We are going to give you all a grand tour of the latest sockets and their most compatible processors. It makes building a new gaming or work rig so much easier if you don’t have to return a motherboard or processor for a refund and order a new one.
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VisionTek Killer HD 5770 First Look
I remember the first card nVidia ever put out.. the NV1, which was a PCI video card plus an audio card plus wavetable synthesizer plus game controller board. At the time, all of these functions were handled by several different add-on cards, and certainly not via the PCI bus. That technology was way ahead of its time, [...]
OCModShop 2009 Holiday Gift Guide
Happy holidays one and all! I would say that of all the writers here at OCModshop, I am the most Scrooge-like. I am not a fan of Christmas, really. I do like buying stuff for other people and getting presents, you would have to be mentally handicapped to not enjoy that. But the whole Santa [...]
Evercool Transformer 4 Heatsink
I don’t know if anyone else here watches ”Ace of Cakes”. It seems like every single one they make is bigger than the last. I’m always sure that they’re going to topple over and cover an entire block with icing. He makes the coolest looking stuff, and his motto is; “Make it bigger, make it badder, make it [...]
SAW: The PC Game: The Review
I couldn’t think of a better game to review on the eve of Halloween than one based on torture devices and cringe-inducing deaths at the hands of the infamous Jigsaw killer. Zombie Studios and Konami, the marvelous guys behind Silent Hill, have brought the Saw series to life in the third-person survival horror game SAW. [...]
Coolermaster Hyper TX3 Heatsink Review
Coolermaster has a reputation in the world of hardware cooling. They are well known for their excellent heatsinks and water-cooling devices. I’ve used several of their products over the years and have rarely been disappointed. The old saying goes that you get what you pay for, and with Coolermaster, even if you feel you are [...]
Noctua NH-C12P CPU Heatsink Review
We here at OCMS have reviewed several products from our European pals at Noctua and I was very pleased to hear they contacted me again for some new products up for review this time is the “Noctua NH-C12P” CPU cooler. Ding dong! Oh, Jolly! The frigging mail dude arrived with a nice big package that [...]
Intel and AMD: What Went Wrong
Ever have that feeling that someone with a Heavyweight title just put you in a coma? And when you awoke from that coma everything you thought you knew was no longer a reality? That was the same way I felt when I realized how bad Intel was kicking the crap out of AMD’s booty all [...]
ECS EliteGroup GeForce 6100PM-M2 V2.0 Motherboard Review
The funny thing about how expensive technology is, is that as soon as you buy something that costs $300, it’s automatically obsolete and is worth roughly 1/3 of the original price. Actually, it was pretty much obsolete the moment you bought it. The world of the PC DIYer is a fantastic world, but the price [...]
nMedia 1000B Home Theater Case Review
More people are trading in their complicated rack of home theater equipment in exchange for an Home Theater PC. Most HTPCs are all-in-one appliances that can easily replace a DVD player, BluRay player (or burner), DVR, MP3 player, and can do many other entertainment tasks like gaming. If you’ve made the decision to upgrade your [...]
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 Review
OH. MY. GOD. That was my initial reaction when looking upon the new Sapphire HD 4850 X2 video card. nVidia and ATI are constantly feuding. These bitter PR battles have resulted in a new more powerful video cards every six months or so. This is both good news and bad news for PC gaming enthusiasts. On one [...]
PowerColor X1600 Pro Video Card Review
Okay, time for another round of in-your-face video card action. There are several video cards on the market right now that will show you a good time. Some do it for a little more, some do it for a little less. But just like a trip to Vegas, what really matters is the quality of [...]
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic Video Card Review
The PC gaming industry has seen many graphics chips come and go. Companies like 3dfx, S3, Trident, Intel, nVidia, ATI and others have tapped into the gaming industry and have produced 3d accellerators for the PC, and most of them have gone. There are only two major players in the PC graphics industry: nVidia and [...]
Zerotherm Zen CPU Cooler FZ120 Review
It seems like I’ve gotten a lot of cooling hardware to review since I joined the OCModshop team. Fact is, I’ve only done four. But when I do two in a row I start to get the feeling that my boss is trying to tell me something. My first thought was that perhaps cooling products are hot on [...]
Verbatim Notebook Essentials Kit
If you travel a lot, or even a little, chances are you own a laptop or notebook PC. And you probably own one of those neat little carrying cases as well. They have just enough room inside for the computer itself with a little left over to stick the power cord inside next to it. If you’re lucky, [...]
GPU vs CPU
Work or Play – Everyone expects their monitor to instantly refresh. They demand that the graphics to be lightning fast as well as ultra-realistic. Of course that also needs to be wrapped in a low-cost, environmentally kindly system. When all of this doesn’t come together we’re a little concerned. Photo Source — Paramount “Mayday! Mayday!” [...]
Corsair TX750 Power Supply Review
New 320GB hard drive: $110.00 4GB of RAM: $150.00 GeForce 8800 Gaming Card: $279.00 Getting invited to the biggest LAN party the west coast has ever seen: Priceless. What all this means: Jack shizzit if you don’t have a good PSU. Enter the Corsair TX Series 750W Power Supply. Like that very forgettable guy from that very [...]
How to Upgrade CPU and Memory
Ever since computers have invaded all of our homes the one thing that might have always daunted the normal user is “I want to upgrade my processor but I don’t know how.” Many people’s initial reaction is to call a friend or run it past the local computer store (and might lose it for a few [...]
Antec Performance Plus660AMG Case
Antec has taken their trademark case and kicked it up a notch. They recently released their line of Performance Plus cases which have considerable improvements from the original series of cases. I have done a few different case reviews this month and they have been good cases so far, I am wondering if this case [...]
Zalman CNPS 8700 LED Heatsink Review
Zalman has been making some of the most innovative and quiet after-market heatsinks in the computer industry for several years. They have had to keep up with the thermal trends as processors became more powerful over the years, which has had the unfortunate side effect of making their products rather large. One of Zalman’s best [...]
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