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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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USB 3.0 has slowly been gaining market share over the last months. Vantec is one of the first companies to offer a USB 3.0 compatible external 3.5" enclosure. We take the NexStar 3 for a spin to see if the USB 3 promise holds up to the test.
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"Our good friends over at Intel and iBuyPower have assembled a Killer Chimera 2 system that we are more than happy to give away to one of our lucky forum members in the coming weeks! This is your chance to win an Intel X58 chipset and Core I7-980X powered gaming system (aka Gulftown) for just being an active member of Legit Reviews! This system isn't your average system either as it is packed full of high-end components like an ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB video card, 6GB of DDR3 1600MHz memory, LG Blu-Ray player and since Intel is sponsoring the contest you know it has to have an Intel 80GB SSD along inside along with another 1TB hard drive for file storage! All this goodness is packed inside the Chimera Inferno 2 gaming case and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit has been installed. Not only will this system look good, but it will also be a solid overclocker and gaming system for one lucky winner here on Legit Reviews."
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It has been just over a year since we've had the opportunity to review a Zalman cooler, so you can imagine our excitement when Zalman shipped us one of their latest products; the CNPS10X Performa heatpipe cooler. Like all of its brethren in the CNPS10X series, the Performa sports a copper base, multiple heatpipes, a ton of aluminum fins, and a very quiet 120mm fan.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
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Remember when Bluetooth came out? No one bothered to care for a
long time until an explosion happened a few years ago. We believe that
Wireless USB is in the same boat. The technology solves a problem that
people need; the ability to connect peripherals to their computer
without a wire. It is just that we are suffering on the implementation
and faced without market saturation, the Wireless USB field seems to be
stagnating. There are glimmers of hope and Imation brings the first
Wireless USB enclosure to the table.
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"The Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition CPU arrived Technic3D. We will check the new Gulftown 32nm Six-Core CPU from Intel against the Intel Core i7 975 Extreme, AMD Phenom II 940/965 and more on Windows 7 and Linux . Overclocking over 4,4 GHz with Air-Cooling and more see you in the following Review."
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Maxcube is trying the balancing act between modern and classic with the Vortex 3620. The case shall also convince with a low price.
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With the Kova Roccat presents its latest high-end gaming mouse.
The mouse should be useable without any driver and be equipped with an
even better shape than its predecessor. You also get some nice
illumination with Roccat's so called breathing function.
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?Silverstone announced at CES 2010 that it would consolidate its power supply lines into a single line, the Strider series. The Striders are 80PLUS certified, with the Strider Plus models at 80PLUS Silver certified (85% efficiency). All Striders are fully modular for easier cleaning or replacement. Silverstone provided ThinkComputers with a 750W version of its Strider Plus series. The review is here."
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Steelseries sent us their Siberia headset Version 2. Quite some time ago we looked at their first version which ended up being one of the most comfortable headsets I have tested in my life. Will this V2 live up to the previous ones, and have they fixed some of the flaws that the reviewers have pointed out?
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
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"There's something to be said about a "desktop PC" small enough to fit in a drawer, yet brawny enough to power a whole entertainment system. Acer's AspireRevo R3610 nettop PC fits just that role. Hovering around $400 certainly doesn't hurt its cause, either, except the price may be too good to be true if you're looking to make this your primary PC."
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"Back in January Coolink released its newest CPU cooler called the Corator DS, and they sent us one to test. Coolink is known for inexpensive coolers that perform, and in times like now inexpensive is good. This time around Coolink is bringing new technology to the market with their cooler: Gapless Direct Touch. Just like the name suggests, the base of the Corator DS is Heatpipe Direct Touch (HDT) design instead of the normal gaps between the round pipes. Also, the base of the HDT design is copper fitted, so that fills the space between the heatpipes. It allows the base to perform as an HDT cooler and also has the benefits of a solid base with no gaps. What also makes this interesting is that Coolink is using the Noctua SecuFirm2 mounting system..."
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"I?ve taken a look at a few media players here on TestFreaks and most are fairly decent and honestly they?re all pretty similar at least in the interfaces. Today for review I?ve got another one from Cirago called the CiragoTV Pro CTP1000. It?s a media player with HDMI, Component and Composite outputs so you can use it with any TV and it includes a 500gig hard drive for you storage. The CTP1000 also has a memory card reader and a USB port so you can read directly from memory cards, USB flash drives or USB hard drives so you can expand the storage or quickly view things without transferring them to the main hard drive. One thing about this product though is that it?s UBS only for transfers, there?s no networking with this unit, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Read on.. "
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"Many of today's printers can do more than just print. All-in-one printers can print, copy, scan, and some can even fax. However, the question is always, "How well can they perform each task?" When we tested the Epson WorkForce 610 All-in-One, we set out to answer that question."
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?External hard drive enclosures are very common these days, especially with large file sizes of HD movies and other content. A single-drive external hard drive enclosure works for most people, but people who want to protect their data and want faster speeds opt for a dual hard drive enclosure with RAID capabilities. Today we will be looking at one such enclosure from ICY DOCK called the MB662US-2S, which features RAID 0, RAID 1, BIG, and JBOD configurations. Let?s see if this is the perfect external enclosure for you."
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Western Digital depends on the JMicron JMF612 Solid State Drive controller inside their WD SiliconEdge-Blue SSD to produce 250Mbps reads and 170Mbps write transfers. JMicron has also secured their JMF612 processor in the A-DATA S596, the upcoming Corsair Reactor SSD series, and the yet-to-ever-release Active Media Predator-X7. While the SSD industry grows daily, only a few select manufacturers offer popularly-accepted Flash NAND SSD controllers. In this article, Benchmark Reviews evaluates the JMicron JMF612 Solid State Drive processor.
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