The GTX 960 arrives as the ASUS STRIX OC DirectCU II

Nvidia’s new Maxwell architecture arrived in mid-September with the launch of the GTX 980 and the GTX 970, replacing the Kepler GTX 770, 780 and 780 Ti. Maxwell brought some amazing performance and energy-saving improvements at 28nm without moving to …

ASUS GTX 960 OC Performance results with 28 games

We received an ASUS GTX 960 STRIX OC Edition a week ago under NDA and are still benching for this review. In the meantime, here is what we call the “Big Picture” which will compare the $209 – just released …

CES 2015 – Wear it, Drive it, Watch it . . . It’s Coming

When you’re caught up in the magic of CES (Consumer Electronics Show), it’s pretty hard to tell what is going to be the next great movement/idea and what is going to be a yeah … but. It’s impossible to “see” …

GeForce WHQL 347.09 mini Performance Analysis

As part of a regular feature for BabelTechReviews, this short evaluation is comparing the performance of 28 benchmarks with the GeForce WHQL 347.09 driver release versus the last GeForce WHQL 344.75 drivers released previously. We realize that we are a …

33-game Platform Analysis with Devil’s Canyon & GTX 980 SLI

Is it time to upgrade from Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge or from Sandy Bridge? What about upgrading from the i7-4770K to Intel’s latest Devil’s Canyon CPU – the i7 4790K – in the pursuit of a few more good MHz? …

Maxwell Arrives! High Performance & Efficiency takes the crown

(This evaluation was originally published on AlienBabelTech by this author on September 18, 2014 as Nvidia’s NDA ended and was subsequently lost from the database in a hard drive crash in December and it has been republished and updated here) …

Using Kingston’s 240GB SSDNow mS200 mSATA as a caching drive

(This evaluation was originally published on AlienBabelTech by this author in early November, 2014 and was subsequently lost from the database in a hard drive crash and it has been republished and updated here) In April of 2014, Kingston announced …

Social Media … Targeted Marketing

Social Media … Targeted Marketing Until They Turn on You The world of new media – widgets and social applications – it’s a great big beautiful marketing hunting ground. Imagine people flocking to Web 2.0 locations where they blog. They …

Unboxing the GALAX GTX 970 EXOC

We just received a GALAX GTX 970 EXOC from GALAX that we will be putting through extreme performance testing this week using our recently updated 30-game benchmark suite. It is an exciting card that launched mid-September last year, about the …

Apple Scores

Apple Scores Just Enough to Put Big Points on the Board In the name of full disclosure: – I don’t worship at One Infinite Loop – I don’t have an Apple voodoo doll I do enjoy reading about the company’s …

GTX 980 SLI Backplate thermals & hands on with Nvidia’s lighted SLI bridges

(This evaluation was originally published by this author on Alienbabeltech in November and was subsequently lost in their database crash and has been restored here. It has been rewritten and expanded today to include the GTX 980’s Backplate thermal analysis …

The DRACONUM Aluminum Mouse Pad Evaluation

(This evaluation was published on AlienBabelTech by this author in Mid-September, 2014 and was subsequently lost from the database in a hard drive crash and it has been republished here) Tt eSports announced the release of the DRACONEM mouse pad …