2011 Holiday Buying Guide
Are you planning to buy new PC hardware parts during this holiday season to build a new computer or upgrade your current system? Let’s recap some of the products with the best cost/benefit ratios that we reviewed in 2011.
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Zalman CNPS12X CPU Cooler Review
This time, we tested the Zalman CNPS12X, the world’s first CPU cooler with three fans. It also has six heatpipes and two heatsinks. Check it out!
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Antec P280 Case Review
The new P280 from Antec is a mid-tower case with nine expansion slots and features to reduce noise. Let’s take a close look at it.
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PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 600 W Power Supply Review
The Silencer Mk III is the first power supply series from PC Power & Cooling with a modular cabling system. Let’s see if the 600 W model is a good pick.
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Nexus Prominent R Case Review
Let’s take a look at the latest mid-tower case from the Dutch manufacturer Nexus, which features a 3.5”/2.5” docking station, eight expansion slots, and is targeted to silent computing.
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Thermal Compound Roundup – November 2011
We added five new thermal compounds to our previous roundup, for a total of 50 different thermal compounds from major brands. We also tried another thermal compound from the kitchen: butter.
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Kingston HyperX 240 GB SSD Review
Let’s take a look at the latest Kingston HyperX 240 GB solid state drive and see how it fares against the competition.
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Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU Review
Intel is releasing today its most high-end CPU to date, the Core i7-3960X (3.3 GHz), codename “Sandy Bridge-E,” based on the new socket 2011 platform and supporting quad-channel architecture.