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We also like to review low-end products from time to time so people with a serious budget restriction can have an idea whether it is worthwhile to buy cheap products or not. Today we are going to take an in-depth look on Elite Power 460 W (RS-460-PSAR-J3) from Cooler Master. Can it really deliver its rated power? Is it worthwhile giving it a shot if you don’t have a lot of money to spend on a power supply? Let’s see.

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Certain power supply series from Huntkey (like V-Power and Green Star) are labeled with their peak wattage instead of their continuous wattage. So far in our reviews only Titan 650 W (sold in the US as the first version of Best Buy’s Rocketfish 700 W) and Jumper 550 didn’t explode during our tests. We’ve already reviewed the 450 W version from Balance King series, which also exploded in a very unusual way. Let’s see if the 500 W model will survive our tests.

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Mounting the Prolimatech Armageddon CPU cooler was by far one of the most pain-free heatsink mounting experiences I’ve had in recent memory. Just as an example, the Spire TherMax Pro I used in comparision has a nasty tendency of nipping my fingers when I try to remove it. None of that was even possible with the Armageddon due to the screwdriver centric mounting system and the easy to remove fanclips. All the parts felt like they were meant to go together meaning I didn’t have to fight with cheap screws, ill-fitting brackets, or weak wire-based fanclips like many other heatsinks. Just due to its ease of use the Armageddon is a winner…

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Asus has long been producing exciting products, and even more exciting product variants. By now the HD5870 is pretty much a known quantity, leave it to Asus to come along and change that. They have fielded the Asus EAH5870 Voltage Tweak. It’s an HD5870 with improved cooling and lets you adjust the voltage for better overclocking.

In our experience the Voltage Tweak editions can hit as high as 1050MHz core speed while normal HD5870 might hit 925MHz if you got a good one. Let’s fire this puppy up and see how it fares at stock clocks and at a comfortable overclock. After we bench it at some insane core speed we’ll push it to the limits and see how fast it can go at the ragged edge of maximum OC.

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The focus of this Frostytech review is the Thermaltake Contac 29, a new mid-sized tower heatsink from this well known Taiwanese-based manufacturer. The Contac 29 heatsink stands 160mm tall and ships with a fancy looking orange impeller fan that reminds me of a washing machine agitator on steroids. Three 8mm diameter copper heatpipes are exposed at the base of the heatsink, thus making direct contact with the processor’s integrated heatspreader for optimal conduction of heat energy. A single 120mm PWM fan scales in speed from 800-2000RPM and mounts via rubber vibration absorbing mounting posts.

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While SSDs are still a fairly new technology, it has certainly come a long way in the last couple of years. The choices in SSDs are increasing and the prices are also decreasing making it possible to own one without a second mortgage. Though SSDs are getting cheaper, they still aren’t cheap, with larger ones still hitting some heavy figures. But even a smaller drive can make your system faster and INTEL has responded with the introduction of their 40GB Value Performance X25-V SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD).

One of the methods that people have used to get the best of both worlds with SSDs is by purchasing a smaller and cheaper SSD to use as a boot drive. By installing the OS onto the drive, you get the blazing fast start up times that SSDs are known for while packing all your other files or large programs onto a hard drive. INTEL has recognized this type of usage and have answered with their new X25-V that we’ll be checking out for you today. Let’s find out how this drive performs against other boot drive worthy competitors.
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Projectors used to be clunky devices that were so large they had to be wheeled around. You had to always carry a bunch of adapters and accessories. On top of that, they would only work in a darkened room. Boy, have times changed! The new Epson PowerLite Presenter is light and portable. It includes just about everything you need, even speakers and a DVD player. And it puts out 2,500 lumens so it can be used just about anywhere. We were excited to take a look.

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A few weeks back we took a look at G.Skill’s ECO series of DDR3 memory. The kit we reviewed, the G.Skill DDR3-1600C7 ECO Series, were binned for low voltage operation while running high frequencies and tight timings. Today’s kit are the DDR3-1600C7 Pi Series with part number F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI and are part of the PI Series. Counter to the ECO series, the PI Series is marketed towards the other end of the spectrum with performance in mind…

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When we published our Core i7-980X Review we showed the new cooler that comes with this CPU, named DBX-B. Some readers asked us for a complete review of this cooler, so here it is. See if the owners of this high-end six-core CPU need to buy a CPU cooler with a higher performance if DBX-B will do the trick if they want to overclock their CPU.

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The hardcore hardware tweakers will say that all you need is the box the motherboard came in. That’s true, but going that route you have parts strung all over a table as well, and let’s face it: with parts all over the place either there is a fight with the significant other or some hardware meets an untimely end. With a chassis like the Banchetto 101, not only does it look great but it keeps the hardware nice and neat. I really like the Banchetto 10. It makes rapid part changes easy and it is light so moving it around the workbench is a breeze. It does everything Microcool says it’s supposed to and it does it well…

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