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Sunday, December 20, 2009
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The upgrade kit bundled with this drive will make the process of migrating from your old drive simple, whether the system is a laptop or a desktop. With the inclusion of the convenient USB enclosure and the bootable Acronis drive management software, I was able to make the move from a hard drive to the Imation SSD in under 20 minutes on my laptop.
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A couple of weeks ago, ASUS released its first two under-$200 P55 motherboards that support both S-ATA and USB 3.0. We're taking a look at the higher-end of the two, the P7P55D-E PRO. As you'd expect, this is one packed board, featuring a great design and a number of improvements over the company's P55 launch boards.
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
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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 ASUS ENGT240/DI/1GD3/A video card equipped with with NVIDIA's new GeForce GT240 GPU and 1GB of GDDR3 memory.
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This week, I took a look at two of the latest 256GB SSDs, tone by Crucial and another by Samsung. These SSDs are the future way of storage. Take a look at their specs and their performance in these two video reviews on our youtube channel. Although a bit pricey, these are very fast and sturdy drives that can maintain your information without fail for much longer than a standard HDD.
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"XFX's version of the HD5770 videocard is a great performing DirectX 11 videocard for the money. This videocard and its excellent reference cooling loves to overclock and performs beyond expectations for a mainstream videocard. In fact, two of them would make a highly affordable crossfire setup for slightly over US$350."
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Today we feature the 32GB Corsair Flash Survivor GT, the second
largest flash drive in the family. The Corsair Flash Survivor GT, also
available in a 64GB size, boasts a water resistant aircraft-grade aluminum
house as additional features to a lightning fast drive.
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"As I have used and reviewed several Steelseries products during the past few years, I have eagerly
awaited for some of their newly announced products to arrive to be tortured. One of these products is
the new 9HD gaming mousepad, which has many of the features which I've liked in their old S&S
mousepad."
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Noctua is well known for their top of the line cpu coolers, they have now developed a new cooler which is about twice the size of their older ones. Noctua coolers have always been quite big but this takes the prize so it is going to be interesting to see how well it performs.
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" A little bit ago I reviewed a covering for my Apple iPod nano 4th from a company called MusicSkins, and I found it to be a nice product overall. A couple weeks ago they emailed me again asking if I?d like to take a look at their custom skin designer and I said sure. When I went and visited the MusicSkins website I found that things had changed a bit since that last review, they?re now carrying skins for many more products. The product I decided to design a skin for is my Asus EeePC 900a netbook. The skin consists of just a protective cover for the outer lid of the EeePC. The idea of the designer is so you can create your very own skin that will be like no one else has. Sure you could just pick one from the pre-designed skins on their site, but what fun would that be and it would be like others out there, why not be original and individual and maybe even show off your creative abilities? So read on to learn more about the skin I received and how it worked out?"
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Today, I?m looking at the entry level Sony VPL-BW7 Projector that features the Bright Era panel technology. The VL-BW7 is on the lower end of the spectrum, targeted towards the home user. It has a 1000:1 Contrast Ratio and a Brightness rating of 2000 ANSI Lumens along with a 16:9 widescreen resolution of 1280?800 supporting Sony?s 3LCD panel technology. Although this is not full HD, it will allow you to play 720P or 1080i content. The higher-end projectors in the SXRD series are full HD capable but cost twice as much as the BW7 which is roughly available for AED 4,500.
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The universally compatible TherMax Pro is the latest Direct-Touch Heat-pipe (DTHP) innovation by Spire. It is designed with three 8mm copper U shaped heat-pipes enclosed by forty-five aluminum stacked Micro-fins. Its cooling capacity ranges all the way from low end Micro-processors up to today's hottest 130W quad-core processors.
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Win Colin McRae Dirt-2 from Benchmark Reviews to enjoy during the Holidays! Benchmark Reviews is giving away a free copy of Colin McRae Dirt-2 (Steam/PC) to one lucky member of our community. This is a random drawing open to everyone, everywhere, worldwide! Please visit our forum contest thread for details...
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?Yup, I'm back today with yet another notebook cooler. This one is the Massive 23 CS from Thermaltake which will look very similar as it's the aluminum version of the plastic Massive 23 ST I reviewed recently. Plastic being the more economical of course while using aluminum is more costly, but also makes for a better quality product with better cooling ability as aluminum disperses heat better than plastic which just gets hot. Besides differing on the materials, the Massive 23 CS also has an upgraded 230mm fan with multiple colors and settings for a more customizable look for the end user. Let's take a closer look.?
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"They say, no one likes a know-it-all, but what about a do-it-all? - As enthusiasts we have a lot of toys and many of these devices store data on different forms of flash media. To add insult to injury, the people around us tend to think we are their personal tier one tech support and expect us to be able to work with all of their devices as well. All of that connectivity can be a pain in the bum if you are trying to carry separate adapters.
I really couldn?t believe that it was possible to get a single device that has the ability to connect to 66 different types of media. I mean come on, 66? that is SIXTY-SIX! I had no idea that there were even 66 different types of storage mediums in use today or at least new enough that anyone would want to still use them."
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Notebooks, Subnotebooks, and Netbooks are getting more and more attractive. Multimedia as well. To combine both worlds the Hercules
Gamesurround Muse XL Pocket LT 3 is an interesting offer.
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