Donny Stanley

Donny is a PC hardware enthusiast and lover of all things tech. He spends more time reading and learning about new technology than he does with his loved ones (they're pretty upset about that). He also enjoys playing video games and not getting eaten by sharks.

Intel Releases Long-Overdue Broadwell Desktop CPUs – Computex 2015 Update

While the first products featuring Intel’s Broadwell micro-architecture were released last fall, problems with yields for their latest 14nm manufacturing process lead to long delays in the release of some products, which forced Intel to delay the full Broadwell rollout. Today, marks the latest, and presumably final phase in their Broadwell cycle, with the release of five new higher-performance quad-core processors, …

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Patriot Unveils Line of Viper Gaming Accessories

Today Patriot – a company known for making desktop memory, flash storage, as well as a variety of mobile accessories – has announced a new line of Viper gaming accessories. The newly unveiled line consists of four products, which include an RGB Keyboard, 7.1 Virtual Surround Sound Headset, and a pair of gaming mice. V760 VIPER MECHANICAL GAMING KEYBOARD The first …

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Phanteks Releases New Enthoo EVOLV ATX PC Chassis

Today, Phanteks has announced that they’ll be releasing an all-new entry into their premium EVOLV chassis lineup, this time catering to the large amount of users who want space for a full-sized ATX motherboard. The aptly named Enthoo EVOLV ATX will be available in two colors Black, or ‘Anthracite Gray’ (pictured above), and features the same design guidelines and premium …

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The Witcher 3 PC – How Does It Run?

The Witcher 3 is definitely one of the most highly anticipated game releases this year, and as the follow-up to developer CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher 2 – which was one of the most graphically intense PC game when it was released – it has some big shoes to fill. There’s been lots of talk about the game being downgraded …

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DeepCool Captain 360 Liquid CPU Cooler Review

All-in-one liquid coolers, while being an incredibly easy way to get to liquid cool your CPU, are also generally boring when it comes to aesthetics, offering not much more than a plain black radiator and pump design. However, the subject of this review seems to breakaway from the norms. DeepCool is a company that specializes in PC cooling and accessories, in addition …

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XFX R9 280 Double Dissipation Graphics Card Review

XFX is a company that specializes in making top-performing graphics cards, power supplies, and computer accessories for gamers and enthusiasts alike. In the world of desktop graphics, they are known to offer best in class warranty, and customer service. So naturally when they asked us to take a look at one of the older cards in their lineup, the XFX AMD Radeon …

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EVGA Enters the Desktop Memory Market with New Superclocked DDR3 and DDR4

Graphics card manufacturer, EVGA, has recently entered the desktop memory market, introducing a wide variety of new, competitively priced DDR3, and DDR4 memory kits to the market, which are currently available exclusively at Microcenter (in-store only). The company, which is new to the DRAM market, has released a total of 10 separate kits under their Superclocked and SuperSC (Super-Superclocked) brands, …

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Leaked Image Possibly Reveals the Long Awaited AMD Radeon R9 390X

Hot off the news of AMD’s future from their Financial Analyst Day, we’ve got some newly leaked images courtesy of the folks over at WCCF Tech. The outlet claims to have acquired some exclusive images of the not yet announced AMD Radeon R9 390x – nomenclature unconfirmed – which is based on AMD’s upcoming flagship, ultra-enthusiast Fiji XT graphics core. The …

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AMD Zen Architecture Officially Detailed – Promises 40% IPC Gain Over Excavator

AMD laid out the company’s future to their investors at their financial analyst day, yesterday, and what a future it is. While the company denied the legitimacy of the recently leaked investor presentation, which supposedly offered detailed specifics for their upcoming ‘Zen’ CPU architecture, they did offer some worthwhile details of said architecture. AMD’s ‘Zen’ is a completely new design, …

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DeepCool Tristellar mini-ITX PC Chassis to Release in June

This year at CES one of the most interesting things we saw was a crazy-looking mini-ITX case from DeepCool – a Chinese company best known for PC cooling – called the Tristellar.  DeepCool has recently created quite a splash in the PC chassis market, with some very interesting designs, the Tristellar being just the latest in their line of niche cases. The …

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