Archive for January 2010
Quote: Today for review Ive got the Thermaltake DuOrb VGA cooler. The DuOrb is nice looking product, its copper and it has blue LEDs in it for a little color in your case. Ive got a Diamond ATI 4870 1gig that has a stock coo ler that works fairly well, but it can get rather [...]
Mionix Keid 20 Headphones
Jan 31st, 2010 | By News | Category: News
The names for Mionix products are borrowed from visible stars on the sky, so lets dive in and see if thats enough to keep their products light-years ahead of the game as they state on their site.
HP DeskJet F4480 All-in-One Inkjet Printer @
Jan 31st, 2010 | By News | Category: News
Quote: Geeks.com has sent me over the HP DeskJet F4480 for review and it costs about $53, not including shipping. The F4480 is considered an all-in-one printer as it can scan, copy and print for you, but theres no fax so to me its not really an all-in-one. The F4480 though is small and it [...]
APIC Function
Jan 31st, 2010 | By News | Category: News
Since 1999, we have been developing the BIOS Optimization Guide, affectionately known as the BOG. From a meagre beginning of a single page, it now covers over 400 BIOS options. As old BOG readers will know, we started offering two editions of the BOG since Revision 8.0 – a simplified edition and the complete edition.
Arctic Cooling Univeral USB Charger
Jan 31st, 2010 | By News | Category: News
Today we are taking a look at a bit different product than normal, we got a couple of samples from Artic Cooling that we are going to look at today. They sent us their Universal USB chargers, a 1 port version and a 4 port version that we are going to test out today.
Arctic Sound E361-WM Earbuds @
Jan 30th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
Review Snipit: Arctic Cooling is a company renowned for their PC cooling products. So todays review will be something outside their normal product line. Today we will look at one of their first forays into the portable audio market with the Arctic Sound E361-WM. Recently they debut their Arctic Sound line of audio products and [...]
The Apple iPad =96 Steve Jobs Roid Rage @
Jan 30th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
Quote: Like most people prior to the announcement I was like a kid at Christmas awaiting what neat toy Santa Jobs would present for us under the tree.
Thermalright Spitfire VGA Cooler
Jan 30th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
*Quote:* *More and more powerful video cards appear on the market and they need better cooling solutions. A lot of stock coolers tend to be very noisy and some manufacturers have developed better solutions to cool the hot GPUs. The VGA cooler from Thermalright has an interesting shape, its big in size and can be [...]
Driver Cleaner @
Jan 30th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
Quote: Today for review Ive got an inexpensive and easy solution that can not only fix problems with drivers but can help you do a truly clean install when new updates are available. The program is called Driver Cleaner and with just a few clicks you can fix most any issues related to your video [...]
Corsair Dominator GTX Series PC3-19200 4GB Kit
Jan 30th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
Towards the end of December we saw PC3-17600 show its face. What you had was 2200MHz DDR modules with some pretty relaxed timings. Then in waltzes Corsair, strutting their stuff with a PC3-18000 kit that carried with it a default clock of 2250MHz DDR and some impressive timings to boot. If that wasnt enough, the [...]
Featured i5 661 Build Part One Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced 2 PC
Jan 30th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
We will be doing a featured build around the new Clarkdale i5 =96 661 CPU from Intel. I decided to go with the Cooler Master CM 690 II for the chassis of choice for this new build. The reason being is that the Clarkdal e chips are great for media and Gaming and I figured [...]
NZXT Hades Crafted Mid-Tower Case
Jan 30th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
Last week we took a look at the NZXT Tempest EVO, and today we have up for review the latest in their Crafted series, the Hades. Not since the Lexa Blackline have we seen an NZXT case with red lighting. Whether this switch from the all too common blue LEDs has any significance in the [...]
Silverstone NT07-AM2 1U Low Profile AMD Heatsink
Jan 29th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
The Silverstone NT07-AM2 is 1U low profile skived aluminum heatsink that is actively cooled by a small top-mounted 80mm fan. The entire heatsink measures just 36mm high, making it ideal for 1U, slim-line and book-sized PC cases. It weighs just 330 grams and operates very quietly. Although its 80mm 1500-2500RPM PWM fan isnt much to [...]
Apple iPad
Jan 29th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
*Quote:* Yesterday Apple announced their highly anticipated tablet c omputer dubbed the iPad. Everyone knew it was coming and it seems Apple i s the only company that could make a product like this successful. The iP ad is really just a larger iPod touch or iPhone in all aspects. It comes out in 60 [...]
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 Intel P55 Motherboard
Jan 29th, 2010 | By News | Category: News
Gigabytes GA-P55-UD5 socket-1156 motherboard is an enthusiast grade Intel P55 Express platform with a ton of extra features packed into it. Along with the obvious support of Intel Core i5 and Core i7 800-series socket 1156 processors, the GA-P55-UD5 board features three physical PCI Express x16 2.0 slots that support both ATI Crossfire and NVIDIA [...]