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Sunday, January 10, 2010
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"The machines are aimed at a very specific target audience, one that likes to game and is willing to pay the big bucks portable gaming machines demand. Today I have the Smooth Creations 18.4 notebook on my test bench and the thing is a beast.
This is easily the largest notebook I have ever laid my hands on and the thing makes use of that huge size to pack in some of the best hardware we have ever tested in notebook guise. If you have the green for a new gaming notebook and want one that is blazing fast, Smooth Creations just might have your notebook."
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"Today we are taking a look at Dells latest offering in the mini desktop market. The Zino HD has some impressive specifications on paper with promise of great media features and high performance in other tasks."
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The movie and TV industry are going through exciting times as of late with the former venturing into 3D movies while TVs are undergoing enhancements in the form of aesthetics, image quality and even widgets for added functionality. And following our predictions of 3D TVs taking off in a big way as the ecosystem builds up momentum this year, LG too has committed its interest in this area. Among 3D ready TVs, other notable features that are propagating in LG's
mid to high-end models in the 2010 lineup are wireless ready and broadband capable TVs (through LG's NetCast entertainment access). We detail more notes through our photos and captions from LG's press conference this morning, direct from Las Vegas in the biggest and most important consumer electronics show on earth - CES 2010.
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Cloning hard drives with the USB 2.0 interface is slower than I would like, but the ease with which I'm able to insert and remove multiple drives more than makes up for this. I find the Thermaltake BlacX Duet dual hard drive docking station to be so useful that when I upgrade my system, SATA port multiplication will be one of the must have features of my next motherboard.
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"The G.Skill ECO 4GB DDR3 1600 CL7 Memory-Kit arrived Technic3D. Technic3D will see as good they are with Overclocking against the CSX Diablo, OCZ and G.Skill RipJaw/Trident Memory Kits on Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit and the Foxconn Bloodrage Mainboard. You can see 1.730 MHz (1,35V) with 8-8-8-24 (1T) in the following Review."
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"The Crucial RealSSD C300 drive will come in a standard 2.5-inch form factor, supporting 128GB and 256GB capacities, and will come with a limited five-year warranty. Benchmark tests have shown the Crucial C300 to be the fastest desktop and notebook SSD available to end consumers, boasting scorching-fast read speeds of up to 355MB/s. The Crucial C300 natively supports SATA 6Gb/s-the next generation high-speed storage interface-and is backwards compatible with the SATA 3Gb/s interface. Pricing has not been finalized as of yet, but we were told the sum of $799 for the 256GB more than once during our conversation with Crucial today..."
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At a CES press conference, ASUS unveiled a slew of notebooks well worth looking at, including the high-end NX90 multimedia notebook, featuring Bang & Olufsen speakers, the high-end G73Jh Republic of Gamers notebook, designed for ultimate comfort as well as ultimate power, the Karim Rashid-designed Eee PC 1008P, and also a Bamboo-infused U-series.
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Cooler Master is a brand name that constantly strives to offer the enthusiast community fresh new products with a proven track record. Although the original CM-690 was launched back in August 2007, that chassis still remains a popular choice for do-it-yourself computer system builders even today. Skip to 2010, and Cooler Master launches the CM690-II Advanced mid-tower case to compliment the CM-series enthusiast product line. The new RC-692-KKN2 model improves upon the original design with an updated look, and adds a new list of features fitting of the modern technology landscape. In this article, Benchmark Reviews inspects the Cooler Master CM690-II Advanced Edition performance enclosure and determines just how much has really changed in this sequel.
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"I am a huge fan of cars. I like sports cars of all types, but I get really excited when the cars are exotic, hail from Italy and sport a prancing horse on the hood. I will never be able to afford a Ferrari of my own, unless I hit the lottery, but I can afford the dead sexy Acer Ferrari One netbook.
This sexy, red machine has all sorts of Ferrari inspired cues that make it one of the best looking machines you can buy. It looks high-tech and really stands out from the more plebian netbook hoards. I often lament the fact that all netbooks are pretty much the same, but thankfully Acer offers something a lot different here."
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Powercolor is the first add-in-board manufacturer to release a completely custom designed Radeon HD 5850. The HD 5850 PCS+ features a revamped cooling solution that offers extremely low temperatures and comfortable noise levels. It also comes with higher clocks out of the box that should give the card an extra performance boost.
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"Thanks to the natural progression of memory speeds, we're quickly beginning to see that PC3-17600 is going to be the next number to own when it comes to high speed memory kits. As always, though, the kit hasn't just progressed in speed; it replaces the high price that PC3-16000 carried for a long time.
As time has gone on, we've seen that PC3-16000 modules don't need the fancy cooling fans and big heatsinks to achieve their speeds. As for the PC3-17600 kits, though, we already saw that G.Skill have implemented a nice fan with its modules and today we'll see what A-DATA have done to make sure their modules are able to achieve that massive 2200MHz memory clock."
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"Hoping to start the year off right and get the jump on 2010's hottest technology trends? Then look no further: This year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - the annual high-tech tradeshow that's chock full of gadgets and technological innovations - will showcase a rather impressive number of tends we can expect to see more of in coming months from personal to automotive to hosted services. It will highlight what will likely be the fight that will define at least the first half of the year between the rumored iSlate from Apple and the massive number of Google Android devices that will populate the show. And, as an added bonus, this year's CES will also preview the beginning of the biggest change to TV since color graphics - specifically, the introduction of 3D viewing. Let's chat about some of the major trends we are likely to see coming out of CES and what they may mean for you in the next 12-24 months."
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We took an in-depth look at the architecture behind Intel's all-new Clarkdale (desktop) and Arrandale (mobile) chips in this review. Please read it to gain an appreciation of how and why Intel has decided to change chip topology for 2010.
Built on a 32nm process, the new chips use existing Nehalem architecture technology and add a couple of new features of their own. Known by the umbrella term Westmere, they constitute the first desktop fusion of CPU and GPU in one chip package.
Pricing for the desktop Core i3 and Core i5 Clarkdale chips will span from £80 to around £200 for the range-topping Core i5 670, bringing a bunch of competing mainstream CPUs and integrated graphics into play.
Now we evaluate just how good the Westmere-driven Intel Core i5 661 (£145) is, as we compare it against five other CPUs - four quad-core and another dual-core - and a range of chipsets featuring IGPs. Read on to find out.
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?The last time we looked at a CyberPower system its price tag was $1599 and it was able to play every game currently available. This time around CyberPower has built us a system that can also play every game available, but this time it is $300 less! The CyberPower Gamer Xtreme 2000 Core i5 Gaming System features the new Core i5-750 processor and rocks a 5870 1GB video card, which is capable of playing DirectX 11 games. With all CyberPower systems this one comes with a 30-day money back guarantee and a 3 year labor and 1 year parts warranty. Let?s take a look?"
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As enthusiasts, we're always interested in the latest monster video cards: the expensive, high-end products that blast through benchmarks and play all your games with buttery-smooth frame rates at the highest resolutions with all the settings maxed out- and sucking a not inconsiderable amount of electricity while doing so! But these products represent only a tiny fraction of the number of video cards sold; the low-to-mid-end cards comprise the bulk of the market. Besides, a GTX285 or Radeon 5870 isn't the ideal solution for every situation: considerations from a limited budget to building a small, quiet system come into play. NVIDIA has been filling out the low-middle end of their video card product line lately, and in this article Benchmark Reviews tests the GIGABYTE GV-N240D5-512I video card equipped with with NVIDIA's new GeForce GT240 GPU and 512M of GDDR5 memory.
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