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I spent last week in California making new friends and visiting various hardware venders. While traveling through the San Francisco area I had a chance to stop by Corsair in Fremont. I had spoke with Robert Pearce, one of Corsair’s Marketing Specialists, and he arranged for some time to tour Corsair’s offices in Fremont. I actually rode the BART train in from downtown San Francisco at 7am with Michal Nowicki aka bachus_anonym so I had an early start that day. When we finally arrived 45 minutes later, I was decently surprised with the amount of equipment and testing that occurs at Corsair.

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I’ve been so busy the last few days that I forgot to post these results. On Friday I took a few hours out of my day to do some dry ice benching with my current bench setup and I took a few world records for my video card. The records that I snagged aren’t something to write home in regards to overall performance but for the card itself they are rather impressive. To be honest though, these are just preliminary results, expect some smashing results sometime in late April.

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This is one of those dream posts where I detail what is most likely impossible and expect the industry to respond. I doubt I’d ever see anything like this board, but perhaps those in important positions could take a few notes? The ideas mentioned below were the resulted after a short discussion with a friend which sent my mind into a day dream, maybe we’ll see something like this in years to come.

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No, this is not some sort of video game character, this is actually what I’d dare to say one of the best gaming keyboards I’ve set my fingers to. I don’t typically game much or for that matter do anything with computers besides bench hardware but when Mike at MotherBoardPro approached me with the opportunity to review the Wolf King Warrior, I hesitantly agreed. Over the last week I’ve played a few hours of Crysis and Counter Strike Source in an attempt to give this board a solid review and I’ve come to a conclusion.

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When benching there are two things you can adjust, voltages and temperatures. Increasing voltages will work to an extent but you will typically hit a wall at some point after which only dropping the temperatures will increase the frequency you can run your components at. Northbridges on Intel motherboards are very finicky chips, they will “wall” at the oddest frequencies, they will cold bug at seemingly random temperatures, but most of all they are the major bottleneck with current chips. To give you an example, my E8400 on my P35 will hit a solid 560+FSB but it walls at 540FSB on the X38. To counter-act this, I have fabricated a simple dry ice container in hopes of cracking 540FSB.

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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 year, I liked the look of them but wasn’t certain I’d like their short keystroke. Months later and I finally sprang for an Apple Wireless Keyboard and what a difference. So how does the Apple Wireless Keyboard actually stack up? Is it all design or actually functional?

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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 EX38-DQ6 boasts many of the features one would expect to see on a top-tier board but lets see if it justifies it’s lofty price.

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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. Today I have two Sapphire HD3850 video cards and a Gigabyte X38-DS4 to perform my first foray into multi-GPU setups.

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