October 2012 - Page 2 of 2

Kickstarter and Game Development: Highlighting Games Coming to Linux Part 1

October 11, 2012 Stratus_ss 22

With the ‘rediscovery’ of Kickstarter by many game studios, both independent and well known developers have taken to crowd sourcing their games for Linux. In this multi-part series, I have contacted many developers who have confirmed Linux versions of their game.

MSI GTX 650 Ti Power Edition Graphics Card Review

October 9, 2012 Dino DeCesari 12

It’s another Kepler launch day for NVIDIA! The thrust behind this launch is to bridge the price/performance gap between the GTX 650 and GTX 660. This time around the GTX 650 Ti takes center stage. The MSI GTX 650 Ti Power edition will be our specimen as we dive in for a look at this new NVIDIA GPU architecture.

Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 Case Review

October 8, 2012 Ed Hume 5

Nanoxia, who brings us fine fans, has taken the plunge and brought us their first case: the Deep Silence 1. Is this a silent monolith? Let’s see – and hear. Nanoxia is a German company best known for their green bladed fans and nanotechnology fan bearings. You can hear the composite in their name. They pride themselves on their “German Engineering.”

Overclockers’ Rig-o’-the-Month for September 2012

October 7, 2012 Jeremy Vaughan 8

Our winner for September was adamelmore. Stop in and check out his very clean dual-HD 7970 monster!

Project Rhapsody in Red – Completed!

October 5, 2012 Jeremy Vaughan 12

It has been a long time coming and thankfully this project, Rhapsody in Red (named after a song written & performed by my band in college), is finally complete. Stop in and check out what some great looking fans, cables and a case-matching fan controller can do to really make your build pop!

SteelSeries Sensei: MLG Edition Mouse Review

October 4, 2012 Don Fisher 12

SteelSeries is one of the premier gaming peripheral manufacturers in the world, with products ranging from keyboards and headphones to mice and mouse pads. As one of the prominent sponsors for E-Sports, SteelSeries brought in two dozen professional gamers to weigh-in on what features of a mouse are the most important. SteelSeries used this feedback to craft the SteelSeries Sensei.

Sapphire Launches Pure Platinum A85XT Motherboard

October 3, 2012 Matt Ring 8

Now that the cat is out of the bag with Trinity, AMD’s latest APU, motherboard manufacturers are announcing their product offerings geared towards the new platform. First up is a beefy board from Sapphire, the Pure Platinum A85XT motherboard.

ADATA Gaming Series DDR3-2400 8GB RAM Kit Review

October 3, 2012 Jeremy Vaughan 30

RAM, RAM and more RAM! I love RAM reviews. Pity I haven’t had time to write two of the kits that arrived here. You saw those reviews from Lvcoyote and EarthDog, respectively (thanks for the assist guys!). There was time to review this ADATA DDR3-2400G kit and the results do not disappoint. Let’s get straight to it and dig into this nice looking set of RAM.

NVIDIA Says No to Voltage Control

October 2, 2012 Matthew Green 94

It has come to our attention that NVIDIA is making sure that there will be no voltage control for their GK100 line up. The news comes via a forum post at the EVGA forums (which we confirmed independently) and it’s not pretty as far as overclockers are concerned.

AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU Review

October 2, 2012 Dino DeCesari 31

AMD’s 2012 A-Series platform has arrived, and with it, some exciting new technologies. The code name ‘Trinity’ has been assigned to this latest AMD APU offering, which features the introduction of a new x86 core architecture, called ‘Piledriver’. So, let’s have a look at this Trinity APU and see what the new technologies bring to the table.