Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Processors / AMD Chip [Performance] < Intel Chip [Value] Life’s hard for AMD right now, and harder for AMD fans. The top tier of AMD’s desktop CPU lineup hits at around the same place as Intel’s midrange enthusiast parts, and many OCN readers actually prefer older AMD chips like the... read more
Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Processors Processors Category / Intel Chip [Value] < AMD Chip [Value] AMD Chip [Performance] > "Value" clearly has a different meaning here than laypersons use. The value chips in this lineup are multiplier-unlocked, Hyper-Threaded quad-cores. They’re... read more
Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Processors / AMD Chip [Value] < Intel Chip [Performance] Intel Chip [Value] > For the enthusiast on a budget, it’s hard to argue with AMD’s Zambezi chips. For around a hundred bucks, you can pick from a 3.3GHz six-core FX-6100 or a 3.6GHz quad-core. Both offer great... read more
Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Processors / Intel Chip [Performance] < Home AMD Chip [Value] > Intel’s sitting pretty at the top of the desktop CPU performance index, with its midrange quad-cores routinely spanking AMD’s 8-core Bulldozer chips. If you need more power than those midrange offerings,... read more
Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Power Supplies / Low Noise PSU < PSU Product Line What’s the point of a quiet PC or HTPC if the darn PSU keeps making a racket? Noise-damping acoustic foam and a water-cooling loop with quiet fans won’t help you if you’ve got a noisy PSU--either because of coil whine or a noisy fan.... read more
Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Power Supplies / PSU Product Line < Home Low Noise PSU > Everyone has an opinion about power supplies, because power supplies are important. A bad one will crap out on you at the worst time, leaving you with a nonworking machine--or worse, one that’s fried. Corsair’s... read more
Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Peripherals / General Mouse < Gaming Keyboard Yet another example of the influence PC gaming has on the enthusiast community: all of the winners of the general-purpose mouse poll are gaming mice, if not quite as ridiculous as some of the ones in the gaming category. SteelSeries’... read more
Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Peripherals / Gaming Keyboard < General Keyboard General Mouse > OCN’s love affair with mechanical keyboards continues. All three of our top gaming keyboards use Cherry MX switches, as does nearly every keyboard that’s placed in any of our Community Choice Awards. OCN... read more
Cases Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Peripherals / General Keyboard < Mechanical Keyboard Gaming Keyboard > OCN prefers mechanical keyboards even for general use. Whether typing or gaming, both the Gold and Silver winners of our General Keyboard awards use Cherry MX mechanical switches.... read more
Cases Cooling Graphics & Display Memory & Storage Motherboards Peripherals Power Supplies Processors Peripherals / Mechanical Keyboard < Gaming Headset General Keyboard > Once you go mechanical, you never go back, as evidenced by the overwhelming preference for mechanical keyboards both within the Community Choice Awards and on OCN in general. As expected, OCN... read more
