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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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"As can be seen in many Phoronix articles and in the memory
reviews themselves, OCZ memory is quite common to Phoronix. While OCZ
Technology is only eight years old, they have done a phenomenal job at
building a terrific brand that is highly regarded among enthusiasts,
gamers, and professionals. OCZ has expanded over the years from just
being a system memory producer to a vendor of interesting flash drives
and high-performance SSDs, among other products, but in this review we
have caught ourselves looking at another OCZ DDR3 memory kit. The OCZ
DDR3 PC3-12800 Black Edition kit is specifically designed for use with
AMD's latest processors and chipsets."
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With the NH-D14 Noctua shows its latest high-end CPU cooler.
Already as a standard it comes with two fans whereas one measures 120
mm in diameter and the other 140 mm. Furthermore also the weight is
extraordinary: 1250 gramms that's what this sandwhich construction
puts on the balance. What this monster is capable of we'll show you on
the following pages.
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"HIS' Turbo Edition Radeon HD 5830 is a great option to consider if the HD 5830 is in your price range. With excellent cooling, build quality and the added bonus of including a full Direct11 game like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, for only US$289, it could be considered quite a bargain."
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The stock cooler included with retail-packaged CPUs represents the manufacturer's best efforts to provide a cooler that will keep the processor within its temperature limits at stock clock speeds, all for the lowest cost. But if you want to overclock your system, you're going to need an aftermarket cooler. The ideal cooler would be inexpensive, quiet, easy to install, and keep your CPU icy cold under all loads and conditions. But of course, in the real world it's always a balancing act among these various parameters. CoolIT Systems' new ECO A.L.C. ECO-R120 CPU cooler aims to balance these requirements by offering an easy-to-install sealed liquid cooling system for your CPU. Using both stock and high-speed fans, Benchmark Reviews compares it to the top air coolers and the Corsair H50 liquid cooling system on an overclocked and overvolted Intel Core i7-920 processor.
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DDR3 has been conquering the memory markets for a while now. Both AMD and Intel use it nowdays and prices have dropped to reasonable levels. We took two kits for our tests and will compare them with two other kits we had in stock. Both kits reviewed are not the cheapest available, but definitely not the most expensive ones either. Let's see how well they perform.
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"Auzentech audio cards have been favourites among the XSR team for a good few years now not only for their great sound quality and effects but also for the broad appeal to gamers, audiophiles and home theatre lovers alike.
Auzentech cards are built around PCI Express based Creative X-Fi chips with a wealth of features enabling the sound card to be so widely appealing: EAX 5.0 for the gamers, DTS Interactive for movies and music and of course a dedicated, independent headphone circuit designed for professional grade headphones.
To give it its full name, the Auzentech X-Fi Bravura 7.1 arrived promising the same great Auzentech quality with a few added extras. So what exactly does the Bravura have in its locker? A close inspection will reveal all..."
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This motherboard uses the extremely new 890fx/sb750 combination chipset and is perfect for AMD Phenom II processors supporting all of the latest technology for cpu support, memory as well as SATA 6GB/s, USB 3.0 and ATI CrossFireX. The box follows suit with the previous Crosshair Formula boards with a red design, convenient carry handle and lots of information in regards to ROG connect as well as some of the other unique features including the "GO button".
This board comes with tons of accessories ranging from right-angled SATA cables, stickers, bridges, header adapters and the ROG cable. Very exciting stuff for a very exciting board.
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With its Phenom II X6 AMD has its first mainstream six core CPU
in the portfolio which should provide users with quite a lot more
computing power than its predecessors. AMD now also has a Turbo
feature which boosts single threaded applications.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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"When you think of A-DATA, in the past you would have only thought about memory modules and maybe some fancy looking cartoon character pen drives. These days the Taiwanese memory making company has really started to spread its wings into more than just traditional memory products. It now has a line of ultra fast performing solid state drives along with portable storage devices, one of which we are getting a look at here today.
We are today focusing our attention on the new Nobility NH01 portable hard drive. It?s a brand new product just released from A-DATA and promises some good performance since it connects to your computer via USB 3.0. SuperSpeed USB or USB 3.0 is a new connectivity standard designed to replace USB 2.0 and is able to offer up to five gigabits per second, or a massive 625MB/s."
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"I?ve taken a look at several media players here on TestFreaks and today I have another one, but unlike the previous kind I looked at. Today for review I?ve got the brite-View CinemeTube Media Player. You might recognize the name brite-View as I recently reviewed their power line networking kit, that kit was meant to work with this product I have for review today. It?s unlike other media players in that there is no storage on-board the unit itself, it is strictly a streaming media player. Yes you can attach a USB hard drive or even a thumb drive, but there is no storage inside the unit. The CinemaTube will not only stream video and audio, but you can use it to share photos and files on your network and it even has a built-in torrent client and even a program to use with Flikr for even further photo sharing. The CinemaTube features HDMI, Component and Composite outputs and an optical audio output as well. So read on to learn more.. "
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The biggest mistake PC hardware enthusiast make with SSDs is grading them by their speed. File transfer speed is important, but only so long as the operational IOPS performance can sustain that bandwidth under load. Based on the high-performance SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor, Corsair's Force F100 solid state drive is in an excellent position to take the entire market. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the 100GB Corsair Force SSD CSSD-F100GB2 against some of the most popular storage devices available and demonstrates that 4K IOPS performance is more important than speed.
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?Large volume external storage has also been and will remain to be popular just for the fact that many people do not have room inside their cases for extra hard drives. Also external storage allows you to easily use that storage on multiple systems with minimal effort. With the introduction of eSATA external drives can now be just as fast as internal drives so we have seen quite a few eSATA external enclosures released lately. Today we will be taking a look at the MB561US-4S-1 Quad Bay External Enclosure from ICY DOCK that features an internal port multiplier and both eSATA and USB 2.0 connections. Let?s take a look?"
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?The Kingston 256GB DataTraveler 310 USB flash drive features hardware-based encryption in a small and sleek package, offering insane storage capacity in a beautifully small and portable format. Encryption, portability, and extreme capacity don't come cheap though. Hellno. But we don't care. It's like the old Ferrari quip: If you have to ask how much it costs, then you can't afford it. Let's take this crazy little drive for a test drive and see what extreme demands and an extreme price tag get you these days in the world of portable storage.?
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"Let's blow away the smoke-this is one of the best new digicams we've reviewed in a long time, well deserving its pick as an Editor's Choice. It's far from the perfect camera we're always searching for but it does so many things well, it should go near the top of the list of anyone shopping for a new digicam. Why are we so juiced about the TX7? Read on and find out."
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"So far Zalman has only two models on their ST power supply series, 500 W and 600 W. Let's see if the 600 W model is a good product."
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