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Citrix GoToMeeting

Citrix GoToMeeting

We liked GoToMeeting. Its quick setup, flat-fee billing and support for PC and Mac platforms making it a good solution for small to medium-sized businesses looking to run online meetings with no long-term strings attached. However, it’s far from the only product on the market and faces stiff competition from other, better known, services such as Cisco WebEx. Lack of branding opportunities, like those available with WebEx, could also be an issue for larger companies—particularly those selling through their online presence and looking to differentiate their conferencing tools against those of competitors.

Mach Xtreme Technology MX-GX 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Mach Xtreme Technology MX-GX 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive

The Mach Xtreme MX-GX USB 3.0 Flash Drives offer incredible read speeds and come in 4 different flavours: 8GB, 16GB, 32GB or 64GB; they are also priced competitively, the 16GB model being found at CaseKing.de for about 29.90 Euros.

Noctua NF-P14 FLX Fan

Noctua NF-P14 FLX Fan

Case fans used to all be a standard size and to a large extent exactly the same from whichever manufacturer you purchased it from. This size was of course the 80mm fan which is still the dominant size in today's market, but with a much smaller share. As you are probably aware fan sizes have increased dramatically and the fan we are looking at today is a whopping 140mm fan, nearly twice the diameter of its predecessors.

120mm fans have become all the range with gaming cases, with most cases being able to incorporate at least 2 of these already quite large fans, but recently with the introduction of turbine cases we have seen sizes up to 220mm fans. While positioned on top of the computer this size fan may lead to it hovering above the floor if it were to be turned up to a high enough speed. Joking aside, larger fans of course have huge advantages as they are able to shift more air at a lower rpm (revolutions per minute). The scale is also not linear and as such a 120mm fan is usually agreed to be well over 2* more efficient than an 80mm fan. This of course leads to quieter motors and less air noise. So a 140mm fan ought to have the capacity for huge air flow at a nearly inaudible volume.

Noctua are an Austrian based premium cooling manufacturer, concentrating primarily on quietness while giving exceptional performance. Their products range from CPU Coolers for both retails and servers to case fans and thermal compounds – they are not the most diverse of companies but have concentrated their expertise to a very small range with usually very impressive results.

SYNOLOGY DS-211J TWO-BAY NAS

SYNOLOGY DS-211J TWO-BAY NAS

Synology's DS211j is a great addition to an expanding home network. Not only does it provide storage and backup solutions, it also offers print and media server capabilities, website hosting, PC-free downloading, and much more at a price that is easy on the wallet.

OCZ Vertex 3 SandForce SF-2281 SSD

OCZ Vertex 3 SandForce SF-2281 SSD

The OCZ Vertex 3 SSD is based on the second-generation SandForce's SF-2281 SATA 6Gb/s controller and maintains all of the original core technology introduced in the original SF-1200 series, but now improves SSD performance with 20% faster IOPS and 40% faster sequential read/write throughput. OCZ promises 60,000 IOPS at up to 550 MB/s transfer speeds with the Vertex 3 SSD, and Benchmark Reviews confirms that they're keeping this promise with tests of the new storage device on a B3-stepping Sandy Bridge platform against the Crucial RealSSD C400.

AMD Radeon HD 6790 1GB Video Card

AMD Radeon HD 6790 1GB Video Card

The AMD Radeon HD  6790 turned out to be a very nice graphics card for the price. We saw it consistently beating the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB video card, which is the latest and greatest offering from NVIDIA at the $150 price point.  The AMD Radeon HD 6790 can also be easily overclocked as we were able to reach 900MHz on the core and 1120MHz on the memory before having stability issues.  We could have gone higher if we increased the GPU Voltage, but to keep things simple we used just the AMD Overdrive utility to see how far we could push this reference card...

AMD Radeon HD 6790 Video Card

AMD Radeon HD 6790 Video Card

The new Radeon HD 6790 comes with a USD 150 suggested price, positioning it between the Radeon HD 5770 and the Radeon HD 6850, and competing directly with the GeForce GTX 550 Ti from NVIDIA. Let's see if this video card is a good buy.

Aerocool RS-4 Case Review

Aerocool RS-4 Case Review

The RS-4 is part of Aerocool's PGS R or "professional" series of cases, and it features a carrying handle, a memory card reader, an analog fan controller and other interesting features. Let's take a look at it.

Enermax LuxuRay Case

Enermax LuxuRay Case

Finding a good miditower case on the market can be hard, there are a variety of different cases which claim they are the best. Enermax is known for their high quality cases and today we are taking a look at the LuxuRay case to see what type of quality we can expect. Will this be a winner and possibly your next choice for a future case? lets find out!

Synology Disk Station DS411J NAS

Synology Disk Station DS411J NAS

While we’ve reviewed a few media hubs and media pc equivalents recently, this isn’t always what people want. Sometimes they want something that sits away from the lounge area but still provides content. Synology have something that does just that, but also a lot more. This NAS isn’t for the faint of heart; the DS411J is packed full of multi-tasking ability. Media server, FTP, torrents, internet radio, iTunes and more.

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic Video Card

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic Video Card

The standard AMD Radeon HD 6850 graphics card by SAPPHIRE comes clocked at 775MHz on the core and 1000MHz on the memory. For those that want to take it up to another level the Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 TOXIC Edition has the same internal architecture as the standard model, but the clock speeds are increased to 820MHz for the core and 1100MHz for the memory giving gamers a noticeable boost in performance. Read on to see how it performs and how much more we can overclock it!

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Our friends at Gigabyte released their first version along with all the other launch partners. Gigabyte did not release their based on the reference model. This card sports an overclock directly from Gigabyte and a custom cooling system. With all this card has going for itself, it just be your next card if you are working with a tighter budget.

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