Today we will have a look at the Gigabyte X99-SLI motherboard and its features, as well as putting it through some benchmarks to see how the board performs. At first glance we were expecting this board to perform nicely on air and water, which as you will see for a budget board it performs quite well even overclocked. Gigabyte is well …

Today we will have a first look at the most anticipated graphics card this year, the MSI GTX 980Ti Lightning. There has been a lot of speculation about how this card will perform to what memory it has. We can tell you now that the card looks spectacular with great performance straight out of the box. Retail samples are shipped …

Phanteks today announces the new Special Edition Enthoo Evolv ITX which brings two new colors to the Enthoo Evolv ITX Series. The two color options are PH-ES215P_WT (White with Black Interior) and PH-ES215P_SRD (Black with Red interior). Phanteks are well known for thier air cooling solutions as well as cases and now bring you two new cases to thier Enthoo Evolv …

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 …

Nvidia has announced two new Quadro cards to thier workstation card line up based on the Maxwell graphics core. The Quadro M5000 and Quadro M4000 both share the Maxwell 2 GM204 based architecture but with some minor differences. The Nvidia Quadro M5000 features 2048 cuda cores, 128 TMUs and 64 ROPs with a core speed of 1050MHz. The card also comes …

Now that Skylake has been released, here are some pictures of the retail boxes which are surprisingly colorful. They seem to be a throwback to the pre-Pentium 4 era. These are shots of the packaging for the Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K. The I7-6700K has been seen on Amazon for $397.99 whilst the I5-6600K is at $274.99. Intel Core I7-6700K  Now we …

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 …

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 …

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. …

G.Skill memory has a great reputation, especially with PC enthusiasts, gamers,  overclockers and extreme overclockers. They have made DIMM’s using various IC’s from PSC on their DDR3 Pi series, Hynix IC’s on the Ripjaws line and with Samsung on their DDR3 TridentX line up.  Today, we have  G.Skill Ripjaws4 DDR4 3000CL15 16GB kit on the Bench with the product code …