My passion for computers and gaming started at an early age. I had my first computer in the 6th grade, and spent hours finding out how to break it, just so I could fix it again. By the time I graduated High School I had already received my CompTia A+ certification and had built many custom rigs. Weeks after completing High School, I entered the military as a Biomedical Equipment Technician. With that came much more complex and challenging systems that only expanded on my desire to learn more. Since finishing my enlistment I've turned my focus back to my passion of computer hardware, and hope to continue on that path until the day I die.
So, you need to know how to choose the right power supply for your PC? Well, if you stick around ModCrash you’ll hear me say this a million times, the one item you should never go cheap with is your power supply. I will probably repeat that a Read More…
Today we take a look at the Thermaltake Shock Spin HD Gaming Headset. If there was a quality versus performance ratio for gaming headsets, these would take the trophy. Priced at a modest $60, these things deliver sound like no other gaming headset in the $100 or below range.
For those of you who have been following the latest over about Intel Haswell, I have some interesting news to report. While doing my roundup of all the Haswell data I could find last night, I kept running across something about the L3 cache. I finally got around to doing Read More…
With the rumors flying around about the Intel Haswell CPU, I figured I’d do a little round up for you guys. I’ve gone through just about every site out there in attempts to find the most up to date and unique information I can find. Needless to say, Wikipedia appears to Read More…
While the MSI R7850 is not the top of the line in terms of graphics card, this card is still able to pack a punch. Considering the discontinuation of the HD7850 line, the price on these cards is also plummeting at the moment as manufacturers clear out inventory to stock replacement cards such Read More…
After days of Clixxer and I building our test bench, benchmarking lower end cards, and running through the same games over and over, we finally got around to the Gigabyte HD 7950. Seeing that I’ve only had the Gigabyte HD 7950 for two weeks, I was thrilled to finally put it through Read More…
If you recall the cancellation of the IGN IPL 6 event in Vegas, you’ll know that there were a lot of disgruntled IGN fans in the world. Many of them had already booked flights, hotels, and some had already arrived to the city for some pre-event partying. Once IPL Read More…