I picked up one of these headsets because as a PC gamer, I felt that having voice com ability in online games is just an essential part that makes it a lot more fun. As a new PS3 gamer though, I didn't realize that hardly anyone was talking in online games. This was sort of a letdown, but it's nice to have I guess, at least I have the option to start talking.It's really similar to m...

My first thought was a resounding "wow" when I saw this and realized it's 16 Gigabytes in a little postage-stamp sized SD card. Then I thought how many photos on max settings with my 8MP Point & Shoot camera I can take, and over 2 hours of video at 30FPS and 640x480 resolution. Apparently, I'm not the only one who recognized the nice price drop these cards are getting. I l...

DDR2 could probably be called the most popular choice of RAM among current-generation system builders. With Windows Vista becoming the target for gamers wanting to play in DX10, people are increasing their RAM amounts to compensate for all of vistas slowdowns and memory hogging. 4 Gigabytes is being called the sweet spot by many, with 8 Gigs being the future for power users on vista. 2 gigs wou...

Luckily for Creative, there isn't a whole lot of intense competition in the sound card industry. Most enthusiasts and gamers end up buying a Creative-based soundcards because a lot of newer games have actual settings for their cards, the X-Fi in particular. This variant of the X-Fi, known as the Xtreme Music version, is not the big bells and whistles gamer version of the X-Fi. That would be...

This is one of the plethora of cordless phones it seems that are in the stores nowadays. I couldn't even find a good stock picture of this phone, and I thought it was a newer model! Nevertheless, just because it's old (I guess), doesn't mean it's no good.  It has a sleek silver plastic body similar to the other panasonic cordless phones out there. The battery life is pretty...

The Xbox 360 is obviously a very popular console. It's sales speak for it. The game selection is larger than it's other two competitors since it had a whole year on them. The price really isn't too bad either. So, why am I giving the Xbox 360 such low marks? Simple, because of the failure rate. Yes, if you're at all tuned in to the world of Xbox 360, you've heard of the...

I owned an 8800GTX that I had bought in October of 2007 for $550. That was appx. 1 year into that cards lifecycle, which means that price is pretty ridiculous. Now, out comes this 8800GT, which has a bit less memory and bus size, but by most benchmarks, it's performing almost as well and uses a lot less power and produces a lot less heat. Oh, and did I mention it costs less than half the pr...

I bought some of this because, well, more or less because it was on sale 2 for the price of 1, and you know, deodorant is deodorant. This is pretty standard stuff in a sortof cool looking container. It's white, doesn't leave a residue from what I can see, and it has a fairly simple elevator that you turn, and it clicks. I guess that's why they call it "Clix". Yeah, not too...

Ever since I started using ebay years ago, I've had a paypal account. It's widely-accepted as the most popular means of online cash transfer on ebay at least, and probably many other places. About 2 years ago, Paypal started advertising a Paypal mastercard-logo debit card for free to paypal users! I thought, hmm, you know, I do sell a lot of junk on ebay from time to time, and it would ...

This is by far one of the best programs I've seen out there for "getting ripped". The problem these days with a lot of exercise equipment and instructional ads is they promise all of these results and you look at the effort you have to put in and it just doesn't really push you. That's not the case with this product. This product is one of the most intense you'll find,...

The Canon Powershot SD870 IS as it's known in North America (called the IXUS 860 in other regions), is one of Canon's ELPH line point & shoot digital cameras. It boasts 8 Megapixels, pretty good by todays standards for this type of camera, though some would argue that is overkill for the tiny CCD sensors in these types of cameras, afterall, it's not a DSLR, but if you want the e...

Razer is well known among gamers for their ever-growing range of gaming mice. One of their more recent, the Deathadder, is a breath of fresh air to some of the right-handers that have been yearning to break free of the universal style grip previous Razer mice like the diamondback and copperhead offered.  I'm one of those people, and yes, the right-handers mold of the Deathadder is nice...

Ahh, another ergonomic keyboard from Microsoft. This one, in it's lovely black with silver trim color, is one of the better-selling ergonomics at the moment. I picked this one up a few months ago off of Amazon. What can I say? It's a keyboard! Ofcourse, it's not one of those fancy gaming keyboards that guarantees you can smash every button at once and it will register. In fact, I tr...

Ah, a cool, glass mousing surface. Who would've thought, a glass "mouse pad". The folks at icemat did. And having this product for nearly 2 years now, I can say that they made a fine product that takes day in day out use without a hitch. So just how is mousing on glass surface? Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess that a mouse will probably slide across glass fast...

Chimei is one of many distributors of the current 22" flavor of LCD panels. If you dig really deep into reseraching, you'll find out that most of the current 22" LCD panels are being made by the same manufacturer, and who is that manufactuers? The same people that have their name on this one, Chimei.So who are these people? It's not as much of a household name as Sony or Phili...

Well, it's only 2 weeks away from christmas, and nVidias flagship card is still the 8800GTX (or ultra, which is really not much different, just a little higher clock). Quite a long product cycle, but that is the result of lack of competition on their so-called rival, ATI. Yep, ATI has been left in the dust, and it's left nVidia an opportunity to just sit back and ask people for $500+ fo...

Truly a waste of money versus one of the core2duo (dual-core) options. If you look at real world performance in current PC games, this generation of quad-cores really isn't providing any boost in most of the games out there. Some game developers have said that in the long run, you may be better off buying a higher speed dual core instead, and the game performance benchmarks show. You pay th...

Choosing an SD-compatible card reader these days can be a daunting task if you are one of those taking advantage of the higher capacity SDHC (aka SD 2.0) cards that currently come in 4, 8 and 16GB varieties. I recently bought an 8GB SDHC card for my Canon SD870 (look for my other review on that), and lets face it, it's much more convenient having one of these little external USB readers hoo...

Ahh, Crysis. The game that has had the PC-gaming enthusiast market buzzing for quite a while. We all knew this game would have some of the steepest system requirements seen from any PC game yet, and it held true to that when they came out. Many, like myself, went out and upgraded to the latest and greatest PC components in anticipation. However, things did not go over so smoothly. It doesn'...

Call of Duty 4 for PC, activisions latest installment in the Call of Duty series, is shaping up to be a big hit among PC gamers. As an FPS player for nearly a decade now, it's always been commonplace for games to come out and not run too great maxed out. Call of Duty 4 on the other hand runs great maxed out on most up to date hardware configurations. The single player is what you'd expe...