Daily Reviews Summary 07/07/10 #2

Oh yes. The time has come. The NDA is lifted. Here is the moment you've been gagging for. Benchmarks!

We've seen a real surge in enthusiast cases from NZXT over the past year. Our review today looks at the Tempest EVO, a gaming case taken from the Crafted Series and not all that dissimilar to the Antec 900 series. Not only does the airflow follow a similar design concept - the visual looks are quite comparable too. But the real questions on our minds is - is it a better offering?

Enermax Technology Corporation are one of the most highly regarded power supply providers to the enthusiast marketplace. I have owned many over the years myself, long before I worked for any publication. They have never let me down and they are one of the few companies I immediately shortlist if I am in the market myself for a new unit. The 1250W Revolution is still a mainstay in the KitGuru review test bed units.

The ASUS ARES is one of those things of legend; a card that is worth its weight in gold and actually costs just about as much. If you thought the days of the $1000+ graphics card were over, then you were wrong and ASUS would like you see one of the limited edition ARES cards that matches a pair of true HD 5870s with 4GB of memory to create the fastest single graphics card we have ever tested.

In this review we test two ASUS ARES cards in a 4-GPU CrossFire combination. With a total price of $2000 for those cards this is certainly not for everybody. For additional reference we also combined the ARES with a HD 5970 and a HD 5870.

Today we are going to have a look at the P193. Antec changed the marketing motto of this case to "a class of its own". The P193 is larger than its predecessor and also boasts new features when compared to the older model. In this review we will examine the new P193 and see how much of an improvement over the P190 it is.

It is not an everyday occurrence that FedEx drops off box that was overnight mailed containing a $1200 video card, but that is what happened when we got the ASUS ARES video card yesterday! ASUS claims that this limited edition video card has unlimited power and they might be right. Read on to see how the ASUS ARES performs compared to other enthusiast video cards like the Radeon HD 5970 and the GeForce GTX 480!