With the recent explosion of “All In One” CPU liquid coolers on the market and even during Computex 2013, its hard to distinguish between the performance that they offer especially when all most all of these units have one of two OEM’s i.e. either Asetek or CoolIT make up for the vast majority of these [...]

AMD sent Sapphire Dual-X OC card which uses their AMD HD 7790 GPU. The GPU is based on 28nm Bonaire processor with 1000MHz clock speed, 896 unified shaders and rated at 80w peak power consumption. HD 7790 has 40% more stream processors and texture units in comparison with 7770 GHz Edition, along with more memory [...]

AMD FX Vishera processors are going to be around for a while. For a matter of fact, they’re going to be introduced with 2 newer chipsets with bumped clock speed and higher-than-FX 8350 TDP of 220 W. AMD plans to stick with piledriver architecture throughout 2013, so AMD 990FX and 970 chipsets are going to [...]

Coolermaster had a test bench model back in 2009 (I think). It was called “CoolerMaster Lab Test Bench”. Despite the certain flaws (never got my hands on it back then) as highlighted by some reviewers such as not having a way to secure the PCIe cards, it was much cheaper than what most test bench [...]

IEMs or In ear monitors have become very popular these days. A few years ago very few IEMs existed, and these were priced generally very high. For the lower end market earbuds were the popular choice while IEMs were for the discerning few. US and European companies like Etymotic ears, Ultimate Ears, Shure and others [...]

RHA Audio is relatively unknown to the audio scene. They are a UK based company making inexpensive headphones and earphones. The earphone on review today is their flagship RHA MA450i IEM which at 40 pounds is quite low priced when you consider top tier IEMs sell at upwards of $500 these days. These earphones are [...]

Xigmatek is a company that’s usually known to make CPU coolers, PC Cases and fans, just like many companies out there, and also known to use orange coloured fans for their CPU Coolers. Apart from the orange coloured fan blades, they also love to use Black, just the like they have with their flagship Dark [...]

This is Creative’s ‘entry level’ sound card featuring its current flagship Audio Processing Unit. The mid tier ‘Professional ‘variant was reviewed here earlier. The main difference between the Professional variant and this card is that this card lacks the EMI shielding found in the higher end card and also the attachable boom microphone. However, the [...]

Introduction Creative launched the successor to their popular X-Fi series with the Recon 3D THX USB sound card. The Recon 3D THX is a USB powered sound card though there are PCI-E versions using the same quad core processor to handle all the sonic requirements. The heart of this sound card is a very fancy [...]

Asus’ DirectCU II graphic cards have made a good impression (however it should be noted that Asus is the only one who is sending the card without any condition as how one-or-two brands put forward in the past). Not only they use good fans and a well made heatsink with the direct heatpipe method, but [...]