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Saturday, September 12, 2009
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"Input devices are arguably the most important pieces of hardware you buy for your PC. A $5,000 computer is only as good as its peripherals, and by the same token, a good keyboard and mouse can make a budget rig feel like a million bucks. I have recently become a collector and connoisseur of the finer input devices such as mechanical keyboards. When asked to review a new mouse from Cooler Master, I jumped at the chance to put this device through the paces."
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?Gaming grade peripherals have always been the cr?me de la cr?me when it comes to mice, keyboards, etc. But is there that much of a difference to be had between different peripheral manufacturers? There are a few things which are apparent even before testing ? aesthetics and price. So let?s take a look at one competitor, the OCZ Behemoth.?
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The average computer has about two USB ports and some audio ports. To be honest that is not enough with the growing amount of items the normal computer has such as digital cameras, MP3 players and webcams. Today we are reviewing the Master Panel II from Vizo, a product that will make connecting your different items of hardware much easier. Let?s see how it does in the review?
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Friday, September 11, 2009
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"SilverStone make a huge variety of HTPC-cases, ranging from the fairly simple cases all the way up to the all-aluminum
models, complete with front-panel TFTs. From that variety of shapes and sizes, the newcomer of the Grandia Series, the
GD03 made its way to our tests."
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?Succeeding the vastly successful NF-S12, the NF-S12B is a next generation quiet fan featuring Noctua?s advanced SCD2 technology as well as a highly optimised blade geometry with Bevelled Blade Tips that improves its award-winning predecessor?s airflow efficiency by up to 10%. Topped off with Noctua?s time-tested SSO-Bearing, 6 years warranty and versatile 1200/900/600 RPM speed settings, the NF-S12B FLX is a premium quality fan that offers full flexibility in quiet to ultra-quiet case cooling.?
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Gigabyte is not only a manufacturer of mainboards and graphics
cards, they also manufacture some nifty computer accessories, which I will
be taking a closer look at today. We have previously only reviewed graphics
cards from Gigabyte. This time we will be taking a look at a rather
exclusive product, a stylish mouse called "Gigabyte GM-M7800S Swarovski
Crystal Mouse". By the name and looks of it, we can be sure that Gigabyte is
aiming this product towards people who are sensitive to fashion and
trends...
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"The Lian Li PC-A77 Case in black is the next PC Case in the Technic3D Editorship. The PC-A77 is the case which functionality and style converge, features the upright removable E-ATX motherboard tray, anti-vibration HDD racks, dual 12cm silent intake fans with filter, top mounted multi-media I/O ports, and the graphics card holder, and lots more. Technic3D will check this in the following Review."
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"Today we will be having a look at a Radeon HD 4890 from ASUS which falls into the Formula series of video cards. With some pretty impressive versions of this GPU out lately already, ASUS will have to offer us something that stands out from the pack, if they want to be considered by potential buyers.
What we will do though before we have a closer look at the card is see the package and dive inside the bundle and from there we'll have a closer look at the card to see what exactly ASUS has going on before having a quick look of the specifications of the card and then checking out the performance."
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It's OK to arrive fashionably late to a party, as long as you have something to add. ASUS has been offering their MATRIX branded video cards to the public well after the initial buzz has died down, for each GPU launch. The 9800GT and 4870 MATRIXcards were released in 2008, followed by the GTX260 MATRIX in early 2009. ASUS now releases the GTX285 MATRIX featuring the fastest single GPU available, supplied by NVIDIA. Benchmark Reviews looked at the ASUS ENGTX285 TOP back in January, which drew heavily from the NVIDIA reference design. Let's take a closer look at how they've stretched the limits on their latest offering, which is anything BUT a standard design.
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Every time AMD releases a new processor, one question is on the tip of the tongues of enthusiasts everywhere: Is this the product to finally take the performance crown from Intel? I have to say that the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition CPU isn?t that product. This latest CPU from the green machine is simply a revision to the previous Phenom II X4 955 CPU. As we know this line of processors is still only able to compete with Intel?s Core 2 Quad line of CPUs, rather than take on Intel?s Core i7 beast.
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Today I will be looking at a product from a manufacturer that, until recently, I had never heard of, sort of. I say sort of because the manufacturer is Luxa2, whom I have never heard of, but they are a division of Thermaltake, whom I am pretty sure most computer enthusiasts will know of. The product I will be looking at is a luxury media centre case in the shape of the LM200. Coming from Luxa2, the luxury arm of Thermaltake, I have VERY high expectations.
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For this review I will be looking at some hardware from a company that probably needs no introduction as they synonymous with computer memory, they are of course Crucial, now Lexar Crucial. The product under review is some of their newer memory, 2x 1GB sticks of DDR3 1600 Ballistix or to give it its proper ?name? BL12864BA1608.
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"It seems like computer monitors, especially LCD monitors are finally starting to move over to the 16:9 aspect ratio. When we first started seeing widescreen models they were all 16:10 aspect ratio, so you would have resolutions like 1680 x 1050 and 1920 x 1200. Now the 16:9 models are starting to come out offering full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080. Today we will be looking at one such monitor the Samsung SyncMaster 2233SW, which is a 22-inch display that features a 5ms response time, 15000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and a very sleek design."
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
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Today at Tech-Reviews we have the TDD-9000 Nexus Cooling Pad.
There are many different types of cooling solutions for notebooks available
and each claim to work wonders, but the Nexus Liquid Cooling Pad
specifically claims of a whopping 17 Degree drop in laptop temperature
(based on their own independent tests). It's now time to find out whether or
not their claim is the result of an exaggerated marketing company or
reality.
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Five years ago back in 2004, IBM sold their PC business onto the
Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group. Today we?re going to be taking a
look at the Lenovo ThinkPad T500, a laptop which is said to withhold
the qualities the industry has come to expect from the ThinkPad series.
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