
APEX’s MI-008: Mini-ITX Case Goodness
Have you been looking for a relatively inexpensive mini-ITX case that uses standard PC components such as 5.25” and 3.5” drives? Then Apex may just have what you are looking for.
June 2, 2011
ASUS’s E35M1-M Pro: A Near Perfect Low Power HTPC Motherboard
With the introduction of the Zacate platform AMD has created a great all in one solution for HTPC builders that has the potential to be the Holy Grail of HTPC motherboards.
March 27, 2011
GIGABYTE's GA-E350N-USB3: A Good Low Power HD Solution
Intel’s Atom chip has dominated in the low power computing market segment since its introduction having only VIA’s Nano and C7 series of chips to compete with. Now AMD has entered the fray with its first wave of fusion chips.
March 22, 2011
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Debacle: Windows XP Users Get Left out in the Cold
Ever since Firefox and Chrome started chipping away at Internet Explorer’s market share Microsoft has had a good enough attitude with its Internet Explorer browser.
March 5, 2011
Gigabyte's GeForce GTX 560 Ti: Overclocked and Ready to Rock
When TSMC canceled its 32nm node in 2009 it forced both NVIDIA and AMD to rethink their strategies for their second round of DX11 supporting GPU's.
February 10, 2011
ASRock's PV530: For a Very Select Market
ASRock has long been a manufacturer known for their innovative designs and their ability to design boards with older chips that fit newer CPU sockets to help the chip designers out when they have a surplus of older chips lying around.
June 15, 2010
PowerColor's Radeon HD 5670: DirectX 11 Goodness Under $100
ATI's latest surge in the PC gaming market has not been built on having the absolute fastest video cards available but giving the customer a video card that has good performance at decent price points. This has helped the value conscious PC gamers out there to see their games play with higher resolutions and quality settings.
May 26, 2010
197.45 SLI Performance: Crank Up the Heat
The Hillbilly Hardware on the dot com is does a lot of looking into multi-GPU performance and more often than not it is CrossFire that is under the microscope.
May 14, 2010
Catalyst 10.4 CrossFire: It Keeps Getting Better
It is that time again when we check and see what if any CrossFire performance enhancements you can expect to see from the latest release of ATI's Catalyst drivers.
May 7, 2010
ECS’s Black Series A890GXM-AU: A Good way to Experience AMD's 890GX
ECS is not the first manufacturer that comes to mind when it comes to premium motherboards designed gaming in mind, but they are trying to lose their budget board only status.
April 21, 2010
Thermalright's VRM-R5 VRM Cooler: Serious VRM Cooling
As video cards become increasingly more complex the good old days of throwing on a GPU cooler and some memory heatsinks to achieve great cooling results are fast going the way of the dodo.
