I remember that back in my grade school days, a field trip was a real treat. Even if the place we visited was not all that interesting, at least it was a day out of school. The best trips of course were those that were in fact fun and interesting.
Building a quality gaming rig doesn't take thousands of dollars if you choose your components carefully. With this in mind I set out to build a gaming rig that could handle any of today's games including Crysis 3 for under $1000. I priced the entire build out on Newegg and came in at $937.92 before tax and shipping. Let's start the build and take a look at the components I chose.
The Hydro Series™ H100i is a high performance all in one liquid CPU cooler from Corsair. The H100i is similar to other Hydro Series CPU coolers from with a few exceptions, the main one being that the H100i uses a longer 240mm radiator. Luckily most Corsair PC cases will support the H100i and this blog will serve to illustrate the installation process. In this artice I will be installing the cooler into a Vengeance Series C70 case.
Building a PC today is more than just about performance, aesthetics play a large role as well. Corsair Dominator Platinum memory goes well with any of today's motherboards and our Vengeance memory offers a variety of colors. To give you an idea how your board will look with our Dominator Platinum or Vengeance memory we photographed seven popular motherboards. Here is a list of current motherboards that have photos. Click on the motherboard name to see all of the photos as well as all of the compatible memory. We will continue to add new motherboards so be sure to check our blog or follow us onFacebook.
Replacing commonly used ICs with a digital signal processor in the Corsair AXi Series PSUs has many benefits. Today, I'm going to explain the functions of the components that are replaced within the Corsair Digital power supplies and how these changes benefit the end user.
Corsair Link has recently been updated to version 2, and what this means for users is that usability, compatibility and general functionality have all been greatly improved. The update coincides with two new product lines that have recently been updated to include Corsair Link support, right out of the box. These two product lines are the new AXi series PSUs, and the Hydro Series H100i and H80i CPU coolers. These "i" (intelligent) devices do not require any extra hardware to be purchased in order to utilize the Corsair Link V2 software — support for Corsair Link is built in. These both simplify the setup of Corsair Link, and lower the barrier of entry for people wanting to take advantage of the system monitoring and control that Corsair Link can provide.
Much has been written about overprovisioning and its implementation on SSDs. In short, overprovisioning, or OP, is a portion of storage space on an SSD that is reserved for use only by the SSD controller. The three most common uses for this space are wear leveling, the replacement of bad blocks, and read-modify-writes. Overprovisioning serves to help increase both the longevity and performance of SSDs and it is a very common practice among SSD manufacturers.
However, some users would like to be able to buy their SSDs without the built in overprovisioning and make the decision to OP, or not to OP for themselves. They prefer the flexibility of deciding for themselves when to OP and how much space to use based on their specific needs. Corsair has announced and is now offering SSDs without this overprovisioned space.
Upgrading the Dominator® Platinum DDR3 memory with the Dominator Platinum Light Bar Upgrade Kit will let you customize your Dominator Platinum modules with a new look. A set of two modules can easily be upgraded in approximately 15 minutes. You can choose between the clear lens for a white glow or the blue lens for a blue glow.
The Voyager Air™ portable wireless drive is an amazingly flexible and innovative drive. The list of compatibilities and features is extremely impressive and makes this drive the ultimate in portable storage. There is an almost endless variety of ways to utilize a Voyager Air drive.
Upgrading your laptop memory is a very simple process and only takes 10-15 minutes. The laptop I am using is the HP Envy 4-1030US which comes standard with a 4GB 1600MHz memory module. I am going to upgrade it to 16GB of our Vengeance 1866MHz (CMSX16GX3M2A1866C10) laptop memory. This will not only help the overall performance of the machine but it will dramatically help the integrated graphics performance.
