June 2, 2015

Don’t try picking it up Who would have thought that Thor’s hammer would make a kick-ass case mod? Suchao Prowphong, that’s who. The talented modder built the case you see above from the ground up, and it’s currently on display at Computex over at Thermaltake’s booth. According to The Verge (which is hosting a ton…

Top Deal: We can sit back and dream of running a system with quad graphics cards, terabytes of solid state storage in RAID 0, multiple IPS displays, and so forth. But save for the 1 percenters, such a setup will remain a dream. The good news is, you can build a sweet system on a…

Tri-fan cooling and G-Sync on the go One thing you can always count on when there’s a new graphics card launch is custom cooling designs. So it goes with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti, the newest addition to Nvidia’s lineup and the recipient of Gigabyte’s tri-fan Windforce treatment. There’s obviously plenty of cooling potential that…

New gear for gamers MSI brought a variety of products to show off at Computex, including a mini ITX system housed in a 10-liter chassis. Despite its small size, MSI says it can hold up to a GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, which would be powered by a 350W power supply. This isn’t MSI’s first…

New monitors for gamers There’s a bit of standards war brewing between AMD and Nvidia (what else is new, right?) in regards to display technology. While AMD is pushing its FreeSync technology, Nvidia would like the monitor industry to adopt G-Sync. Both accomplish the same thing in slightly different ways — smoother game play with…

If it types like a Ducky, and clicks like a Ducky, it’s a Ducky You haven’t truly lived until you’ve typed on a mechanical keyboard. That’s not to say there aren’t some very good membrane keyboards out there, but even the best ones fall short of the finger-pecking ecstasy that mechanical key switches induce. And…

More than meets the eye Remember the transforming PC case we told you about yesterday? It’s safe to say that In Win captured our attention, so we headed over to the company’s booth at Computex to check it out for ourselves. What we learned is that there are actually two versions — In Win’s own,…

Latest Broadwell parts up the ante in graphics Faster graphics is fast becoming a theme at Computex. First we had Nvidia representing the discrete side of the fence with its GeForce GTX 980 Ti (check out our review and benchmarks), and today Intel rolled out no less than 10 new processors sporting Iris Pro 6200…

Providing power without the noise Ever tried building a quiet PC? It’s not overly complicated, you just need to select the right components. That includes the power supply, and one way to go when selecting a PSU for a quiet or silent build is with a fanless design. That’s exactly what Enermax had on display…