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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...

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Nvidia 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...

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Zotac 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...

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SoundMAGIC 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...

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Noctua 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...

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Cooler 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...

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Noctua 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...

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Zotac 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...

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Cooler 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...

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Gigabyte 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...

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Zotac 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...

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SanDisk 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...

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WD 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?...

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WD 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...

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SanDisk 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...

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SanDisk 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...

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SoundMAGIC 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...

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Kingston 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...

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Zotac 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...

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Gainward 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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