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Team Group Xtreem 2000 MHz CL7 6GB Kit
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 The Xtreem Series from Team Group marks the company's high-end line-up of memory for the newest plattforms available. We rip apart, bench and push the memory to the limit, to see how it ticks below the surface of the thick, high quality heatspreaders
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Axle GeForce GT 240 512 MB
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NVIDIA recently launched their first GDDR5 graphics cards. The new GeForce GT 240 is based on NVIDIA's brand-new 40 nm G215 graphics processor and features 96 shaders. Axle has chosen to use an Arctic Cooling heatsink on their GT 240 design.
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[LATEST]
Laser Gaming Mouse Review
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"Fuelled with a passion for gaming, the exciting new brand CM Storm has yet
another product that has found itself to us today. In the hope of
challenging the gaming peripheral market with innovative products CM Storm
have brought us the CM Storm Sentinel Advance, a powerful twin-laser gaming
mouse with great looks and aesthetics.
With already a handful of new products, CM Storm targets the hardcore gamer.
The current CM Storm lineup has been concerned with chassis specific
products and indeed Cooler Master their creators dominate the market with
provision for power supplies, cooling products and computer cases, but
gaming peripherals are a new venture for CM and so they hope to take on the
giants Roccat, Razer, Logitech and others."
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[LATEST]
Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire CPU Scaling
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However what the data recorded in this article suggests is when future games became more demanding on the CPU, the Core i7 is going to provide a higher level of performance. While this is a very likely scenario, the Core i7 has been available for well over a year now and this still has not happened. Therefore in terms of value, the Phenom II X4 still makes more sense for gaming purposes.
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Thermaltake V3 Black Edition
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"All in all, this case is not a bad case at all. It stood right with the competition in three out of four of the tests. Not only that, but compared to the similarly priced NZXT Gamma, the V3 sported more features - including an external 3.5" bay, rear LED fan, and the small window on the side panel. Like the Gamma, the V3 is all black. It is interesting that the specifications mention no water cooling support and yet there appear to be holes in the rear of the case to accommodate this."
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ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 890FX motherboard
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ASUS hasn’t been making much noise in the high-end AMD market as of late and has instead concentrated their new Republic of Gamers series motherboards towards Intel users. That is all about to change with the upcoming release of their Crosshair IV Formula which is based off of AMD’s 890FX chipset. In this sneak peak we give you a quick glimpse at this new board.
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HIS Radeon HD 5570 Fan Video Card Review
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"Radeon HD 5570 is one of the latest DirectX 11 mainstream video processors from AMD. Let's see how is its performance compared to Radeon HD 5670 and its main competitors from nVidia. Check it out."
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PowerColor HD 5830 PCS+
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"First let's take a look at the HD 5830 PCS+'s cooler, which appears to be a massive finned brick. It's actually one of the biggest coolers I've seen on a video card. The bulk of it is a nice hefty chunk of finned aluminum. There is a huge amount of surface area, so we should be able to expect a great deal of heat dissipation."
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Seagate BlackArmor PS110 500GB USB 3.0 Portable Drive
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The BlackArmor PS110 500GB drive is Seagate's first entry into the new world of USB 3.0 hard drives. And considering that it may be the typical consumers first USB 3.0 product, they have put together a great bundle to make the transition as easy as possible. You get not only the 500GB drive, but everything else you might need to use this with a laptop computer.
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OCZ ModXStream Pro 600 Watt Review
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“Quite some time ago we were kindly given the chance to review the OCZ Fatal1ty 700 Watt. Today, OCZ have kindly let us take a look at the 600W ModXStream Pro. Will this 600W Modular power supply perform to the standards of the other units we’ve tested? Time to find out…”
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Raidmax Skyline Case
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"In the world of PC customization there are a wide range of products to choose from when looking to house your computing hardware. Some are expensive and high quality, while others are expensive and not worth their weight in tin. Others are great bargains and targeted towards the modding community, while some are cheap both in price and materials. Today we look at the Raidmax Skyline and decide which of these categories it falls into."
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MSI H55-GD65 Gamer Series LGA1156 ATX Motherboard
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A key benefit of almost every INTEL P55/P55A motherboard that we’ve reviewed is the overclocking capability. Chances are you can walk into your favourite computer store and locate several capable INTEL P55 boards capable of unlocking the potential of that stock CPU. How much potential depends on how much you want to spend and what expansion features you want.
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Gigabyte H55M-USB3 - The Ultimate $100 H55 Board
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Finding a great H55 board to match up with your Clarkdale CPU isn't hard, as the market currently has a great selection. But Gigabyte's H55M-USB3 stands out, as it has a superb feature-set for its ~$100 price tag, and also proves itself in our tests as being a great all-around board, and one that seems to have no limit in overclocking.
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ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 890GX
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“Looking to capitalize on new technologies such as SATA 6.0Gb/s and USB 3.0, AMD's new 890GX chipset incorporates these, and other several features in looking to continue to provide computing and gaming value to consumers. The 890GX sports "new" integrated graphics and a new SB850 southbridge, shedding previous limitations that nagged the popular 785G. Implementing these new features and changes is the ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 motherboard, which also brings a host of additional innovations and value-added features that make this combination very enticing.”
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QNAP NMP-1000 Network Media Player review
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When I started to plan the upcoming review schedule for APH
Networks early last month, the influx of new network media players onto the
market really caught my attention. Providing more digital media integration
with your living room audio/video equipment than ever before, long gone are
the days when we were restricted to watching certain videos on our computers
only, or swapping a bunch of CDs every time you wanted to listen to those
songs on the big system. Last month, we reviewed the Patriot Box Office
network media player, which delivered excellent media compatibility for a
very low price of admission, but failed to provide the kind of experience
users would come to expect for a home entertainment device. Inevitably, there
are compromises due to its cost. At the same time, I also began testing
QNAP's NMP-1000 network media player. QNAP is known for making absolutely
brilliant network appliances in both performance and reliability, such as the
QNAP TS-439 Pro network attached storage system we examined back in September
last year. But here's the thing: The QNAP NMP-1000 retails for $400 at press
time -- effectively four times the price of products such as Asus' O!Play and
the Patriot Box Office as aforementioned. It is probably no surprise that you
are wondering at this point what makes the NMP-1000 so much more expensive
than other products that carry out pretty much the same tasks. And you know
what? I was asking the same question before I got my hands on these products
as well, haha. Is the QNAP NMP-1000 truly the ultimate, no compromise, fully
featured high performance network appliance with multimedia features for the
home user to justify its price tag, or will it fail to hold its own against
the competition? To answer all these questions and address everything else in
a detailed and thorough manner, well, let me present to you this week's
review!
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Tips and Tricks: Optimize Your Computer For Speed and Efficiency
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"I’ve been into computers for many years now, too many to count at this point, but when someone in my family or any friends have a computer problem they call me to help them out. One of the biggest complaints I run across is speed, and why is their computer running slow. There are of course a plethora of reasons their computer is running slow, usually it’s a virus or they’ve just got too much stuff going on at the same time and their computer just can’t handle it. Another thing I’ve run across is that people think a five year old computer should be able to do everything that a one year old computer can do, they think if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. Generally that’s a good rule, but not for computers really, the technology evolves so fast that in about six months your brand new computer is now a generation or two behind what’s on the market today. There are several things that one can do to make their computer faster and more responsive and I’ve compiled a list of many of them, it’s by no means every single thing you can do, but a lot of them are ones that the average user can do themselves with little or no technical knowledge. These tips are not limited to desktops, but for netbooks and laptops as well, but they can be limited by the operating system you’re using… "
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pureoverclock
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It doesn't have to be High-End all the time. For less money there are interesting computer cases, too. A very good example is the
Enermax Staray for roundabout 40 Euro.
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SilverStone Fortress FT02
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“Today we will be looking at the Fortress FT02; SilverStone engineers have combined the rigidity of unibody construction of the TJ07 with the unparalleled cooling layout of the RAVEN chassis, adding a hot-swappable hard drive cage and an acoustically-padded interior for maximum versatility resulting with increased structural strength, increased storage capacity, and whisper-quiet operation.”
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