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Tt eSPORTS Shock Gaming Headset Review
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 Filling out its eSPORTS line-up, Thermaltake recently released three different gaming headsets under the "Shock" name, with the lowest-end $60 offering being the one we're taking a look at here. Tuned for gamers in terms of both aesthetics and audio, does Tt's first go at a gaming headset prove to be an impressive one?
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PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk II 750 W Power Supply Review
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"The PC Power & Cooling Silencer 760 W is a relabeled Seasonic S12D 750 W unit, but with a rear 80 mm fan instead of using 120 mm model and a single +12 V rail instead of two +12 V rails. Its highlights include the use of a DC-DC design, 80 Plus Silver certification, and 836 W peak wattage. Let's check it out."
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QuickPort XT USB 3.0 PLUS dock
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"Today I will be reviewing the Sharkoon QuickPort XT USB 3.0 PLUS hdd dock. Sharkoon have been around for quite a while, and have built up a good reputation of reliable useful products. Today I will see how this USB 3.0 dock compares to a USB 2.0 dock. I am hopeful this dock will beat the older standard, and am somewhat excited to be dealing with this product – as it will be my first encounter with USB 3.0!"
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Wesena ITX7 Mini-ITX HTPC Chassis Review
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Historically one of the hardest parts about going DYI (do it yourself) with a small form factor (SFF) home theater PC (HTPC) has been finding a nice mini-ITX case that actually looks like it belongs in the A/V stack. Until recently enthusiasts have had to choose between “the cube” and killing the pig for a benchmark chassis like the OrigenAE M10; fortunately Wesena is set to alter this dichotomy with their all aluminum ITX7 enclosure. Offering a sleek look, space for a slot loading optical drive and a built in infrared receiver we have the opportunity to take a look at the first revision of an interesting new entrant in this space.
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Antec High Current Gamer HCG-750 Power Supply
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While Antec's new High Current Pro are certainly amazing units, if you don't necessarily need all that raw power, you may be asking: "So does Antec have anything other new PSUs worth investigating?" Oh, we're glad you asked! As it just so happens, they have also rolled out the High Current Gamer series as an alternative to the HCP models. These aren't a horribly de-tuned model either, as you still have multiple GPU support, the same high quality build and multiple 12v rails. On top of that, the looks of these Gamer models, is pretty dam attractive! So with that, we are pleased to bring you the HCG-750, or the 750W model from the new Antec High Current Gamer line.
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AMD PowerXpress 4.0 & Interview
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AMD's new PowerXpress technology has appeared from the depths China's Baidu, and indicates how AMD will combat NVIDIA's Optimus technology and newcomer Lucid's Virtu technology. Read more about AMD PowerXpress and the basics of hybrid and switchable graphics in our Interview with AMD's Asif Rehman."
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Thermaltake Max5G Enclosure
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Today we go back and look at the Thermaltake Max5G Enclosure. We found issues with our USB 3.0 controller we tested on before and have not retested the enclosure on properly functioning controller.
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MSI P67A-GD65
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“The latest P67 board to hit our bench is the MSI P67A-GD65, a premium board that promises innovative features at a great price of $180. There are some very interesting features here, and MSI is serving notice they're ready to play hardball with the competition.”
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Sony's SMP-N100 set-top media player
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Among the mass of set-top media players available on the market, can one of the most well-respected electronics companies set itself apart from the crowd? With Sony's SMP-N100, we aim to find out. On the surface, the device looks similar to others, but inside, Sony's popular XMB interface awaits, along with powerful wireless capabilities.
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Corsair Performance 3 Series 128GB SSD Review in RAID 0
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"Overall, the performance of the Corsair Performance 3 Series of drives is very good. Hitting 410 MB/s reads and 210 MB/s writes is certainly a step up from previous versions but the SATA 6Gbps ceiling is much higher so there's ample room for improvement. RAID 0 kicks it up to 830 MB/s and 400 MB/s read/writes but most users don't want the hassle or extra expense this brings. While the Marvell based Intel 510 Series showed better performance, real world differences won't be discernible to most users..."
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Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev
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Covering 451 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive
comparison allows you to easily compare 22 different specifications
for each and every card. If you need to find out about the
specification of any card, just come over and check out our Desktop
Graphics Comparison Guide.
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3R System L-1200 V.REX Case Review
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"The L-1200 V.REX is an upgraded version of the L-600 V.REX Jr. mid-tower case from the South-Korean 3R System. Let's see what is new."
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Corsair's SP2200 2.1 Gaming Sound System
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"Just a while back we reviewed the Corsair HS1A headset, which proved to be an excellent
entry to the new market of gaming headsets. Now Corsair has already launched two sets of
speakers, and we just had to find out if they're as successful as the headset. First up
- the SP2200!"
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Cooler Master GX-450W PSU
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"Ever since the release of the first Cooler Master GX series power supply, people from around the world have been asking for a lower wattage version. Now, the new 450 watt version has been released and it is specifically targeted at systems in the upper-mid range which use one PCI-e x16 video card. Keep reading to find out more..."
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MSI GX660R Gaming Laptop Review
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"The GX660R is available in various flavours, including Core-i7 based builds and comes with the same high-end Dynaudio speakers that were used in the GT660 with the graphics also receiving an upgrade to AMD's DX11 enabled Mobility 5870... That "R" in the model name, that's for RAID. In theory that all sounds like a system with a high end price tag but MSI have decent spec builds starting at a little under £999 which seems too good to be true. Let's find out if it is..."
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Nouveau's OpenGL Performance Approaches The NVIDIA Driver
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"As I began to share over the weekend, the community-created
Nouveau driver that's open-source and is written by clean-room
reverse-engineering the NVIDIA binary display driver, has reached a
serious milestone. For low-end NVIDIA GPUs, the Nouveau driver based
upon the Mesa Gallium3D architecture is now as fast, or even faster,
than NVIDIA's official proprietary driver."
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