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This past summer, our cooling resident Bill took a look at NZXT's latest fan controller release, the tabletop Sentry LXE. The massive benefit of this controller wasn't so much the fact that it was an external unit, but that it had a touchscreen for a more interactive experience. In the end, Bill...

Launches of fresh GPU line-ups aren't uncommon, and most often, both AMD and NVIDIA deliver such a thing at least once very year to a year-and-a-half. But the upcoming launch from AMD holds a ton of promise, and might well be one of the most impressive GPU launches we've ever witnessed. Well, as...

Alright, I have NO sweet clue how on earth someone could figure this out, but they did, and it's actually pretty awesome. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/09/bill-gates-staring-back-at-you-from-outlook-2010.ars

Over the course of the past week, Sony has amped up its stance against "hackers" by trying even harder to prevent its console from being circumvented. You might recall that a mod kit was released about a month ago to allow the playback of "backed up" game copies, and clearly, Sony wasn't too...

When ASUS released its first Xonar audio card model in late 2007, it took the PC enthusiast community by storm. No one had expected the company to deliver a truly outstanding product, but it did, and it didn't only impress us, but audiophiles all over. Since that first launch, ASUS has...

In the span of a single week, game delivery service GOG.com went from being shut down due to various reasons to being relaunched with a slew of new features enabled. Of course, the shutting down part was nothing more than a hoax, and a very poorly executed one if you ask me. Despite that...

It's probably clear by now that USB 3.0 is one of the best things to happen to external storage, but when it comes to choosing between the available docks and enclosures, it's tough. One of the best options might be Thermaltake's latest entry to its highly-successful BlacX line, the 5G. It...

The time has arrived. The best overclockers in the entire world are all soon to get together under the same roof to duke it out and declare one Gigabyte's Overclocking Champion. As always, the champsionship is taking place in Taipei, Taiwan, but unlike the usual Taipei 101 location, the...

Over the course of the past couple of years, there's been a growing trend that's both frustrating and expensive to consumers. It also shows no sign of slowing down, and ironically, many of us contribute to it. As the title of this editorial suggests, this trend amounts to what I like to call...

In a move that's going to surprise, well, almost no one, NVIDIA has announced that it's porting its CUDA programming architecture to x86, which might help blow the doors open for broader adoption. As far as the GPGPU scheme of thing goes, NVIDIA is in a good place, because it's been at the...

A couple of months ago, we linked to an article which stated that SSDs might never replace mechanical storage, at least in the sense that we'd no longer have the need for it again. Today, even if you do have an SSD, chances are good you have a mechanical drive installed as well for actual...

At this point in time, my Nikon D80 which I bought when it first came out is looking a bit aged, and compared to the latest releases from Nikon and others, it might even seem ancient. In one regard, there's the simple 10 megapixel sensor, which pales in comparison to the 12MP and higher sensors...

We reported yesterday that the game delivery service "Good Old Games" was shutting down, but as heavily speculated, it turns out that the entire thing was a hoax. GOG.com is here to stay, and during an online conference held earlier today, the company announced that the service will be...

Are you a Michael Jackson fan? Have you ever listened to "Billie Jean" and wish you were her - or better yet, watched the "Thriller" music video and have been dying to explore that environment ever since? Well, it looks like you're not going to have to dream about such things for much longer, as...

After we published our review of Corsair's H70 CPU cooler a couple of weeks ago, we couldn't shake the nagging feeling that some additional testing needed to be done with different airflow configurations. We succumbed, and have the results here. Will using a config opposite to Corsair's...

This past spring, we posted a couple of in-depth looks at AMD's Eyefinity technology, with both 3x1 and 3x2 monitor configurations, and throughout posting those, a common "complaint" I heard from people is that such setups are just not that realistic at the end of the day. But, I'm not so sure...

With our media collections growing larger by the day, it's sad to look at a 2TB hard drive and picture it as not being "large enough" for our goods. To help remedy things a bit, Seagate recently released a 3TB external drive, and it today remains the only 3TB single drive offering. Let's take a...

During last night's football game (GO COLTS!), I kept seeing a commercial from some cable provider that offered a service where TV could be streamed to your mobile device, like a phone or iPad. The example in the commercial showed people sitting in a diner watching a football game on their...

I am just curious here. I like to OC, but personally, my main PC isn't overclocked at all. The reason is just because the CPU is pre-release and doesn't overclock worth a damn. If I did have a decent CPU, I'm sure I'd OC the heck out of it, especially since I've been doing a lot of video...

It's not often that an upcoming Internet Explorer release is called "potentially ground-breaking" or even "important", but where IE 9 is concerned, that's just the case. It's no secret that Internet Explorer has commonly been loathed by Web designers and users alike, and it seems like Microsoft...