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The Trooper is the latest full-tower case from Cooler Masters gaming division, CM Storm, and comes with all the ells and whistles that you  can imagine. Lets check it out. Here is a snippet: “CM Storm is the gaming division from Cooler Master, and their latest full-tower case, the Trooper, is a true  monster with nine expansion slots. Let’s see …

Fractal Design are a Swedish brand who specialise in the engineering and designing of cases. Their concept is to provide products with an extraordinary design level, without compromising the important factors of quality, functionality and pricing. . They took the market by the throat back in 2009 when the extremely popular and somewhat revolutionary Define R2 was released and soon …

EVGA designed the GTX 580 Classified to be the ultimate version of what the GTX 580 could be. It was co-designed between EVGA and professional overclockers Vince “k|ngp|n” Lucido, and Illya “TiN” Tsemenko with the single goal to overclock unlike any card out on the market while at the same time looking great, and staying  cool. Benchmark Reviews will see …

New platforms are particularly interesting to us as home theater PC (HTPC) enthusiasts because it gives us a chance to clearly see how a generation of progress can be transformed into tangible benefits. Not long ago, integrated graphics processors (IGP) were strictly the choice of budget-minded consumers, but the recent relocation of the graphics processing unit (GPU) from the chipset …

Already we’ve looked at a couple of PCIe 3.0 boards; the first was the ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 and that’s the big brother to the board we’re looking at today. The other was the MSI Z68A-GD80-G3. While both are great boards in their own right, the problem at the moment is that nothing can really make use of the PCIe …

What do you look for in a case and what is the most you are willing to spend? Today’s case isn’t exactly high end and to match that it doesn’t have all of the features and extras you would expect if you were shelling out cash in the ‚¬100+ range. System builders and budget gamers this one is for you, …

The Roccat Valo was designed to be beyond the average gaming keyboard. With over 41 macro keys, the Roccat Valo can record and store a massive amount of shortcuts on its 2MB memory. Combined with four switchable layers and five profiles, the Roccat Valo offers maximum customization not just for in-game macros but for multimedia and productivity as well. Macros …

Intel was quick to fulfill the needs of their customer base and set their sights on an on-board solution that allows system builders to bring the performance gains of solid state technology to mainstream customers. The end product was the Z68 chipset. Z68 includes Intel’s Smart Response Technology, also known as on-board SSD caching and is part of Intel’s Rapid …