ASUS STRIX Radeon RX 470 Graphics Card Review Last month AMD launched the first of their Polaris based graphics cards, bringing their latest technology to consumers and taking the market forward. As is often the case, that model (the RX 480) is followed by a lower priced version which looks to provide consumers with the …
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GeForce GTX 1060 Video Card Review
GeForce GTX 1060 Video Card Review Last week NVIDIA and their partners announced a whole load of information about their latest GPU, the GeForce GTX 1060. Features, key specifications, and pricing… but no performance figures. That had to wait until today and the expiry of the NDA for the product. We’ve got a couple of …
AMD Radeon RX 480 Video Card Review
AMD Radeon RX 480 Video Card Review For the last month or so AMD have been talking about their latest GPU, teasing little bits of information here and there. Today that comes to an end with the launch of the product and we’ve put it through benchmarks in a bunch of the latest games including …
Intel i7-6900K Processor Review
Intel i7-6900K Processor Review It’s that time again… the NDA has expired on a new range of Intel products and this time it’s the high-end of the CPU market which is getting some love. For everyone who loves their X99 systems on socket 2011-3 Intel is releasing the refresh for Haswell-E, Broadwell-E. With unlocked CPUs, …
Sound Blaster Gaming H7 Headset Review
Sound Blaster Gaming H7 Headset Review We’ve had a lot of fun recently when testing Creatives Sound BlasterX range of products. They have generally been very impressive with the E5 being a particular highlight. A product which was built well, feature packed and most importantly it enhanced our audio experience from mobile devices significantly. Today …
Samsung T3 SSD Review
Samsung T3 SSD Review Thinking back through the USB drives we have used over the years the most impressive was probably the Samsung T1. Incredibly small, incredibly fast, light and a good capacity. There were a few minor tweaks that could have been made but overall it was fantastic. Now we have the follow up …
Razer Wildcat Controller Review
Razer Wildcat Controller Review A few years ago Razer produced one of the stand out products for Xbox 360, their Sabertooth controller. It offered a refined experience with enhanced build quality while still staying close to the excellent base layout from Microsoft. Now they have released a follow-up and of course it is aimed at …
Qnap TAS-168 Android NAS Review
Qnap TAS-168 Android NAS Review A NAS is just a NAS right? Well as it turns out… no. That was something Qnap proved to us previously with kit that essentially acted as a media PC. Keyboard and mouse input, HDMI output, the works. Now they are opening up a whole new path with today’s review …
OCZ Trion 150 SSD Review
OCZ Trion 150 SSD Review In some ways the SSD market has stagnated over the past few years. For the majority of consumers that is because the limitations of SATA connectors mean our speed has been hovering around 500-550MB/s for a while. Of course higher priced drives using M.2 or PCIe interfaces can work around …
Corsair 600Q PC Case Review
Corsair 600Q PC Case Review Over a number of years Corsair have released a number of high quality cases. From their first model it was clear that they knew what made a good chassis and each revision to that family, as well as the newer models, has been impressive. Of course you always get what …
ASUSTOR AS1002T NAS Review
ASUSTOR AS1002T NAS Review The AS1002T arrives in a box which gives us a nice clear image of the NAS along with a good list of key features. Inside the NAS is wrapped in plastic and suspended in foam to ensure it arrives in good condition. The bundled items are in a box off to …
Supermicro C7H170-M Motherboard Review
Supermicro C7H170-M Motherboard Review When it comes to server motherboards Supermicro are one of the industry leaders, offering high quality products with various feature options and rock solid stability. Now they are looking to take on the big players in the gaming marketplace and today on our test bench we have one of their latest …
Zotac Steam Machine Gaming Console Review
Zotac Steam Machine Gaming Console Review Its taken quite some time from the initial announcement by Valve but now machines built to suit their Steam OS and bundled with the controller are finally available to buy in numbers. Today we take a look at one of the first in our Zotac Steam Machine Review, featuring …
XFX AMD Radeon R9 380X Video Card Review
XFX AMD Radeon R9 380X Video Card Review It’s new GPU time again and today that means a release by AMD. They are filling a gap between their R9 380 and R9 390 with the 380X and we have an overclocked, custom designed model from XFX to review. We’ll be comparing it to the closest …
Turtle Beach Ear Force Stealth 420X Headset Review
Turtle Beach Ear Force Stealth 420X Headset Review Last week we took a look at a nice, low cost headset from Turtle Beach. If you want a good sounding, no frills, headset then it’s well worth checking out over here. Today we’re jumping up their product stack a bit to a higher end headset aimed …
Corsair Void RGB Wireless Headset Review
Corsair Void RGB Wireless Headset Review Corsair Gaming have been creating audio hardware for some time now and on the whole we’ve had a great experience with those products. Like their other peripherals (and the main brands memory, PSUs and cases) the headsets have offered competitive pricing, features and performance. Today we find out if …
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Graphics Card Review
AMD Radeon R9 Nano Graphics Card Review Back when AMD started talking in detail about their Fury GPU almost all of the information was about the Fury X, their liquid cooled high end part. Some mention was made of the Fury, a more “traditional” style GPU but Fury X was the focus… until later in …
GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Card Review
GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Card Review NVIDIA are launching their latest mainstream GPU which looks to take on the Radeon 370 and offer excellent 1080p gaming. NVIDIA have also given some of the features a real eSports/MOBA focus… so if you are a DOTA, LoL or Heroes of the Storm player then you’ll want to …
MSI Z170A Gaming M7 Processor Review
MSI Z170A Gaming M7 Processor Review It’s Gamescom time again and Intel has chosen that event to tie in the launch of their latest CPU. This time round they are revising their desktop i3, i5 and i7 CPUs, moving from Z97 chipsets and socket 1150 processors to Z170 based motherboards with 1151 processors. In this …
Seagate Backup Plus Slim External Drive Review
Seagate Backup Plus Slim External Drive Review USB drives offering varied levels of portable storage have been around for many years however times have very much changed and now cloud storage is a big thing. To some that would mean the end of USB storage however if you are a manufacturer like Seagate you embrace …
Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming Video Card Review
Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming Video Card Review ver the past few weeks there has been a significant amount of movement in the graphics card marketplace as AMD released their 300 series, along with their new Fury cards. That followed NVIDIAs launch of the GTX 980 Ti which had found a pretty impressive mix …
ASUS Strix 7.1 Headset Review
ASUS Strix 7.1 Headset Review It seems that in recent times manufacturers want to take our audio completely into their own hands…which may not be a bad thing for those with laptop, or inbuilt audio solutions. Taking control used to mean bundling a basic USB soundcard with a headset but nowadays we get amps, surround …
AMD Fury X Video Card Review
AMD Fury X Video Card Review Last week we saw AMD reposition their existing GPUs under new branding and pricing structure which they hoped would make them more desirable against the equivalent GeForce GPUs. In the case of the R9 380 (a rebranded R9 285), this was a fairly effective strategy as that card competed …
AMD Radeon R9 380 Video Card Review
AMD Radeon R9 380 Video Card Review Earlier this week AMD announced their latest generation of graphics products which started with the high end R9 FURY parts and ended with the value level R7 360 (The 350 and below are already announced OEM parts). Reviews of each part in the family are being staggered, so …
EVGA Torq X5 Optical Mouse Review
EVGA Torq X5 Optical Mouse Review There is no doubt that EVGA make exceptional graphics cards, or that their motherboards are top notch too… even that their support is some of the best around. Peripherals, well that we’ve never seen from them. Today we find out if they can continue the impressive product experience in …
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