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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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The Asus P8Z77-M Pro Brings Exceptional Performance and Value to the Lab Featured
Posted on Monday, 23 April 2012
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Consumer Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
At almost the opposite end of the spectrum from the Asus Maximus V Gene (in terms of target market) we…
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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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Intel DZ77GA-70K Desktop Motherboard Review Featured
Posted on Monday, 23 April 2012
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Consumer Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Although the Intel Z77 Express chipset has been available for a while now we chose to wait until the official…
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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' P8Z77-V Checked Out For Its Design And Features In The Lab Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 17 April 2012
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Consumer Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
After taking a look at a couple of Asus’ MicroATX Z77 boards we are moving up in size to the…
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Asus P8Z77-M Pro Design and Feature Review Featured
Posted on Friday, 13 April 2012
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Consumer Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As we showed you recently we do not just have a single Z77 board from Asus in the lab, but…
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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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Accell's PowerSquid Surge Protector Also Helps To Clean Up Your Power Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As you might imagine we have a rather large number of electronic devices in use in our lab. These range…
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We take a look at the NETGEAR ProSafe WNDAP360 Dual-Band Wireless Access Point Featured
Posted on Saturday, 07 April 2012
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Pro Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
In my time in IT I have worked with a number of wireless devices for the consumer and for businesses.…
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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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SurfEasy's Plug In Privacy Device Offers Peace of Mind For Most Threats Featured
Posted on Thursday, 05 April 2012
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Gadgets
Written by
Sean Kalinich
With all of the issues surrounding online privacy and internet snooping many are very concerned about having their personal information…
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Synology's DS 1512+ NAS Stops By The Lab For Some Testing Featured
Posted on Sunday, 01 April 2012
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Pro Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
When I first got into the IT game the storage needs of even large companies could be maintained in less…
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Rosewill RHM-6308 Gaming Headset Review Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 28 March 2012
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Consumer Audio
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Audio is a part of the computing experience that is very often overlooked when people are building their system. We…
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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 Check Out Internet Explorer 10 for Metro and The Desktop, Plus a few other Metro Apps
Posted on Thursday, 15 March 2012
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Consumer Software
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Microsoft is doing the hard sell on Windows 8 features and in particular they have made a valiant effort to…
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Windows 8 Gaming Part II; nVidia takes its turn
Posted on Wednesday, 14 March 2012
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Games
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Yesterday the internet had an unexpected (by some) show of nVidia’s Mobile 28nm Kepler GPU. This was done through the…
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We Try out Windows 8 x64 Gaming with an AMD 5870 V2
Posted on Tuesday, 13 March 2012
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Games
Written by
Sean Kalinich
We have been tinkering around with Windows 8 for a couple of weeks now and while we are still not…
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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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