Welcome to The Chip Collective!

Welcome to the go-to source for the latest in tech news and opinion. We have a wide staff of writers that work hard to bring you what we feel has been lacking in most of the bigger tech news outlets. While our reviews might not be on the same day as everyone we do this because we strive to bring you some of the more obscure things that show up with computer hardware as you live with it. We also bring you personality and opinion without worrying about upsetting the people at Intel, AMD or Nvidia. [Read more...]

Storage That Happens to be On a Network Part 1

Please throw some money my way either directly VIA PayPal or with my Ko-Fi maybe don’t do my Patreon until I fully set it up. Intro Backing up data is something that I don’t really do at all. I’ve owned a Drobo5N for a couple of years and I’ve just used it as a big hard drive that any computer on my network could access. [Read more...]

The Rockit Cool Copper IHS

Please throw some money my way either directly VIA PayPal or with my Ko-Fi maybe don’t do my Patreon until I fully set it up. Intro Today I’m going to be looking at the Rockit Cool copper IHS replacement for my 8700k. It’s an inexpensive little part that really just seemed worth it as a fun cosmetic project that could have some cooling performance gain. [Read more...]

The Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 and the Mistakes I've Made

Please throw some money my way either directly VIA PayPal or with my Ko-Fi maybe don’t do my Patreon until I fully set it up. Intro I’ve never doubted reality more than I do right now. Hello and welcome to my review of the Gigabyte z370 Aorus Gaming 7 and the disillusionment of my competency. [Read more...]

So, You Wanna Be The Performance King?

The year is 2005 and AMD has the desktop performance crown. Intel needs to make a move to gain back ground. Their current Core series CPUs aren’t cutting it against the Athlon64 x2 series from AMD. [Read more...]

Refining Coffee Lake

Intro Please throw some money my way either directly VIA PayPal or with my Ko-Fi maybe don’t do my Patreon until I fully set it up. Previously when I wrote about the 8700k I deliberately left out data on temperature and more detailed depth into power and clock speeds. [Read more...]

The Intel Core i7-8700k 'Coffee Lake' 6 Cores 12 Threads of Raw Power

Intro Please throw some money my way either directly VIA PayPal or with my Ko-Fi maybe don’t do my Patreon until I fully set it up. Here we are with what I’ll consider my first real written CPU review and what a processor to start it out with. The 8700k is Intel’s latest desktop processor and I was lucky enough to snag one near the end of October 2017. [Read more...]

Review of the HP Pavilion x360 Kaby Lake Refresh i5

Please throw some money my way either directly VIA PayPal or with my Ko-Fi maybe don’t do my Patreon until I fully set it up. Today I’m going to be looking at the HP Pavilion x360. This is a 2017 model laptop with a hinge that allows you to fold back the display, so you can use it as a tablet hence the x360 moniker. [Read more...]