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Fragapalooza 2009 – Futurelooks Supports Canada’s Longest Running LAN Party

The name "Fragapalooza" should be familiar to regular readers of Futurelooks. This staple in the Canadian LAN gaming community has been reported on by us in the past by previous writers and we're back again wit... Continued

NZXT Panzerbox Classic Series Aluminum ATX Case Review

The LAN party. These gatherings of gamers and geeks can be big or small, but one thing is always a constant, and that is the need to portage you computer from its permanent resting place at your home to som... Continued

MSI 790FX-GD70 AM3 790FX Motherboard Review

So far we've reviewed two 790FX based motherboards for the AMD platform: one from GIGABYTE and the other from ASUS. They were both decent performers, with the GIGABYTE board edging out the ASUS and finding ... Continued

GIGABYTE GV-R489-1GH-B Radeon HD 4890 Video Card Review

In the war without end between the video card manufacturers, the leader of the pack is determined as much by how many levels of the market they can hit as it is by the manufacturer who can produce the faste... Continued

E3 Expo 2009: Fusion-io and the ioXtreme Kick Up Gaming Performance

The single biggest performance bottleneck in any computer is the storage solution. Mechanical hard drives are the oldest and most common method of storage, and have been the bottleneck in computing for a nu... Continued

E3 Expo 2009: Left 4 Dead 2 Brings More Zombie Splattering Fun

I'm a big fan of Valve Software and their games. I've logged many hours in TF2, introduced many to the wonders of Portal, and fought the good fight in Half Life 2. Due to this, plus the incessant nagging of... Continued

Asus M4A79T Deluxe AM3 790FX Motherboard Review

AMD has been having an interesting week in the news. They been taking both money and market share from Intel. So I guess it's both appropriate and strangely coincidental that I've been focusing on a lot of ... Continued

GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 790FX Motherboard Review

Hot on the heals of our recent AMD platform showdown, it was decided that we take a closer look at some of the individual components that make up these systems. We've already gone over the Asus M3A78-T, whi... Continued

AMD Platform Showdown – Spider vs. Dragon vs. Dragon Reloaded

The sale of platforms vs individual components have been things that both AMD and INTEL have played with. INTEL had some early success with their Centrino mobile platform, and caused such a stir amongst mobile ... Continued

Asus M3A78-T AMD AM2+/AM3 DDR2 Motherboard Review

Whenever CPU manufacturers decide it's time to change key features of their processors, there's always a transition time where you are left deciding if you want to move to the new features or keep what you ... Continued

Lian Li MAXIMA Force Extreme PS-A650GB 650W Power Supply Review

Unless a computer has components installed in multiples, it's power needs usually aren't high enough to warrant a large power supply. Ever the most modern of systems only needs a power supply rated between ... Continued

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB Hard Drive Review

As hard drive sizes continue to balloon, we are constantly bombarded with the one and singular question that guides our choice when it comes to the storage in our systems: Do we want a hard drive that has incre... Continued

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