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Review: Asus STRIX GTX 960 OC Edition

By Dave James As there are no reference versions of the new GTX 960, it’s all up to the manufacturers just how far they go with their cards. Nvidia has put out its own guidelines for base and boost clocks, but that’s all they are. Because of that, the GTX 960 has spawned a glut…

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Review: Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 with AnyPen

By Chuong Nguyen Introduction and design Capitalizing on the stylus craze to give tablet owners more precision input, Lenovo asks users of its $299 (£195, AU$385) Yoga Tablet 2 with Windows to not only touch and poke at the screen, but to key it, stab it, and slash it with almost any metal object. Though…

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Review: Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 with AnyPen

By Chuong Nguyen Introduction and design Capitalizing on the stylus craze to give tablet owners more precision input, Lenovo asks users of its $299 (£195, AU$385) Yoga Tablet 2 with Windows to not only touch and poke at the screen, but to key it, stab it, and slash it with almost any metal object. Though…

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Review: AMD FX-8320E review

By Dave James When AMD tells us it’s sending over a new FX-series CPU, we can’t help the sudden rush of excitement. It’s an automatic response, born of a time when a new AMD CPU had the potential to offer something genuinely competitive. But those days seem long gone. All we get now are half-hearted…

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Review: AMD FX-8320E review

By Dave James When AMD tells us it’s sending over a new FX-series CPU, we can’t help the sudden rush of excitement. It’s an automatic response, born of a time when a new AMD CPU had the potential to offer something genuinely competitive. But those days seem long gone. All we get now are half-hearted…

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Review: Gigabyte P35K v3

By Kevin Lee Introduction and design PC gaming is an expensive endeavor. Whether you’re purchasing a desktop rig or something more portable, building your own or buying a prebuilt system, or just picking up a Steam Machine, expect to drop a significant chunk of change. A few machines try to offer decent performance for a…

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Review: Gigabyte P35K v3

By Kevin Lee Introduction and design PC gaming is an expensive endeavor. Whether you’re purchasing a desktop rig or something more portable, building your own or buying a prebuilt system, or just picking up a Steam Machine, expect to drop a significant chunk of change. A few machines try to offer decent performance for a…

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Review: HP Envy 7640

By Kane Fulton Introduction The Envy 7640 is one of several models in HP’s refreshed fleet of all-in-one colour printers aimed at homes and small offices. The 7640 is one of the first to feature compatibility with HP’s Instant Ink service, which delivers ink to your door when you’re almost in need of a top-up…

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Review: HP Envy 7640

By Kane Fulton Introduction The Envy 7640 is one of several models in HP’s refreshed fleet of all-in-one colour printers aimed at homes and small offices. The 7640 is one of the first to feature compatibility with HP’s Instant Ink service, which delivers ink to your door when you’re almost in need of a top-up…

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Review: Gigabyte P37X

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction The Gigabyte P37X is a particularly powerful 17-inch gaming laptop with a dual-SSD Raid array, fast quad-core CPU and Nvidia GTX 980M graphics card with 8GB of video memory. With a 1080p screen that delivers superb picture quality, the P37X brings the experience of using a desktop PC to mobile computing.…

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Review: Gigabyte P37X

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction The Gigabyte P37X is a particularly powerful 17-inch gaming laptop with a dual-SSD Raid array, fast quad-core CPU and Nvidia GTX 980M graphics card with 8GB of video memory. With a 1080p screen that delivers superb picture quality, the P37X brings the experience of using a desktop PC to mobile computing.…

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Review: Vivitek Qumi Q5-RD

By EZ Bardeguez Vivitek has created a very easy-to-use, small, portable projector that is ideal for the minimalist office user or general consumer. The Qumi Q5-RD ($555, £360.88, AU$708.59) won’t compete with the bigger dogs, like the Epson EX7235 Pro Projector ($599.99, £385.24, AU$738.45), or the Optima GT1080 ($1,399, £870, AU$1,600), but, if size is…

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Review: Vivitek Qumi Q5-RD

By EZ Bardeguez Vivitek has created a very easy-to-use, small, portable projector that is ideal for the minimalist office user or general consumer. The Qumi Q5-RD ($555, £360.88, AU$708.59) won’t compete with the bigger dogs, like the Epson EX7235 Pro Projector ($599.99, £385.24, AU$738.45), or the Optima GT1080 ($1,399, £870, AU$1,600), but, if size is…

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Review: Lenovo Horizon 2s

By Steven Wong Introduction and design The Lenovo Horizon 2s, the smaller, $949 (£899, about AU$1,084) sibling to the super-sized Lenovo Horizon 2, joins in a growing line-up of portable all-in-one PCs with touchscreens. In other words, giant Windows tablets with stands. Similar to the Dell XPS 18 Touch, this is a small all-in-one Windows…

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Review: Lenovo Horizon 2s

By Steven Wong Introduction and design The Lenovo Horizon 2s, the smaller, $949 (£899, about AU$1,084) sibling to the super-sized Lenovo Horizon 2, joins in a growing line-up of portable all-in-one PCs with touchscreens. In other words, giant Windows tablets with stands. Similar to the Dell XPS 18 Touch, this is a small all-in-one Windows…

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