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ioSafe Solo Disaster Proof External Hard Drive Review

Posted by admin On May - 29 - 2010

The Solo from ioSafe is an external hard drive that is designed to keep your data safe in case of a disaster – especially fire and flood. This product comes in four capacities: 500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB, and 2 TB. We set the 500 GB on fire for 30 minutes and then dropped gallons of water on it. Let’s see if it survived!

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AMD Athlon II – 610e X4

Posted by admin On May - 29 - 2010

TechwareLabs reviews the energy efficient Athlon II 610e processor from AMD. Does it have what it takes to play with the big boys or were the energy savings drained away from the performance? Read on and find out.

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The Intel Core i7-875K is priced $238 under the Core i7-870 that is exactly the same processor, but locked. This is an amazing price difference as the Core i7-875K costs a whopping 41% less than the Core i7-870. It’s not every day you see Intel do something like this and if you are wanting a Lynnfield processor the Core i7-875K processor is the obvious choice. You get an unlocked processor for the LGA 1156 platform and the price can’t be beat if you want the fastest processor that money can buy for this platform…

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FaceVsion TouchCam-N1 HD 720p WebCam

Posted by admin On May - 28 - 2010

Online video chat is rapidly becoming a standard form of communication. Corporations frequently hold webinars as the most cost efficient form of long-distance communication. Every platform, from in-browser chat programs like Gmail’s to the well-known Skype, is supporting video chat. Webcams are slowly turning into required accessories like keyboard and mice. However, most webcams are cheap and produce horrible image quality. Realizing this many companies have started offering HD webcams. Benchmark Reviews checks out FaceVsion’s new TouchCam-N1 HD VideoCam to see if its 720p video support can offer a new refreshing experience with video chat.

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Gigabyte Odin Plus 700 W Power Supply Review

Posted by admin On May - 28 - 2010

Gigabyte has quietly entered the power supply market, and the other model from this brand we reviewed – Superb 550P – proved to be an inferior product. Let’s see if things got better with Odin Plus 700 W.

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Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Case Review

Posted by admin On May - 28 - 2010

Today we are going to analyse one of the most inexpensive cases from Thermaltake, V3 Black Edition. Although being an entry-level case, it keeps the overall quality and features found on more expensive cases from this brand. Check it out!

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Noctua NH-D14 Lower Noise Heatsink Review

Posted by admin On May - 28 - 2010

In this review Frostytech will be testing out Noctua’s massive dual-fan NH-D14 heatsink and comparing it against 280 other heatsinks. The big NH-D14 heatsink stands as tall as a modern tower heatsink but is twice as wide. The dual-fan set up more than makes up for that bulk by proving itself to be an excellent low noise solution capable of performance cooling. This heatsink currently ranks near the top of Frostytech’s Top 5 Heatsinks chart.

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Mushkin Callisto 60GB SSD w/ Sandforce SF-1200 Review

Posted by admin On May - 24 - 2010

The Mushkin Callisto 60GB SSD proved to be a great drive and it is the first Sandforce SF-1200 drive with mass production firmware with 13% over-provisioning that I have had the pleasure to benchmark and use. I found the performance of the Mushkin Callisto with firmware version 3.0.9 was not the same same as OCZ’s exclusive SF-1200 firmware used on the Vertex 2 series. This is because the Sandforce Mass Production (MP) firmware limits small file random write performance on all SF-1200 drives except for the Vertex 2 in accordance with SandForce’s agreement with OCZ. This is why reading reviews is critical before buying an SSD…

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Zalman VF950 LED & Zalman VF770

Posted by admin On May - 23 - 2010

Many times there comes situations when you want to overclock your graphics cards or the your old faithful cooler gets broken. Usually the only way to solve this is to buy a new third hand cooler. This time we will take a look at two mainstream GPU coolers from Zalman and compare them against Arctic Cooling Accelero L2 cooler which is priced around the same range as the Zalmans. Let’s have a look how the Zalmans perform against the Arctic Cooling.

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Cooler | Reviews | Source: RBMods

Danger Den’s DD-GTX480 all copper water block is one very nice addition to my EVGA GeForce GTX480 video card. Not only did it help cool the card better, but it also managed to eliminate the noise from the horridly loud stock fan. That in and of itself warrants the $135 price tag the all copper version we tested today carries. When it came to performance by water cooling the GeForce GTX 480 we were able to drop stock load temps from 92C to 49C, which is a drop of 47%. Reducing your temperatures by nearly half is amazing and anyone that is thinking about getting a GeForce GTX 480 should consider water cooling as an option as it really is nice. You get lower noise levels, possibly increase the longevity of the video card and are able to overclock it farther than you could on air for even better performance. Danger Den has done a great job on these blocks and you can tell from the second you pick the water block up that it you made a solid investment…

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