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Monday, May 3, 2010
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"AMD 890FX is the new high-end chipset for AMD processors and ASUS Crosshair Formula IV is one of the most high-end motherboards based on this new chipset, bringing all features high-end users could dream off: four PCI Express x16 slots, six SATA-600 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, gold-plated audio connectors, Japanese solid capacitors, extensive overclocking support and more. Check it out."
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" Hello, my good friends. Today we?ll be talking monitors again and looking at a lovely monitor shipped over from our pals at Geeks.com. It?s a ?De-Branded? 23? HD LCD that operates at 1080p. De-Branded basically means it?s a refurbished HP monitor that has had all of its HP-ness covered up during the refurbishing process. So far, I?ve found this to be a rather swell monitor ? so let?s take a closer look and get acquainted with the product. "
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?If you are a water cooling user then you have probably heard of EK Water Blocks. EKWB specializes in water cooling products,and just one of their many offerings is the FC-5870, a full coverage block designed for the Radeon 5870 flagship card. Today we have the opportunity to test this GPU water block on the bench and find out how well it performs in keeping the beast cool and quiet.?
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Friday, April 30, 2010
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"Today we are testing ZM-MFC1 Combo fan controller from Zalman, which has five independent channels, four with manual adjustment and one with dual control (automatic or manual, compatible with PWM fans). Check it out!"
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?Zalman is really not a company you think about when it comes to PC Cases. They are really more known for their awesome CPU coolers. If you have seen a Zalman PC Case they have been very high-end and quiet expensive for most people. Zalman is introducing their first mainstream case, the Z7 Plus that is made to be affordable, but at the same time offer you many features that are found in higher priced cases. Let?s take a look at the Z7 Plus and see if it is the perfect case for you!"
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"Thermaltake continues to improve the Toughpower line, as we have for review today their latest 775W XT. This marks a deviation from their normal model numbering scheme of using power ratings in increments of 50W, with a 575W, 675W and 875W units also joining the ranks. The refreshed Toughpower XT series continues to offer Thermaltake's usual amenities such as 80 Plus Bronze efficiency, 50° C continuous power rating, S.P.T. visual status monitor, single +12v rail design and both nVidia and ATI multi-gpu certification."
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"In recent times Sennheiser have been producing headsets designed for enthusiast and pro gamers and their PC 350 headset (Hardware Heaven award winner) is regarded as one of the best products for that market. Recently they launched the latest model in their gaming range, the PC 360 G4ME and today we have a sample on our test bench. Read on to find out if Sennheisers latest foray into the gaming market is as good as its predecessor and whether it can take the leap that many gaming headsets fail to achieve; good performance in other audio tasks."
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?The StorageWorks Ultrium 3000 is one of two LTO-5 offerings from HP. It?s available as a bare half-height drive for direct fitting into a host server, in a casing for use as a standalone external drive and as part of larger tape library solutions. It can be had with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel interface (the latter for tape library use), with HP claiming the same capacity and throughput figures as specified in the LTO specification. Prices start at around £2140 (ex. VAT) for the bare half-height drive, with tape library products, such as those in the StorageWorks MSL family starting at £8200 (ex. VAT). Included with the external SAS drive we were sent were drivers for use with Windows enabling it to be used with all the leading backup applications.?
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"Like the QNAP servers we have previously reviewed, this model is more than just a file storage device (a traditional NAS). So many extra features are also included, which mean this server can often work as an all-in-one device for many small businesses. Other than storing files on network shares, you can use the TS-459 Pro as a print server, web server, database server, download/torrent station, media streaming and IP camera surveillance station amongst other things. There are even QKPG plugin applications which allow you to expand the NAS further, providing enthusiasts a way to code their own software or use some of the community maintained software (including some handy tools such as a mail server and Tomcat)."
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Three months ago we tested the first SandForce-based solid-state drive when OCZ treated us with a sample of the Vertex 2 Pro. As a true newcomer to the SSD market, the new controller took us by surprise with encouraging results, but the fact remained that this was an enterprise class product and few consumers were ever going to lay their hands on one of these drives. At the time we were also told that a successor to the original consumer-oriented Vertex would be arriving just a few months down the road.
Then last March we got a taste of what the Vertex 2 would be all about with the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition. Yet, we were still left waiting for the true successor to the highly popular Vertex, and here it is, in our lab ready for testing and expected to be hitting shelves pretty soon.
The OCZ Vertex 2 is based on the more affordable SandForce SF-1200 controller and it's actually expected to outperform the Vertex LE. This is not a mainstream part, though. OCZ will be targeting performance oriented users with the Vertex 2 while dropping down the price of the original Vertex to service the mainstream segment.
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"Intel has been dominating the performance CPU market since the release of its Core 2 Duo chips several years ago, but there's another sector of the market the firm has also been quietly attempting to conquer; Solid State Storage. Intel's current consumer-focused drive is known as the X25-M (GM2); with the M standing for "mainstream". Today we will be looking at the 80GB variant."
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"Today for review I?ve got a very professional looking and business like netbook from HP called the Mini Executive 5102. This netbook is in a class by itself really, at least in regards to build quality, sure we see many metal cased laptops but not many netbooks though. The metal casing not only changes the look and feel of it but the overall view of it being a netbook as well, we think of netbooks as inexpensive, underpowered computer that arte used mostly for browsing the web and checking email. Until now with the HP Mini Executive I haven?t seen many business oriented netbooks on the market, but if you?re looking for something small, good looking, well made and with decent performance then you just might want to take a closer look at the Mini 5102 I?ve got here today?
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While most of us are used to getting high speed Internet connections at home, the office or even the local coffee shop, once we are on the road those high speeds have to stay behind. With 4G the promise is that you can get real mobile broadband to go. In this piece we are going to tell you all about the technology and its benefits, who offers it or plans to, how much it costs, and the gear you need to enjoy the next generation of wireless broadband today.
But first, some background: 4G is the short name for fourth-generation wireless, the stage of mobile communications that will enable things like IP-based voice, data, gaming services and high quality streamed multimedia on portable devices with cable modem-like transmission speeds. It's a successor to 2G and 3G wireless, whereby the first signified the shift from analog to digital transmissions, bringing data services like SMS and email to mobile phones for the first time, and the second refers to the advent of things like global roaming as well as higher data rates.
There are a number of standards and technologies pertaining to each wireless generation -- GSM, cdmaOne, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA2000, UMTS (also marketed as 3GSM), HSDPA, among others. For practical reasons, we won't be dwelling on the technicalities of each term and instead will move onto the ones that involve our topic of interest here: 4G.
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"It's safe to say that this month we're not expecting a whole lot from the latest driver release for the simple reason being we saw such huge gains from the last two months that it just doesn't makes sense that a whole lot was going to happen this time around.
To be honest, ATI deserve to take a little bit of time off, kick up their heels and have a few beers. In saying that, we still want to see something with the latest driver. Below are the latest improvements AMD makes mention of, but my personal favorite we'll leave ?till we wrap it up! "
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"ASUS is known for many things; they make great enthusiast class motherboards and add-in GPUs. But how many people know they also make workstation and server class products? - We have known about this for a while and have finally gotten one in (complete with a socket 1156 Xeon for the CPU) for testing in our lab.
The P7P55 WS SuperComputer is a healthy system that also happens to have the ability to run a ton of GPUs at full x16 speeds thanks to an NF200 chip on the board. It is this multi-GPU capability that gives it the SuperComputer name. After all, if you are pushing four NVIDIA GPUs running CUDA or OpenCL, you have a massive amount of compute power at your fingertips."
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