Alienware has again pushed the envelope, producing one of the most powerful notebooks known to us Homo sapiens. The Area 51 m17x notebook is Alienware’s newest addition to its lineup and it surely will make its owner the subject of very pleasant geeky envy. Let us quickly breeze through its vital specs before you start thinking of bolstering your esteem by owning one.

At its heart is an Intel Core 2 Extreme processor with a…

Alienware gaming machines are a geek’s fashion statement. Their exorbitant price makes them a luxury confined to a few deep-pocketed, eclectic gamers. The high-end gaming PC manufacturer has unveiled the newest avatar of its flagship Area-51 7500 desktops.

The Alienware desktop comes armed with a NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI-based motherboard and…

The Chicago-based company Überclock hopes to offer consumers a cheap alternative with two new models of customized CPU’s, both of which utilize overclocking to boost system performance

Garage PC enthusiasts of the 1980’s and big CPU manufacturers like Intel needed to find a common ground which would let tech savvy consumers maximize performance without running the risk of destroying their equipment. Intel also wanted to make sure that it wouldn’t be “too easy to take a $170 chip and make it run as fast as the $975 model,” as the product site states.

The compromise is a line of overclock-friendly chips that had a price-graded component called a “multiplier,” which is unchangeable on all of the chip models except, of course, the most expensive one. The higher the multiplier, the easier it is to overclock your PC to ri-god-damn-diculous speeds. According to Überclock, this means “Intel gets to sell its processors at different price points, allows overclockers to do our thing, and manages to give us…

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Game rig maker, Vigor Gaming, will soon begin incorporating AMD/ATI’s new R600 Radeon 2900 XT graphics cards in its desktop gaming systems. The new graphics card, which retails for approximately $400 on its own, includes 320 stream processors, supports 128-bit HDR rendering, 512-bit memory interface with eight channels and native CrossFire support. Vigor’s systems are more »