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The sub-$100 chassis market is filled to the brim with selection, with the $70 price-point in particular being a total hotspot. AZZA, a relative new-comer to the chassis game, has a wide-variety of models available, with its $70 Toledo 301 being the most recent. Let's dive right in, and see if...

It appears that Sony's PlayStation Network, the service required for all online play (and the PSN store), has been down for the past couple of days, and sadly has no resolution in sight. Sony has stated that it is investigating the issue, and was up front with the prolonged downtime, by...

When Logitech released its Revolution MX nearly five years ago, it delivered a mouse that impressed - and for good reason. It featured a great design that was both comfortable and attractive, and had a very effective hyper scroll wheel. With the Performance MX, a natural progression has been...

In March, Microsoft launched a campaign that would see the end of Internet Explorer 6 usage, and as we can now see, the company has added yet another aging software product to its list: Windows XP. To help countdown the official end-of-support date for XP, or encourage its desmise, Microsoft...

For those who have been holding out for a WHQL (stable) release of NVIDIA's GeForce 270 driver, the wait is over. The company earlier this week released version 270.61, which features a couple of new features and many performance enhancements. We covered a of this in an article at the end of...

After the major success that the original Portal experienced, Valve was no doubt under intense pressure to deliver a sequel that could live up to the hype it's been receiving, if not surpass it. Fortunately, for those who've been patiently awaiting its release, Portal 2 delivers on almost...

The launch of Apple's iPhone 5 looks to be a little bit different than previous iterations, for one simple reason: it'll be launched in the fall. At least, if current rumors are proven true. It does seem a bit unusual for Apple to push the launch months ahead of the summer, where it's usually...

It's been a good two-and-a-half years since we've taken a look at a Zalman chassis, so with the announcement of the ~$69 Z9 Plus, we were eager to get one in and see how it compared to the current fleet of sub-$100 offerings on the market. With that, let's see what the Z9 Plus gives us aside...

After Western Digital acquired Hitachi's storage division last month, many were speculating that Seagate would begin shopping around for its own company to acquire, and it has. Today, both Seagate and Samsung have announced a partnership that sees the former opening up its wallet, but both...

After weeks of being teased with various trailers, Portal 2 was finally released late last night - but to mixed reaction. Around the Web, every review I've seen has awarded the game very handsomely, with a couple of perfect scores, and the lowest being 9.3/10. For PC games, seeing scores this...

Rounding out its Radeon HD 6000 series, AMD this month launched three sub-$100 graphics cards; the $55 HD 6450; the $79 HD 6570 and the $99 HD 6670. Despite being low-end options, all three support Eyefinity and are of course, extremely power efficient. Let's see if they also have the gaming...

Finding a good gaming mouse isn't hard, but finding one that's wireless is. Even high-end options suffer from a major flaw: poor battery life. GIGABYTE realizes this and made sure no one could say that about its Aivia M8600, which in our tests lasted an entire week in 'gaming' mode. Let's...

Have a desire to add a bit of 'bling' to your PC, but fear being ridiculed for it? Well, there's no better excuse for bling than with Corsair's AirFlow Pro add-on for the company's AirFlow 2 memory cooler. In addition to offering a hypnotizing light-show, the AirFlow Pro can also keep you...

EVGA seems to be offering some great deals at its site at the moment, though I'm not sure how long they'll last. GTX 580 for $430 and GTX480 for $300 catch my eye: http://www.evga.com/products/prodlist.asp?switch=20

It may seem odd that we're taking a look at an HD 5850 card in 2011, but Sapphire just released an "Extreme" edition that's well worth the look. In addition to great pricing, the card features an improved VRM design, a more efficient cooler, and a shorter PCB. But, in the end, it's the $150...

It's not often that I notice an advertisement on our own website of a product I've never seen or heard of before, but in the case of ASUS' Rampage III Black Edition motherboard, I admit, I was caught off-guard. Why is there this great-looking motherboard being shown off, I thought, and we...

Finding a gaming headset that offered 5.1 audio used to be a total rarity, but today, they're commonplace. While some 5.1 headsets out there don't do the best of jobs with delivering the aural experience we'd hope for, some do, if the driver alignment and software is spot-on. Read on to see...

I'd like to think that I'm the kind of person who doesn't hold a grudge, but after bouts of unsuccessful overclocking runs with Intel motherboards in the past, I just about gave up. Until I decided to investigate further to see where things stood today. Have my opinions changed after...

We've talked a bit about MMO gold-farming in the past, taking a look at the practice from multiple points-of-view, but a recent article at BCC raises a couple of interesting points I didn't consider before. Such as the fact that gold-farming could provide aid to poorer nations taking part in the...

To many, Steve Jobs is the image of pure genius, but while Apple's long-standing CEO is in the limelight all the time, he's actually rather seclusive in nature, leaving most of his personal life and thoughts to speculation. Given this, Jobs' first authorized biography, titled "iSteve: The...