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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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"With music becoming increasingly centred around the home computer, a decent set of PC-compatible speakers has become almost a necessity. Even leaving aside the tendency towards downloading - legal or otherwise - keeping your CD collection on a hard-drive is now common-place and provides many benefits. It's easier to organise, retrieve and backup media stored to disk than hundreds (or even thousands) of CDs, tapes, LPs, mini-dics, and such.
Even when recorded in one of the many loss less audio formats - FLAC, True Audio (TTA), Apple Loss less, MPEG-4 ALS, etc - a hard-drive the size of a paperback could store many hundreds of CDs, thus making it an extremely efficient use of space. Since we'll all be living in Tokyo-style pods soon anyway, larger media will probably become obsolete eventually, if not merely at an excessive premium. The thirst for a clear and precise rendering of all that binary finery is quite palpable, but perhaps Speedlink can satisfy it?"
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"Today for review I?ve got the new Verbatim CLŌN 320GB portable hard drive. It?s a 2.5? drive encased in a black plastic shell, it?s one of the smallest I?ve had the please of reviewing and one of the fastest as well. Included on the drive is Nero BackItUp 4 so you can easily, quickly and even automatically perform your backups. I?ve put it up against two other portable hard drives I?ve got on hand for comparison, and I found that the Verbatim CLŌN drive is the fastest of the bunch, and also the smallest, so read on to learn more.. "
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From a features point of view the GIGABYTE P55A-UD6 is outstanding. Support for the latest technologies including SATA 6 Gb/second, USB 3.0, SLI and CrossfireX make this board the choice of the enthusiast wanting the latest and greatest technologies from a P55 chipset motherboard. Performance is right on par with the P55-UD6 in terms of motherboard performance and performance of the SATA 6 Gb/second interface is higher than the competition which requires a bridge chip to offer full support for the new interface. The one downside is if you are using the SATA 6 Gb/second and or USB 3.0 to its fullest SLI and CrossfireX are disabled.
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"The Thermaltake Element T gaming case has its cons as every case does with less than $100 for a price tag, and at $59.99 plus shipping, I can say that it clearly fits in that category. However, the amount features definitely outweighs the amount of flaws, and I can honestly say that it was a blast to set up a system in this chassis. With the Element T you can get what every gamer wants at a price point most anyone can afford..."
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"Today I am checking out the Acer Aspire 5738DG-6165 3D notebook. This notebook has built-in 3D technology and requires the use of passive 3D glasses like those you might wear at the movie theater. Read on for all of the details on the Acer Aspire 5738DG-6165."
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"Recently I looked at my first dual channel kit for the P55 platform. Today we're going to get stuck into the second one. The first thing that I have to mention about this kit from G.Skill is the name. I'm not sure what it is, but the name Ripjaws just sounds so cool. I've got my fingers crossed that it doesn't just stop there and hopefully we can slot the kit into our P55 test system and find ourselves getting excited about what the new series is able to offer us.
The kit we're looking at today from G.Skill is a little faster than the PC3-15000 kit we looked at from OCZ recently. Instead we're moving to that PC3-16000 number which has become the main number for overclockers wanting a kit that's going to offer a bit more power."
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Although DA BOX footprint is only 166 square inches, this true Small Form Factor case accomodates everything its ATX counterpart does: tall heatsink (up to 190 mm high), long video card (322mm long / 347mm without the optional 92mm intake fan), full ATX PSU,. All that in a beautiful, 2mm thick, black anodized brushed aluminum shell.
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"The Noctua NH-D14 CPU Heatsink arrived Technic3D. See you in the following Review the "Biggest-Tower" from Austria with one 140mm and one 120mm fan compared with many other Cooler on a Intel Core i7 920. The NH-D14 better than all?"
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ASUS shows with the P7P55D-E Premium its first mainboard that
features USB 3.0 as well as 6 GB/s SATA. Furthermore they seem to
litterally wait for extreme overclockers to set new world records due
to the massive 32 phases power design.
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We tested this unit by dropping it from a 1m table and then submerged it in a
bowl of water that is normally reserved for my wife's culinary adventures.
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"In this review PCSTATS will be testing out a 750W power supply from Seasonic's flagship modular gaming "X" series. The Seasonic SS-750KM is an Active Power Factor Correction (A-PFC F3) class unit which boasts the exceedingly hard to come by 80 Plus Gold rating. Seasonic's X-750 features the convenient modular cable format, but looking beyond the spiffy matt-black steel case with honeycomb vents (good EMI and low air resistance), the X-750 reveals some clever internal choices."
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"Mythological naming schemes are nothing new in the PC community as of late. A few companies have taken to this and are trying to continue building a virtual ?cooling army? of mythological warriors and beasts. Titan is just one of those companies. And my last look at one of their products was when they had sampled the Fenrir CPU cooler. As I said then, I felt that Titan had hit the nail on the head with the Fenrir and did a great job of cooling my T.E.C.C. test bench.
Titan has again allowed me to sample another in their lineup, this time a cooler designed with the LGA1156 i5 and i7 processors in mind. The goal was to keep all the best attributes of the Fenrir cooler and reduce its overall size. The naming of this new cooler is based off the Old Norse name of Skfll. Depending on which myth you read, the name refers to either the wolf who chases the horse, which tows the chariot containing the sun across the sky. In another, the name refers to both Fenrir and or his son. Quite appropriate naming of the newest edition."
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Last October Nvidia released a brand new graphics card aimed at the budget market, the GeForce GT 220, and unlike the shady GTS 250 this was actually a new product that deserved to be part of the 200 series. Built using a last generation manufacturing process and given the codename GT216, you'd be forgiven to be unaware of all this, as the 40nm GeForce GT 220 turned out to be a dud.
In terms of performance we were disappointed to find the theoretical bandwidth of 25.3GB/s placed this card alongside the old GeForce 9500 GT. Not everyone can afford a high-end graphics card, of course, so we welcomed the addition for the sake of competition. But this is where things got even more ridiculous. Nvidia decided to slap an $80 price tag on the GT 220, even when the far superior Radeon HD 4670 from ATI had been retailing for less for quite some time.
Prices have dropped slightly since then, but our opinion on it hasn't changed much. Needless to say our expectations for the new GeForce GT 240 are underwhelming, but that's not to say we won't give it a fair go. The card is said to be considerably more powerful than the GT 220, though in terms of performance it should still sit well below the GeForce 9800 GT. We really hope the tweaked version from Gainward that we are reviewing today can surprise us, so let's check it out in more detail.
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"We have seen in our past testing that Kingston modules typically offer great performance, and we can tell you right now that this trend has not changed with this set of HyperX 4GB DDR3-1600 sticks on the test bench today. In fact, you will be shocked at how far these Kingston modules can be pushed. Without tipping our hand just yet, let's just say these sticks can run toe-to-toe with industry flagship 2133MHz modules with ease, and at less than half the price. How's that for special? Read on to find out just how far they go."
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Given the performance and efficiency of large fan coolers we should anticipate seeing more products adopt this design. One such product is the Thermaltake Massive23 CS gaming laptop cooler (manufacturer model CLN0008). The Massive23 CS builds around one large central fan to provide all cooling needs. But good cooling requires more than just a big fan. Benchmark Reviews has tested similar products and unveiled some of those factors. In this review we can see some of those factors at play by testing the performance of the CLN0008.
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