By Unknown
0 comments

Blogging Hub show why you must never protect your wireless network with WEP PROJECT GOAL Detect malware and hackers Keep your private data safe from unauthorised access. REQUIRES BackTrack The live, bootable, security-based Linux distribution can be downloaded from www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads. Think you're secure with basic WEP? You're not.[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

The new go-to gamer's chip, but is it a Sandy Bridge upgrade? This is it. The biggie. The replacement for our favorite CPU of the past year or so. The new Quad-Core Intel Core i5 3570K, one of two shine processors from Intel's new 22nm Ivy Bridge family[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

A diminutive orange offering This really is more like it. We've been impressed by the overclocked AMP! cards from Zotac before - most recently and fantastic GTX 670 AMP! - and it's trying to continue that trend with the GTX 660 Ti AMP! edition. Where the other manufacturers[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

Fans of the big green graphics company rejoice, Cyberpower is showing its love of all things Nvidia here with a rig that's ripe for the fanboys. The SI has put some decent parts together for your pleasure, all of which are bathed in the eerie, mushy-pea glow of[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

Blogging Hub shows how to save time with Task Scheduler Every day when I turn on my computer, I find myself firing up the same software and reading the same websites. But instead of launching apps manually or typing in the URLs, Windows opens them up automatically. While[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

What'sthe real value of future-proofing? While every man and his dog is throwing SATA 6Gbps interfaced SSDs at us as if there's no tomorrow, where does that leave everyone that is still packing SATA 3Gbps systems? Surely they deserve some modern SSD love too? This is the[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

And in the Asus corner... The battle between Asus and Gigabyte has traditionally been a heavyweight contest, though in recent years it's become more or a ritualised beating, as the Asus boards have consistently out-punched Gigabyte at every level. With the release of Intel's Ivy Bridge setup and[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

As reference as you're likely to get Pricing is such an important part of the graphics card war, the mere $32 separating the Asus and EVGA cards actually means a hell of a lot. When you're operating in such a saturated segment every penny counts. Like the Asus[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

The Chillblast machine is one big, fat bestie. The chunky Zalman chassis gives it a real sense of presence on your desk, and the internal goodies match that sense of scale, with a heftily overclocked i5 CPU and similarly overclocked GTX 670 going the graphical grunt work. Sadly[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

Big, expensive and life-altering? Well, two out of three ain't bad Like most PC peripherals, monitors mostly sell on price. That's because consumers are largely a feckless bunch of mouth-breathers who can't see past pricing and a small half handful of headline specs. It's $200? It's 27 inches?[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

So, dear, you want to spend how much on a 'home cinema'? Three thousand of your Earth dollars. That's a hell of a lot of money for a single component, even one as rarefied as a projector. Okay, you can spend tens of thousands on a beamer if[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

The double-threat of new memory and a new controller. Bold move, Plextor The overwhelming majority of SSDs on the market now are based around LSI's SandForce SF2281 controller, but there are also quite a few powered by Marvell's 88SS9174 chip. Both of these bits of silicon have been[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
1 comment

Another excellent premium Z77 mobo from the Taiwanese giant What do you get for the motherboard that has everything? Gigabyte's answer is to add a pair of Thunderbolt connectors to the rear of its massively feature-rich mobo for all the super-speed I/O goodness they bring. This is the[...]
Continue Reading >>
By Unknown
0 comments

Well, it's all feeling rather 2010 around here. Nvidia has transported me back to when we couldn't figure out which shower of self-serving idiots to form our government so we just left them to figure it out, a time when Chilean miners starred in their own low-res reality[...]
Continue Reading >>