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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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I have reviewed Tagan's 2 previous power supplies the GuardianX 1000W and the ITZ Series 1300W. Both power supplies performed well, but there was one problem they were not modular. No one wants a ton of wires laying around in their case. Tagan has a new series of power supplies, the BZ series which not only are modular, but are very attractive as well. Tagan was nice enough to send us the 900W version of the BZ series, let's check it out!
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Need an SLI motherboard but have less than $200 to spend? No need to stress, as the 750i SLI chipset was designed with you in mind. We are taking a look at how eVGA put the chipset to good use in the form of their 750i SLI FTW board, which offers solid performance and overclocking-ability, in addition to great board design.
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The Sapphire Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card may look just like a unit from the HD3870 series, but it is a top of the line model offering a PCI Express X16 interface, a 750MHz core clock, and 900MHz GDDR5 memory which makes things very interesting thanks to the greatly increased bandwidth (in comparison to GDDR3 and GDDR4).
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The iPhone 3G is mostly what we were hoping for in the second version of the too-popular-for-itself handset. Apple addressed call quality concerns, as well as demands for a faster Web experience via 3G and corporate email support, already making it a worthwhile upgrade for many first-gen iPhone owners. And while the addition of stereo Bluetooth and Assisted-GPS are mere catch-ups to other smartphones, the new App Store boosts it way ahead. We're a little disappointed that the iPhone 3G still lacks video recording, and we'd like a user-replaceable battery and expandable storage, but overall it's a thoroughly satisfying phone and iPod.
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Raidmax has just launched a series of mini-tower cases targeted to the female audience, Aura, available in four unique colors: seashell pink, emerald green, polar blue and "really black". This case has five external 5.25" bays, two external 3 .5" bays and three internal 3.5" bays, coming with two 120-mm fans, one on the left side panel and the other on the rear panel, and screwless mechanisms for fastening disk drives. We reviewed the seashell pink version, check it out.
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Geeks provided us with todays review product, we are going to take a look at a Blu-Ray player that also is a dvd burner. If you don't know what Blu-ray is I recommend you Google for it as it is the new format that will replace DVD in the near future. Blu-ray players are dropping in price as the become more mainstream, we are going to compare picture quality today and also see how loud and how well this product works.
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Akasa have been in operation for a number of years now and are a well known name throughout the industry. They are best known for their cooling solutions and power supply units which are primarily aimed to performance oriented enthusiast users. Modern GPU chips have ever growing cooling needs, especially under overclocked conditions. Reference coolers aren't always able to keep up with the heat dissipation demands of these chips and the user may be able to get a lot more out of their card with the purchase of a more sophisticated cooling solution. Today we're going to look at the Akasa Vortexx Neo, which claims to combine high thermal performance with low noise levels.
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OCZ is offering a full line-up of DDR3 memory. Their Platinum Series was always known for their great price/performance ratio and this Enhanced Bandwidth kit is no different. It offers tighter timings at 1600 MHz than the competition, at a lower price point. So can it give us some serious bang for our buck?
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Everything inside the case can be removed easily and then reassembled with that same ease, which is the priceless aspect of any product is how ergonomic it is for you. When building a system, especially your own system ease of use is of paramount importance and good looks just make you get a big grin on your face when the systems completely built. The P80R is lightweight, very well made and has looks that kill, not to mention all its features and user friendliness. The only thing that may be daunting is the price tag of this bad-boy as it is a $600.00 case, and that is minus a PSU, which you will still have to buy to be up and going with the ARMORSUIT. The thing is, like cars the people who are into them have a different value level of what is important and they want the best, usually in lieu of the price tag attached to any said item of choice. Lian Li has a solid Gamers Gold with the P80R ARMORSUIT; it offers the best things any enthusiast case should offer.
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The integrated graphics market is an interesting one to say the least. With the release of the HD3200 graphics on AMD's 780G platform and the release of the 8300/8200 from NVIDIA there are two good choices to integrated graphics on the AMD side of the platform while on the Intel side of the market there's only one, as Intel's integrated graphics just doesn't cut the mustard. The 8200 is not for the hardcore enthusiast wanting to play the latest games with AA and AF on. Instead it is for the HTPC enthusiast wanting an inexpensive motherboard with onboard graphics to play their Blu-Ray Discs on their HDMI HDTV, light gaming and everyday use. XFX's solution offers everything you need to run a HTPC with HDMI connection, good High Definition Audio and the small form factor size, the 8200 from XFX gets the job done.
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The Cooler Master Silent ProM 600W PSU (RS-600-AMBA-D3) arrived Technic3D. See you in the following Review from Technic3D the next PSU Review with a very high efficiency and a good price. Make the quiet 135mm fan, 9xSerial ATA connectors, 2x PCI-e (6+2)Pin this PSU better than other PSUs?
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Over the past few months we have looked at a few different Intel X48 motherboards and all of these motherboards bearing Intel's latest chipset have worked quite well with Linux. Among these motherboards have been the ASUS P5E3 Premium, Super Micro C2SBX+, and Gigabyte X48T-DQ6. These X48 motherboards have been expensive, but now some of the budget manufacturers are introducing models at a lower cost. For just under $200 USD, ASRock has introduced the X48TurboTwins-WiFi. The ASRock X48TurboTwins-WiFi pairs Intel's X48 with the ICH9R Southbridge and offers a few extra features such as eSATA, integrated 802.11g WiFi, and IEEE-1394 Firewire.
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There are some issues. Shoddy speakers and a trackpad that is more hand-cramping and difficult than doing the secret ant-man handshake with every ant in a colony are the main problems, but the Aspire One does a good job of overcoming them and still offering great performance and usability. It isn't quite perfect, but it comes damn close and is definitely the most attractive subnotebook we've seen since the Eee PC 701 first landed.
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Aaah, storage. As far as I'm concerned, you can't have enough of it. Be it in a server or on the go, you can't really ever have too much hard drive space. Today we're taking the time to have a look at a hard drive caddie from a company called VOX. We will today have a look at how the VOX V1 goes up against another caddie we have with us and also against one of our Samsung 1TB drives that is already installed in our system. Before we get into that though, let's have a look at the package VOX has put together along with a closer look at the caddie itself.
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We test two 9500 GT cards, one from Leadtek and one from Galaxy. We share with you our preliminary findings with these two sub $100 video cards who aim to take the performance/price crown at the entry level. Can these cards impress? How do they stack up to the 9600 GT and 8600 GT read on to find out.
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