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Friday, October 12, 2007
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OCZ says the drive is water resistant but in testing, the cap was found to come off easily. Be careful with it and you will have one of the fastest drives around. To compare to the recently reviewed corsair Flash Survivor GT HD Tach numbers showed an average read speed of 23MB/sec with an average write speed of 20.6 MB/sec. That makes the OCZ ATV Turbo significantly faster than the Corsair Flash Survivor GT.
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In case you haven't noticed, something sets this cooler apart from practically every other cooler on the market today. It has its heatpipes exposed which allows them to make direct contact with the CPU. This should lead to very efficient cooling as it has removed the need for a solid copper base as a transition layer between the heatpipes and the CPU.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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While DDR3 memory has been around for months, it is only now that we review first DDR3 modules in our labs. OCZ XTC Platinum PC3-12800 DDR3 modules, rated to run at 7-7-7-20 timings and DDR3-1600 frequency, got a chance to prove themselves worthy as successors of wildly popular DDR2 memory.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
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In September OCZ Technology released two new processor coolers for the latest AMD and Intel processors: the Vanquisher and the Vendetta. Both are pretty compact and affordable coolers which should do a good job at keeping your processor cool. In this review I'm taking a closer look at the OCZ Vendetta HSF to see how good this heatsink cools. There's no reference on OCZ's website why they called this heatsink Vendetta but I think it could be an homage to "V for Vendetta", a pretty inspiring movie (and also a comic book series) about freedom which was released in 2006.
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Friday, October 5, 2007
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After much hyping for their hybrid water-cooled FlexXLC memory, OCZ next success story comes in the form of another exotic-cooled memory. The OCZ Reaper HPC is a self contained heat-dissipating juggernaut that pushes the barrier of DDR2 performance without breaking a sweat. Read the full review here.
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
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The 2GB DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Platinum Series Kit is one of ten 2GB DDR3 memory kits (by five different memory companies), that I have been able to test in recent weeks. It is also the first 2GB DDR3 memory kit that can hit 2GHz on with full stability at 2000MHz with 8-8-8-24 timings, which has been a mark that I have been trying to reach for some time now.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
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Many manufacturers search out designs that will help them develop a product known for extraordinary performance. Benchmark Reviews has already reviewed many of the very best CPU coolers available to enthusiasts, from the very unique and original design of the Zaward Sylphee ZCJ003 and VIVO to the oversized Thermaltake MaxOrb CL-P0369. Not long ago, we even reviewed the Ultra ULT33186 Chilltec TEC CPU cooler which combined three different cooling technologies into one solution. All of these products performed very well, but none of them really set itself apart from the pack like the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 did. In this review we will test the OCZ Vendetta (OCZTVEND) Exposed Copper Heatpipe Direct Touch CPU cooler against a field of well-established competitors.
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OCZ Technology is one of the many companies already marketing DDR3 modules, and their PC3-10666 Gold Edition 2GB DDR3 Kit is rated at 1333MHz and 9-9-9-26 timings. This review will take a look at this new DDR3 kit as compared to a 1066MHz DDR2 kit in order to see whether it is currently worth upgrading.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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We have looked at quite a few numbers and a very nice comparison between the infant DDR3 memory and its experienced older brother DDR2. The bandwidth to be had by DDR3 is simply incredible. Especially when you consider the fact that the PC3-10666 OCZ Platinum memory we tested today is at the bottom of OCZs high-performance offerings. Moving up that ladder will provide much better performance at a lot higher frequencies.
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The PC2-8500 Reaper HPC CrossFire Edition 2GB Kit is typical of the type of high performance memory products available today. What isn't typical about these modules is the heat pipe cooling solution OCZ Technology developed to get the most out of this memory. Also atypical to this market segment is OCZ Technology's 2.35V EVP (Extended Voltage Protection) which extends lifetime warranty coverage for these modules to cover usage up to 2.35 Volts.
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Monday, September 24, 2007
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Extreme gamers and hardware enthusiasts are demanding more power from their machines. Quad-core CPUs and multi-GPU setups make for extreme gaming (and extreme heat), and require a solid power supply that can deliver near-nuclear energy for today's demanding number-crunchers. There are several 1000 Watt power supply units available today to meet the growing need for this extreme hardware. As Uncle Ben said, "with great power comes great responsibility", so you should only trust your expensive components to quality name-brand power supplies. One of the best values you can get today comes from OCZ's ProXstream 1000W power supply, which is one of the most inexpensive Kilowatt units you can buy today, but has the quality innards that let you sleep well at night.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
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1000W power supplies are all over the place now so of course we would see one from OCZ. OCZ power supplies from the ModXStream and GameXStream series have been very popular with consumers. Today we will be looking at a new series from OCZ the ProXStream. The ProXStream has one of the smallest form factors of a 1000W power supply that I have seen and has an industry-leading 3 year warranty. I have never actually checked out an OCZ power supply before so we will see how it stacks up against other 1000W power supplies that we have tested.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
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OCZ has long been equipping its memory modules with fancy thermal solutions, partly to make them stand out on store shelves, partially to address heat from overclocking and over-volting. In this review, OCZ brings to the table the most hardcore form of memory cooling PCSTATS has ever seen commercially available. Watercooling for memory. Yup, watercooling. OCZ's PC2-9200 FlexXLC Edition DDR2 memory runs in a dual channel configuration with a stock speed rating of 1150 MHz, on timings of 5-5-5-18.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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The OCZ DDR3-1600 2GB Platinum Series Enhanced Bandwidth Memory Kit is one such kit intended to offer the DDR3 enthusiasts a low voltage option that can easily support memory frequencies past their stock 1066 or 1333MHz Front Side Bus processors. You've probably seen previous, very successful Platinum Series modules that turned heads and produced some of the best performance results. With DDR3 modules fast arriving in full production, it's once again necessary to raise the bar and draw the users who really want the best possible results. Let's see what the OCZ DDR3-1600MHz kit has to offer.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
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OCZ has become a preferred vendor because of its Extended Voltage Protection warranty that covers the memory even if the memory voltage is bumped higher than stock. The OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Reaper HPC Edition is ready to push any system that can handle the 1066MHz modules, but can it handle being pushed back?
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