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Building a new gaming rig? Then you must of thought of what you are going to use as a hard drive. Now a days you have a lot of choices for storage. Most users seek performance and others storage. It is very hard to find a combination of both. Solid State Drives are always popular and they come with a hefty price tag. Today we are going to be taking a look at the newest SSD from Kingston, HyperX. A big thanks to Kingston for providing us with this unit. After spending few hours with HyperX 240GB, we strongly feel it has lots to offer and a very reasonable price. Let's take a closer look at HyperX 240GB to see its features and all that it has to offer.

 

 

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.

Today we will take a look at the latest model ICY DOCK MB981U3-1SA SATA & IDE to USB 3.0 Docking Station and is considered a new product on the market since there are no others alike. Since the actual adapter concept has been around quite some time, no one has taken the initiative to develop a universal adapter/enclosure/docking station combo due to incompatibilities from circuit board assembly and microchip. Instead, ICY DOCK spent time and money developing this product to add to our collection of product line and a big “Thank you ICY DOCK.” I have included a series of images for product test score and actual product designs, come check it out!