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Tt eSPORTS MEKA G1 Keyboard Review

As the popularity of the eSports movement continues to rise, more and more manufacturers are looking to the demand for quality PC peripherals as a market to be served. Thermaltake, who have long catered to the PC gaming enthusiast, have reacted to this trend by establishing the Tt eSPORTS brand. Today, we’ll be looking at one of their high end entries in the gaming keyboard market, the MEKA G1.

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Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go USB 3.0 Hard Drive

Verbatim is a brand most will be familiar with for their optical media; you can find spindles of Verbatim DVD-Rs and CD-Rs on the shelves of just about every electronics aisle in the country. Their name is built, more or less entirely, on media for physically shuttling bits from place to place. It is no surprise then, that they would choose to branch out into portable hard drives. Today we’ll be looking into one of their latest offerings, the Store ‘n’ Go USB 3.0.

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 Dual Fan

So it’s time; you’ve decided to take the plunge and purchase an Eyefinity setup. You’ve seen the videos, you’ve read the testimonials, and you’re ready to strip the horse blinders off of your virtual alter ego. One major question remains though: how much of a beast are you going to need to drive this rig? Today we’ll be looking at the Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 Dual Fan from Sapphire, an unorthodox take on AMD’s most potent single-GPU video card design to date.

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NZXT Sentry Mix Fan Controller Review

If you want more fine-grained control over the fans in your case, a fan controller is a simple, cheap way to get things under control. NZXT, long known for their enthusiast cases, has sent us another in their latest lineup of fan controllers, the Sentry Mix. We’ll see if this one does the trick.

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XFX WarPad Mouse Pad

Gaming mouse pads are the sort of product where there isn’t a lot of guidance on how things should be done. There’s no ATX spec to conform to, no IEEE guidelines to follow. There are only really two factors to consider: comfort, and accuracy. Not many have given much thought to comfort, though. XFX looks to buck that trend with the WarPad, a unique mousepad with some unique properties. Read on to see how it holds up.

Tt eSPORTS Challenger Keyboard

With the prominence of StarCraft II, League of Legends and other e-sports-minded games on the rise, many companies are looking to get in on the action with e-sports branded and themed peripherals. Thermaltake is so jazzed about the idea, they spun off a separate imprint for the purpose, Tt eSPORTS. Under that label, they’re putting out a fairly broad range of keyboards, mice, headsets, mousepads, and other gaming accessories. Today we’ll be taking a look at the entry level keyboard in this new lineup, the Tt eSPORTS Challenger.

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