It might not be your closed-loop liquid cooling Corsair H100 or H80, but today Cooler Master announced their budget-friendly Hyper 212 EVO CPU cooler. Cooler Master’s Hyper 212 line of CPU coolers has been known for the dollar-per-degree performance they provide and the Hyper 212 EVO is set to continue this trend with its slightly tweaked [...]
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We know that AMD is planning to release their Radeon HD 7000 series graphics cards sometime in Q4 2011 and now, thanks to the folks at WCCF Tech, we have plenty of details to report on the new line of cards. Essentially, all of the current-generation Radeon HD 6000 graphics cards will be replaced by noticeably more [...]
It’s not often that there are new sounds cards announced, but the folks over at VR-Zone have just published some exciting news! Popular sound card manufacturer, Creative, is set to introduce four new sound cards – the Core3D, Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional, Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion and the Recon3D USB. These are some very nice looking cards [...]
Photos of ASUS’ upcoming MARS II graphics card have been released and we must say that this has to be the most ridiculously awesome graphics card we have ever seen. The MARS II features two GTX 580 GPUs on the same custom PCB with 3GB of DDR5 memory and a whopping 19-phase VRM. The custom cooler requires three [...]
In recent years, NVIDIA and AMD have been in a back-and-forth battle when it comes to graphics card features. Currently, NVIDIA brings 3D Vision to the table, while AMD’s big selling point is it multi-display support with their Eyefinity technology. Well, as it turns out, NVIDIA’s upcoming “Kepler” GPUs will reportedly support more than two displays [...]
When it comes to computer components, memory (RAM) is one of those pieces of hardware that seems to have a longer useable life than other components. Since DDR3 began to hit the mainstream in 2009, we have seen a very steady drop in memory prices, almost to the point of ridiculousness. In the last couple [...]
With NVIDIA’s release of their GeForce 275.50 beta drivers we now officially have SLI support on select AMD 9-series motherboards. While a handful of 9-series motherboards have been available in retail for a couple of weeks, we have been waiting for NVIDIA to release drivers that would officially bring long-awaited multiple-GPU support to AMD motherboards [...]
Today has been a busy day for Corsair with announcements of their new Carbide Series cases, Hydro Series H80 and H100 closed-loop CPU coolers, and, most interesting to us, Corsair Link. The Corsair Link technology allows users to adjust their cooling and case lighting using software, which is connected via a USB 2.0 internal header [...]
It has been a very exciting morning here at Motherboard News! First, we had some rumours to share with your regarding Intel’s upcoming Core i3-2120K as well as previews of two of ASRock’s forthcoming AMD motherboards and a detailed preview of MSI’s upcoming 990FXA-GD80. Well, now we have some far more tangible – an unboxing [...]
Over a month ago, we featured a comparison of a variety of self-contained CPU water cooling systems, which included the Corsair H50, H60 and H70. Well, Corsair and CoolIT are at it again with their dual-fan and 120mm radiator H80, and the dual-fan and 240mm radiator H100. For more on these two CPU coolers, head over [...]

















