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ECS Black Series X58B-A “Nehalem” Motherboard Review

Eric Garay — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:00:17 +0000

The Intel Core i7 is the current king of the desktop performance market and shows no signs of slowing down. At present, the Core i7 processor is the superior number crunching executioner of choice compared to any other CPU solution to cross this test bench to date. This success would be for naught without the [...]

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Why You Should Buy a Netbook

Michael Kwan — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:40:31 +0000

It seems that netbooks are the hottest things since sliced bread. At the same time, you might remember my article a while back that explained why netbooks are already obsolete. In the interest of fairness and balance, I thought it would only be fitting to give the flip side of that argument, discussing the reasons [...]

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Kingston SSDnow V-Series 128GB Solid State Hard Drive Review

Eric Garay — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:06:08 +0000

When the subject of Solid State Drives or “SSD”comes up, price and storage capacity are still the two main obstacles facing the product category. Although issues with early controllers dampened their start, things have improved. Reliability has increased and so has performance. They’re also a performance upgrade that benefits both notebook and desktop users alike. [...]

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NZXT Cryo S Notebook Cooler Review

Michael Kwan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:41:42 +0000

It’s partly because I tend to work out of some rather cramped quarters, but I haven’t owned a desktop computer in years. Instead, my trusty notebook has become my main computer, handling all of my image editing, word processing, and social networking. One thing that I learned very quickly, however, is that the built-in cooling [...]

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Futurelooks 2009 Guide to BAD Fathers Day Gift Ideas

Michael Kwan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:39:44 +0000

Father’s Day is this Sunday and you may find yourself still scrambling to find a fit for your old man. This is the guy that may have taught you how to ride your first bicycle, showed you how to shave, and had an awkward chat with you about the birds and bees. He deserves to [...]

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Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition [D0 Stepping] Processor Reviewed

Eric Garay — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:38:56 +0000

Processors seemingly come and go as fast as the seasons. One minute, your system is the top of the line and the next it’s last month’s news. Sometimes, newly revised processors make sense and sometimes they don’t. If you’re an enthusiast who likes to stay as current as possible, it’ll eventually drive you crazy. Thus, [...]

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Asus Eee Top ET1602 1B All-in-One PC Review

Michael Kwan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:59:27 +0000

Asus can largely be credited for making the netbook so incredibly popular in the first place. Even if you think that netbooks are already obsolete, there is still something to be said about producing an inexpensive computer that can easily handle most of our online tasks, whether it be web surfing, video watching, or word [...]

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GIGABYTE GV-R489-1GH-B Radeon HD 4890 Video Card Review

Jason Landals — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:18:51 +0000

In the war without end between the video card manufacturers, the leader of the pack is determined as much by how many levels of the market they can hit as it is by the manufacturer who can produce the fastest top end card. ATI has always been good at this, many times managing to have [...]

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E3 Expo 2009: Aliens vs Predator, Sony PSP Go, Silent Hill, Madden NFL 10

Michael Kwan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:13:15 +0000

If you’ve been following our E3 Expo 2009 coverage on Futurelooks, then you’re already reasonably familiar with what’s going on with Microsoft and some of the cooler fighting games on the horizon. With so many publishers and developers storming the Los Angeles Convention Center, it is impossible for us to mention every game at the [...]

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GIGABYTE GM-M8000 High-Performance Laser Gaming Mouse Review

Eric Garay — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:21:13 +0000

GIGABYTE does a lot more than just sweet motherboards and graphic cards. Since they provide the basics needed to build an elite gaming system, it’s no surprise to see them investing their resources to develop peripherals that can be used to support their main components. Some of those peripherals include hard disk enclosures, storage, monitors, [...]

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