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Memory
G.Skill Ripjaws 4 2666MHz 16GB DDR4 Memory Kit Review
Introduction Memory, the most vital part of any computer that gets overlooked the most. There’s not a lot to say about RAM apart from its expensive and very confusing. DDR4, the newest iteration of RAM is currently the fastest version of the consumer RAM, with speeds exceeding 3333MHz. RAM kits…
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Motherboards
ASUS TUF X99 Sabertooth (LGA 2011-3) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging X99, the chipset that has brought workstation power to the consumer level, has been around with us for a few months now. In this time, motherboard manufacturers have had time to tweak and release their top of the line motherboards with the best features and settings. A…
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Graphics Cards
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 2GB ITX Graphics Card Review
Introduction and A Closer Look The GeForce GTX 960 has been with us for a few months now, it has established itself as the ‘go-to’ graphics card for under $200. With the amount of power graphical power it produces at this price point, it has really been taken on by…
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Memory
Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 2666MHz 32GB Memory Kit Review
Introduction When you’re building a tower, memory normally gets the last thought; you budget for all of the other key parts and then you find yourself having to readjust when you remember that you didn’t add any memory to your basket. With consumer memory kits roughly starting off where DDR3…
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Motherboards
ECS Z97I-Drone LEET Gaming (LGA 1150) Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Intel’s Z97 platform has been around with us for almost a year now, so the marketplace is slightly saturated with motherboards from a huge array of manufacturers. Offering full support for the Haswell Refresh CPU’s, it has really brought new performance levels to the consumer market. While still producing…
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Motherboards
Biostar Gaming Z97X (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Intel’s Z97 platform has been around with us for almost a year now, so the marketplace is slightly saturated with motherboards from a huge array of manufacturers. Offering full support for the Haswell Refresh CPU’s, it has really brought new performance levels to the consumer market. While still producing…
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Storage
WD RED 2.5-Inch 1TB in Four-Disk RAID Review
Introduction Western Digital launched their WD RED line quite a while ago, and it’s been a successful one. We’ve previously had a look at how the 2.5-inch version with 1TB capacity performs as a single disk, but we’ve yet to look at how four of these will do in a…
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Motherboards
Gigabyte X99-Gaming-5P (LGA 2011-3) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging X99, the best of the best when it comes to general consumer chipsets. Released back in August 2014, this has quickly taken the technology world by storm; offering some of the best performance only before seen in workstation systems. Today at eTeknix, we have the newest addition to…
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Memory
Crucial Ballistix Sport 2400MHz Memory Kit Review
Introduction Memory, the most vital part of any computer that gets overlooked the most. There’s not a lot to say about RAM apart from its expensive and very confusing. DDR4, the newest iteration of RAM is currently the fastest version of the consumer RAM, with speeds exceeding 3333MHz. Crucial are…
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Memory
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT Memory Kit Review
Introduction With every new DDR memory release comes a decline in operating voltage and a decrease in heat output. In the transition from DDR2 to DDR3 and now DDR4, we’ve seen voltages drop and the need for large memory heatsinks are no longer necessary. This allows memory brands to release…
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Motherboards
Gigabyte X99-UD4P (LGA 2011-3) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging X99, the mother of the prosumer chipsets. It’s what everyone wants, fewer can afford and fewer can fully utilise; this is the ultimate top trump card and rightly so. Gigabyte is currently the leading manufacturer of motherboards, while also offering one of the largest X99 motherboard ranges…
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Memory
Crucial Ballistix Elite 2666MHz DDR4 Review
Introduction Memory, no matter how you look at it, you need it. Starting life as super slow DDR modules, it has come a long way from the simple 600MHz speeds, now exceeding 3000MHz in most higher end consumer kits. Module sizes have also come a very long way, back in…
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Graphics Cards
GTA V GPU Performance Review
Introduction Grand Theft Auto V was released on Tuesday, along with that, NVIDIA has released yet another Game Ready Driver. However this time, AMD has decided to release one too, both offering optimised graphical drivers for most of their graphics card range. Normally, we would only test a single driver…
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Motherboards
ASUS X99-A (LGA 2011-3) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Intel’s current flagship consumer chipset, X99 has been around since August 2014. The X99 chipset was the first motherboard range to fully utilise DDR4 memory modules and put the much higher speeds to use. It’s starting to age slightly, being around 8 months old, so let’s see…
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Motherboards
Asrock Z97E-ITX/ac (LGA-1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Intel’s Z97 platform is a perfect basis for a mini-ITX system build as it features enough performance to please even the most demanding user while still being power efficient enough to be tamed by small form factor cases and modest cooling solutions. Due to those reasons it…
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