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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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When buying a hard disk drive most users are only concerned with the drive's capacity. Should you also care about performance? We compared the performance of nine mainstream 250 GB SATA-300 hard disk drive models from Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital, Maxtor and Hitachi. Is there a big performance difference among them? Is it worthwhile to pay a little bit more and get a drive with a bigger buffer? If so, which is the fastest 250 GB in the market? Check it out!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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Rather than get into a lengthy and scientific analysis on the thermal resistance of various substances, I'm going to focus strictly on hard testing data. What I hope to answer in this article is simple-are there measurable performance differences between premium grade thermal pastes? And if so, how much?
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Monday, July 28, 2008
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Everyone would love to have the best graphics card available but to most people they are non-essential luxuries. For this reason the average consumer looks more to the midrange or budget market and so today in the first of a two part article we will be looking at some of the Nvidia cards that are on offer in the £70-£150 ($120-$190) range to demonstrate how much performance each provides. In the near future we will be following up with a look at cards in the £30-£70 range. Each card will be tested at a minimum of 1680x1050 on a selection of gaming and media tests and we shall also take a look at the thermal performance and overclocking potential for those who want to squeeze a little more value out of their purchase.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
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For all you new cameraphone seekers, look no further as we pit the finest on the Symbian S60 platform against each other: the all new Samsung SGH-G810 versus the familiar Nokia N95 8GB.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
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Reacting quickly to the challenge issued by ATI's Radeon HD 4800 series, NVIDIA has slashed the prices for its GT200 GPUs. We explore three GeForce GTX 260 cards from Leadtek, XFX and Zotac (including two of which are overclocked) and find out if the new prices help improve their market attractiveness.
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In this article we take a closer look at three solutions from Titan and Scythe which aim to cool your HDD without fans; two of these products, Titan TTC-HD90 and Scythe Himuro also help reduce noise. We combine them with a 10.000rpm Raptor to see if they can handle the heat and noise!
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
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Today we bring a comparison between three mainstream 160 hard disk drives: Maxtor STM2160215AS, Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160 GB and Samsung HD161HJ. Which one is the fastest 160 GB hard disk drive? Read on!
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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After publishing the first quarterly comparison article of the series, our methodology was adjusted to include test results with both reference and performance cooling fans. A follow-up article comparing the Vendetta 2 vs TRUE vs HDT-S1283 was later published using the new methods, and the results more accurately illustrated the performance an overclocking enthusiast might receive compared to someone who buys the product and uses it in the stock form.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
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We've already looked at nVidia's flagship product- the GeForce GTX 280 and today we have the more affordable GTX 260 card- two of them actually. Both these cards are overclocked out of the box giving better performance than your stock card would. Like most of their previous overclocked cards, ASUS called their product the TOP edition while Zotac sticks to its own terminology- the AMP! Edition.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
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Over the past few years XFX have become well known for their range of factory overclocked graphics cards. They started with the XXX brand but more recently cemented their position as leading performers with the release of Black Edition products. Asus on the other hand have generally been known for making reference specification cards with value adding extras but in recent times they have moved into the area of serious overclocking. Today we have factory overclocked cards from each of these manufacturers and we will be putting them head to head in a variety of tests including gaming at 2560x1600, high definition playback and PhysX calculations. In addition to this we will also take a look at how each of the cards compares to various other products which are available on the market, including the Geforce GTX 260, and Radeon 4870.
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Todays review product, the Radeon HD 4870, goes some way to rectifying AMDs hole in the market as it is priced to challenge the GTX 260. We will be running the products through a variety of tests including gaming at 2560x1600, CrossFire and high definition playback to find out which company is most deserving of your hard earned cash.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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We decided it would be logical to merge reviews of XFX nForce 790i Ultra 3-Way SLI and Zotac nForce 790i-Supreme into one article, because both products are, in fact, reference boards that were ordered by NVIDIA from its manufacturer. Thus, if you are going to buy something similar from another company (e.g. EVGA), this article will also be useful.
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Back in April we had looked at the ECS A780GM-A, which was a nice low-cost motherboard and had worked well under Linux with the newer desktop distributions. This motherboard had integrated Radeon HD 3200 graphics, which we had found to perform well and equivalent to a Radeon HD 2400PRO discrete graphics card. However, for those interested in NVIDIA graphics, there is the GeForce 8200 IGP that also performs well on Linux. If you are interested in the GeForce 8200 chipset, today we are looking at two of the cost-effective motherboards deploying this chipset: the ECS GF8200A Black and ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI.
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Monday, July 7, 2008
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With so much X48 selection on the market, choosing the right board can be tough. To help make the choice easier, we are taking a look at three such boards all at once, ASUS' DDR2 Rampage Formula and also the DDR3 ECS X48T-A and Intel's DX48BT2.
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Netbooks have certainly made an impact since their introduction, with consumer interest driving up strong sales. With even more models announced since Computex 2008, will the strong interest and demand replace the notebooks of today? We'll delve in to this matter from the basics.
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