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It’s been a while since we’ve looked at anything from Diamond, but today we look at a card that is showing up a bit lately, the HD 6770. Of course, in typical Diamond fashion we’re checking out an overclocked model with the HD 6770 we’re looking at today coming with the XOC tag. There’s not much else we need to …

Generally for the average consumer, specific brands are chosen over others; whether it may be due to customer satisfaction, personal experience, external influence, etc. Do you prefer Coke or Pepsi? Canon or Nikon? Cooler Master or Thermaltake? The list goes on. Whatever the reason may be, the fact remains that we tend to enjoy the company of products from manufacturer …

Today the particular card we’re looking at is the ASUS HD 6970 DirectCU II one.  I’ve quickly become a fan of the DirectCU II cooler for the simple fact it’s proven to do an extremely good job when it comes to giving us low temperatures at low noise levels. The biggest gripe people have with the model is that it’s …

When Dirt 3 was released the developers pointed out that their advanced code took advantage of extra physical processing cores.  Putting this to the test, we decided to investigate this further, by comparing an AMD quad-core and hex-core processor. Full story at KitGuru  

The Llano APU (the desktop variety on test here is codenamed ‘Lynx’) contains the CPU, GPU and northbridge. As a consequence production costs and physical power costs are reduced greatly meaning cost to the consumer is lowered and a competitive performance level is maintained while providing a convenient and streamlined solution. Full story at Vortez.

Have you ever been on a long car ride in the middle of a blazing hot summer afternoon without air conditioning? Well, for those who have always had air conditioned cars, you should try it for a day. Make sure to try it with the windows rolled up, and you will get a feeling of what being stuck in a …

Even though the days of the beige box are over, there still arent a huge number of cases on the market that have a visual wow-factor. A number manufacturers like Lian Li and Fractal Design produce very elegant looking cases which are easy on the eye but arent exactly exciting. Other manufacturers like Cooler Master and Antec take a different …

This year Thecus introduced the new Triple X designation. XXX doesn’t have anything to do with those movies being made in California, but stands for Xtreme Power, Xtreme Value and Xtreme Function. The N5200 namesake has been with us for several years, but when paired with the new XXX features takes on a whole new form. To start things off, …

In this review we will be looking at the Thermaltake FrioOCK which happens to be the high powered upgrade to the popular Frio that we reviewed last year. The Frio ended up as a contest prize and we have been looking for a suitable replacement ever since. Full story at NinjaLane.

Thinking back to all of the Lian Li and Lancool cases I have had the pleasure of looking at over the past few years, I have seen what spending a bit more in the case of Lian Li gets, and what is offered at a budget in the Lancool line. That already in my head, there are certain expectations I …