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With the major success SilverStone's Raven series has experienced in the past, the RV03 has a lot to live up to. A full-tower on its side, the Raven 03 orients your motherboard to exhaust heat out the top, and as a result, makes installation an interesting process. Let's take a look and see if...

Wacom's tablets have long been considered an indispensable tool for novice and professional artists alike, but can they also offer some use to those who couldn't draw a circle? Our resident photographer, Brett Thomas, takes a look at the Intuos4 "Medium", to see if it manages to surpass the...

Polish game developer CD Projekt RED this week released the long-awaited follow-up to The Witcher, called The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. There are a couple of interesting things about the game, but most of all, it happens to be a PC-only offering, and an RPG at that. On game consoles...

To help fill a model gap that no one told us about, NVIDIA has released its GeForce GTX 560, a slight step down from the Ti variant. Featuring a cut of 48 cores and the potential for wildly varying clock speeds, this card is a strange beast. But, we look to pit MSI's 'Twin Frozr II' against our...

The moment those who've been waiting for 'Welcome Back' details is over, as Sony has laid out its "customer appreciation" program across three of its regional blogs. In total, gamers in North and Latin America and also Europe will be gifted two PlayStation 3 games and/or (it's not too clear)...

In what's sure to be a major relief to devout PlayStation gamers everywhere, Sony has finally begun bringing up the bulk of its online PSN service, one piece at a time. There have been a couple of issues that have prevented the service from remaining up since the original restoration, but as it...

Remember when MTV was more about music and charts and less about teen pregnancies and glorified idiots? No? To be fair, those days ended long ago, but in its prime, MTV was a great source of discovering some hot music, and to see which tracks were burning up the charts. Today, though, there are...

With Nintendo scheduled to take the veil off its "Wii 2" in the weeks to come, speculation has begun to run rampant with regards to what kind of console it's going to be, or if it's going to be the last of its kind. For those who just love their traditional console experiences, there's no good...

It should be a secret to no one that there exist a lot of "snake oil" audio and video cables out there, in the sense that they are overpriced but do the same job as a modestly-priced alternative. Most often, even the companies themselves can't seem to produce definitive proof, and you'd be...

Interested in faster-than-mechanical performance but don't want to splurge on a big SSD? Intel has a tech for that, and it meets you half-way by utilizing a modestly sized SSD for caching purposes, used in conjunction with any HDD you want for total storage. Read on as we cover both the setup...

As one might expect, being that I deal with a lot of benchmarking and testing of new hardware, I tear down and build up PCs often - but rarely my own. It's only on occasion when I'll take a look at my own PC and realize that a change needs to be made. Sometimes it's performance-related, other...

Futuremark has launched the latest version of its popular PC benchmarking tool, PCMark, and as its "7" name suggests, it's designed exclusively for use with Windows 7. A couple of notable changes were made to both the test organization of the program, and also its pricing schemes. Join us as we...

With the launch of Intel's Z68 Express chipset came the expected influx of supported motherboards. Because Z68 is meant to be a higher-tier P67, however, there were not quite as many models available at launch that we expected, with GIGABYTE dominating the listings with at least eight...

Direct2Drive is having a small FPS sale, featuring six games: Bulletstorm - $30 Medal of Honor - $15 Crysis 2 - $42 Mass Effect 2 - $10 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - $10 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - $5...

In a launch that should come as surprise to no one, Intel has taken the veil off of its Z68 Express chipset. Though it might seem a bit odd to release a follow-up to P67 so soon (not even counting the two months that no boards were even available), Z68 is to become the higher-tier chipset; one...

OCZ has officially taken the lid off of the new Agility 3 and Solid 3 SSD model families. For those not familiar with either of those model names, they have traditionally been lower-cost alternatives to each of previous generations of the Vertex SSD family. Read the rest of our post and...

In a rather surprising deal this morning, Microsoft purchased Skype for a cool $8.5 billion, gaining 100% ownership of the VoIP provider. Going forward, Skype will become a new business unit from within Microsoft, and according to the company, it will become an integral piece of the puzzle for...

As I mentioned in a news post earlier, I experienced some notebook woes over the weekend and was forced to move the installed OS from my lowly HP dv2 netbook, over to a Gateway UC7807u that had been shoved in a closet over a year ago - due to it being "dead". I am not sure if I have a curse or...

Have you ever attempted to move an OS install from one PC to another? I am sure many of you have, and for those who are all too familiar with the process, you're likely aware of the headaches that can ensue. Different PCs means different hardware, and where any OS is concerned, the chance of a...

A couple of months ago, we took Lamptron's FC Touch fan controller for a spin, and were left extremely impressed with its ease-of-use and aesthetics. But what about those who don't care for touch capabilities, and are fine with knobs? Enter the FC8, a clean-looking and high-performing option...