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RAZER Chimaera Wireless Gaming Headset Review
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 The RAZER Chimaera Gaming Headset offers wireless connectivity for maximum liberty of movement, features large cups for confortable wear during long gaming sessions, a uni-directional microphone with a flexible mic boom and an easy to use charging dock.
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Corsair HS1A Gaming Headset Review
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When we took Corsair's first gaming headset for a spin last fall, the HS1, we were left impressed by the fact that the company went for balanced audio instead of boomy bass, resulting in a refreshing listening experience. As they were USB-based, though, some who owned dedicated audio cards shunned them. The remedy? The HS1A.
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Corsair Professional Series HX1050
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At Computex 2011 Corsair revealed a new model for the Professional HX series, the HX1050 which will replace the successful HX1000. The OEM remained the same, Channel Well Technology, the capacity increased by 50 W and efficiency remained at 80 Plus Silver. It seems like this PSU has what it takes to be a cost-effective alternative to the Corsair AX1200.
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Fractal Designs Arc Midi Review
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After the run away success of the R3 Fractal are back with a new midtower chassis. Can they really better the orignal design?
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Corsair SP2500 2.1 speaker system
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Recently, our good friends at Corsair sent us their newest premium speaker set, the SP2500 2.1. It’s no secret that, as gaming enthusiasts, we want to get the best performance out of our rigs as possible. We’ll overclock our CPUs and massage our video settings to get every last FPS and graphical effect; it stands to reason that, to complete the immersive gaming experience, we shouldn’t neglect the audio landscape. Corsair took this same approach with their flagship 2.1 audio system (calling these “speakers” practically feels like an understatement).
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Synology DiskStation DS1511+
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Given that the Synology DiskStation DS1511+ is essentially a more powerful version of the recently reviewed DS411+ we expected good things and that is exactly what we got. As anticipated, the DS1511+ is a great quality NAS device that we can highly recommend to anyone looking at a five bay NAS device, with the possibility to expand up to ten more bays.
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Logitech Z906 Speaker System Review
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It doesn't matter how hard your earphones pound your eardrums with cranium shaking noise, you can't truly call yourself a power user unless you're ticking off the neighbors and scaring the hell out of the dog with a surround sound setup that rattles the walls and punches copious amounts of bass. Without it, you might as well give your man-card away to someone who plans on fulfilling the requirements for membership in an illustrious club that demands everything be over the top.
Logitech's famed Z-5500 system fit the bill, and there are many who consider it to be the king of multimedia speakers. But a king's reign can only last so long before either being usurped, or passing the torch to a successor. In this case, it's the latter, with Logitech's new Z906 speaker system stepping up to the throne as the company's new flagship speaker-set...
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ASUS Xonar Xense Audio Card & Headphones Review @ Neoseeker
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We`re back with a look at another ASUS audio solution for gaming enthusiasts, the Xonar Xense. This card comes bundled with a Sennheiser headset optimized for use with the set, so hit the link to see if it`s the all-in-one solution a budding audiophile could be looking for."
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G.Skill Highlights Phoenix II Pro SandForce Driven SSD
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One of the most active displays we saw at Computex was that belonging to G.Skill and you just might see the reason why below. We had a job to do though and were there to take a look at their Phoenix II Pro SSD which should be released in the very near future. The Phoenix II Pro is another of the many 'SandForce Driven' SATA 3 SSDs we had the opportunity to check out and, as always, these drives just rock for storage transfer speeds.
The Phoenix II Pro SSD will be available in capacities of 120 and 240GB and their specifications list transfer speeds up to 550MB/s read and 510MB/s write with 60, 000 IOPS at 4k random write. Having taken a close look at this SSD at Computex, we can say that their transfer speeds reached 559MB/s read and 518MB/s write but, even better, their small 4k randoms on Crystal Diskmark were up to 99MB/s which is an absolutely amazing result.
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Intel`s Gallium3D Driver After Google`s Work
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"As noted last week on Phoronix, Google has Chromium OS engineers making improvements to Intel`s Gallium3D driver even though this open-source Linux driver isn`t officially supported by Intel Corp. Google`s interested in shipping the Intel Gallium3D driver on their Chromium OS netbooks in order to take advantage of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) and other Gallium3D features to make up for the netbook`s lack of vertex shader hardware. How does this community-maintained Intel 3D driver now compare performance-wise to Intel`s official classic Mesa driver? Here is a fresh set of benchmarks from the latest Mesa Git code over the US holiday weekend.""
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Intel`s Gallium3D Driver After Google`s Work
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"As noted last week on Phoronix, Google has Chromium OS engineers making improvements to Intel`s Gallium3D driver even though this open-source Linux driver isn`t officially supported by Intel Corp. Google`s interested in shipping the Intel Gallium3D driver on their Chromium OS netbooks in order to take advantage of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) and other Gallium3D features to make up for the netbook`s lack of vertex shader hardware. How does this community-maintained Intel 3D driver now compare performance-wise to Intel`s official classic Mesa driver? Here is a fresh set of benchmarks from the latest Mesa Git code over the US holiday weekend.""
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Intel`s Gallium3D Driver After Google`s Work
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"As noted last week on Phoronix, Google has Chromium OS engineers making improvements to Intel`s Gallium3D driver even though this open-source Linux driver isn`t officially supported by Intel Corp. Google`s interested in shipping the Intel Gallium3D driver on their Chromium OS netbooks in order to take advantage of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) and other Gallium3D features to make up for the netbook`s lack of vertex shader hardware. How does this community-maintained Intel 3D driver now compare performance-wise to Intel`s official classic Mesa driver? Here is a fresh set of benchmarks from the latest Mesa Git code over the US holiday weekend.""
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Intel`s Gallium3D Driver After Google`s Work
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"As noted last week on Phoronix, Google has Chromium OS engineers making improvements to Intel`s Gallium3D driver even though this open-source Linux driver isn`t officially supported by Intel Corp. Google`s interested in shipping the Intel Gallium3D driver on their Chromium OS netbooks in order to take advantage of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) and other Gallium3D features to make up for the netbook`s lack of vertex shader hardware. How does this community-maintained Intel 3D driver now compare performance-wise to Intel`s official classic Mesa driver? Here is a fresh set of benchmarks from the latest Mesa Git code over the US holiday weekend.""
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Intel`s Gallium3D Driver After Google`s Work
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"As noted last week on Phoronix, Google has Chromium OS engineers making improvements to Intel`s Gallium3D driver even though this open-source Linux driver isn`t officially supported by Intel Corp. Google`s interested in shipping the Intel Gallium3D driver on their Chromium OS netbooks in order to take advantage of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) and other Gallium3D features to make up for the netbook`s lack of vertex shader hardware. How does this community-maintained Intel 3D driver now compare performance-wise to Intel`s official classic Mesa driver? Here is a fresh set of benchmarks from the latest Mesa Git code over the US holiday weekend.""
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Surprising Power Consumption Of Ubuntu 11.04 vs. Windows 7
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"After recently tracking down the major Linux kernel power regression that`s present for a vast number of mobile users in Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04, and other recent Linux distributions shipping the 2.6.38+ kernel, the sights were turned to see how the power management of Ubuntu 11.04 compares to that of Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1. In this article are the power consumption results of Ubuntu 11.04 compared directly to Windows 7 Professional 1 on several different systems with distinct notebook and desktop / workstation configurations.""
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Surprising Power Consumption Of Ubuntu 11.04 vs. Windows 7
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"After recently tracking down the major Linux kernel power regression that`s present for a vast number of mobile users in Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04, and other recent Linux distributions shipping the 2.6.38+ kernel, the sights were turned to see how the power management of Ubuntu 11.04 compares to that of Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1. In this article are the power consumption results of Ubuntu 11.04 compared directly to Windows 7 Professional 1 on several different systems with distinct notebook and desktop / workstation configurations.""
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