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DIAMOND 4890PE51GXOC Radeon HD 4890 1GB Video Card Review

Jason Landals — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:30:53 +0000

With the release of the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of video cards, I’ve been slowly retiring the 4800 series cards I’ve been using in my test rig for the past 18 months. This changing of the seasons inspired me to build another new main rig that features all AMD hardware, including two video cards [...]

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The Great Ultra Products 750 Watt Power Supply Tweetaway!

Stephen Fung — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:34:25 +0000

Futurelooks is back with yet another great Tweetaway! This time we’re giving away something that every computer enthusiast needs for their custom gaming or high performance machine… We recently reviewed one of Ultra Products new X4 Series Power Supplies and found it to be compact, quiet, well built, and most importantly modular. Add to that Ultra [...]

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Tekken 6 Limited Edition Bundle for Xbox 360 Reviewed

Michael Kwan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:50:25 +0000

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of fighting games and 2009 has been a good year for fighting game fans. We’ve been treated to Street Fighter IV, King of Fighters XII, Blazblue, and more. One of the newest titles to arrive in my living room is Tekken 6. Rather than just getting the [...]

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Corsair Dominator 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Memory Review

Eric Garay — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:08:10 +0000

Every so often we receive questions from readers asking for a recommendation on some new dual channel DDR3 compatible with P55 motherboards. It can be confusing to figure out what would be “enough” to get the job done. Basically, that depends on the purpose of the system and if overclocking might be something you’ll tinker [...]

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Futurelooks Fall 2009 Cell Phone Accessory Roundup

Michael Kwan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:46:28 +0000

Half of the fun of owning a cell phone is looking for all the fun accessories that you can buy to go with it. We ran down some of the coolest cell phone accessories back in Spring of this year. It’s time again that we take another whirlwind tour to see what else is hot [...]

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Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive Review

Eric Garay — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:00:05 +0000

Despite the rapid price drops of decent sized solid state drives, pricing limits them from reaching the average consumer. The marketing has also convinced us that it takes the largest and flashiest hard drives to get the best performance which means we might not buy today. Granted, today’s platter drives are impressive versus those from [...]

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Ultra Products X4 1050W Modular ATX Power Supply Review

Jason Landals — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:41:41 +0000

Big computer systems require big power. Does your computer have multiple video cards? How about multiple hard drives? What about elaborate cooling and lighting? Maybe even “all of the above”? Well, you will need a power supply with a lot of watts to power all that gear. But what about the rats nest of cabling [...]

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ASRock P55 Deluxe LGA1156 ATX Motherboard Review

Eric Garay — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:53:49 +0000

A couple years ago, ASRock, a seemingly quiet motherboard company decided to change the way they do business in hopes of stepping up their image as well as taking some market share for themselves. This meant that any and every motherboard they produced had to see big changes in function, form, and performance. Yes, that [...]

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A Futurelooks Guide to Seven Video Games that Shaped Mainstream Society

Michael Kwan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:11:49 +0000

Most people recognize that mainstream society has a direct effect on the video game industry. It is largely because of the popularity of The Dark Knight movie that people got interested in the Batman: Arkham Asylum video game. However, the reverse is also just as true. Gaming culture has come to infiltrate our daily lives, [...]

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Corsair Hydro Series H50 High-Performance CPU Cooler Review

Jason Landals — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:03:36 +0000

Water cooling still manages to give the heebie-jeebies to even the most seasoned of enthusiasts. The relative difficulty of setup, maintenance requirements, and overall costs are still off putting factors to even those used to overclocking their CPU to the breaking point. Although fairly benign with modern coolants, cooking those components in a pool of [...]

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