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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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Western Digital Launches Their New WD Red Line of HDDs Built for NAS *** Update with Pricing *** Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 10 July 2012
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Consumer Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Over the years the need for more storage has exploded. I have seen systems with 750GB drive packed with pictures,…
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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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Thecus N2800 2-Bay NAS Design and Feature Review Featured
Posted on Thursday, 14 June 2012
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Pro Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
We have another network storage device in our labs; the Thecus N2800. This is a 2-bay NAS with dual network…
Synology DS1512+ Five-Bay NAS Performance Review Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 12 June 2012
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Pro Storage and Networking
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As the push for cloud based storage and services becomes greater we have been taking a look at the value…
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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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Accessory Power Speaker Pals Review; Panda and Koala Edition Featured
Posted on Saturday, 09 June 2012
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Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Every now and then in the midst of products that are intended to make your system more powerful or impress…
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Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Performance Review Featured
Posted on Saturday, 02 June 2012
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Consumer Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
After spending some time working with the Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H and all of the features that are packed into this board…
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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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Kingston's DataTraveler Elite 3.0 32GB Flash Drive Gets Run Through the Lab Featured
Posted on Monday, 21 May 2012
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Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
Although not as sexy as a new CPU, GPU or Motherboard USB flash drives are still used on an almost…
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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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Kingston MobileLite G3 USB 3.0 Multi-Card Reader Review Featured
Posted on Friday, 11 May 2012
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Peripherals
Written by
Sean Kalinich
With the increasing popularity of the SD form factor for media storage (SDHC, SDXC, etc) in modern devices like Cameras,…
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Asus P8Z77-V Motherboard Performance Review Featured
Posted on Wednesday, 09 May 2012
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Consumer Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
So now that we have covered all of the features and design choices for the P8Z77-V we are about to…
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Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H Design and Feature Review Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 08 May 2012
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Consumer Motherboards
Written by
Sean Kalinich
As we continue our coverage of both Ivy Bridge and the Z77 Express chipset we now head over to Gigabyte.…
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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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