Phanteks Enthoo Mini XL Review and Test

Phanteks makes some excellent full towers, but has only more recently turned to small form factors, although the confusingly named Mini XL is hardly small, with dimensions more akin to a large midtower. What this space offers you, however, isn’t only heaps of water-cooling support, but also the ability to house a second, full mini-ITX system inside with the purchase of a £23 upgrade kit.

Ambros Gigabyte BRIX S GB-BXi5H-5200 Review

Quite a few companies have jumped onto the mini PC bandwagon in the wake of Intel’s NUC form factor. Most motherboard manufacturers, for instance, have a presence and we saw Asus’ Core i5-4210U-based VivoMini. Gigabyte is certainly no stranger to tiny PCs either, and its BRIX range of bare bones units has even included a GTX 760 GPU before now. This month, we’re looking at its latest Intel Broadwell-based BRIX S GB-BXi5H-5200. As its name suggests, this model uses an Intel Core i5-5200U, which launched earlier this year and is identical to the mobile CPU found in the latest laptops and ultrabooks.

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X Review and Test

On paper, the Titan X’s new GM200 GPU is 50 per cent faster than the GTX 980’s GM204. It is a 28nm part with a 601mm2die size and a massive 8 billion transistors. GM200 is still divided into graphics processing clusters (GPCs) with four Streaming Multiprocessors (SMMs) apiece, and each of these SMMs again has 128 stream processors. However, while GTX 980 had four GPCs, the Titan X adds another two, both of which are fully enabled. This takes the number of stream processors to 3,072 and the texture units to 192. Clock speeds are a little lower, but with the base clock at 1GHz and the rated boost clock at 1,075MHz, there’s a lot of potential.

Corsair Hydro Series H80i GT Review and Test

The H80i GT picks up from where its predecessor left off, with the ‘i’ after the model number signifying its compatibility with Corsair’s Link control software. There’s a mini USB port on the side of the pump section, and an included cable connects it to a motherboard USB 2 header. As we saw with the H110i GT last month, the latest version of the Link software offers masses of customization and control, and you can even adjust the RGB lighting on the pump section to your own preference, or just to indicate the coolant temperature.

AMD Crossfire vs NVIDIA SLI – what to choose?

There are some critical differences between SLI and crossfire, which I believe demonstrate a fundamental difference in philosophy between AMD and NVIDIA. First, the basics, both technologies are pretty much a way to utilize more than one graphics card working in tandem in your PC to achieve next generation class performance that would not otherwise be available with the current technology due to power, thermal, or other limitations.

How to Surf the Internet using an Old Computer?

What is it like to browse the Internet using Windows 98 on 2014? We are going to explore today how to surf the internet using an old computer with Windows 98 and what are the web apps that we could use using this old system.

How to Optimize your Wi-Fi Network – Speed up WiFi?

My relationship with Wi-Fi or wireless networking technology is rocky at the best of times because it is slower than wired and often flaky as balls, but the alternative is plugging Ethernet cables into phones. Some people are stuck with it, so I figured I would give you people some quick tips on making the experience as painless as possible though.

How to buy a New PC – Shopping Guide – Prebuilt or DIY?

Yes the age-old question whether to build your own PC or by a pre-built. We will be answering it, for the last time, and here it is. Some of my regular viewers actually might not really like this but anyway I really feel the answer is, do whatever you want. There is no absolute right way to buy a PC.

3D Printing – Things you need to know

The printing press is one of the greatest inventions of all time. It allowed for easy and rapid printing of books and information which spread literacy and knowledge across the world. The printing press revolutionize the spread of information.

GTX 780 Ti – Review and Benchmarks

Few things get us more excited around here. This high-end graphics card launches and as far as single GPU, the GTX 780 Ti is about as high end as it gets. We will start with its specs. It has the same GK 110 lineage in the Titan DNA as the GTX Titan and the GTX 780. It also has full 2,880 CUDA cores that is 25 percent more than GTX 780. It is clocked in 875 MHz base clock and 928 MHz boost clock. These additional CUDA cores and higher clock speeds complements to the 3 gigabytes of DDR5 memory at 7 gigahertz 384-bit bus.

Video Card Shopping Tips – How to look for the best Graphics Card?

Are you shopping for PC graphics card? You will be bombarded with misinformation. Mostly, people are intentionally misleading you. They just do not understand what they are selling but you are the one who ends up being burned. The biggest misconception is that you cannot compare performance by looking at specifications.

Electricity, Voltage, Current, Power, AC and DC - Tutorial

I am going to start with a little bit of history to give you little basic knowledge to understand different types of electricity – AC and DC. Electricity has been discovered a long time ago. It was discovered apparently many years BC in the form of static electricity. They realized when they touch a catfish; there was a shock on their body. Therefore, that is when the notion of electricity apparently started coming about. 

How to Install an Intel LGA1156 or LGA1155 CPU Processor?

This time, we are going to show you how to install your Intel CPU using LGA 1156 or 1155 as fast as possible. Either the first step is to find a little golden triangle on your CPU and align that with the little plastic triangle on the cover, or once you remove the cover, the metal triangle that is on the CPU socket itself.

RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 - Things you need to know

In this post, we are going to tell you all you need to know about Raid 0, Raid 1, and Raid 10 in a more comprehensible way. You have probably read about RAID somewhere, but do you know what it really mean? It stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks and it means using multiple drives or disks to achieve better performance and/or better reliability.

RAM Memory Channels Guide

Why memory does come with more than one stick in a kit? What are those channels everyone is always talking about? Find out everything you need to know about RAM channels in this post.

What is PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0?

I heard many questions about PCI Express; what works with what, what doesn't work with what, what are the different generations, what does it all mean. Today we are going to tell you everything you need to know about PCI Express 3.0 as precise as possible.

How to Build a Retro Gaming PC (2001)?

On our retro series, I will talk about how to build the ultimate gaming computer, not this 2014 but for 2001 and below games. There are some very interesting marketing data on new PC purchases during that year, which shows that most PC upgrades for consumers are driven not by the grownups in the house but by the kids who want a more powerful gaming machine. 

How to Choose and Install Cooling PC Fans?

On today's blog post, I am going to show you how to determine what kind of fans are compatible with your case or cooler, and how to install them. Figuring out which fan is compatible with your case? If you have an aftermarket case, it is a snap. Check the manufacturer website, look on the side of the box, or check the manual. It will tell you which mounting points correspond to which fan sizes.

How to choose PC Motherboard Sizes (ATX, mATX, eATX, XL-ATX, and mini-ITX)?

Let us get things off with ATX, stands for advanced technology eXtended, a component compliance with the standard tells us that it will be physically and electrically compatible with other ATX components like computer cases and power supplies. Now become most desktop computers use ATX, which is what we are going to focus on, but there is other stuff out there anyway. 

How to SLI and Crossfire in one PC?

Shopping for graphics card is tough. AMD has all kinds of technologies like Crossfire, True Audio, Mantle API, great OpenCL performance, and HD 3D while NVidia has SLI, G-Sync, 3D Vision, PhysX and Game streaming. No matter how much you spend on your computer, you can't have all these things at the same time - or can you?

What is the safe PC Temperature?

This is a question I have been asked a hundred times and based on a quick Google search it looks like there are quite a few other folks who want the answer. How hot can my PC run before it is not safe anymore? We will start with why you would care how hot it runs. Some lots of reasons and high temperatures can cause all kinds of step in semiconductors. It increases the electrical resistance, reducing efficiency, it can speed up the degradation of electrical pathways within the component allowing errors that cause data corruption, and it can even, if the proper safeguards were not in place, cause low-temperature solder that is sometimes used to completely melt.

Single Rail vs Multi Rail PC Power Supplies - Which is better?

What is a single and multi rail PC power supply? What is the difference? Do you need to care about it? At the most basic level a power supply converters AC from the wall to DC current for your CPU and other components to use and then an octopus of wires that carry 12 volts, 5 volts, and 3.3 volts of current to your graphics card motherboard. However, how do rails enter into it? 

How to Configure SSD as boot drive plus HDD as storage drive?

We have all talked about SSDs and how great they are as your boot drive but I have had a ton of people asking me how to use an SSD for my boot drive and configure it to boot to that particular drive and access a mass hard drive for my storage and my larger programs. Today, I am going to show you guys how to do that.

How to upgrade Mac Mini 2006 (mac mini 1,1)?

The first question is, "Can you upgrade your Mac Mini 2006?" The answer is YES.

Is it worth to upgrade? Well, not much but at least you can increase the processing power of your Mac Mini and extend its usability to the needs of modern computing.

What is Hyperthreading and what are its Benefits?

Hyper-threading technology from Intel has been on their computer processors for over 10 years and yet much same as the elusive Fox, most people know very little about what it says. Let us start with an analogy. Let us say I am a CPU and I am trying to process food, or eat as some people call it. I can only do as much eating as one mouth can do if I could add more mouths than I could process more. This is what multi-core processors do but due to cost constraints among other things, it is not always possible to take that approach, so I have got just one mouth I can use my hand to pick up the food, bring into my mouth, then grab another bite while my mouth is busy. If I finished chewing before my hand is ready to deliver me more food, however, then my mouth is just sitting there doing nothing. If only I could use two hands to prepare food for my mouth then even though my mouth cannot actually work any faster I would not waste any time. Oh wait I can do that.