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Friday, June 1, 2007
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FSP launches their latest passive cooled power supply, rated at 400W and equipped with the latest connectors for high(er) end hardware can it provide stability under heavy load? We test this unit to the extreme with two overclocked NVIDIA G80 cards and overclocked Core 2 Duo. Find out how the ZEN400 did.
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After meeting up with Revoltec at Channel Expo this year, we found they had recently decided that breaking England would be a good idea. To aid the third German invasion, we have the Revoltec Zirconium case to test?
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The Curve is certainly a neat little BlackBerry, small and light, and comfortable to use. I'd have liked Wi-Fi and 3G but at least RIM is clearly working hard at developing its multimedia capabilities. For a first attempt in that respect the Curve does pretty well.
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Canon created a range of useful dye-sublimation printers with its first Selphy releases, but now it has come to refresh them it has to inject new life into what are basically very similar designs. Unlike the ES1, which featured a 'sit up and beg' design, the CP750 is small and squat, as earlier Selphys were.
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Sony has built on the good points of the TX Series but also taken some inspiration from the iconic X505VP and produced a truly stunning ultra-portable notebook. Sony has mastered the LED backlight technology and created the best notebook screen I've ever seen, while Intel's new dual-core ULV mobile chip is also a triumph for the ultra-portable notebook platform. It could do with more memory, but other than that Sony has pretty much hit the target in every area.
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The Aluminum Desktop Stand from the folks at LapWorks addresses many of the concerns that people have when using a laptop computer. Not only does it make the experience more comfortable, it also helps your computer perform better by effectively dissipating heat. But how does it do that and can a few pieces of aluminum justify the $60 (MSRP) asking price? Well, I had a chance to take this cooling stand out for a test drive and the results were remarkably impressive.
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The surface of the Laptop Desk 2.0 has channels to help keep your notebook cool by allowing heat to dissipate via convection. Flat parts of the surface of the Laptop Desk 2.0 are covered with non-skid rubber that not only keeps your notebook from slipping off the stand, but also helps to cool it by conduction.
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It's inexpensive, as fast as other P35 boards and overclocks like a beast. You could certainly do better on the included feature and accessories front, but that's not like it doesn't give you plenty of expandability on-board. If I was looking for an inexpensive, solid performing, future proof backbone to a new system; the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R would certainly be high on my list.
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Monitors are a necessity, but figuring out what monitor is for you can be a tough choice. At least one thing is for sure your new monitor is going to be a LCD. Today we will be looking at a 19-inch LCD from Hanns-G. Hanns-G is not that well known so we will see just how well the HW191D will perform. It does feature a 1440 x 900 resolution, 700:1 contrast ratio, and a 5ms response time. It has a great price of $159.99 from Geeks.com, which is much lower than other 19-inch monitors. Let's see if it's worth picking up.
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Heatpipe cooling has been around long enough now where I don't need to explain how that works, and I gave a very basic explanation of how TEC's work earlier. So why are there two heatpipes cooling what should be the cold side of the TEC? You would think that in order for the TEC to be more efficient they would have placed all four heatpipes on the hot side. Here is why they chose this design - 50W. A 50W TEC is no match for a modern CPU and would easily be overpowered by the heat generated. In order to overcome the limitation of the TEC, they augment the cooling by moving two heatpipes down to the bottom. I'm sure this was done to minimize the system power requirements (which is listed as a 350W PSU minimum) but I doubt the TEC will help a whole hell of a lot when a system is under load. It will be all heatpipe, baby. I would like to see this setup with a 150W TEC or better and see how it performs, but then the PSU requirements would go way up which would minimize the number of consumers available who could purchase the ChillTec.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
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When OCZ introduces a new enthusiast series, we'd like to take it out for a spin. Today we test a brand new PC2-8500 Reaper HPC module and compare its performance to 9 other high end contestants. Can the new sibling from OCZ differentiate itself in the crowded DDR2 market? Let's find out.
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OCZ are well known throughout the enthusiast community for being one of the top few memory manufacturers when it comes to overclocking. Recently, they have also become known for their innovative RAM cooling solutions such as the watercooling option that comes with their Flex memory kit. Today I have another of their heatsink clad kits, the Reaper PC2-8500 HPC (Heat Pipe Conduit), which features twin heatpipes leading to a black painted heatsink.
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The Cyber Snipa Intelliscope gaming mouse comes at a price tag of under $25, but includes a lot of functions one would usually only find in mice twice as expensive. These include an on-the-fly DPI switch, programmable buttons and perfect left handed gamer support. The only real shortcoming is the somewhat bloated and buggy software. If you are willing to look past that, the mouse itself will certainly not disappoint.
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Getting back to EVGA's card and bundle, we think that it's a good product, but it's priced out of the grasp of most early adopters, nevermind the enthusiasts that regularly read bit-tech. It just doesn't offer enough value for money over EVGA's e-GeForce 8800 GTX Superclocked card, which is over £100 cheaper. This isn't uncommon for products based on Nvidia's GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU though, because the initial cards clocked at reference speeds were priced well out of the market too.
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The new Aerocool ZeroDegree Case arrived Technic3D. BTX Design? or ATX with new Features for a small price! See you in the following Review from Technic3D.
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