Bulgarian modding community - hardware reviews and the latest news
Our Colleagues at TPU! posted a review of the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 8800 Cooler. Briefly: "Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme is the name of their newest graphics card cooler for GeForce 8800 cards. The Xtreme is also available in a version that supports ATI HD 2900 cards. The cooler uses 107 aluminum fins with…
One of the newest NVIDIA models, the one named GeForce 9600 GT, began to gather popularity because it's excellent price/performance ratio. In the ModReactor lab we have already tested few models of this card, including a non referent factory overclocked card, but all of them were with the NVIDIA recommended 512MB of…
Building on the apparent success of the Big Typhoon 120 VX (CL-P0310), Thermaltake has announced a new high-end CPU cooler dubbed Big Typhoon VP. The product combines a copper base, six 6mm heatpipes and a big block consisting of 142 aluminum fins, with not one but two 120mm fans, one perpendicular to the base and one…
SAPPHIRE Technology, industry leader in alternative cooling solutions for PC graphics, has just launched a new ULTIMATE Edition of the top of the range HD 3870 - topping it's previous claim for the fastest passive cooled graphics card in the World by delivering even more performance. The SAPPHIRE HD 3870 ULTIMATE…
Rockstar Games has uploaded what is the be the final trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV before the game’s release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at the end of next month. Titled Good Lord, What Are You Doing? AKA Everyone’s a Rat, you can stream the trailer from RockStar’s websites or download the 70MB HD trailer HERE .…
BFG Technologies announced today the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT OC2 512MB PCI Express 2.0 graphics card for a suggested retail price of $249.99 USD. "The BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT OC2 512MB graphics card offers the same powerfully immersive entertainment experience as standard models, but is OC2 overclocked to…
Our colleagues from TPU! had an interesting interview with Alex 'Unwinder', the creator of RivaTuner. In short: "The program for video settings RivaTuner has changed a lot through the years, just like its creator. TPU talk with 'Unwinder' about the software development and its role in activating the soft mod…
Our colleagues from Virtual-Hideout had published a review of a gamer's/НТРС bgears b-Envi case. In short: "When i first looked at the b-Envi I thought the buttons on the front panel are either hidden or moved to the side of the case. Man, was I surprised when I checked the user's manual, only to find out that the…
Mushkin today announced the immediate availability of two new DDR2 kits, whose Frost Byte heatspreaders have been painted in "Arctic White" and "Charcoal Gray". The modules are available now in two different 4GB (2x2GB) kits: XP2-6400 800MHz (model number: 99658Ow/g) with CL4-4-4-12 latencies, and EM2-6400 800MHz…
SPARKLE today introduced the Calibre P960 Graphics Card with exclusive adjustable Dual Fly Cooling System. The cooling fans of the Dual Fly Cooling System can be adjusted aslant, so not only MOS circuit on the PCB can be cooled efficiently, the whole cooling efficiency can be raised too. By Introducing the Calibre…
ATI’s recently launched HD 3870 X2 graphics card was mostly well received, and according to Chinese site HKEPC, the company may now try the same tactic with the HD 3850. The site reports that the HD 3850 X2 should go on sale during mid-2008 with a price tag of between $299 and $379 - which would put it right in the…
Nvidia plans to add another member to the GeForce 9 series soon with their G96 (D9M) card for the mainstream market. This G96 card is meant to replace the current GeForce 8500 GT card so most likely the official marketing name will be GeForce 9500 GT. Final specs are 550MHz core clock, 512MB (32MX16) GDDR2 memories…
Official NVIDIA partner EVGA has released a new e-GeForce 8800GT 1024MB G92-powered card part of the AKIMBO line-up. The AKIMBO cards feature a dual-slot cooling system that resembles the stock 8800 GTS 512MB cooler. The new 1GB GeForce 8800 GT model has 112 Stream Processors set to 1500MHz, a GPU clocked at 600MHz…
Todd Howard of Bethesda Softworks claims that the current build of Fallout 3 has over 200 endings and that that is not an exaggeration. Speaking on an OXM podcast (around the 35 minute point), Howard let slip a few details on the highly anticipated sequel to the seminal Fallout series that Bethesda recently acquired.…
Our colleagues from TPU! had published a review of the Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo steering wheel. In short: "Porsche 911 Turbo is a precise replica of the actual thing an comes with hand saw leather and wireless connection for better racing pleasure. The pedals and the gear stick complete the set. The gear stick comes…
According to MSI, these motherboards are the best performance gaming solution on AM2+ platform. The members of this family are MSI K9N2 Diamond, MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum and the MSI K9N2 Zilent. The MSI K9N2 series is based on the nForce 780a and 750a chipset. The MSI K9N2 series supports AMD socket AM2 and AM2+, phenom…
Our colleagues from Rbmods had published a review of the Ultra m998 case. In short: "Most ATX nowadays come with somewhat standard bundle and share similar design. It's rare to find a case offering unique functions. Ultra, that make a wide range of computer components, had designed a new case, Ultra m998, which offers…
Here's what happens when two GPUs aren't enough. The latest ASUS EAH3850 Trinity works with three mobile RV670 chips in CrossFireX and is cooled by a combination of aluminum heatsinks, copper heatpipes and an enclosed water cooling system. The three 55nm GPUs all have their dedicated memory and make use of a 256-bit…
Our colleagues from TPU! had published a review of the hard drive docking station Thermaltake BlacX. In short: "For those of you constantly swapping hardware, Thermaltake present the BlacX hard drive docking station. The USB 2.0 device is a variation of a external hard drive case, that allows users to plug in ordinary…
Our colleagues from Virtual-Hideout had published a review of the NAS server Thecus N299. In short: "If I was reviewing N299 without any prejudice and he didn't have any speed issues, I would have rated it very high. The only place where it would really lose any points is the front page quality. The of functions is…
These are the first close-up spy shots of Intel's next gen notebook Eco PC. Specs can be found in one of the pictures. Source: techPowerUp!
Our colleagues from techPowerUP! had published a review of the new Cooler Master Cosmos S case. In short: "Cooler Master Cosmos S is the "Sport" variant of the original Cosmos case. Cooler Master had used different aspects of the Stacker series and had incorporated them in their original Cosmos case. The door is gone…
Our colleagues from RBMods had published a review of the external hard drive case Raidsonic Icy Box IB-3218StU-B. In short: "Today we look at SATA case thjat fits two disks and uses USB, which makes it compatible with almost all computers on the market. This product comes from Raidsonic, with which we have some…
NVIDIA's second try with single board SLI solutions is up and running. It's called GeForce 9800 GX2 and we've already tested it in our workshop. If curious to see some real game benchmarks, check out our review right here (currently only in Bulgarian, but shall be up at this link in day or two in English as well).
NVIDIA's second attempt at dual core cards is at hand. It's named GeForce 9800GX2 and here in the ModReactor laboratory it's tome to check how well they did this time, considering their failure of a first attempt at it with the GeForce 795O GX2 an the recent AMD flop in the form of HD3870X2. The past 2007 was intense…
TechConnect Magazine has acquired some pictures and specs of ASUS’ upcoming EN9800GTX/HTDP/512M graphics card, which is expected to be released on April 1st. It will run at what are thought to be NVIDIA’s reference clocks of 675MHz core and 2200MHz memory, with 128 stream processors at 1688MHz. This version will come…
Nvidia has informed their partners that the GeForce 9800 GTX launch has been pushed one week from March 25th to April 1st. No reason was provided for the delay but it is funny that Nvidia chose to launch a flagship product on April Fool day. GeForce 9800 GTX will be priced at US$349. On a side note, the industry is…
Nvidia has informed their partners that the GeForce 9800 GTX launch has been pushed one week from March 25th to April 1st. No reason was provided for the delay but it is funny that Nvidia chose to launch a flagship product on April Fool day. GeForce 9800 GTX will be priced at US$349. On a side note, the industry is…
LG announced today GH22, the company's latest 22x Super-multi DVD burner. LG's new drive comes to join Samsung's SH-S223 22x burner, scheduled for release later this summer. Specifications of the drive include 22x writing speed for DVD-R/+R, 16x for DVD+RW DL, 12x for DVD-R DL and 12x for DVD-RAM. The drive also comes…
This is another ModReactor review of the first model of the new 9-th NVIDIA series - 9600 GT. This time the card in the focus of our attention is made by the well known XFX, its exact model is XFX GeForce 9600GT 512MB DDR3 PV-T94P-YDF4. Now let's see what the company has to offer and at what price. Let's begin with…