Around here, we usually see motherboards from the like of ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI.  Even EVGA makes an appearance every now and then but there is one other company which is trying to break into this market once again:  Sapphire.  With their new Pure Black X58, they hope to once again make an entry into [...]

AMD’s second generation DX11 lineup is finally starting to take full shape and the latest card is one which many have been eagerly anticipating.  Code named Antilles and officially called the HD 6990, it incorporates a pair of Cayman XT cores into a single PCB design which sports 4GB of GDDR5 and a sky high [...]

As the GTS 450 series has matured, board partners have come out with some unique products.  Sparkle has headlined their lineup with a single slot and overclocked card that hopes to strike a cord with HTPC users who are looking for more performance than integrated solutions can offer.

Gigabyte’s G1 Killer boards have finally been launched and to celebrate the occasion, they held a LAN party event which was open to the general public.  Hardware Canucks was there to cover it from start to finish.

After nearly two years of teasing us with tantalizing bits of information, Intel has finally launched their Light Peak technology which is now called Thunderbolt.  In this article, we will go through the story behind this promising new I/O standard and discuss the possibilities it brings to the table for a storage hungry market.

Gaming mice are usually known as feature rich yet slightly tacky looking peripherals which sometimes cost a small fortune.   SteelSeries’ attitude towards this niche is slightly different since they offer the same features as their competitors’ products but do so without resorting to designs that stick out like a sore thumb.  Their newest Xai [...]

SSDs have been stealing the limelight as of late but Western Digital is well on their way to heading off this push with their latest generation of Scorpio Black 2.5″ hard drives.  By offering a combination of performance, extremely high capacity for small form factor drives and low power consumption, they hope to offer up [...]

With the launch of NVIDIA’s GTX 560 Ti, many thought that the GTX 460 1GB would go quietly into the night but that hasn’t quite happened.  This card has gained a new lease on life with a lower price point and products like MSI’s Hawk Edition have continued to lead the way by offering high [...]

When it was originally released  a few weeks ago, NVIDIA’s GTX 560 Ti impressed us with its excellent performance coupled with a highly accessible price.  NVIDIA’s board partners have been quick to offer up some of their own custom overclocked versions and in this roundup we take a closer look at four such cards from [...]

The vast majority of the high performance CPU coolers on the market are currently designed in a tower-style format but Noctua is on a mission to change that with their new NH-C14.  The C14 uses a massive heatsink which comes equipped with a pair of low noise 140mm fans; a combination which is sure to [...]