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The market is rife with hardware video transcoders and software that can take advantage of them. However, making sense of that jungle of disparate offerings...

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With an 180-mm intake fan and room for high-end video cards, Silverstone's Temjin TJ08-E Evolution looks well-equipped to take on mid-tower cases. Except it's...

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Cooler Master's latest creation is a follow-up to the revered Cosmos line of enthusiast enclosures. We put this super-sized newbie through its paces...

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If you'll humor me, I'd like to take a brief break from all the CES coverage to complain about the sad state of Blu-ray on...

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The P280 is Antec's latest flagship enclosure, and it's got a big reputation to live up to. We dig in to see if...

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Gabe Newell said something that caught my eye the other day. As part of a broader interview with The Cambridge Student, Newell shared some...

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Fractal Design has a new budget enclosure that costs just $65. We take a closer at the Core 3000 to see if it warrants...

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Corsair set its sights on the budget case market with the Carbide 400R. We go hands on to see if it brings the...

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Recently, I supplemented my desktop's arsenal of hardware with a stand-alone Asus Xonar DX sound card. This upgrade was something of a shot in...

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Up until very recently, I had been able to remain faithful to my home-theater PC. Well, that's not entirely true. I've gone through...

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For just $65, Thermaltake's Element Q Mini-ITX chassis offers a 200W PSU, support for 5.25" optical drives, and subtle styling reminiscent of the Golf GTI....

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Fractal Design has concocted a USB 3.0 revision of its stylish Define R3 mid-tower chassis. We go hands-on to see if its beauty...

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For just $40, the Xonar U3 squeezes headphone and microphone jacks, an S/PDIF output, EAX emulation, speaker virtualization, and Dolby Digital Live support into...

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This oddball enclosure from Silverstone turns age-old concepts on their head: the motherboard tray is rotated 90 degrees, several drive bays sit directly behind...

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We're taking an in-depth look at the Shinobi Window, a mainstream mid-tower enclosure from the folks at Bit Fenix. We've run the case through...

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The NZXT H2 mid-tower case combines good looks, spacious internals, and attention to acoustic detail. Does it represent a solid value for computer enthusiasts? ...

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