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If you own a big videocard in the middle class and need the cheapest possible cooler that will still be quiet and productive, then it's highly likely to come across a brand such as Evercool, and why not to the product that is in the center of this review - namely Evercool Turbo 2... The Taiwanese company Evercool is…
Through the last month we, here at ModReactor had reviewed a series of gaming products, since the peripheral devices and mostly the mice, keyboards and headphones are one of the most important components providing pleasant and comfortable interaction with the computer. This time in the focus of out attention is the…
Top end videocards in these days are well known for having two high things about them - high price and high temperature. Oh, sure, the manufacturers do provide stock cooler capable of handling the heat from their new and mighty cards, but most often these coolers are not very quiet, nor they meet the expectations of…
Gaming peripherals currently tend to grab more and more market share nowadays. Today we're reviewing a sweet pair of headphones that belongs to that above mentioned class. They are manufactured by Razer, called Piranha and bare the ringing description "gaming communicator". Sure, yeah... We'll find out how much of a…
Nowadays the volume of information we're using is constantly increasing. At the same time the prices of disk drives are dropping. A 500GB drive is becoming something quite common. Yet at a certain point we all face a major problem – sooner or later we all run out of place to put disk drives in. And right here running…
Gaming mice. As we have stated before, they are one of the main tools of the self-respecting PC gamer. All of you that had played with a high-end mouse are surely aware of the benefits from such a product. Today we're reviewing a high-class gaming mouse, namely – The Cyber Snipa Stinger. Our friends from Cyber Snipa…
Sound is inseparable part of any multimedia fun. But for enjoying it to the full, besides a good sound card you need a good sound system too. Today we'll review a 5.1 headphones that claim to be exactly that - Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1. So let's find out if they have the usual Cyber Snipa high quality (besides the ever so…
Fans. Everyone knows how important components they are in a computer system. Even when you have watercooling setup, you still need fans in your system. Here comes the silence factor. For long years there have been silent and at the same time powerful fans on the computer market. Today we will review one such fan, the…
The thermal compound, as insignificant component as it may seem, has in fact very significant impact in high performance configurations. Every respectful overclocker seeks the best mix there is. Today we test one such grease – the Tuniq TX-2, which impressed us very much. Why we say we are impressed, read on to find…
Micro-ATX is a rather comfortable motherboard format. Characterized by its somewhat compact size, it usually is an ordinary motherboard with everything you need, and that at a lower price that its full ATX brethren. Today we'll review to such MSI motherboards, one with the Intel 945GC chipset and the other with the…
In the current review well play with a cooler from the vast Xilence product range, namely - Xilent Blade Pro. Does the appearance compensate for the quality? You'll find out only if you read the review :P With each passing year coolers get bigger and heavier, yet a small part of the manufacturers do seem to notice…
In this review we'll look at a budget PSU from the less known at our market manufacturer - Xilence. We wanted to see if the good specifications and awesome looks do hold their ground. Quite possible for most of you the Xilence brand rings no bells, this is fine, since until recently no one imported it in Bulgaria.…
This interesting class of not too powerful but very compact computers - the barebones is becoming ever more popular. In this review we'll play with one such system based on the VIA C7D 2.0G processor, and we'll compare it to two other machines one up to date and one with properties similar to the barebone. Thanks to…
In the first cooler review at ModReactor we take a look at the new GlacialTech Igloo 5750 Silent - heatpipe based cooling that GlacialTech claim it offers great bang for buck. GlacialTech Igloo 5750 SILENT review In the past the Igloo series coolers from GlacialTech were rather popular for their low price, excellently…
Today we present to you our review of the MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard and the 790FX+SB600 chipset. As one of the leading motherboard manufacturers, MSI offers a high end solution targeting the enthusiasts, this motherboard combines the newest technologies on the market, ones such as AM2+ socket, PCI-E 2.0,…
A while ago we reviewed two representatives of a relatively new class of products – digital photo frames. Today we'll be reviewing their bigger brother – DPF-101. This is the 10" widescreen digital frame, product of Sapphire. Let's see if we'll get the same quality from it or will we be disappointed... The frame was…
With the ever more spreading digital photography, a new class of products is gathering popularity – digital picture frames. In this review we'll look on two Sapphire products, which vary only in form and respectively resolution of their TFT screens, namely the DPF-080 and the DPF-081. For the past year the digital…
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…
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…
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…
We always sympathized to companies with good marketing departments and aggressive market strategy. A bright example for this are Jetway and their Kuroshio BI-100 motherboard, based on the popular P35 chipset. Let's see exactly what we're getting for the... well, economical price. For some days now I'm feeling…
Since its unveiling, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT reaped laurels amongst the mid class videocards. Understandable, companies manufacturing such hardware rushed to push out wit a myriad variations based on 9600GT's chip - G94. MSI, leaders in the field had presented 6 different cards (some of them with 2 variations each) and…
Through the last few years a new type of systems had been getting a bigger share of the market – the barebones. We can see them in many forms – multimedia pc's, small file servers, second home computer, miniature systems for education and office... so many ways to use them. In this review we look upon the MSI Crystal…
If extreme gaming is what we're talking about, undoubtedly wide screen monitor is the best thing to get. LCD prices are going down while videocards are getting so powerful that resolutions such as 1680x1050 and 1920x1200 are more and more reasonable, somewhat "common" even. So at the focus of our attention sneaked a…
Broadband internet access to every home long has been available and more and more services, which use it, gain popularity. One of these services is videoconference. For such calls respectively you will need a suitable device, most frequently that is the webcam. This review will feature two such devices bearing the MSI…
In this ModReactor review we will be having our first view at NVIDIA's newest core - G94. Yep, the first card of the 9th NVIDIA series - GeForce 9600 GT is in our lab. Undoubtedly NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT offers the best price/performance ratio ever since it's release. It offers performance similar to the one of the…
Earlier this year NVIDIA released their new G92 core and the 8800 GT card based on it, winning this way the battle in the mid-high range cards sector, waged against AMD and their HD 3870. NVIDIA had no competition against the 8800 GTS 512 that followed, but the Canadians took the middle sector with the successful…
In its long and prosperous life, the computer mouse endured many metamorphoses and from a mere “rodent” with cable became aesthetically sustained product with ergonomic design and myriad additional features. We’ve seen big mice, little mice, office mice, laptop mice, laser, optical, mice that don’t resemble mice… the…
The end of the past year was crucial for the both leaders in videocard business - NVIDIA and AMD. NVIDIA managed to release their new G92 core and the 8800GT based on it, at the end of October. Few weeks later AMD released RV670 or as it's more known to the end user - HD 3870. Bad thing for AMD was not only that they…
Intel's Yorkfield is near, but the company decided a bit earlier to renew its Core 2 series not only in the high end half. That is why from the beginning of the week in the price lists of the Bulgarian distributors you can find the first Intel Dual Core Celeron processor, marked as E1200. The most observant of you…