Canadian brothers and sisters! It’s your turn to experience the thrilling deals of the time known as pre-Black Friday. We’ve rounded up our favorite deals from NCIX Canada ahead of Black Friday. Get them while you can. For more advice on getting good deals on Black Friday, read our article on Black Friday 2015: How […]
AMD has just released the R9 380X, a mid-tier graphics card priced at $229. The short story is as follows: We have read the reviews (linked below), and the 380X is identical in price and in performance to last generation’s R9 280X. The long story is a bit more interesting. The R9 280X was released in […]
Good news for those living in the U.S.: Newegg is having a pre-Black Friday sale with some nice deals, including an incredibly powerful rice cooker! OK, maybe it’s just a normal rice cooker. But if you’re looking for a graphics cards, cases, or a good power supply, there are quite a few good deals in […]
If you’re anything like us, then the graphics card is your favorite part of a computer. Graphics cards let your computer do awesome things like super complex computations, physics processing, and most importantly, producing shiny graphics in games. So, what is a graphics card, and how do you figure out which one you should buy?
We recently posted a new video all about heatsink fans and how to pick out the right one for your PC. Check it out right here: And here’s all the info from the video, in case you prefer reading over watching: Something that every CPU shares in common is the fact that they get really […]
We recently posted a new video on our YouTube channel about CPUs and how to find a good one. It’s the first video in a series explaining the various components of a PC. The goal is to give people a slightly deeper understanding of each component, and give some practical advice on how to pick […]
AMD has launched its Radeon R9 Nano, a very tiny, yet very powerful graphics card. The Nano uses the same chip that is in the Fury X, but heavily binned and carefully power-controlled in order to bring down power consumption and thermals. So, how is the card?
This week, NVIDIA launched the smallest member of its Maxwell GPU family, the GTX 950. Launch prices range from $160 to $170, depending on manufacturer, landing the 950 firmly in the ‘mid-tier’ GPU category. After examining early reviews, we have added the new card to the Very Good tier on the U.S. parts list. Looking at […]
Intel’s latest CPU family, Skylake, has just launched with two new CPUs (the i5-6600K and i7-6700K), a new socket (1151), and a new chipset family for motherboard (Z170). These CPUs are on the 14nm manufacturing process, which is not strictly new (their previous generation, Broadwell, was on 14nm dies), but new when it comes to […]
AMD has released its second graphics card to utilize it’s new high-bandwidth memory, the R9 Fury. This follows the release of the R9 Fury X just a few weeks ago. After reading through reviews and benchmarks (linked below), we can confirm several expectations. The non-X Fury is definitely the “little brother” card to the $650 Fury […]