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Asus RT-N66U Dark Knight 802.11n Wireless Router Review Featured
Posted on Monday, 21 October 2013
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Home networking gear has been making some leaps in speed and sophistication since its introduction. These leaps have made wireless in the home more usable and configurable. Much of the work on this side of the product (making things easier…
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CMStorm Pulse-R Gaming Headset Review Featured
Posted on Saturday, 21 September 2013
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Enthusiast Audio
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Personal computing has had its ups and downs of the last 10 years and these have not always been because of consumer reaction. In many cases the manufacturers have failed to meet the expectations of the people they are selling…
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Synology DS1513+ Review Part II - Performance Featured
Posted on Sunday, 15 September 2013
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Now that we have shown you the tear down of the Synology DS1513+ we have to show you if all of the hard work and attention to detail pay off in the form of performance and ease of use. There…
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TRENDNet TEW-805UB 802.11ac USB 3.0 Adapter Review Featured
Posted on Sunday, 08 September 2013
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Since its introduction there has been something of an internal battle with wireless. On the one hand it is very convenient; you just connect to an access point and you have freedom as long as you are inside the network…
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Thermaltake GOrb II Notebook Cooler Review Featured
Posted on Monday, 26 August 2013
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As we demand more and more from our mobile devices manufacturers are forced to try and stuff higher power CPU and GPUs inside ever-shrinking laptop and tablet shells. This leaves them in tricky position; they have to either put in…
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Fourth Generation Core i7 Review, Meet the Intel Core i7 4770k Featured
Posted on Sunday, 16 June 2013
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Enthusiast CPUs
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Editor’s Note – We delayed our release of the Haswell review due to some performance issues we saw with some of our tests. We reached out to Intel and all of the companies that provide our testing software to ensure…
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TRENDNet TEW-812DRU 802.11ac Wireles Dual Band Router Review Featured
Posted on Monday, 27 May 2013
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
When wireless networking was first introduced it was a very cool concept and people bought into it. The problem was that it was also about as slow as dial-up internet was. The good news is that all technologies advance and…
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NETGEAR 802.11ac A6200 USB WiFi Adapter Runs Through The Lab Featured
Posted on Saturday, 18 May 2013
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
802.11ac wireless was introduced at CES 2012. Unfortunately when the devices were launched there were no adapters to support it. This meant that people were buying expensive wireless products without having any way to support the speeds they were capable…
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Kingston's HyperX Predator 512GB USB 3.0 Drive Review Featured
Posted on Sunday, 12 May 2013
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Mobile devices are great. All of us use them in the form of phones, MP3/4 players, tablets laptops etc. The problem with a large majority of them is that they never seem to have enough storage to do everything you…
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The Thermaltake Level 10 M Gaming Mouse Hits Our Lab With Force... Featured
Posted on Sunday, 02 December 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
In a market full of look-a-like products or flimsy gimmicks it is hard to find a truly interesting device. However, every now and then someone puts something together that is really out of the ordinary. This is what we found…
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CMStorm QuickFire TK Review, Or How to Combine Two Products To Make One Great One Featured
Posted on Sunday, 18 November 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
When Cooler Master Launched their new QuickFire Line of gaming keyboards with Mechanical switched they were very well received. We have had the chance to test out all of the models even though we have not always been able to…
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Cooler Master Seidon 120M All-in-One Water Cooler Review Featured
Posted on Sunday, 04 November 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Although all-in-one water cooling systems are nothing new, their rise in popularity is something very recent. We have watched as multiple companies have launched products designed bring “enthusiast” level cooling to the masses. This type of move is also nothing…
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Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 Design And Feature Review Featured
Posted on Sunday, 19 August 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Two years ago Gigabyte announced their G1.Kille series of motherboards with an interesting event featuring camouflage and tons of military imagery. The concept behind it was that the G1.Killer was meant to be a series of “super-soldiers” for gaming. Each…
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NETGEAR's ReadyNAS Pro 6 Looks Like A PC Inside a NAS' Body... Featured
Posted on Monday, 13 August 2012
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
We have our third victim… um test subject in our continuing Network Attached Storage (NAS) device reviews. This time it is from a company with a fair recognizable name in the industry, NETGEAR. For many the name NETGEAR means low…
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Cooler Master's CMStorm Stryker Enclosure Drops By the Lab And Decides To Stick Around Featured
Posted on Sunday, 12 August 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
In the world of computer enclosures things can get boring pretty fast; after all how much can you do with a box? For too many companies the way to differentiate their products is to put in a window and extra…
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Thermaltake's Tt eSPORTS Challenger Pro Stops By For Some Gaming Time Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 07 August 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Gaming keyboards have become popular over the past couple of years with multiple manufacturers working to outdo the other with their features and of course performance. The market has become big enough that we have even seen the return of…
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Thermaltake's Water 2.0 Performer Self-Contained Cooling System Stops By The Lab Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 01 August 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Water cooling for high-performance cooling has been around for a very long time. It started (as many things do) with super computers and the need to maintain a specific temperature envelope. From there advanced cooling broke into the consumer market…
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We Check Out the Asus Republic of Gamers Rampge IV Formula For Its Design, Features and Component Choices Featured
Posted on Sunday, 29 July 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
In the enthusiast world you can never seem to have enough power or enough headroom for your system. Although you might hear rumors of the “post PC” era or that the desktop is dead nothing could be further from the…
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Cooler Master's CMStorm Sonuz Make A Lot Of Noise For A Little Cash Featured
Posted on Monday, 09 July 2012
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Enthusiast Audio
Written by
Sean Kalinich
A rather long time ago (in computer years) when real audio first came out on the computer the market was pretty bare for not only sound cards, but also for anything to use to listen to them. I can vividly…
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Asus ROG Rampage IV Gene Performance Review Featured
Posted on Thursday, 05 July 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As we round out our coverage of the Asus Republic of Gamers Rampage IV Gene we are taking a look at both the synthetic and real-world performance of this board. As we have mentioned before the Gene is the gateway…
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Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Performance Review Featured
Posted on Sunday, 10 June 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
In our continuing coverage of the Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H WB we are moving into the performance side of things. Here is where it becomes difficult to differentiate between companies. The problem is that if you are testing Z77 Express based motherboards…
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Asus ROG Rampage IV Gene Design and Feature Review Featured
Posted on Friday, 25 May 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
With all of the news about the Z77 Express motherboards and Ivy Bridge we thought we would step back and take a look at our old friend the X79 and the Sandy Bridge-E CPU. This platform still represents the top…
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Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H WB Wifi Design and Feature Review Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 23 May 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Moving through some of the more prominent Z77 motherboards that are out right now we come to another one from Gigabyte. Here we have the Z77X-UD5H WiFi Motherboard (Model number GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB). The UD5H is typically their second in line for…
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Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe Performance Review Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 22 May 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
After what seemed like a long time we are finally getting into the full performance section of our review. The Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe is a board that really has quite a bit going on which makes properly covering everything something…
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Thermaltake Tt eSports Saphira Gaming Mouse Review Featured
Posted on Friday, 11 May 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As we expand our coverage from core computer products to peripherals (and in the end everything else) we are moving into gaming first. We have already tested out more than a few mechanical gaming keyboards (and have more to come).…
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