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Continue reading →: Photokina
The big camera tradeshow Photokina is happening now, there are some pretty interesting developments and some might call it the most interesting in years. The biggest news to me overall is that Sony is really leveraging their sensor development (24MP) and standard lense (E-mount) to produce a single family that…
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Continue reading →: iPhone 5 at 8M in a weekend
Wow this is pretty incredible from macrumors.com, shows the shipment rate of the iPhone, basically the original sold 1M units in the first 74 days. Not bad. But with the Iphone 4S, they sold 1M in the first 24 *hours*. The iPhone 5 announcement was they sold 2M in the…
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Gamer PC Mouse Pads Razor Goliathus Control M
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Continue reading →: Gamer PC Mouse Pads Razor Goliathus Control MGaming mouse pads. Wow talk about major specialty items, but if you’ve ever played a FPS then you know how important speed and accuracy is, so the Steelseries QcK and the Razor Vespula look good. On Amazon, the massively big Steelseries QcK Heavy, QcK+ have great reviews as does the the Razer Scarab Expert Hard…
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Gamer PC Mice Logitech G9x or G500
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Continue reading →: Gamer PC Mice Logitech G9x or G500Here is a list of the best gaming mice. It took a while to wade through lots of reviews, here are some folks seem to like: Logitech G9x. This has been around for years (well since 2009) and seems to get good reviews from folks who like big fat clunky mice that…
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Gamer PC Monitor Apple Cinema Display
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Continue reading →: Gamer PC Monitor Apple Cinema DisplayWith AMD, you can use three smaller 22″ monitors to get a gamers view, but for us, a single bigger 27″ or even 30″ display is easier to look at and it would be nice if they were 3-D capable since heck why not. They are huge at 2560×1440 lines…
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Gamer PC Speakers not really needed
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Continue reading →: Gamer PC Speakers not really neededNormally we don’t get super fancy speakers as most of our work is actually going to be gaming with headphones and it is hard to crank things, so we will probably stick with a simple 2.1 system like the JBL Creative systems that we already have. If you do want…
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Gamer PC Headphones Corsair Vengeance 1500
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Continue reading →: Gamer PC Headphones Corsair Vengeance 1500Gaming headsets are really important as they help you figure out where people are shooting at you by sound. Tom’s Hardware had a roundup Corsair Vengence 1500. I’m still looking through those, but Tom’s Hardware had a good overview. They like the Corsair Vengence 1500 and say the virtual 7.1 sound is…
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Continue reading →: Gamer PC Sound Card isn't needed
The main question is, do you really need a dedicated sound card. Depends on the motherboard you’ve selected. With the ASUS P8Z77-V (a PC Magazine Editors Choice), you get onboard full 7 channel sound including an optical SP/DIF output and analog RCA jacks, so no need for this
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Continue reading →: Gamer PC Power Supply Kingwin LZP-1000 Platinum
Well power supplies don’t seem to have changed much. People are still using ATX connectors and so forth. In fact I have a relatively quiet 750W ATX power supplly around somewhere from five years ago and it seems like it should work. But Tom’s Hardware and SilentPCReview.com did a overview of…
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Continue reading →: Gamer PC Cases NZXT Switch 810
The biggest issue with cases is having something that is small but big enough to work in. And if you are going to liquid cooling, something that can actually handle a huge radiator. Tom’s Hardware did a great review of full sized ATX cases that are actually big enough to…
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