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The Corsair H80 is a sealed liquid cooling system, a.k.a. a water cooler. Let’s test it and see if it offers great performance. Full Story at Hardware Secrets.

ADATA isn’t new to the SATA III market. The company already released the S501; a Marvell controlled SATA III drive with good wear capabilities. The S501 was a stopgap product between ADATA’s successful S599 SandForce SF-1200 drive and the new S511 featuring SandForce’s latest flagship, the SF-2281. In the past ADATA has competed for the price / performance crown and …

Being fascinated with the concept of time travel for as long as I can remember, there are always moments of my life where I would just sit there and wonder, “If I could travel back in time, would I have done things differently?” While my enthusiastic self-study of theoretical physics in my free time (I am actually in Electrical Engineering) …

Recently we have seen several Hard Drive enclosures but today is the turn of something very similar, yet completely different. While that may be a bit of an exaggeration there are certainly quite a few differences. Today we are taking a look at the Akasa Flexstor DiskLink USB 3.0 Adapter, and it that, an adapter not an enclosure. While you …

Despite only announcing their product line today, Phanteks has a wealth of expertise in this domain adding another credential to their line-up of features. Lets see if they can take on the challenge set by Noctua and Thermalright. Full story at Vortez

At the moment we’re going through these little phases with video cards; we get a couple in and then it dies down for a few weeks. Then a few more come in and it dies down a little bit again. The latest card to slide into the lab here comes from Sapphire and is an expansion of the Vapor-X series. …

For many enthusiasts, fitting the very best hardware into a computer case comes at a high price. Unfortunately it means having large, unwieldy enclosures to house all of their hardware. To combat this, Lian Li has created an enclosure with unique properties to combat the growing bloat of systems, and to their credit it seems to has worked. By allowing …

Since the 1999 release of X-Men which completely re-invigorated the comic book movie adaptation business after it was murdered so completely by 1997’s Batman & Robin, the movie industry has been awash with every superhero from both the major American comic studios Marvel and DC and other independent studios, generating billions of dollars in ticket sales and rejuvenating the comic …

So much of the technology market is aimed at men, whereas we all know that at least half the tech being bought these days is going to be owned/used/operated/upgraded by ladies. KitGuru loaded up the Digital SLR at Multiplays i43 event and went in search of the human side of female gaming. Full story at Kitguru.

With everyone expecting the overall outlook for electrical retail stores to remain fairly bleak, the main competitors are working to find new ways to deliver shareholder value and return a dividend. At Multiplay i43, there was a surprising announcement on the main stage. Heres what they said and a question: Should other retailers be worried? Full story at Kitguru.  

Cooling is a major feature of the TJ08-E and instead of relying on two fans you get the power of a single 180mm air penetrator fan to direct air where it needs to be. This design also promotes a positive air pressure situation that will vent the chassis faster than simply using more fans. Full story at Ninja Lane.

We have just taken a look at the Cooler Master NotePal U Stand. This is a notebook cooler and a stand that supports laptops up to 17″ and is designed specifically for use on your desk and it can help reduce neck strain as it is able to elevate your laptop screen up to eye-level. Please check out our review …

I’ve said before that since the coolers included with retail CPUs are both quiet and effective at stock clock speeds, overclocking is the only reason anyone should buy a third party CPU cooler. Well, this isn’t strictly true: not all third party CPU coolers are designed to handle ultra-high overclocks in massive tower systems; sometimes, what you need is a …

Enermax has entered the CPU cooler market, and we are reviewing their first model: the ETS-T40-TA, which has a tower heatsink, four U-shaped heatpipes, and a 120 mm an. Here is a snippet: We tested the ETS-T40-TA CPU cooler from Enermax, best known as a power supply manufacturer. This cooler has a tower heatsink, four U-shaped, direct-touch heatpipes and a …

The Lich King was the master and lord of the Scourge, and he ruled over them telepathically from the Frozen Throne on top of Icecrown. Well, I guess until I killed him about a year ago, but that is beside the point. The Thermaltake Frio OCK, a strange name for a product, literally means Cold Over-clocker King (sic). So what …