If you remember a little while back in June of this year, Blackberry put the gears to Typo as they settled their dispute of IP infringement. Essentially, this prevents Typo from making any more smartphone keyboards. While the full terms of the settlement were not released, we do know that Typo must “permanently discontinue selling anywhere in the world keyboards for …
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A Beginners Guide To LN2 Benchmarking – Subzero Series
If you are reading this, then maybe you are ready to make the jump into subzero benchmarking or just interested in a simple how to. Subzero benchmarking is where you use LN2 (Liquid Nitrogen), DICE (Dry Ice), Phase change units or even, for those daring enough, LHE (Liquid Helium). The main focus of this guide is to show you what …
Read More »Thermaltake Luxa2 S100 & R200 Review – Welcoming Wireless Charging!
Today we get another innovative product from Thermaltake’s mobile division – Luxa2 – the S100 Wireless Charging Pad and Receiver Kit as well as the R200 Dual Receiver. The S100 is an interesting product and from what we can see is a stepping stone to further wireless charging capabilities. The S100 comes in a small black box with some blue trim …
Read More »AMD vs Intel – Our 8-Core CPU Gaming Performance Showdown!
As a gamer and hardware enthusiast that spends a lot of time in various PC gaming communities, one of the longest on-going debates has been the best choice for CPU when it comes to gaming; Intel or AMD. While there are users on both sides claiming their favorite brand is the best, we’ve noticed quite a bit more on the …
Read More »Sapphire R9 380 Nitro 4GB Graphics Card Review
Sapphire has long been known as one of AMD’s best GPU partners, making some very incredible cards in the past like the Toxic 290X, which was one of the best cards available. Today we have Sapphire’s R9 380 Nitro 4GB card, a value oriented card using a value oriented GPU, seems like a nice match lets see how well it …
Read More »G.Skill Releases the New Trident Z and Ripjaws V DDR4 – Breaks the 4000MHz Barrier
G.Skill are proud to announce the new Trident Z and Ripjaws V DDR4 RAM with the Trident Z breaking the 4000MHz barrier. We have seen the new Trident Z DDR4 that was upcoming in this news article of ours Here. Following a press release from G.Skill we can finally see the specifications. These new series will be arriving just in …
Read More »Intel G3258 Overclocking Comparison – Ambient Vs Liquid Nitrogen
Today we will look at overclocking on the Gigabyte Z97X SOC Force with the 20th Anniversary Pentium G3258 CPU and compare AIO cooling to LN2 (Liquid Nitrogen) cooling. This article will focus on overclocking with the Gigabyte Z97X SOC Force and guide you to get the best performance out of your Pentium G3258, which can also be applied to any …
Read More »In Win 703 Mid Tower Chassis Review
In Win’s 703 Mid Tower Chassis is today’s topic of discussion. Coming in on Amazon at $74.09, this case is a steal for under $100. This mid tower case is like a dapper suit for your components. It’s strong bold colours resonate the beauty and strength of this case. It comes in two colour patterns, a predominately black with red and …
Read More »Intel’s Tick-Tock Production Cycle Slows Down
Most PC enthusiasts have heard about Intel’s Tick-Tock production cycle. Simply put, each Tock introduces a new micro-architecture while the Tick then miniaturizes to a small fabrication process. This meant the new CPU series was introduced once a year where one year a Tock is introduced and the following a Tick is then introduced in which the process repeats itself. …
Read More »AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Driver adds Crossfire Support Between R9 200 & R9 300 Series Cards
Since AMD has released new Catalyst 15.7 WHQL driver, they have made it possible to CrossFire their previous R9 200 series cards with the new R9 300 series cards with one based on a similar-spec GPU from the R9 200 series. This is made possible by unifying the driver to allow CrossFire between an R9 290 or 290X with an …
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