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Entries for April, 2011

Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Review

I recently bought the Razer BlackWidow Ultimate gaming keyboard, and have since been very happy with it. The main feature of the keyboard is that it is a mechanical keyboard, meaning that it uses individual switches under each key instead of a membrane. The type of switches used in the BlackWidow Ultimate (and its non-backlit […]

Best GPU Overclock Software: MSI Afterburner

Being an extreme computing fan, I’ve been involved with overclocking for a long time. GPUs overclock very differently than CPUs do, because for the most part, they do not have a user editable BIOS. (There are tools out there for making custom BIOSes but they have a high tendency to brick graphics cards, so I […]