Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 03:16:26 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "We test and review the MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK with 1024MB graphics memory. the only thing left original is the actual GPU as everything else was changed. We see a custom PCB with phase LEDs, voltage monitoring points, military class components and to put some icing on the cake the new TwinFrz II heatpipe cooler that hopefully will bring good temperatures versus low noise levels."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 03:15:05 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "Power is a fundamental problem when using our portable devices and often dictates how often that device is used. Talk time on your cell phone, or play time on a portable gaming console limit their effectiveness. While the battery life is designed to accommodate the majority of scenarios between charging you always find yourself holding back to conserve the battery life or running out of power when you might need it most."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 03:13:59 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "ECS has never been shy about releasing a new board based on a new chipset or new technology. They seem to always be right there knocking at the door of the latest and greatest that is released and they usually do it at a better price than many others. Their Black Series has captured the attention of many enthusiasts, and today the ECS A890GXM-A Motherboard has our attention as we put it on the bench!"
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 03:12:53 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "Combined into a SLI set, two stock-speed GeForce GTX 460's compete with the Radeon HD 5870 in terms of frame rate performance. In this article, Benchmark Reviews takes the highly overclocked PNY 'XLR8 Black Box' video card (model VCGGTX4601XPB-OC) and compares it against a field of DirectX-11 graphics solutions. If you're shopping for a powerful middle-market video card, this externally-exhausting 1GB GeForce GTX 460 product could be the perfect fit."
ICY DOCK 2.5-inch SATA Bay Enclosure @ ThinkComputers.org
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 03:11:57 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "The market has been flooded with a lot of 2.5-inch drives. There are so many different enclosures being released to fit all of our 2.5-inch drive needs for those older cases without the 2.5-inch hard drive mounting brackets for the more current solid state drives (SSD’s). The Icy Dock MB991IK-B offers a lot of features jammed packed into this little 3.5” front bay enclosure. So let’s put the Icy Dock MB991IK-B to the test and see how it handles all of our benchmarks.""
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 03:02:24 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "When it comes to motherboards, they really do come in every shape and size. With high performance gaming motherboards, generally you have to get a full ATX motherboard to get a wide selection of features. Micro ATX is a little smaller but not small enough for true portability. That’s where Mini-ITX comes into play. Most of the Mini-ITX boards on the market use the older 775 socket and have a limited number of features. Today we have the opportunity to take a look at Gigabytes H55N-USB3, their first Mini-ITX board."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 03:01:37 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "The design of it is very classy with it’s stylish brushed aluminum covers to it’s glossy keyboard. The 4720s is a Corei5 based notebooks with a 500gb hard drive, ATI video and 4gigs of ram running Windows 7. It also features three USB ports, HDMI, eSATA along with a 17.3” LED backlit LCD."
ASUS AT3IONT-I Deluxe Mini-ITX Mobo @ Bigbruin.com
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 03:00:44 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "After spending several weeks playing with the ASUS AT3IONT-I Deluxe Mini-ITX motherboard all I can say is - WOW! This motherboard is very impressive. With integrated Bluetooth, WiFi, a multimedia remote control, and even a power supply built in, you're well on your way to getting your media center up and running without buying much else."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 02:59:48 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "MSI's GTX 460 HAWK is the flagship GeForce GTX 460 from MSI. It comes with a quiet Twin Frozr II cooler, 1 GB of memory and 781 MHz core clock out of the box. MSI has also expanded on the voltmodding capability of the card which supports software control for three voltages."
AMD Technology Allows Studio to Slice Through Special Effects
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 02:58:20 in category: Press Release [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
AMD unveiled its close collaboration with Troublemaker Studios to produce the striking visual effects for the action epic “Machete”, a project for the studio that saw the Troublemaker team finalize more than 500 shots, a personal best made possible with AMD graphics and computing technology. Directed and conceived by Robert Rodriguez (director of “Predators”, “Sin City”, and “Shorts”), and featuring an all-star cast including Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Alba, “Machete” is set to revitalize the action genre.-->
Patriot Gauntlet PCGT25S USB 3.0 2.5" Enclosure @ OCIA.net
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:30:49 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "Inside of the box we find a USB 3.0 cable, a USB power adapter, instruction manual, software, and the enclosure itself. The Gauntlet features a very nice black aluminum finish. It has a bit of a heft to it, but it really feels solid in the hand. I suspect it could take quite a beating and still protect the drive inside - well, more so with a solid state drive than a traditional spinning disk. The top of the enclosure displays the Gauntlet logo with the Patriot logo on the front."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:29:54 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "The NVIDIA ION platform not only allowed for better graphics performance, but also took some pressure off the CPU to make your overall system run smoother. Of course, with the introduction of the new Pineview core Intel Atom processors, users were again yearning for something better than the graphics performance of the Intel GMA 3150 -- and once again NVIDIA has stepped up to the plate with the NVIDIA ION 2"
Cooler Master Elite 430 System Enclosure @ Metku.net
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:28:46 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "So far our personal favorite on the budget category has remained the Antec Three hundred. Now Cooler Master has designed a competitor to the 300 - The Elite 430 Black."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:27:50 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "Coolermaster have recently been pushing into other fields of PC hardware production, peripherals being one of their most interesting. Today we're taking a look at the Storm Inferno mouse which offers a few macro-able buttons, some impressive scripting software and a high sensitivity sensor. Let's see how it stands up to our vigorous testing."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:26:24 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "In this review we take a closer look at two budget friendly AMD motherboards from Gigabyte; 880GMA-UD2H with integrated GPU and the 870A-UD3. Do they stand a chance against high end AMD boards? Time to find out."
ASUS 1215N: A Netbook With Dual Graphics @ InsideHW
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:25:14 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "Although the final price of this model hasn't been revealed to us just yet, we'll make an approximation; the model with 2 GB RAM (instead of 4GB) and a 250 GB HDD (instead of 320 GB) costs 450€, which, with all the other advantages that we've mentioned, gives a decent price/performance ratio."
Mad Catz Eclipse Wireless Keyboard With Trackball @ Madshrimps
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:23:28 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "The Eclipse Wireless Litetouch keyboard from Mad Catz comes with an interesting 3-in-1 LCD touch panel and functions can be assigned to each key like shortcuts to our preferred programs or up to a maximum of three individual websites, all of which will open at the same time and all at the touch of just one button."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:22:14 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "They smacked 120GB or alternatively 240 GB of the fastest NAND Flash memory on the PCB, armed that Flash memory with two separate 8-channel SandForce SSD ICs, then bind them to a SIS RAID controller, pop on a PCie x4 bridge and then offer a "PCIe SSD" (if you can call it that) reaching 300,k 400 even 500 MB/sec read and write speeds."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:21:16 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "The NH-U9B is part of Noctua's family of Tower coolers, which sport U shaped heatpipes (hence the U in the name). It is however the smaller of the two tower coolers and can only support 92mm fans; hence the 9 in the product name. Finally, this particular version of the NH-U9B adds support for the recent LGA1156 socket and also comes with two 92mm fans for enhanced performance – the SE2 in the name denotes this."
Posted by Editor on: 2010-09-02 01:20:08 in category: Reviews from the Web [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
Quote: "As a regular exercise, many manufacturers release special editions of components alongside their normal hardware versions on the market. What generally makes these components different isn’t just a unique physical appearance but the effort and brilliance of taking the product to extreme levels of performance. And while there are quite a few of such special edition graphics card that command a price premium, fewer still are the ones that really deserve it. The MSI N460GTX Hawk is one such card."
