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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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It took me about a day of messing around with Linux's Easy Peasy OS, designed for the EEE netbook, to realize that I wanted anything but Easy Peasy. So I went on a Google search trying to figure out how to get Windows 7 on my netbook without springing for an external optical drive. The answer was obvious; I had to use a flash drive. Now, getting a computer to see a flash drive as a bootable source isn't easy. You basically have to turn your flash drive into a hard drive with boot sectors, an exact replica of the original Windows CD or DVD. It sounds hard, and unless you know what you're doing, it is. It took me hours of searching before I came across a forum that had instructions that worked. That?s what I?m sharing with you today.
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For those wanting to get their feet wet with some of the
DirectX 11 games that will begin hitting the market very soon HIS has
released the Radeon HD 5670 512MB video card. While you won't be able
to run the games with full graphics setting you will still be in the
games to see if they are worth the money to purchase.
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"Mistakes happen; I'll be the first to admit that and when it comes to the HIS HD 5450, sample mistakes happened. When they originally asked if I wanted to look at the model I said since we'd already looked at two, if it didn't offer us anything over the ones we had looked at already then we wouldn't be interested.
Anyway, they gave me that normal marketing spiel; it's low profile, well, yes, so are the other two we looked at. It's got passive cooling, that's great, but so do the other two. Anyway, they let us know they were going to ship over this version of the card. Out of the box this card has the low profile bracket installed; it does include the high profile bracket which is also good news. The other main difference is the fact that this one comes with 1GB of memory instead of 512MB. Well, I've made my feelings quite clear, even recently on my own blog here on how I feel about 1GB memory on low end cards."
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" This funky looking tripod is designed to securely mount cameras weighing up to 6.5 pounds. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the Ballhead SLR-Zoom. It is important to note that the Ballhead SLR-Zoom must be purchased separately as it does not come with the Gorillapod SLR-Zoom."
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?So in the back of my mind I had decided we had probably seen the last of the LGA 1366. A shame too, as there are other new technologies coming online, SuperSpeed USB 3, and SATA 6GB/s, and I figured the only way a Bloomfield user would get to use them would be by expansion cards. Then just last weekend I was chatting with a friend that had attended CES, who told me that Intel was working on a new LGA 1366 processor line, a six-core monster using 32nm?yeah, I know, I?m behind the times, the gossip about the new processors started back in Nov-Dec, but I was busy ?fixing up? a &l dquo;fixer-upper? house and moving during that time. Anyway, I got a little excited, hoping that maybe LGA 1366 wasn?t dead, just in hibernation. The very next day, lo and behold, our friends at Gigabyte placed a cool little gem into my hands?a brand new LGA 1366 motherboard, complete with onboard SATA 6GB/s and USB 3. Today I will be looking at the Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, the entry-level model of their three new X58 motherboards, which appear to be designated differently from the older models by an ?A? after the X58 in their name, and ending with an ?R? rather than the usual ?P?. Will this be the board of the future? Read on to see!"
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"Today we have a product on our test bench which aims to fill the SATA3/USB3 gap in AMDs high end product line. We will be running the Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 through a selection of real world tests to find out whether this is the board that AMD users with a need for the latest features have been waiting on."
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A few days ago we had the chance to check a new mini led digital projector from geeks.com and were pleasantly surprised by the size of the unit. Besides its size it is also extremely light making it great for parties and small to medium size audio/visual presentations.
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"For the professional, there's one component of the gaming world that arguably stands out above the rest in importance. You can always disable anisotropic filtering and drop the resolution if you want to claw back a few extra frames each second, but the precision and effective "frame-rate" of your mouse will always be limited by the technology in which you invest.
It's with this in mind that we now set out to put Cyber Snipa's latest offering, the Silencer, to the test. These fine folks from down under are a worldwide player in the market for high-end gaming peripherals. Is their newest laser-guided rodent truly one to live up to its name and silence the critics? Let's find out."
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"If you missed our original review of the Crucial RealSSD C300, now is a good time to spend a few minutes reading the entertaining back story. Crucial didn?t try to hide the C300 from the public; they even started publishing a blog showing benchmark results. Most of the test results they displayed were the kind of thing that us storage nerds like to test with, but they don?t give a good indication of how a drive will perform in real world conditions. Because of this we really wanted to get a drive for testing and at Storage Visions one such drive was passed around right before our eyes. The temptation to grab it and run was high, but with the boss lurking around the halls, getting the TweakTown Team banned from the show was not an option.
Today we are going to make another run at the Crucial RealSSD C300, but this time focus on the drives performance on the Intel ICH SATA 3G. SATA 6G may be the way of the future and even though it is available on a select few motherboards and add-on cards are available for less than 50 USD, the fact is that SATA 3G is everywhere right now."
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"We have tested a few interesting Intel Atom-powered nettop
computers lately from the ASRock ION 330HT-BD that bears a Blu-ray drive
and an Intel Atom 330 CPU with NVIDIA ION graphics to the ASUS Eee Top
that packaged the entire system within a touch-screen monitor. In this
article we are trying out the CompuLab Fit-PC2, which is definitely the
smallest Atom-powered computer we have tested to date. The Fit-PC2
easily fits in the palm of your hand and it packs an Intel Atom Z530
processor with a Poulsbo graphics processor, a 160GB SATA HDD, and 1GB
of system memory."
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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"The new Cooler Master GX750 750W PSU arrived Technic3D. See you in the following Review from Technic3D the next PSU with one +12V rail (60A), 120mm Fan, 9x SATA hard disk connectors and 4x PCI-e 6+2-Pin."
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"It's easy to sum up the CM Storm Sentinel Advance. It's simply one of the best gaming mice on the market today, if not THE best. What makes it so great is not any one feature in particular, it's the combination of ergonomics, performance, and customization that all work together in making a mouse that is a winner for buyers in the enthusiast market."
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"To be honest, I don't even have to look at the performance of these drivers to recommend them. If you saw our article regarding upcoming features the other day called Future ATI Catalyst Drivers - Why you should be excited!, you'll know why you should upgrade if there's even no performance upgrades this month.
Fortunately, outside the fancy new features that the ATI driver team has given us, there are some performance improvements. So let's have a quick look at them before checking out our testbed and getting stuck into the performance numbers."
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The recent switch from analog to digital television was mainly driven by the benefits of digital technology over its analog predecessor. Though digital television has become ubiquitous the conversion cannot be instantaneous, nor will analog technology simply vanish. During this transitional period of converting analog infrastructures into a digital foundation, hybrid devices like the My Cinema PHC3-150 Combo TV-Tuner Card will be essential. These hybrid devices work with both signal types allowing for a smoother transition. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the performance of the PHC3-150. Even if you've already made the transition to digital systems you may want to check out some tricks to extract even more utility from the hybrid features of this card.
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With the Maximus III Gene Asus presents a P55 based mATX board
which might be in a class of its own. Lots of features on a very small
area that's the concept with which ASUS is trying to convince its
customers. If the succeed that's what we'll show you on the following
pages.
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