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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...

Oh, I see. If I can manage the time soon this is something I could test, for interest's sake.

Are all white LEDs off-white? Is there such thing as a white LED that's pure white, even if it's expensive? I'm not sure what kind of bulbs I am using at the moment, but they are energy-efficient (spiraled), and are equivalent to 100W bulbs but draw something like 23W. I've considered LED before...

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...

I'll have to take a look later, but I don't quite see where one fits. Once a PSU is installed, it's cables are going to dominate that area. Or by "floor", do you mean the section that separates the main portion of the chassis with the PSU area? I just can't picture one where you mention there's...

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...

Yes, I did end up getting an 800D, and I've been loving it :D I'll make a brief news post about it tomorrow to talk about my experiences of building with it (also upgraded to an H60 CPU cooler). Trust me, the 800D is also rather easy to deal with install-wise. The only way it could be easier is...

GIGABYTE noticed this news post and shot me off a couple of e-mails to ask me more about it, so I guess we'll see soon enough the company's stance on things. I was told before that its boards cannot use QuickSync+Virtu without video ports, and I still believe that to be true (GIGABYTE hasn't...

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...

If Microsoft begins charging for people to make Skype-to-Skype calls, I'll stop using it for that and just continue using it as usual to call phones. Are there good alternatives for Skype?

I just don't get these companies (in this case, Neversoft and/or Activision). These games would run quite well on a PSP, and of course on the PS3. GIVE THEM TO US! Sure, I own two copies of the original, three of the second and third (different consoles), but still. I WANT MORE THPS!

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...

Same here. I didn't use the PS3 much at all before (the same goes for the Xbox though), but I did enjoy reading the new store releases each Tuesday. I loved seeing if just possibly, some classic PSone game I've been wanting to revisit would be released, since it's super-convenient to purchase...

Agreed! That price is almost ridiculous. I wonder what the story is behind this, because it's a little unusual to see a good game discounted so fast.

I'd have to agree, Optix. It's kind of sad that it's come to this. I liked the PS3 quite a bit, but it's gone quite a bit downhill. This latest incident is just the worst of it all. By the time PSN is fully restored, it would have been down for well over a month. Ugh. As a side note, I wonder...

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...