Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK Rev 1.0 Motherboard Review
Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK Rev 1.0 motherboard is mostly black- expansion slots, PCB, passive sinks and a lot more than that. The motherboard maker claims that its Black Edition motherboards have gone...
View ArticleNvidia GeForce GTX Titan X GPU Review
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X comes with a massive full-fledged 12GB GDDR5 with 7Gbps effective memory bandwidth. It also has a massive price tag that suits the Titan X too. It should be interesting to...
View ArticleZotac GTX 960 AMP! Edition 2GB GDDR5 GPU Review
1080p gaming is still a thing. Even with 1200p, 1440p and 1600p being around for a while, 1080p is used by a large set of PC users. Mostly, it due to affordability. That’s the bare minimum resolution...
View ArticleSoundMAGIC ES18S In-Ear Monitor Review
Soundmagic is actually a pretty old Chinese audio brand that started making inexpensive In Ear Monitor (IEM) earphones many years ago when people hardly knew any Chinese company making earphones. Those...
View ArticleNoctua NH-C14S C-Type CPU Cooler Review
Noctua sent a very good looking CPU cooler- the NH-C14S. This is a C-type CPU cooler which has a top-down airflow design. The CPU cooler can accommodate up to 2x 140 x 140 x 25mm fans, but with a...
View ArticleCooler Master Hyper 103 CPU Air Cooler Review
Not all those who buy better CPU coolers overclock. This is in reference to Cooler Master Hyper 103 CPU air cooler. A CPU cooler with 3x copper heatpipes and a 92mm CPU cooler with a total height of...
View ArticleNoctua NH-D15S Dual-Tower CPU Cooler Review
The Noctua NH-D15 is one hell of a CPU cooler. The improvements over the NH-D14 is appreciated since it allows installation of taller heatspreaders. But when I reviewed motherboards like Gigabyte...
View ArticleZotac GTX 980 Ti AMP! Extreme Edition Graphic Card Review
So I got my hands on the Zotac GTX 980 Ti AMP! Extreme Edition, a non-reference factory overclocked variant of the Nvidia GTX 980 Ti that uses the same GPU core (with some trimmings) as on the Nvidia...
View ArticleCooler Master MasterCase 5 PC Case Review
Cooler Master comes with a new case series with a ‘Make it yours’ theme. What it means is that after purchasing its case, you can buy some add-ons for expansion according to your requirements or to get...
View ArticleGigabyte GTX 950 OC Graphic Card Review
As expected, Nvidia launched its GeForce GTX 950. The difference between the GeForce GTX 950 and the GTX 960 is that it uses the same core but with two cores disabled with lesser CUDA core counts- and...
View ArticleZotac GTX 950 AMP! Edition Graphic Card Review
Zotac GTX 950 AMP! Edition graphic card is just another non-reference GTX 950. But after seeing a very basic Gigabyte GTX 950 Windforce OC, I couldn’t help but wonder if other brand’s offering were the...
View ArticleSanDisk Extreme 500 240GB Portable SSD USB 3.0 Drive Review
There are two types of people in this world- one who uses a USB 3.0 drive and one who uses a portable SSD USB 3.0 drive like SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD USB 3.0 drive. Sure, both are USB 3.0...
View ArticleWD My Passport X 2TB USB 3.0 Review
This is the WD My Passport X. A drive that’s emphasized for PC gamers for storage, especially the Xbox One and the PC. What is the scenario a gamer would require to have an external storage source?...
View ArticleWD Blue (WD40E31X) 4TB PC SSHD Review
WD phased out its Green series drives. But at the same time, WD Blue series now has a desktop SSHD drive lineup. This is the WD4031X Blue drive with 4TB drive storage capacity. This drive uses 8GB MLC...
View ArticleSanDisk Ultra II 240GB SSD Review
Solid-State drives have come a long way, especially with those who fabricate their own SSD controller and NAND. PCIe and M.2 SSDs are also on a rise ever since the Intel Z170 chipset, but due to the...
View ArticleSanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB SSD Review
Solid State drives is a boon for every PC users. I have been reviewing SSDs for a very long time and the progress it has made is very encouraging since the SandForce based Kingston Hyper X days. As...
View ArticleSoundMAGIC ES19S In-Ear Monitor Review
Soundmagic has been around for a while now producing mostly budget value for money IEM earphones and headphones. We reviewed their earlier Soundmagic ES18S a while back and it did impress us with its...
View ArticleKingston SSDNow UV300 240GB SSD Review
The Kingston SSDNow series is the first SSD that I’ve got my hands on for review, before starting Hardware BBQ. It wasn’t really a great drive (as with others since that’s when 1st generation SSDs were...
View ArticleZotac Premium Edition 240GB SSD Review
Yes! Zotac has SSDs now, too. How about that, huh? The solid-state drive business has many competitors. It will be interesting to see what Zotac Premium Edition 240GB SSD stands. Zotac might be a new...
View ArticleGainward Phantom GTX 970 GPU Review
Gainward Phantom GTX 970 is an interesting card- not an observation based on performance considering at the end of the day it’s a Nvidia GTX 970. But because of a different cooling design which not...
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