Just a few months ago, there was the latest release from Cooler Master which was the Quick Fire Rapid Mechanical Gaming Keyboard. There were plenty of reviews out there and many complained about the missing 10 numerical keys, fading letters, back lighting, macro keys, media keys, and manual switching keys. The CMSTORM Quick Fire Rapid is a great gaming keyboard with most of the missing favorable keys.
Well in return, we have great news for everyone! Cooler Master has decided to come out with a newest version to make up for those complaints including an extensive design. A whole new look and a whole new key to turn that previous frown upside down. Yes, it was missing before, not anymore! The Quick Fire Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard is nicely armored up representing its CMSTORM product line, providing a superb feeling to quality and design.
I’ve shopped around and scoped some of the features where some either too light weight, no macro keys, no media keys, no numeric keypad, and quick fading letters where the Quick Fire Rapid landed. After a long days research I found that there are seriously way too many keyboards to test and compare. Today I will be testing and trying out the CMSTORM Quick Fire Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard for additional opinions. My base test will consist of chatting as well as emailing, FPS gaming, and MMORPG gaming for a differential feel to the keyboard. Let’s put the Quick Fire Pro to the battle fields!
It is getting to be tough to keep up with the newest CPU's. It seems like faster the speed the more heat we accumulate and well, every one knows that heat kills components. I guess this is why cooling is extremely important subject to every computer enthusiast out there. One of the companies who has been formed on cooling products has been always on top, of course I am talking about Cooler Master. Cooler Master has been providing markets of cooling products since 1992 and has just recently celebrated their successful 20 years in business. Today we are going to be taking a look at one of the newest CPU coolers, Hyper 212 Evo. Cooler Master has been designing coolers for newest CPU sockets almost at the same time as they would be release. Hyper 212 Evo is an active air cooler which can be attached to pretty much every socket out there including newest socket by Intel LGA 2011. Let's take a look at Hyper 212 Evo and see what it can do at highest CPU speeds.
Out with the old and in with the new. It seems like that is what's been happening with technology ever since the creation of hardware and hardware competitions. Seems like everyone is trying to get faster and better hardware now a days. Unfortunately better hardware is associated with higher price tags. Never the less computer enthusiasts all over the world try to compete. One of the best way to compete is by overclocking your hardware and saving few bucks here and there, however most of the companies has caught on to this effect and how releasing overclocked version of their hardware to help users and enthusiasts not only to save a few bucks but give them 110% performance right out of the box. Sapphire is a perfect example of this and has been releasing an overclocked versions of their video cards for a long time now to happy enthusiasts. Today we are going to take a look at newest addition to the 7800 series, Radeon HD 7850 OC 2GB GDDR5 video card. HD 7850 OC video card is not much different from its younger brother HD 7850 however it does offer a performance increase for a cost of course :) Let's take some time and take a look at Sapphire's Radeon HD 7850 OC 2 GB GDDR5 and see what features and value it brings to the table.
Over the busy holiday season I received a really nice product from ICY DOCK. Impressively, it is a nice product based on performance, versatility, and uniqueness because I cannot find any exact type from any other competitors in the market. As far as ICY DOCK goes back, ICY DOCK is a legendary data storage manufacturer and designing is their key factor in this business. Over a year course of data storage products, UMLan has reviewed and tested many major brands, most which comes down to 3 or 4 common key factors. I’m sure that many people purchase them for intelligent designs, system compatibilities, data transfer speeds, and most importantly is cost.
The battles of the mobile phone and tablet war’s have been going on for quite some time now and it won’t ever stop. Yes, we all want more features added to our devices but in order to continuously operate these features, we have to worry about power life. We have all experienced power cycle issues due to adding additional features using hardware and software which will drain the living juices out of the battery. During heavy usage such as playing games and/or watching videos, we can’t avoid the limited power issues when using them. Choiix has provided us with an answer where it’s applicable to any portable device we carry on a daily basis, mainly cell phones and tablets now a days.
For the past few years Sapphire has been one of the biggest AMD partners around and have been producing some of the best graphic cards on the market up to day. Very recently AMD has released their latest creation HD 7770 and as of last week Sapphire started to offer overclocked version of this card, Sapphire HD 7770 OC. The HD7770 series video cards are specifically targeted towards computer enthusiasts and gamers with the overclocking edition of HD 7770, users can push their systems AND experience to the limit. I would like to say a big “thank you” to Sapphire for providing us with HD 7770 OC for a review. Let’s take some time to see what signature features Sapphire 7770 OC has to offer.
Happy 2012 everyone!! I hope you all enjoyed spending the rest of 2011 with your family and friends. Now the New Year has just passed and we should all gather around to enjoy 2012 together. Most of you may know that this year is a Leap Year which means we get an extra day to spend 2012 with our loved ones. You may also know that the Mayan Calendar ends on December 21, 2012, but no worries!! We shouldn’t worry about the future; we should all focus on what’s going on now!! Well, today I would like to share with you all, the Choiix Wake Up Folio to help start off the new year with a fantastic product provided by Choiix. You should all know Choiix by now from my previous reviews, but just in case you forgot, here is a brief reminder for you all. Choiix is a brand from Cooler Master that strictly creates mobile and tablet accessories.
Technology is flying now a days and it is extremely hard to keep up with all of the new hardware that comes with it. Not too while ago, Intel released their newest socket LGA2011 with a second generation of I7 processors, Sandy Bridge and Gigabyte has been on top of the game as always. Gigabyte has released four x79 motherboards which are ranged from low budget/features to highest possible; they are GA-x79-UD3, GA-x79-UD5, GA-x79-UD7 and GA.Assasin 2. All of these motherboards support high performance Intel LGA 2011 Core i7 processors. What we are going to be looking at today is GA-x79-UD3, the entry level x79 chipset by Gigabyte.
One of the difficulties of building a HTPC is unfortunately the keyboard. I find it hard to find just the right one every time some one asks me for a good HTPC keyboard. What does one want out of the keyboard? Well it has to be compact and light. Keeping weight down you might want to look for keyboards with lap top keys or something similar as they weigh much less. Today we have an opportunity to take a look at one of the smallest keyboards in the market, a KB178RT by AZiO Corporation. KB178RT is a Mini Thumb Keyboard which designed especially for HTPC computers. Let's spend some time with KB178RT as I strongly feel that you will find this unit appealing.
I take my sound seriously. From time to time I like to sit down and write loop or a track of some sort of techno style music. It has been a while since I have done any audio producing as well but regardless the fact on what you are producing you need to hear sound exactly as it intended to be heard. You can spend hundreds of dollars on DJ headphones and that could be a problem for some people. Cost of the audio equipment is rather high if you want the high end stuff however, what do you do when you don't want to spend tons of money on a pair of headphones? Today we are going to take a look at P281 by Arctic. Arctic has been around for a long time and were concentrating on cooling products but they are not exploring their abilities in to audio markets. P281 is specifically designed to be use in audio editing applications such as production studios and DJ booths. Let's take a look at P281 to see what it has to offer.
Soon to be released PlayStations Vita is almost here. We got our hands on Vita and here is the video. A big thanks goes to PlayStation team and Sony. So please enjoy this early release video of Vita.