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The newly announced 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family is their next generation of 64-bit, multi-core processors built on 22-nanometer process technology. Ivy Bridge is the successors to the Sandy Bridge processor family, and should become available to purchase at retail on April 29, 2012. The new Ivy Bridge processor offerings are the Intel Core i7-3770K, Intel Core i7-3770, Intel Core i7-3770S, Intel Core i7-3770T, Intel Core i5- 3570K, Intel Core i5-3550, Intel Core i5-3550S, Intel Core i5-3570T, Intel Core i5-3450, and Intel Core i5-3450S Processors.

Corsair Vengeance DDR3 memory in an Ivy Bridge test rig

Intel always manages to assign some interesting code names to their chipsets and to their processors. For example, their two latest enthusiast product announcements are code named Panther Point (chipset) and Ivy Bridge (CPU). Although our corresponding secretive code names aren't secret, it's always great fun to use some Vengeance® memory to learn about the new products and of course see how they perform and overclock!

In August of 2006, Corsair entered the power supply market with 2 now legendary PSUs — the HX520 and HX620. I won’t say we entered the market with a bang or with a splash as those are two sounds one should never associate with PSUs.

With the launch of the Vengeance 2000 wireless gaming headset, I’d like to take a look at some technology in the Vengeance 2000 that’s been in our headsets since we launched our first model, the HS1, a year and a half ago: 50mm drivers.

Corsair will be at PAX East this weekend in Boston, MA from the 6th through the 9th. Since PAX began in 2004 their annual shows in Boston and Seattle have become two of the largest gaming events of the year in North America, and and everyone at Corsair is exited to be a part of it. If you're attending come visit us at booth #1150 in the Exhibition Hall.

I did a video in October on how to overclock your CPU using liquid nitrogen, this time I show you how to overclock your graphics cards using LN2. It covers preparing the GPU, installing the liquid nitrogen pot and getting started overclocking.

I don't know about you guys but I am a bit of a pack rat. I hate to throw certain things away and especially if there is some sentimental value. As a perfect example, I was doing some cleaning today in my bench area and ran across 3 "nekkid" D9GMH modules I used a few years back doing some sub zero memory clocking with some ghetto mod DICE pots. I bench tested them and they are all dead now so it's time to toss them. I'm really going to miss them.

Spring is in the air. Spring brings about many things such as showers, flowers and spring cleaning. And, many times a spring cleaning job becomes so much more work than you initially thought it would but, that's not always a bad thing!

In August of 2011, we published a blog post using an Obsidian Series® 650D Mid-Tower Case. The goal for that system was for it be silent, or as close to silent as we could get it. That worked out pretty well. It worked out so well in fact that this has been my daily driver since that time and it has performed flawlessly.

Back in November of 2011, we brought you a build log focused on AMD's Llano APU. The log was based around the then, top of the Llano line AMD 3850K APU. The build log was very well received and highlighted the benefits of building a very power and cost efficient system. We've revisited the original testing with an APU upgrade, AMD's Dual Graphics, and a Corsair Accelerator Series SSD Cache Drive. And, the pricing is even better after a visit to Tiger Direct!

Before I started overclocking I used to game every day, but eventually I started dedicating all of my hardware and time to extreme overclocking. With the launch of Battlefield 3 and our Vengeance gaming keyboards and mice I recently started to game again. I even started playing Counter Strike and a few other games too. During this gaming resurgance I again ran into an issue that always caused me trouble in the past. I am always changing PCs, reformatting, or changing hardware due to my extreme overclocking addiction. Because of this, I found that I rarely feel like re-installing my games so I can play them. In ordert to solve this issue I now install my games to a 64GB Flash Voyager GT USB 3.0 drive. With read speeds of 135MB/s and write speeds of 83MB/s it is more than fast enough to handle games.