http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk Tech news and reviews from around the globe en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:11:16 +0000 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:26:44 +0000 Esselbach Contentteller CMS XtremeComputing 2004 - 2011 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/amd_7950_reviews_from_around_the_web.html Quote: "Yet another day and another Graphics card release from the red camp, this time we have the 7950 in various configs and specs, AMD are certainly pushing on and leaving the green camp behi... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:26:44 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/asus_vg278h_lcd_monitor_3d_vision_2_kit_benchmark_reviews.html Quote: "ASUS VG278H LCD Monitor gives you that big screen experience with vivid color, 120Hz high-definition 1080p picture quality, and added 3D special effects. In this article, Benchmark Revie... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:17:25 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/deepcool_gamer_storm_dracula_vga_cooler_hardware_secrets.html Quote: "The Deepcool Gamer Storm Dracula is a huge VGA cooler with a two-piece heatsink, six heatpipes, and can be used with four 120 mm or three 140 mm fans. Let's test it!"... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:15:38 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/acryan_veolo_cdrinfo.html Quote: "..the ACRyan Veolo will bring you some of the Android experience in your TV, although there are some limitations. The question to be answered by you is whether you are ready to spend ?20... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:12:40 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/roccat_isku_keyboard_rbmods.html Quote: "Today we will take a look at the gamer oriented keyboard from Roccat which is called “Isku”. Isku offers some unique features which are meant to help gamers to do tri... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:11:17 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/plextor_px_lb950ue_external_12x_blu_ray_writer_pcstats.html Quote: "The drive packs in a 8MB buffer and supports LightScribe direct media labeling with the appropriate lightscribe media. This full sized external optical drive naturally accommodates DVD a... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:09:51 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/verbatim_storengo_1_tb_usb3_metku_net.html Quote: "Portable Hard Drives are still important and widely used eventhough USB Flash Drives are eating away their market share. This time we'll take a closer look at Verbatim's colorful addit... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:08:09 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/dell_xps_15z_notebook_pc_futurelooks.html Quote: "Dell to get an inexpensive laptop that was reasonably reliable and while Dell still has products that lean toward that end of the market, they’ve also got offerings for the hig... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:06:05 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/voomote_zapper_universal_remote_missingremote.html Quote: "The VooMote Zapper would be a replacement for all of your universal remotes; the programming of this remote is simple, you can customize each screen to your liking. All of your other rem... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:03:53 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/thermaltake_smart_series_730w_pro_clockers.html Quote: "Thermaltake is claiming that the new Smart series power supply is just that. The Smart series is only offered in a non-modular version for now. But the power range within the spectrum of... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:01:45 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/qpad_mk_85_mechanical_gaming_keyboard_techpowerup.html Quote: "QPAD's keyboard line-up is expanding rapidly. Today we are taking the MK-85 high-end keyboard for a spin. This new keyboard from QPAD features Cherry MX Red linear key mechanisms. Besid... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:10 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/adata_s396_30gb_value_ssd_tweaktown.html Quote: "Personally I think if you don't have an SSD now then the issue is not something a new product release can fix. You either have a defect, don't value your time or you have no idea what ... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:58:12 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/msi_nighthawk_case_techwarelabs.html Quote: "Here at TechwareLabs, we're much more used to seeing MSI's logo on parts inside the case than on the case itself. That said, they make whole PCs, so why not cases too? Today we'll be ... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:56:25 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/thermaltake_smart_430w_funky_kit.html Quote: "Thermaltake is taking a crack at a tough market here with the Smart 430W power supply. Overall I would say that this is a good unit. ... All told, this is a pretty solid unit for the pri... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:54:42 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/asus_ux31_zenbook_t_break.html Quote: "In the past we have covered the Acer Aspire S3 as well as the Toshiba Portege Z830, so today I’ll be looking at how the highest-end offering from ASUS stacks up against the res... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:52:23 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/geil_enhance_corsa_pc3_12800_1600mhz_16gb_madshrimps.html Quote: "The Enhance Corsa 1600Mhz 16GB Memory Kit from GeIL offers decent performance at a good price and comes with a specially designed heatsink which cools the memory chips with the help of t... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:50:45 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/nzxt_source_220_aph_networks.html Quote: "With that in mind, probably completely unintentional, the NZXT Source 220 is like the blacked out version of the NZXT Source 210 Elite. Having a completely black theme without the option... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:49:05 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/nzxt_phantom_410_chassis_tweaktown.html Quote: "I made strides to contact the company directly and was met with no reply, and had to gain my information from the third party PR firm that handles their products. Now that I put it all o... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:46:14 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/uebo_m400_wireless_media_player_bcchardware.html Quote: "This device is a lot more than an HDMI-outputting, Network connected media player.  UEBO has also thrown in some great features such as BitTorrent, UPnP support and USB 3.0 connections f... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:07:32 +0000 http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/news_story/swiftech_apogee_hd_water_block_ocia_net.html Quote: "Today we have for review Swiftech's absolute latest in blocks, the Apogee HD. Superseding the venerable Apogee XT as their flagship product, the HD offers improvements in all areas: inc... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:06:00 +0000