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The CMStorm Trigger Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Gets the Once Over; Twice Featured
Posted on Monday, 07 May 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
There was a time when the only type of keyboard you could buy was one with mechanical switches. This was pretty much it for the old AT days of computing. This style of keyboard later extended into the first ATX…
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The House of Marley Stir it Up Headset Brings Full and Vibrant Audio to the Lab Featured
Posted on Monday, 30 April 2012
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Enthusiast Audio
Written by
Sean Kalinich
We have had a couple of products from the House of Marley in the lab and in the whole have found them to be excellent offerings for the price that they go for. The Reggae themed headsets combine renewable materials…
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Thermaltake Tt eSports MEKA G1 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review Featured
Posted on Saturday, 28 April 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
In order to combat the growing popularity of console gaming (and also to support a growing population of gamers) many peripheral companies began to invest money into making real devices to support gaming on the PC. We have seen many…
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Ausu P8Z77-V Deluxe Design and Feature Review Featured
Posted on Friday, 27 April 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Now that we have taken a look at most of the rest of the P8Z77 line up we are going to check out what was originally the flagship for the mid-range line the P8Z77-V Deluxe. Earlier today Asus announced and…
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We Take Ivy Bridge for a Spin Running Windows 8 on the Asus Maixmus V Gene Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 24 April 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
You knew we were going to do this eventually (after all we told you we would) so here we go with a complete review (performance numbers) of the Asus Maixmus V Gene with our Core i7 3770K running the same…
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Cooler Master's HAF XM Makes its Debut in Our Lab Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 24 April 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Cooler Master is celebrating 20 years of life (we got to celebrate with them at CES 2012), but it has only been in the last five or so that we have really watched them take off. With the launch of…
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Asus Maximus V Gene Performance Review With Ivy Bridge Featured
Posted on Monday, 23 April 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
After seeing what new features Asus is bringing to the table with the Maximus V Gene (and there are a ton of them) we now get to dive into the performance side of things and see what we have. As…
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Patriot Memory's PyroSE 120GB SSD Takes a Turn In Our Lab Featured
Posted on Friday, 20 April 2012
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Solid State drives are what the enthusiast market wants for storage. This has been the case since the first SSDs hit the market a few years ago. However, the drives were too expensive for most and ended up being available…
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Kingston's HyperX 3K 240GB SSD Upgrade Kit Brings Capacity and Performance Featured
Posted on Friday, 20 April 2012
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
After our first run through with the Kingston HyperX SH100S3B 120GB SSD we had more than a few comments stating that 120GB was just not enough to work with. Although your typical 120GB drive is intended to be used as…
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Kingston HyperX SH100S3B 120GB SSD Upgrade Kit Review Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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Enthusiast Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Here at DecryptedTech we have always had covered a very wide range of products (as well as technologies). However, there is one item that we have never really gotten too deep into. This is direct attached storage and in particular…
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Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU Hits the Market; We Check Out the Core i7 3770K Featured
Posted on Monday, 23 April 2012
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Enthusiast CPUs
Written by
Sean Kalinich
It is no secret that Intel pretty much owns the desktop market. This is not only in terms of performance per watt but in most cases performance Vs. Cost. Their chief rival AMD has had setback after setback which has…
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CM Storm's Sentinel Advance II Takes A Few Shots in Our Lab Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As you might have noticed we are getting back into our coverage of not only the core components to computers, but also the peripherals that make the computing experience what it is. One of the most used (and often overlooked)…
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Asus ROG Maximus V Gene (Z77 Express) Design and Feature Review Featured
Posted on Thursday, 12 April 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Asus has been a leading developer of motherboards for more years that most people can remember. We have had many different Asus products work their way through our lab and with very few exceptions have found them all to be…
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We Drop the CM Strom QuickFire Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard into our Lab for Some Fun Featured
Posted on Thursday, 05 April 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As the PC Gaming scene ramps up (now that nVidia has finally released Kepler) we are starting to see some very nice accessories to take advantage of the flexibility and power that you get when you build a PC for…
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We Check Out the CM Storm QuickFire Rapid Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Although keyboards are normally not exciting there are a few that will certainly grab your attention especially if you are into gaming. During CES Cooler Master showed off their lineup of gaming keyboards under the CM Storm brand one in…
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We Take a Look at the Features You Can Expect on Gigabyte's Z77X-UD5H Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 13 March 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Gigabyte is kicking out some information on their upcoming lineup of 7 Series motherboards. These new boards are the 4th generation of their Ultra Durable series which has driven them to the number one spot for motherboard durability. Although not…
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We Check Out EVGA's X79 FTW To See How Well it is Built Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 07 March 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
EVGA has built a name for itself inside the community of overclockers, gamers and other enthusiasts. Although they do not have the same volume as Gigabyte or Asus, they still put out some of the top boards when it comes…
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Gigabyte's X79-UD3 Runs Through our Performance Testing Featured
Posted on Monday, 05 March 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Earlier this year when we visited Gigabyte during CES they reiterated something that they said about three years ago. They are committed to providing a much better performing product and are gearing themselves more and more toward the enthusiast and…
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We take a listen to the House Of Marley's Redemption Song On-Ear Headphones Featured
Posted on Thursday, 23 February 2012
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Enthusiast Audio
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Webster defines the word sound as; “mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (as air) and in the objective of causing hearing.” In other words, sound is waves of different pressure intended to…
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We take a look at Gigabyte's X79-UD3 Quad-SLI/Crossfire Motherboard-Part I Featured
Posted on Monday, 20 February 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
With the apparent delay of Intel Ivy Bridge and of course the Z77 chipset that goes with it) we there is going to be a continued demand for the X79 chipset and the pretty much every flavor of the LGA2011…
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MAINGEAR's EPIC T1000 Phase Change Thermal Interface Material Cools off the Lab Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Only a few weeks after we showed you the performance of the MAINGEAR Epic180 we have another product from MAINGEAR in the labs. This is their DIY thermal interface material called the MAINGEAR EPIC T1000 (yes it is a terminator…
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We finish up our time with the MSI X79A-GD65(8D) Featured
Posted on Monday, 13 February 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
After taking a look over the MSI X79A-GD65(8D) motherboard and some of MSI’s design choices (and the benefits they bring) we have dove into our performance testing. You may remember that we had concerns about the way the PCIe slots…
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Gigabyte X79-UD5 Performance Review Part II Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 08 February 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Not that long ago we talked to you about the features and design choices that Gigabyte made on the X79-UD5. This board is at the upper end of Gigabyte’s X79 lineup although it is not what you would consider an…
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Asus' P9X79 Deluxe Performance puts it at the top of our X79 List Featured
Posted on Thursday, 02 February 2012
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Enthusiast Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
One of the things that make Asus products so enticing is simply the number of add-in features that you get with almost every level of product. I am not sure if all of these features would ever be used by…
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MAINGEAR Epic180 Performance Review Part II Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 01 February 2012
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Enthusiast Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Not all that long ago we talked to you about the MAINGEAR Epic180 water-cooling system. This self-contained unit was built by CoolIT to MAINGEAR’s specifications and intended for use inside their Shift systems (sorry you cannot get one of these…
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