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Networking Trendnet TPI-06 6-Outlet Managed PDU
04 February 2025When it comes to the power levels being used in even a smaller server rack, you can’t just use a cheap power strip without the strip melting down is a concern, a proper PDU or power distribution unit is needed. For some, this might just be a simple unit that is basically just a rack-mounted power...
Video Cards MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC Launch Edition
30 January 2025Yesterday I took a look at Nvidia’s RTX 5080 Founders Edition and today both the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 hit stores. Along with the sale embargo, we can finally take a look at the overclocked aftermarket cards as well. MSI has a wide variety of RTX 5080 card designs, with 21 different SKUs. Some of...
Video Cards Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition
29 January 2025Last week Nvidia lifted the curtain on the performance of their new flagship, the Blackwell-based RTX 5090 as well as giving people their first look at DLSS 4. Both Founders Edition and aftermarket versions of that card hit stores on Thursday, January 30 th . Also announced with the RTX 5090 was...
Video Cards Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition
23 January 2025This year’s CES had major announcements from all of the big names in the industry with Intel and AMD both announcing new motherboard chipsets and AMD also announcing their upcoming GPUs. Nvidia had a lot to announce as well. The biggest of those was their new 50 series of GPUs based on their...
Cooling Hardware Noctua Home Lineup
27 November 2024Noctua has a reputation for having some of the best quality and performing PC fans on the market and with that, they are also known for taking all of the time needed to bring even the smallest of products to market. If it isn’t perfect in their eyes, they keep working on it or scrap it altogether....
Other Anker SOLIX C300 Portable Power Station
25 November 2024For a small trip one of Ankers's many small battery backups will be more than enough to keep your devices charged. But what if you are looking to power other devices beyond USB-powered devices or what if you need more capacity? The same goes for a power outage at your house as well, if you want to...
Audio Asus ROG DELTA II Headset
20 November 2024Asus’s ROG product lineup covers just about anything you might want to use for gaming and that includes a full range of peripherals and headsets. While I have had a lot of Asus hardware in the office over the years, I haven’t had one of their headsets in to test for a whopping 9 years. Going back...
Motherboards MSI MPG X870E CARBON WIFI
18 November 2024With the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D hitting the market strong, the X870 and X870E motherboards that launched back at the end of September move more into the spotlight. You can run the 9800X3D on the 600 Series chipsets as well, but if you are building a high-end gaming PC with the 9800X3D for your CPU...
Motherboards ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi
13 November 2024After taking a look at a few of Asus’s full-sized options, it's high time we check out what they have to offer for smaller builds. Currently, Asus has just one X870 board smaller than ATX and that is their ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi. I was impressed with the ROG Strix X870E-E so I’m excited to...
CPU's AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
06 November 2024Back in June AMD announced their Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs with the 9950X, 9900X, 9700X, and 9600X. The Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X hit reviews and later stores in August. The Zen 5 based CPUs have been popular, but like with the 7000 Series there has been a large group waiting to see what Intel...
Motherboards Asus TUF Gaming Z890-Plus Wifi
31 October 2024This last week Intel launched their new Core Ultra 200 Series CPUs and with that the Z890 chipset as well. I started off our testing by taking a look at the Iced-out Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Pro Ice, but that wasn’t the only motherboard that came in. Asus sent over a few boards as well and now that I...
Motherboards Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Pro Ice
24 October 2024With new CPUs and a new socket also come new chipsets and motherboards. The launch chipset to go alongside of the new Intel Core Ultra CPUs is Z890 which follows the same making scheme that Intel has used in the past. I am surprised though that it didn’t change alongside of the new CPU naming...
