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The other day when we saw the A-Series APU launch from AMD we had in depth look at the A8-3850 APU while also covering the new chipset associated with it. If you haven’t already looked at it, I recommend you do head on over and check out our launch Llano coverage. As we mentioned in the launch, though, the video …

Portal 2 was a long awaited game for a lot of us with delays pushing it back further and further and within that slightly annoyed, highly anticipated group was an eager yet impatient me. I was one of those who pissed and moaned about things being pushed back further each time it seemed to get that little bit closer. In …

Overall, the Silverstone PS06 is a great mid-tower case. The aesthetics may not be for everyone, but most people will probably appreciate the clean, sharp look of it. [Editor’s initial reaction: “Damn, that’s a sharp-looking rig.”]The blue accents really stand out, and help the PS06 sport a unique and distinctive look from the other Silverstone cases of the past. Just …

There weren’t a whole lot of different motherboards to see during my visit but I did get to check out the new Pure Platinum Z68, the Pure Black 990FX and the Pure Black X79. By the looks of it all of the designs are complete and ready to go, minus a few heatsinks. Full story at Ninjalane.

The Sentey Burton GS-6500 is a full tower enclosure developed for enthusiasts who desire high performance and a sexy exterior. This case flaunts its multiple LED fans, and LED buttons, turning heads in the process. The Burton, is one of several models belonging to the Extreme Division line of computer cases, and it is available in 3 flavors; The GS-6500 …

The P67 chipset continues to be very present on the market; it shows by the fact that we looked at the Maximus IV Extreme from ASUS just the other week, and if you head on over to Newegg, there’s a load of P67 based motherboards not only listed, but also in stock. Today we’re looking at another P67 based board …

While Compact Flash (CF) and Secure Digital (SD) card capacities have drastically increased since USB 2.0 was released, the same could not be said of the card readers. In fact, there has been in serious need of performance makeover long before USB 3.0 arrived on the scene. With the release of the Lexar’s Professional USB 3.0 Dual-Slot Reader, our days …

MSI have been consistently releasing some of the finest enthusiast grade hardware in the last year and today we are looking at their competitively priced CX640 15.6 laptop which features a capable Core i5 processor, Nvidia discrete graphics, 500GB hard drive and 4GB of DDR3 memory. For under£600 is this an ideal all round machine for gaming and work duties? …

F.E.A.R. has been a rather complex series to try and understand. We all know the creepy child like ALMA, a super charged, evil deity who is the figurehead of the franchise. We can recall Paxton Fettel and Point Man, two characters who featured in previous titles with special powers and heightened mental states. It gets more complex when we remember …

MSI has had an interesting couple of years. During CES 2010 we saw them show off their new line of Big Bang motherboards with Lucid Logix’s Hydra chips on them. Unfortunately, we saw this demo stutter through 3DMark Vantage. They were able to recover from that and managed to put out a few good boards with this package in them. …