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OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB Review @ Ocaholic
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 With the Vertex 3.20 OCZ officially launches their first product that features 20 nanometer NAND from the Intel/Micron joint venture. This step is quite a critical one for OCZ since it means that have to do a balancing act between endurance and price. There are quite a few manufacturers out there in the market that already offer TLC based SSD with significantly lower prices. At this point we just want to tell you, that OCZ does not got for TLC NAND, they stick to MCL chips and we think it`s a good compromise between not only price and endurance but also performance."
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ASUS ROG ORION PRO Gaming Headset Review
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1.html,The ASUS ROG Orion Pro Gaming Headset are a mid-range set of cans aimed at online gamers. Meant for extended sessions of gaming, they offer very high build quality, light weight with generous padding that make them disappear on your head. The Orion Pro produce very good sound quality, gripping bass and very clear treble, and the retractable microphone is respectable with some adjustment to volume. The included Spitfire USB Audio dongle adds value, but was a mixed bag. Offering interesting features like virtual surround, FPS `EQ`, and an amp, but decreased the overall sound quality to my ears. Besides that, the Orion Pro are one of the best headsets I`ve tested so far, and for $120US, are a pretty good deal to boot"
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Transcend MSA720 128GB mSATA SSD Review @ Legit Reviews
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Transcend has a nice mSATA product on their hands with the MSA720 although it could easily get lost in the shuffle of the numerous SF-2281 mSATA drives popping up all over. It doesn`t appear to be as widely available at retailers as some other brands. Performance overall was very good and where it should be based on our experience with this controller/NAND configuration. We saw max read/writes at nearly 560MB/s and 525MB/s respectively and the predictable dip in performance when subjected to incompressible data..."
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Korg Headtune HT-G2 Review @ TestFreaks
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If you play guitar, bass or ukulele then todays review item should be of interest. Tuning ones instrument can be simple for those with perfect pitch hearing while others such as myself need some external assistance via a tuner. Korg has released a series of tuners for guitar, bass or ukulele dubbed the headtune. "
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Cooler Master V-series 1000W Power Supply
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"The Cooler Master V-series 1000W power supply is the latest flagship model PSU from Cooler Master. The CM V-series also includes 700W and 850W models, all of which use a fully modular design like the 1000W model. Ditching the Silent Pro Hybrid’s Enhance OEM, the new V-series is based on a new Seasonic design and is 80-Plus Gold certified. Unlike other power supplies including previous Cooler Master models, the V-series power supplies use a new premium-grade 135mm Fluid Dynamic Bearing fan from Protechnic Electric Co. that runs quieter and longer lasting. The 1000W V-series PSU from Cooler Master supports up to Quad-SLI/Crossfire with its eight 6+2-pin PCI-E connector and has 83A on a single +12V rail. The Cooler Master V1000 power supply uses 100% Japanese capacitors for stability and high-reliability with protection for over-voltage, under-voltage, over-current, over-power, over-temperature, and short-circuit protection. The CM V-series 1000W power supply also has MTBF rating of >100,000 Hours and carries a 5-year limited warranty."
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Tipster Details Rumored Motorola X Smartphones
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A lot of people are wondering what exactly the rumored Motorola X smartphone might entail, and now we have a number of details courtesy of our inside source, who has devices in hand. The tipster notes first of all that the ROM info on the handset lists "X" as the device type, indicating that it's indeed the Motorola X...
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Cooler Master NA 90 Notebook Power Adapter
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"The Cooler Master NA 90 Notebook Power Adapter is a 90W power adapter that will work with most notebooks. It's comes with many power tips which are easy to install and makes connection(s) fast and simple. If you need to replace your notebook power adapter or maybe you need a spare one, this would do the job." ~3dGameMan.com
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Frame Rating: High End GPUs Benchmarked at 4K Resolutions
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If we limit our options to single cards, whether they be single GPU or dual-GPU, the battle is even more interesting. Because AMD`s new Radeon HD 7990 depends on CrossFire technology to perform, the 13.5 beta driver that still has the runt frame and frame time variance problems places it in a very bad light compared to NVIDIA options like the GeForce GTX Titan and the GeForce GTX 690."
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[Tech ARP] Java Plug-In SSV Helper - Should It Stay Or Should It Go? Rev. 2.0
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If you use Internet Explorer, you will probably encounter this quite often - a pop-up request to enable or disable the `Java(tm) Plug-In SSV Helper` add-on from `Oracle America, Inc.`. Some of you may notice that this usually pops-up after you update Java. In any case, the question is - should it stay or should it go? First of all - don`t worry. This isn`t a piece of malicious software. This plug-in is part of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which is needed to run applications written in the Java language. Web browsers like Internet Explorer need JRE to properly display websites that use Java applets and/or codes. Before you hit the Enable button though... *In this update, we added a section called After Upgrading To Internet Explorer 10. If you are using Internet Explorer 10, please take a look at the update.*"
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Storm Skorpion Mouse Bungee and Control-RX
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“Do you ever find yourself suffering from sticky mouse cord syndrome? You’re just trying to move your mouse to dodge some bullets but your cord keeps getting hung up and getting you killed. Does your mouse pad lack the technology to utilize your ultra-low DPI for those massive long-range head shots? If so then CM Storm has some products that you NEED! Introducing the CM Storm Skorpion mouse bungee and the CM Storm Control-RX gaming surface. These two products from CM Storm (a division of Cooler Master) may solve some of your gaming problems. Read on to find out how.”
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CM Storm QuickFire Rapid with Cherry MX Green Switch Review @ Techgage
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Since the release of its QuickFire Rapid in late 2011, Cooler Master has done well to capture a good portion of the mechanical keyboard market. Its models are built-well, cater to gamer and traditional user alike, and look good. Whats next? Introducing a keyswitch that no other company in North America can: Cherry MX Green."
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Thermaltake Urban S21 Review
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The Thermaltake S21 did not preform very well under high load, and I think it mostly has to do with the lack of cable management. Yes, in a smaller case you are going to see an increase in temperatures, but the enemy is often just cables blocking air flow, and this appears to be what happened here. The lack of support for a top mounted fan didn`t help either. Even so, I like to test my cases out as stock, but having the option would lead me to try an extra fan that could potentially lower temperatures. Even though I haven`t found a way to properly measure how long it takes temps to drop from load to normal idle, my observation simply concludes that it would take a very long time. Air was getting trapped in the top corner, and I could feel the warmth. Are the temps really out of the realm of normal? No, and I`ve used cases that are far worse."
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Diamond BV750 Low Profile 7750 Graphics Card
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So many times we discount the fact that many people purchase thin profile systems for home usage or even business units. Today Diamond offers a excellent solution for these tiny profile prebuild systems with some decent horsepower and multi-display capability, now lets take a look at what this card can do."
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PowerColor HD 7790 Turbo Duo 1GB Video Card Review @ Hi Tech Legion
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The PowerColor HD 7790 Turbo Duo video card uses a custom single-heatpipe copper heatsink design with a pair of silent 80mm fans for active cooling. The HD 7790 Turbo Duo from PowerColor also comes out of the box with a factory overclock of 1075MHz, compared to the 1000MHz boost clock of the reference Radeon HD 7790. For display output, the PowerColor HD 7790 is equipped with two DVI ports, a full-sized HDMI port and a full-size DisplayPort with full AMD Eyefinity support for 3 or more displays. Through the AMD Catalyst Control Center, or through a future update to PowerColor`s own Power Tuner Up utility, users can overclock the HD 7790 for better performance under the latest DirectX11 games. For even further performance increase, the PowerColor HD 7790 Turbo Duo can be Crossfired with another HD 7790 allowing it to outperform more expensive and higher end video cards.///"
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Crucial M500 480 GB @ techPowerUp
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Crucial`s new M500 SSD is built on an upgraded Marvell flash controller with new 20 nanometer 128 Gbit die MLC flash. This combination makes for a very affordable drive that also provides excellent performance in both synthetic and real-life performance testing."
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