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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Welcome to OCmodshop 3.0
As you point your browser to OCmodshop, you may have noticed something different… Well, it’s more of a complete overhaul. This update has been a long time coming, as I have been planning changes for over two years, and never had the balls to just get it up and going. I was worried about the [...]
WindowBlinds 7 Review
One of the neatest features of Windows XP was the ability to customize the interface to any theme you could conceive. You could even do this without special software if you performed a few simple tasks. When Windows Vista was introduced, it touted a new hardware-accelerated desktop, called Aero (which stands for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective [...]
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. [...]
Resident Evil 5 for PC Preview
There were several vendors at PAX 09 that were showing off Resident Evil 5 for the PC. Of course, the Capcom booth was featuring the latest zombie shooter, and nVidia was showing how it worked with their exclusive 3d technology. I spoke with the Microsoft rep at the Games for Windows section about how the [...]
Enermax Liberty Eco 400W PSU Review
We are all trying to go green these days. Everyone is getting in on the action. In order for there to be a tomorrow we have to think ahead today. So everything you see on the market today has an Eco-friendly sticker or stamp on it. I personally think it’s cool that so many companies [...]
Upgrade Your Laptop RAM in Less than 5 Minutes
This article is set up in two parts, one part about RAM overview and a second part about RAM upgrade. If you are curious on how the RAM works, you will find a detail summary that should give you all the information that you need to know about RAM, organization and speed. If you just [...]
Improving Video Quality with CUDA
Technology moves so quickly that almost everyone has analog (tape) and digital video they want to save and enjoy. Even with today’s low-cost, high quality cameras and ubiquitous camphones is that the results are usually less than great viewing quality. Unless you’re carrying a bank of photo lights around the video is usually a little on [...]
Blackberry Storm 9530 Review
The Blackberry Storm 9530, what was for a long while hyped to be the potential iPhone-killer from RIM: beautiful, sleek, the first touch-screen Blackberry, with all the functionality that was deemed lacking in the perfect fruit-phone. As are most things in comparison to Apple products, it lacks the final grooming that a manicured and coiffed [...]
Sapphire Radeon HD4670 Video Card Review
The gaming industry is a competitive market these days. Everyone has to have the latest thing to keep up with the demanding, hardware sucking games that are being churned out every day with little hesitation. And the video card makers are making a killing off of us. Not just a killing, a freaking massacre. Sure, [...]
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 [...]
X-oom Podcast Studio Review
Everywhere I go, I see people with iPods. They started with less than 1GB of space, went up to 2GB and 4GB, and then there were rumors roaming the web about an astoundingly huge 30GB version… with video. And now we have an 80GB version that has music, movies, games, internet, and just about anything [...]
Understanding the Red Ring of Death (Xbox 360)
The Xbox 360 has been plagued with problems, seemingly from the first day after its release. While the console undoubtedly has numerous high-tech components hidden within its confines, it also houses the potential for devastating problems. The 3 red light error, affectionately termed the Red Ring of Death, or simply RROD, by gamers, has been [...]
2008 Holiday ANTI-Shopping Guide: 15 Products to AVOID!
Every winter we have to think about what to get our loved (and not-so-loved) ones. There are tons of vendors that try to cash in on our buying frenzy by offering a bunch of stuff that we simply don’t want or need. Since we don’t need it, I guess we assume that other people do. Most [...]
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 [...]
MSI ATI Radeon RX2400Pro Video Card Review
Have you ever tried to play Bioshock with onboard graphics? If you manage to get it to work, chances are good that even at the lowest quality settings its still going to be very choppy gameplay. Have you ever had the ability to kill a blade-wielding kid when all you see is various frames? Very [...]
Why PSP is better than iPhone
The Sony PSP and Apple’s iPhone are great little devices, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Apple is starting to tout the gaming capabilities of its portable device, and although there is no direct competition between the two, people are beginning to question the need for a dedicated portable gaming device. We all know that [...]
Rosewill RCX-Z4 CPU Heatsink Review
There I was. Standing there in nothing but my underwear. She comes in with a roll of bubble wrap and a box set of the new season of Scrubs. This has nothing to do with this review, I am just really cool like that and my fantasies are awesome. Speaking of cool. It’s time for yet another review 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!” [...]
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