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Running PCs in ones living room, or “lounge” as some of you may prefer to call it, has become rather more fashionable of late… well, fashionable amongst “our kind” anyway. It certainly has benefits. For one you can stop burning DVDS of all those dodgy rips of japanese cartoon erotica you download from the internet [...]
Ah, a case review. I like doing case reviews. Nothing too fiddly, just a big ol’ box to look around and poke at. No silly benchmarks or temperature readings to do, just a nice montage of pictures and a “this is great” or “this is suck” summary. Or so I hoped, until I was [...]
Watercooling, eh? What’s all that about? When it all started out the immense geeks at the heart of it probably never expected it’d take off in such a way as it has. Obviously it’s not replaced conventional computer cooling, or even gotten close, but, as is evident from the growing number of manufacturers and suppliers, [...]
Power supplies are pretty boring. I can get excited about a graphics card, or a TFT, a case maybe, even a CPU. But no-one really cares too much about the power supply. It is the unappreciated workhorse of the computer – without it you’d be fairly lost and yet most people will budget for the [...]
A few years ago people had beige, purely functional computers… hidden under desks, stained with the office smoker’s exhalation. Then some strange individuals decided to “pimp up” their computers in the vain of car modding enthusiasts and suddenly case modding was born. We had neon lights, LEDs (usually “bl00″) and stealthed CD drives… aluminium cases, [...]
Some time ago I reviewed a Super Flower 350W psu. It was a reasonably glowing review… I felt the supply performed way above it’s price bracket and represented excellent value for money. It did. It does. But now Super Flower have nudged the old dual 80mm fan psu aside, to make [...]
It’s another case review! Many thanks to Super Flower for sending the SF-561T2 case for review. Super Flower offer an extensive (to say the least) range of cases, which can be bought here in the UK through their main official reseller eBuyer. This is the first Super Flower case to be reviewed here [...]
First off, thanks to the Water-Cooling Shop for providing the NexXxoS HP Pro for review. The block is very new to the UK, with only very few blocks having been imported for sale from Germany. If you want one for yourself, head on over there right away.
This is my second look at a Coolermaster enclosure, the first being my review of the ATCS-710-GX1 case. The 710 was heralded as a budget case by Coolermaster standards, whilst this magnificent looking beast certainly was not. At time of release this was a £200+ effort; now you can pick one [...]
Coolermaster were possibly the pioneers of the whole “stylish computing” genre. It might be hard to believe for some of you but, back in “the old days”, we used to use coffee and/or cigarette smoke stained beige desktop cases with 14″ monitors perched on top, flanked by clunky keyboards and mice with 2 buttons and [...]