November 1st, 2009

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Hardware components

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 9:30 pm

Categories: Holiday Gift Guide

Tags: Video Card, Board, Hardware Component, Graphics, Intel Corp., V-Studio 100, Corporate Governance, Video Cards, Business Operations, Corporate Law

As the holiday season approaches, people start thinking about gift ideas. To help you give (or receive) the perfect holiday gift this year I’ve put together a list of five cool tech gift ideas for hardware components.

Check it out!

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December 8th, 2008

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Geek gifts ideas

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 6:07 am

Categories: Holiday Gift Guide

Tags: Hardware, Geek, Find, Gameplay, Corporate Governance, Games, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology

Lists … if there’s one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it’s lists. In the run up to the Holidays I’ve planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit.

Today allow me to present some gift ideas for the geek that seems to have everything!

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Geek gifts ideas gallery

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December 6th, 2008

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Gifts for the energy-conscious

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 2:20 am

Categories: Holiday Gift Guide

Tags: PC, Energy, Watt, Kill, Desktops, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Lists … if there’s one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it’s lists. Throughout December I’ve planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit.

Today’s list contains gift ideas for people trying to keep their tech energy bills down.

Check out the Gifts for the energy-conscious image gallery!

Kill A Watt

Know exactly how much energy your gadgets are consuming with a Kill A Watt. Just connect your devices to the Kill A Watt and get an instant readout of the overall energy consumption. With the Kill A Watt you can also forecast your costs and monitor voltage, line frequency and power factor.

Using a Kill A Watt you can find out how much energy your PC is using or how much your TV consumes when on standby. This will make you think before leaving some on or plugged in unnecessarily.

Price: Between $25 and $50 | Find out more: Kill A Watt

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November 21st, 2008

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget hardware

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 4:54 am

Categories: Hardware, Holiday Gift Guide, Industry

Tags: ASUS, Board, Power Supply, Intel Core 2 Duo, 300W Power Supply Unit, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors

Lists … if there’s one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it’s lists. Over the next few weeks I’ve planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit.

The other day I posted the “high end” hardware list, crazy-priced, sky’s-the-limit stuff. Today I’m going for a change of pace and posting the budget hardware list.

NOTE: Each time I come out with a list of kit I always end up fielding a few emails and comments from people wondering if companies have “bought” space on the list. Let me tell you now that the only way for a product to get on this list is to be the best - period. Manufacturers, vendors and PR companies have zero influence over this or any other recommendation that I make.

Quick menu

• CPU
• Motherboard
• Graphics card
• Hard drive
• RAM
• Power Supply Unit (PSU)

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November 19th, 2008

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: High-end hardware

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 2:22 pm

Categories: Hardware, Holiday Gift Guide, Industry, Performance

Tags: Kit, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ASUS, Card, Board, Bay, Motherboard, CPU, Creative Labs Inc.

Lists … if there’s one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it’s lists. Over the next few weeks I’ve planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit.

To kick off the lists, I thought I’d start by getting the big numbers out of the way first and look at high-end hardware! The top-end, sky’s the limit stuff that, if nothing else, is cool to look at and fantasize about (and in a few months be able to pick up for a middle-of-the-road price!).

NOTE: Each time I come out with a list of kit I always end up fielding a few emails and comments from people wondering if companies have “bought” space on the list. Let me tell you now that the only way for a product to get on this list is to be the best - period. Manufacturers, vendors and PR companies have zero influence over this or any other recommendation that I make.

Quick menu

• CPU
• Motherboard - Socket LGA 1366
• Motherboard - Socket LGA 775
• Motherboard - Socket AM2/AM2+
• Graphics cards
• Hard drives
• RAM
• Sound card
• Speakers
• PSU
• Case

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