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Thursday, September 11, 2008
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HIS has just released the IceQ4 version of the AMD Radeon HD 4850. The IceQ4 cooler is a dual-slot solution which ensures low temperatures under both idle and load. Also HIS has overclocked the card which results in a nice performance boost compared to the reference design card.
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The first thing you'll notice when looking at this Intel cooler is that NPowertek NPH-775-140HC looks very much like Intel's retail box thermal solution. The NPH-775-140HC is rated for heat loads up to 130W, however we'd suggested keeping things to energy efficient Intel CPUs that have a sub-95W TDP rating.
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Palit are one of a growing number of companies who now sell Nvidia and ATI cards which means that in the same price range they can often have several competing products. In the case of the sub $200 market two such products are their 9800GT and 4850 Sonic graphics cards.
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Thanks to the lowered pricing of memory these days, it's not uncommon for relatively unknown companies to throw down the gauntlet for the bigger boys and this is a good thing, as it keeps the market leaders on their toes at the very least. With that in mind, today I have a kit entitled the XTune from Aeneon which is interestingly a subsidiary of Qimonda, the chip makers. Their reputation has always been relatively good when it came to memory chips, so how will their own brand of kit stand up to the flack? Let's find out.
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The OCZ PC2-9200 Flex II 4GB memory kit steps up the game for 4GB memory kits. No longer does 4GB have to be associated with slow and loose timings. Focusing solely at the performance available, this kit really does give you the flexibility to choose between tight timings or high frequencies with appreciable read, write, and copy bandwidth across the board. Factor in the overclocking, Extended Voltage Protection, and the Xtreme Liquid Convection heatsink and you've got a well rounded memory kit...
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The Razer Piranha Headset, the little brother from the Barracuda, arrived Technic3D. True-to-life audio quality with superior clarity and bass, Adjustable, noise-filtering microphone, Comfortable, ergonomic and adjustable head phones suitable for prolonged use? We will check this in the following Review.
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PQI's newest class 6 SDHC card is aimed at those looking for a cheap and fast storage card. Being a competitively priced class 6 card it is definitely worth considering if you are looking to upgrade your camera or other write intensive devices' memory.
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The Thecus N3200 3-Bay SOHO network storage system is much more than a typical network attached storage device, and is something like a Swiss Army knife of networking and storage functionality. In addition to making sure your important data is well looked after on three hard drives configured in your choice of RAID arrays, it makes sharing it locally and globally rather easy.
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ATI has made a notable comeback over the past year with enticing GPU releases that have been able to match and sometimes surpass Nvidia's offerings in terms of performance, power consumption and value. As things stand today, the GeForce GTX 280 is the fastest single GPU graphics card available, while the standard Radeon HD 4870 is not too far behind it. Yet the Radeon costs less than $300, while the GTX 280 is selling for roughly $450, giving AMD some generous pricing headroom to play with.
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Enlight have a few products designed for gamers and enthusiasts though, and today we will take a look at one of them; the Sniper Power 650W PSU. Enlight currently has no 800W+ units and this product is their second most powerful they currently produce, but its output is more than enough for the needs of the majority of PC enthusiasts and gamers.
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So, rather than skimp on features, ECS has been providing their latest Black Series affordable motherboards with many of those seen on more expensive solutions. A while back, we had the pleasure of checking out the AM2+ supporting A780GM-A Motherboard with the AMD 790 Chipset. While it encountered a few glitches with random memory kits, it wasn't all bad results. Stability wasn't an issue and there were decent integrated features. Today, the ECS GF8200A Motherboard featuring the Nvidia Geforce 8200 and MCP78S Chipset, has finished the usual rounds of pummeling and testing to see if it's a better solution than the last.
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External storage is very important, especially to notebook users who only have a limited amount of space available. If you are a notebook user you don't want to be carrying around a huge external hard drive plus its power adapter etc. That is why many companies have small external hard drives that are easy to carry around with you. Today we will be looking at the 120GB FreeAgent Go from Seagate.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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In computing an avatar is a user's representation of himself or herself, and can occur in both two and three dimensions. It's something gamers are very familiar with, along with the need for decent peripherals and how they can affect their reputation (and performance) online. So when applied to said peripherals, the term avatar can represent a gamer's real or perceived reputation in their favourite game. This link may be a bit of a stretch, but when a company like NZXT enters into the arena of gaming peripherals, it can only represent the addition of another high performance peripheral to the gamer arsenal.
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Cooler Master HAF 932 is a full-tower case targeted to gamers, coming with three big 230-mm fans rotating at 700 rpm and one 140-mm fan rotating at 1,200 rpm - HAF stands for High Air Flow, six external 5.25" bays and five internal 3.5" bays and several other features. Let's take an in-depth look on this new Cooler Master case.
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I have reviewed a large number of heat sinks during the time that I have been reviewing computer hardware. Yet I have never reviewed one that tipped the scales as far as this one did. Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily saying large is bad because the Cooler Master Hyper Z600R will also rank as one of the best heat sinks we have ever reviewed. So come on along as see what we learned.
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