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Holiday Hardware: Looking For Deals This Holiday?
Until December 24th, 2010: Are you looking for ideas to get your fellow hardware fanatics this holiday season, or perhaps want to indulge in the holiday deals for yourself? For the past month or so and until the holidays end, Newegg has their Holiday Sweepstakes, so I have gathered some of the best hardware promotional codes and deals from Newegg that …
Cheap RAM – G Skill 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1600 Only $99?
A quick RAM buyig tip here to anyone wanting to purchase a ton of DDR3 Ram for cheap: If you go to Newegg they have 8GB (2x4GB) G.Skill Ripjaws Series DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory for $99.99 when you enter code EMCZNZT38 at checkout with free shipping. That is a pretty good deal for 8GB of RAM if you ask me!
How to: Choose a Computer Case for Your Gaming PC Build
When building a gaming PC and have chosen all of the hardware parts you want for your build, you have to then have somewhere to assemble and put them into. In this article I discuss four steps that you should go through when making the decision as to which computer case you should purchase. Four Things to Keep in Mind …
The Release of Sandy Bridge: January 5th, 2011
The introduction of the Sandy Bridge processor will be January 5th, 2011 at the 2011 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show). It was recently stated on the anandtech website that both Gary Key (former AT Motherboard Editor, current ASUS Technical Marketing Manager), and Michael Lavacot (an Intel Consumer Field Application Engineer) will be hosting a webcast on the topic of Sandy …
Some Minor Updates to the Fourth Tier Gaming Build
I changed a few things in the Fourth Tier Gaming Build which include the addition of the SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive allowing more hard drive space while using a quality hard drive. As well I have changed the Radeon HD 5770 for a MSI N460GTX Twin Frozr II SOC …
The Third Tier Gaming Build Updated!
I just finished updating the Third Tier Gaming Build. Although the older build came in at around $600, the new one comes in at $630, but it is well worth it. As with the Second Tier Gaming Build I swapped the older 320GB Western Digital hard drive for a better SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ …
The $530 Second Tier Gaming Build Now $510 – With Upgrades!
The $530 Second Tier gaming build has been updates with a few minor (but exciting!)upgrades and is also price $20 cheaper than before. I swapped the older Western Digital 320 GB hard drive for a better SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive which gives you a much bigger hard drive, and …
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Has Been Released
About a month ago NVIDIA had released the GeForce GTX 580 and had tremendous success with it as a high end graphics card, and now they have released the GeForce GTX 570 at rough price bracket of $349. This is exciting news for anyone looking for a higher end card for cheap, and as the GeForce GTX 570 is pretty …
Call of Duty: Black OPS – PC System Requirements
Call of Duty Black ops was released November 9, 2010 and since has had mixed reviews, such as the critics hailing the game as a “…very well executed game” where the users tend to claim the game has some graphical and gameplay issues according to PR – Product Reviews. Regardless, the game managed to sell 5.6 million units in the …
AMD's New Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Processors: Fastest to Date
The new Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Processor from AMD is officially the fastest AMD processor to date (released today). The 1100T has an unlocked chip allowing it to have flexible overclocking potential: Hence “Black Edition”. Below I have included the AMD Phenom II X6 Processors and how they compare to one another: AMD Phenom™ II X6 Processor Model# …
World of Warcraft Cataclysm: Hardware To Play Cataclysm on Ultra Settings
Want to run Cataclysm on Ultra Settings? If you are wanting a gaming build that will run Cataclysm on Ultra Settings come check out the Gaming PC Builds of the Month Page to check out the latest gaming PC builds here at Newb Computer Build. In Blizzards most recent release in the World of Warcraft series we see that an ancient …