Honestly this makes a lot of sense to me. Customers have been doing this for years. Rather than buying a brand name PC, they’ve been doing a ton of research to find the best components and then they’ve been integrating them on their own. Corsair’s goal is to take a lot of the guesswork out of it by encouraging users to put together their PC using as many Corsair components as possible. A campaign like this wouldn’t have made sense even a year ago but now that they’re doing cases, power supplies, cooling, RAM, and hard drives, they can make a strong case for doing up a “mostly” Corsair PC because even without a “Dell” or “HP” warranty, you know that most of your hardware is covered by some of the best support in the business. Here’s Corsair’s vision of how this looks. Mine is below

This guy’s been around for a while, but I happened across one and I wanted to take a minute to unbox what has been the PSU of choice for MANY enthusiasts since it launched.

Here I figure out how to insert the cartridge properly so it actually works…

Today I unbox and (fail to) operate the Retrogen high tech gaming system featuring 262 THOUSAND colours!

Actually this thing is SWEET! There’s a gameplay video too. It features Michael Jackson.

Corsair’s big thing right now is about using their components as the basis for your new PC. This Windows 7, DirectX 11, Core i7 gaming PC that we built for them to take to tradeshows is a great example of their new philosophy of choosing reputable parts to build your own “brand name” PC.

Basically I wanted to see the gaming terrain feature of this keyboard in person. That’s the only reason for this unboxing

Today I unbox… A disc!

But it’s an important disc. Today was my first encounter with a retail copy of Windows 7.

Yet another media player that sits next to your TV and streams files over the network and/or from an internal/external hard drive. Yes that sounds complicated, but actually they’re quite simple to use and very inexpensive compared to using computers for everything.

Finally I’ve released my last unboxing of the Radeon 5000 series. The Radeon 5750 is the entry level DirectX 11 part from ATI at this time, and it delivers a lot of the features of its more expensive brothers at a fraction of the price.

It’s time to talk a walk down mainstream lane. This is DirectX 11 for the masses. The 5700 series cards offer performance that is comparable to a GTX 260 while taking a very small bite out of the wallet