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Four 80 PLUS Gold Power Supplies Under 450 W, Reviewed
By Patrick Afschar published
Although high-wattage power supplies get most of the glory, we take our hats off to small, efficient solutions offering more practical output. We take four sub-450 W PSUs and run them through our benchmark suite to see if we can determine a winner.
Which GeForce GTX 880M Gaming Laptop is Right for You?
By Kevin Parrish, Marcus Yam published
A comparison of all gaming notebooks running an Nvidia GeForce GTX 880M.
Four Z87 Express Motherboards For Three- And Four-Way SLI
By Thomas Soderstrom published
Formerly a very exclusive component, the PCI Express switch that makes Intel’s LGA 1150-based platforms three- and four-way SLI-capable is now available across a range of high-end motherboards. Today we compare four premium enthusiast-oriented models.
Seven Portable Bluetooth Speaker Systems, Tested And Reviewed
By Don Woligroski published
We're testing a wide range of Bluetooth-capable speakers, priced between $50 and $250, to gauge how well these wireless audio devices fare. Believe it or not, there's a ton of differentiation, and a number of systems clearly rise to the top of our list.
Eight Low-Profile CPU Coolers For Your Compact PC, Reviewed
By Thomas Soderstrom published
A recent look at ASRock's M8 compact barebones PC saw us undervolting our CPU in order to run stably, overclocked. This forced us to ask the question: how much cooling can we fit inside a slim enclosure? Eight heat sink vendors helped us find the answer.
Z87 Hits The High End: Four Sub-$300 Motherboards
By Thomas Soderstrom published
Situated barely below the priciest premium boards, which typically exceed $300, high-end Z87 Express-based motherboards offer enthusiasts almost everything they could want except for three-way SLI support. We put four of these platforms to the test.
Haswell And Richland Memory Scaling: Picking A 16 GB DDR3 Kit
By Thomas Soderstrom published
Graphics workloads love fast memory. But how much difference can a desktop-oriented kit have on gaming performance with Intel's HD Graphics 4600 or AMD's Radeon HD 8670D? We test six 16 GB kits, two all the way up to DDR3-2400 to find out.
Mechanical Keyboards: BlackWidow, Osmium, G710+
By Daniel Starkey published
Today we review three of the most popular mechanical keyboards around: the Gigabyte Aivia Osmium, Logitech G710+, and Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013. Which these three $130-$150 premium gaming peripherals is the best bet? We'll find out!
Fast And Cheap? Five Sub-$160 Z87 Motherboards For Enthusiasts
By Thomas Soderstrom published
Intel’s Haswell architecture has mainstream leanings. And yet some of the motherboards out there are really high-end. Today we're looking at five platforms under the $160 mark that hopefully put some value back into being an enthusiast.
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