SuperSpeed USB (otherwise known as USB 3.0) is a new standard for PC peripheral connectivity. Although Intel has been hesitant to make this interface truly standard, more and more vendors are including the technology on their motherboards, and you can even purchase add-on cards to upgrade your current system. The increase in data transfer naturally [...]
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Enermax Phoenix Neo Case
A generation ago the only way to tell the difference between a high end gaming PC and a beige office box was by looking inside. Today PC gamers want to brand their gear as fashionable as gaming consoles, so everyone knows what’s up. There are no shortages of gaming computer cases, and because there are so many [...]
Verbatim Store n Go Micro 4GB Flash Drive Review
Nearly everyone in modern society has need for portable digital storage, and therefore carry some sort of USB flash drive. They have replaced the floppy drive in terms of portable ubiquity (even Windows finally uses them to load disk drivers at install time), and it’s so convenient to be able to copy files to and [...]
Fix: Hard Drive goes to sleep even in High Performance Power Profile
I have a desktop PC running Vista Ultimate, and I want it running at its full potential. I have several hard drives, and notice that they do a “hard click” after a while, turning themselves off. I hate it when hard drives do that… I’ve had too many hard drive crashes that this noise makes me [...]
I-Star T5F-SS Hot-Swap Hard Drive Bay Review
I love storage. It doesn’t matter what kind. I have stock in those plastic dresser-style drawers, and I keep ‘em chock full of crap I’ll never use or at the most very rarely. Any time I look at a car I check out the trunk first, and try to estimate how many bodies would fit [...]
Scythe Kama Bay Cooler
It doesn’t matter if your computer is air or water-cooled, is used as a workstation or gaming rig: air circulation is key to keeping your system running. Most people circulate air by using strategically placed fans, while others use water-cooling, heat pipes, and other technology, but one principle remains the same, to move warm air [...]
Speed up SATA Drives in Vista
We showed you in a previous tip how to increase performance with USB drives in Vista by enabling write caching. By default this option isn’t turned on because of the “removable” nature of these devices, so you could lose data if you pull out too quickly (the drive that is… ). Internal SATA hard drives are alot more [...]
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 [...]
Six Data Recovery Tools to Help Regain Your Data
I don’t think I have to say that data loss is everyone’s nightmare. At home, data loss could mean years worth of photos, videos, financials, and documents lost. In business, data loss means money out the window. Many times, however, you want to recover data, but you don’t want to pay the exorbitant fees that [...]
Die, Floppy, DIE! (The Floppy Rant)
We live in an age where processors have reached an atomic minimum, a sound card has more processing power than Apollo 11, and where video cards become garage sale fodder within six months. CDs could once only be created by large studios with deep pockets, but is now a very common consumer item, and almost [...]
VIZO SHE-250 Shuttle 2.5-inch Hard Drive Enclosure
Ah, the pleasure of mobility. I used to carry around a handful of 3.5″ floppies in the 90’s. Weren’t those the days? Now I can transport much larger files and transfer them much faster using an external hard drive—or an internal one mounted in an enclosure. Features Sleek and Slim design Portable, flexible and convenient [...]
Vantec EX-Swap 2 Hot-Swap Hard Drive Bays
Removeable hard drive racks offer users a convenient way to move lots of data around. The emergence of Serial ATA now allows users to hot-swap hard drives like SCSI. Finding a quality hard drive rack can be quite a task, however. The drive enclosure should support cooling the drive, should be lockable, and should be [...]
Athena Power SNT-2312B2 External HDD Enclosure
In today’s world, people need to carry their data with them wherever they go. Memory sticks and USB drives are fine for small files, but transporting large amounts of data from work to home is impractical. An external portable hard drive can be just the thing to lug alot of data between home and the [...]
SilenX Luxurae Hard Drive Silencer
Noise reduction is something that is slowly starting to become more of a focus in computers these days. More companies are manufacturing products that run quieter or even better, silent. There are also more technologies being implemented to reduce noise output, things like PWM (Pulse Wave Modulation), heatpipes, and quieter hard drive motors. All of [...]
Thermaltake Aluminum XaserV WinGo V8000A Case
Thermaltake is pretty well known for their cases I think and this is my first time reviewing one. They sent over their new Xaser WinGo V8000A case which the top of the line in this series of cases. The case is 490 x 205x 580 mm in dimension and is made of aluminum so it [...]
Koolcase Matrix Case
Case modders are usually upgrading their machines, and why not place the overclocked innards into a shiny new shell? There are many online vendors offering different styles to play computer dress-up, some better than others. It may be difficult to find the perfect case from all the big-name online vendors. It is not even necessary [...]
Enermax CS-5866 Case
As the modding scene has grown from enthusiastic Dremmel freaks to manufacturers, customized products are becoming commonplace. These pre-modded products can now be found in retail stores, with varying quality between them. Some case manufacturers have been producing pre-modded cases with windows and other bells-and-whistles, but either they are very expensive, or look bad. The [...]
Lian-Li PC-9300 Case
It’s been years since I have actually used a desktop case, the last one I used probably held my 468SX2. Now there are not many desktops being made or used because everyone is using towers, but I still like the look of a desktop case. I have wanted to review a Lian-Li case since I [...]
Cooler Master ATC-101-SX2 Case
Aluminum cases are all the rage these days, they are cool looking, light, and better for heat dissipation. There are not many companies which produce high quality aluminum cases, Cooler Master happens to be one of the few. Lian Li also produces high quality aluminum cases but that’s not of concern right now. The Cooler [...]
Changing your Case & Drive LEDs
Making your case unique and looking cooler than it is when you buy it is what case modding is all about. Almost all cases, CDROM, DVD, CDRW, floppy drives, etc… come with green, amber, or red LEDs. In some cases these colors that come stock are the colors that you want, however if you want [...]
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