As with everything these days, gaining something means that somewhere, somehow, something is lost. It is no different in technology where the constant search for perfection means that something is inevitably forgotten or left out. Take SD cards in your Apple products for example, or even in typical PC ultrabooks as well as there seemed to be a period that …
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Affiliate Reviews for December 2, 2017
Christmas season is now officially underway! So today is the perfect time to pull together some affiliate reviews we feel contain some great Christmas ideas to help you along. But first, I want to share my funny story from Ellen yesterday. As you all know, we are fortunate enough to review HyperX products, but can not (I promise you) take …
Read More »Kingston Announces HyperX Cloud Stinger Gaming Headset – Best Gaming Headset Under $50!
Kingston’s HyperX division is announcing release of the HyperX Cloud Stinger™ gaming headset, which they are promoting as being the best gaming headset available for under $50. The HyperX Cloud Stinger headset makes even casual gamers feel like a gaming pro, with HyperX signature memory foam and directional drivers (50mm) that provide a high quality sound experience as well as …
Read More »Supercharging Our Test Bench Thanks to Thermaltake & Kingston!
Not too long ago, we collaborated with many partners to put together our most recent and most epic test bench to date. Well just as quickly as trends change in this industry, so do our systems, mainly to address specific components and hardware to address our testing needs. Becoming more and more popular is the demand for power consumption. Thanks …
Read More »Kingston Showcases New Headsets & Virtual Reality! – CES 2016 Update
Xbox and HTC, Kingston’s two new technological brethren. When we heard this we were very excited and couldn’t wait to explore what they were brewing up. Xbox has joined up to launch Kingstons CloudX headset, the new generation of Cloud headsets you’ve seen. Launching sometime around the start of Q2, and should come in somewhere around $120 USD.This is great …
Read More »Kingston DataTraveler 4000 G2 (64GB) Review
Today we will look at the Kingston DataTraveler 4000 G2 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive. To see if this flash drive can deliver what it promises we will put it through some rigorous testing. The flash drive comes with built in FIPS 140-2 level-3 validated hardware. The 256 Bit AES encryption and anti-theft measures, which include, after ten attempts of …
Read More »ADATA XPG Z1 DDR4-2400 Memory Review
ADATA is no stranger to the DRAM market, they’ve been making high quality memory kits for both the consumer and enterprise markets for years, as well as consumer flash storage such as flash drives, SSDs and memory cards. Today we’ll be reviewing the latest in their XPG gaming and enthusiast series: the ADATA XPG Z1 DDR4-2400 quad channel memory kit; which …
Read More »Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-2666 Memory Review – Stylish Design and Exceptional Performance
In our review of the Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4-2400 memory kit, we found it to be a top value for DDR4 memory, while still delivering excellent performance, and even some overclock-ability. It remains one of our favorite DDR4 memory kits, in fact we still use it as our base memory kit for our X99 test system. So naturally when Crucial asked if …
Read More »Build a 1440p Gaming PC Under $900 – Our Build of the Week
Last week we brought you a gaming build for under $900, featuring Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 960, which is a card best suited for playing games at resolutions up to 1080p. This week, we decided to one up ourselves, and bring you a gaming build capable of playing games at 1440p for under $900 USD. Please note as prices are listed …
Read More »G.Skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4-2666 Memory Review – Exceptional Overclocking Performance
G.Skill has created quite a reputation for itself over the years among gamers, overclockers and enthusiasts alike, for creating exceptional memory kits, which are highly capable of overclocking for very competitive prices. So, it is no surprise that their latest in their flagship Ripjaws line, the Ripjaws 4 has been used to set the world record for DDR4 overclocking at an …
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