Archive for March, 2008

Review: Apple Wireless Keyboard

I don’t often change what keyboard and mouse I use. I’ve had the same Logitech keyboard and mouse from 2003 . Late last year I decided to switch over to a Logitech MX Revolution but I held off on a keyboard as nothing appealed to me. When Apple launched their wired and wireless keyboards last [...]

How PC Gaming Should Procede

After writing my last article on gaming which discussed what is killing the PC gaming industry, I had a moment of clarity. What if, wait for it, computers and consoles became one? In this beautiful mating of simplicity and complexity, perhaps a compromise could be reached in which consumers of all levels of technology literacy [...]

Review: Gigabyte EX38-DQ6

I’ve got a treat for you guys today. This review will be one of my most complete reviews ever. On the table I’ve got Gigabyte’s flagship motherboard, the EX38-DQ6. Gigabyte is one of the major motherboard vendors and for Intel’s Core 2 processors they have a motherboard covering every price-point from $50 to $300. The [...]

Thank You Gigabyte!

A month back or so I was one of the winners in Gigabyte’s Overclocking Competition. For the last month or so I’ve been communicating with Gigabyte’s Public Relations and just last week I received the first portion of my prize for efforts. A rather large box arrived and shaking it like a Christmas present hinted [...]

Review: Sapphire HD3850 512MB CrossFire

When one card won’t do, logic says two should do the trick. This is the logic that applies to AMD’s CrossFire and CrossFireX platforms. Typical computers have a single graphical processor that handles all graphical computation, multi-GPU setups though split the workload between the GPUs in hopes of wrangling some additional performance from the system. [...]

How To: Voltage Mod Your Sapphire HD3850

There comes a time when your need for speed will outstrip your computers ability to supply it and drastic measures are called for. With graphics cards you are often limited in both cooling and voltages with the stock implements given to you by the manufacturer so you must take matters into your own hands. Here [...]