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Antec are computer case manufacturer quite famous for their product quality and craftsmanship. Today we're going to review on of their cases intended for games on tight budget - Antec Three Hundred. Our friends from eMagkindly enough supplied us with a test sample of Antec Three Hundred. It is the lowest model of…
This week we have for you one excitingly interesting test about performance scaling of HD 4890 against 2x HD 4890 in CrossFire mode, with two of the most popular processors in the gaming class of Intel and AMD - Core i7 920 and Phenom II 955 BE. Expect not much talking though, we'll get straight to the tests and their…
Major ATI partner Sapphire is releasing a variant of the HD 4890 Vapor-X accelerator, with double the amount of memory: 2 GB. Being a variant, it retains the rest of the feature-set, with a blue non-reference PCB, Sapphire Vapor-X GPU cooler, and separate heatsinks over the VRM and memory areas. The card comes with…
Having released the 120 mm copper monstrosity, the CNPS9900, Zalman is looking to give the NVIDIA-branded CNPS9700-NT an update, only this time, there's no NVIDIA branding to be seen. The CNPS9900-NT is decked with nickel-plated copper, which gives it the chrome appearance. Between the two copper-fin blocks, is nested…
ASUS' P7P55 series includes the company's mainstream-thru-premium motherboards based on Intel P55 chipset, supporting LGA-1156 socket processors. Following the recent exposé of its little sibling the P7P55 Pro, XFastest took the higher-end P7P55 EVO for a photo-shoot. This motherboard retains its lesser sibling's…
The Swiss cooling solution provider ARCTIC COOLING today unveiled the new premium thermal compound ARCTIC MX-3 (4g). Its high thermal conductivity and non-curing nature make it one of the best thermal compounds for overclockers and gamers. As an upgraded version of the award-winning ARCTIC MX-2, the performance of the…
EVGA today introduced the compact X58 SLI Micro motherboard (model number: 121-BL-E756-TR), supporting the Micro-ATX form factor. Don't be fooled by the small size, in performance figures this motherboard is a match for all standard ATX Intel X58 equipped motherboards, it supports all LGA1366 Core i7 processors to…
MSI launched a new AMD AM2+ socket micro-ATX motherboard targeting the value and SME markets. The 760GTM-P33 is based on the AMD 760G + SB710 chipset, and supports DDR2 memory from two DIMM slots. It extends compatibility to AM3-socket processors along the way. The CPU is powered by a 4+1 phase circuit, with support…
Antec are computer case manufacturer quite famous for their product quality and craftsmanship. Today we're going to review on of their cases intended for games on tight budget - Antec Three Hundred. Our friends from eMag kindly enough supplied us with a test sample of Antec Three Hundred. It is the lowest model of…
Periphery Sungale ID800WT 8 Inch Wi-Fi Digital Touchscreen Photo Frame @ TestFreaks | Altec Lansing VS2421 Compact Speaker System @ Rbmods | Grace Digital Audio Pico GDI-VW00 Compact USB Turntable/Vinyl Archiver Reviewed @ TestFreaks | Cooling Noctua NF-S12B Cooling Fan @ Hardware Bistro | Coolermaster Hyper TX3 @…
A new list of features surraunding the upcoming RTS franchise Star Craft 2 that might interest you were announced today. Starting with the big one, Blizzard has confirmed that Star Craft 2 will not support LAN multiplayer mode. The game will be entirely online based, multiplayer connections will go through Battle.net…
Rumor has it that chip giant Intel will be launching new solid-state drives based on the company's 34 nm NAND chips in just a few weeks time. The report claims that these new SSDs will be faster and most importantly cheaper than what we're used to pay for a solid-state drive. Intel will manufacture the 34 nm drives in…
While the bulk of Intel's upcoming Nehalem and Westmere derived products include quad-core processors, the company hasn't left out dual-core processors just as yet. The dual-core Core i5 desktop processor will be based on the new Clarkdale core, built on the 32 nm Westmere architecture. Originally slated for a Q1 2010…
Dutch PC casing, cooling, and power specialist Nexus announced the RX-1K modular PSU. This 1000 W PSU caters to the high-end PC market, at a relatively affordable price point. Its semi-modular connector desin makes sure the most important connectors are fixed, while additional ones are modular. Under the hood, it uses…
A company called DataSlide has decided its not time for mechanical disk drives also known as hard disk drives (HDD) to roll over and die with SSDs beating them in just about every aspect other than price. The key aspect of the new technology is that it does not require the data platter to be spun like conventional…
Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer memory, power supplies and flash memory products, including solid-state drives, today announced two new products in its Performance Series SSD family: the P128 and P64 high-performance solid-state drives. Building on the success of the award-winning P256 SSD,…
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Scythe is designing a new VGA cooler aimed at broad compatibility and a relatively compact built. The Scythe Setsugen will be the first VGA cooler from Scythe to formally support NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2x0. It uses a slightly smaller, slimmer overall design, and makes use of the recently announced Slip Stream 120 mm fan,…
Nettops are relatively new type of product that fills a niche up to now remaining rather unoccupied. Generally they are something like a barebone system only smaller and based on Intel Atom processors mostly. Up to now they all were quite similar to each other, but now there is a predisposition for that to change,…
Corsair's recently announced HX750W and HX850W modular power supply units have bagged the elusive 80 Plus Gold efficiency rating, a title enjoyed only by a few high-end enterprise-grade PSUs. To qualify for this rating, a PSU must provide an output efficiency of at least 87% at 20% load, 90% at 50% load, and 87% at…
Buffalo announced a new USB flash drive that pushes the limits of how small these drives can get, giving similarly sized flash-storage cards a challenge. The Buffalo RUF2-PS packs up to 16 GB of data in 18 (W) x 18 (H) x 8 (D) mm, and comes in variants of 2, 4, 8, and 16 GB. It is truly feather-weight at 3 g. The…
ZOTAC International, a leading manufacturer of graphics cards and motherboards, today unleashes the latest addition to it’s award-winning GeForce GTX 275 graphics card lineup – the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 275 1792MB -- ushering in a new era of high-resolution gaming with its high-performance graphics processor and large…
OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and components, today announced the highly-anticipated Sabre OLED multimedia keyboard for advanced gaming and customization complete with intelligent management software. The Sabre’s unique combination of…
ASRock has yet another socket LGA-1366 motherboard up its ranks: the X58 Extreme. This model is distinct from the X58 SuperComputer and X58 Deluxe, which shared the same PCB. It has three PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, from which only two are routed to the X58 northbridge. The CPU is powered by an 8-phase circuit, similar to…
Korean cooling specialist Zalman introduced the ZM-RHS90 heatsink specially designed for ATI Radeon HD 4890, and HD 4870 reference-design PCB. The heatsink is made of anodized aluminum. It measures 93.4 x 36.5 x 23 mm (LxWxH), and weighs 55 g. Due to the large number of Radeon HD 4890/HD 4870 graphics cards in the…
NZXT, a company built on realizing the dreams of gamers worldwide, is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Cryo S, a high performance notebook cooler built with thick, brushed aluminum, with two adjustable 120mm fans that provide powerful cooling to any notebook up to 15 inches. The Cryo S is available…
This is a review of ATI's new graphic card - Radeon HD 4770 512MB GDDR5 @ ModReactor. Still the review isn't published in English but it will be available in matter of week here .
The world is at its knees because of financial crisis threatening to surpass the great depression of '29 and at times like these even the large manufacturers do change their marketing strategies in order to cope. AMD and NVIDIA gained momentum by releasing products that have high price/performance ratio, and while the…
This is the last participant of our series of PSU reviews. Today we're checking out one rather unknown and strange brand - Hipro. Let's see if the K1 580W model will keep up with our standards. Still the review isn't published in English but it will be available in matter of week here: ModReactor: Hipro K1 580W - PSU…
Lately we've gathered quite some interesting PSUs to compare and in series of articles we are taking detailed look at each of them. Today its all about Seventeam V-Force ST-750P-AF - 750W non-modular PSU. You might have already seen its results, now we'll comment them in context of every factor the user should…