Thermalright TRUE Black 120 CPU Cooler Review
Mercedes, Rolex, Sony, Don Perignon, Thermalright. Chances are, 99% of people immersed in this luxury loving culture have heard of those first four. But Thermalright? Just who are they? For those of you in the audience who are new to the world of performance computing, Thermalright is, and has been one of, if not the single most reputable premium thermal solutions provider in the enthusiast marketplace. Considering their humble roots, producing copper heatsinks with easy to use mounting mechanisms, and those evil wire mounting clips, this company has kept pace with technology, and usually, comes out consistently on top.
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Scythe Zipang 140mm CPU Cooler Review
The Scythe Zipang is top-down heatsink with a huge ~140mm fan on top. A series of 6 copper heat pipes make this heatsink capable of cooling down an Intel Quad Core CPU as the lowest noise levels. We put it to the test and compare its performance to 45 other popular CPU coolers.
Review: Madshrimps...
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Thermaltake BigWater 780e Water Cooler
BigWater 780e (CL-W0169) is a liquid cooling solution from Thermaltake that goes into three 5 ¼” bays from your case and is compatible with nVidia’s ESA technology, which allows you to monitor the system if you have an ESA-compatible PC. The main building block comes with the water tank, water pump, radiator and a 120-mm fan already assembled. All you need to do is to install the copper CPU block that comes with the product on top of your CPU, install (and cut) the hoses and pour the coolant liquid inside the water tank. Let’s take a look on this cooling solution from Thermaltake.
Review: Hardware Secrets...
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NZXT Khaos Case Review
Khaos is a top-notch all-aluminum full-tower case from NZXT featuring eleven 5 ¼” bays, eight internal 3 ½” bays (in two hard disk drive cages, each cage using three 5 ¼” bays), three 120-mm fans, one 140-mm fan and space for installing three more fans in the middle of the case. Is it worth paying USD 400 for this case? Let’s see.
Review: Hardware Secrets...
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ASUS Maximus II Formula
In its typical fashion, ASUS’ latest Republic of Gamers branded motherboard looks to dominate the P45 market. The Maximus II Formula board performs as well as it looks, and seems to be shaping up to give the other Intel boards a run for their money. Did we mention it is themed in blood red and black? Our favorite.
Review: Enthusiast...
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Alienware Area-51 m15x Laptop Review
NVIDIA has really done a superb job in ratcheting up performance in the mobile market for years now and its latest 8800GTX shows no signs of that company’s commitment in maintaining its leadership role. While the promises of DX10 are still lurking in the shadows, the demands for high-performance GPUs are still alive and well with today’s current crop of top PC titles – games like Crysis, Call of Duty 4, Assassin’s Creed and others can bring the graphic processors of even 6-12 months ago to a crawl.
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Mighty Mouse 5 Waterproof Mouse Review
"Today we are going to look at the Mighty Mouse 5 from Man & Machine. The mouse is covered in silicon and is totally waterproof and can be disinfected.
Overall, the Mighty Mouse 5 is very good and the added ability to sterilize the mouse to prevent germs from causing illness and the waterproof design this may be the perfect general use mouse in a shared computer setting."
Source: I4U...
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Knol Opens to All: Think GooglePedia
After six months of testing, Google has released Knol, sort of a moderated version of Wikipedia, to the public. Google encourages authors to share their knowledge in a wiki format, but they also encourage them to make money in the process, if they don't mind AdSense ads on their knols.
Source: Tech-Ex...
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Sapphire HD 4870 Review
"This card was the best overclockable card I have tested out of the three HD 4870 cards I have reviewed. The limits allowable in the Catalyst Control Center are 790MHz on the core and 1100MHz on the memory. I was almost able to max them out with the Sapphire HD 4870 reaching 785MHz on the GPU and 1095MHz on the memory, for an effective speed of 4380MHz. That is a very fast memory speed. Anything higher and the screen would artifact or I would get a BSOD, so the overclocked tests will be run at 785/1095MHz."
Source: OCC
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Trees Get a Win Over Solar Panels
Earlier in February I wrote about an obscure California law, the Solar Shade Control Act (.PDF), passed in 1979 after the Oil Crisis. The law essentially made criminals out of a pair of Sunnyvale residents, whose eight redwood trees cast shade on a neighbor's solar panels.
Source: Tech-Ex...
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Coolermaster GeminII S Heatsink Review
"In this review Frostytech is evaluating the Coolermaster GeminII S - a low height, lower noise, down-exhaust heatsink for Intel socket 775 and AMD socket 754/939/940/AM2+ processors. Coolermaster's GeminII S heatsink stands just 88mm tall and ships with a 120mm fan mounted to its frame. An extra set of brackets allow that fan to be replaced with two 92mm or 80mm fans; say if you want airflow blowing directly down onto adjacent memory slots. The GeminII S heatsink weighs 560grams, features five 6mm dia. copper heatpipes and cooling fins that descend to the CPU base."
Source: Frostytech...
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Samsung SyncMaster 245B LCD Monitor
Widescreen LCD monitors are now pretty much standard nowadays, but what size is a good size? The Samsung SyncMaster 245B LCD Monitor boasts a massive 24" inch screen, a maximum resolution of 1920x1200, detachable stereo speakers, response time of 5ms, supports HDCP and has a contrast ratio of 1000:1, with a brightness level of 400cd/m².
Source: CPU3D...
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Asus Trinity Tri-GPU Graphics Prototype Benched
Asus recently contacted us with an interesting 3D graphics product that was intended to be nothing more than a proof of concept. The product was affectionately named Trinity and though it didn't necessarily conjure up visions of leather-clad vigilante-dominatrix-hotties for us, it certainly did have an intriguing design and board build. The Asus Trinity prototype is built on a trio of AMD ATI Radeon HD 3850 GPUs in CrossFireX mode for tri-GPU performance in a single slot.
Source: HotHardware...
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Conroe vs. Wolfdale: To the Limit
"We shall examine two interesting families of Intel processors with 333 MHz (1333 MHz Quad Pumped) FSB, based on the relatively old (Conroe) and relatively new (Wolfdale) cores. We selected the slowest and the fastest CPU from each series. So, even if you are not interested in core comparison, you still get useful information about performance ranges of these CPU families."
Source: Digit-Life...
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Palit HD 4870 512MB Video Card Reviewed
"The real win is having a $300 card: NVIDIA made a lot of money with the 9800 GTX before the 4850 forced them to sell it for $200. Now that bracket belongs to ATI, who, for the first time in years, is dictating hardware costs, not following prices set by NVIDIA. We'll have to wait for board partners to add innovation. So yes, the card isn't perfect, but like they say, it's lonely at the top."
Source: TheTechLounge
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How Safe Are Your 'Tweens' Online?
Parents are making an effort to talk to their kids about Internet safety, but children are still willing to talk to strangers on IM, post personal information about themselves on social networking sites, or be the target of online bullying, according to a Tuesday study from Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
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