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Antec Fusion Remote Black Review @ HardwareLogic
Published: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | By: WillThe Antec Fusion Black Remote looks to be very interesting for the HTPC crowd out there. If your on the fence about this controller go on over and take a look at it. Oh yeah, you might also to a look at the case that is well priced for all the great options as well.
" Combining silence, convenience, and style, the Fusion Remote Black is an excellent enclosure for a home theater PC. With its special triple chamber design and dual 120mm fans, the Fusion Remote Black runs quietly and coolly. If that weren't enough, the Fusion Remote Black boasts an included remote control and media management software. "
Enjoy!
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SandForce SF-1200: Does Lower Capacity Mean Lower Performance?
Published: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | By: WillA new SSD controller is like a new ice cream flavor. Some love it, others have a hard time dealing with it ,and everyone wants to find an angle on it. So let's read another angle of the SandForce 1200 controller.
"Up until now we have observed SSD manufacturers quoting different performance numbers for each capacity size in a product line. The most obvious came in 2009 when some manufacturers listed as many as four distinct performance envelopes in their Indilinx Barefoot products with all divided by capacity. The Indilinx Barefoot products weren't the only ones listing footnotes about performance, Intel had a few of their own as well.
There are many reasons why smaller capacity drives can be generally slower than higher capacity drives. Without boring you with technical details, we will just briefly touch on technical side. The first possible reason a smaller drive performs less than a higher capacity drive can be linked directly to the flash memory itself. Some smaller drives use smaller flash memory that does not perform as well as larger capacity flash. The next issue and what we saw mostly in 2009 and early 2010 were smaller than 128GB drives that were using less of the available channels on the controller."Oh yeah, the SandForce 1200 is the BOMB!
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GIGABYTE's New Technologies: CloudOC, Unlocked Power & More @ Hardware Canucks
Published: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | By: WillLooks like Gigabyte has something new for all of us overclockers called CloudOC. I'm going to be honest that I just don't think this is going to be to big among top HWBot overclockers. Then again I have been wrong before.
"Gigabyte has long been known as a leader in numerous fields and in the new few months they are looking to take things to the next level. In this article we take a closer look at some of the technologies which they will be introducing including the already-available Unlocked Power and the innovative CloudOC."
Only once and it was never proven!
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Hard-Drive Roundup June 2010 @ HardwareHeaven
Published: Monday, June 21, 2010 | By: WillHere is a great Hard-Drive Roundup that shows performance of not only a few SSD drives price segments but some of the top mechnical drives as well. It will help out on making the next hard drive choice easier.
"Todays review includes SandForce, Indilinx and Toshiba based SSDs mixed in with the Seagate 6GB/s and VelociRaptor mechanical models then just for good measure a high spec 2.5" mechanical drive is added to ensure we have a complete picture of the real world performance available at each market segment."
Crucial FTW!
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DX11 Graphics Cards High End Roundup June 2010 @ HardwareHeaven
Published: Friday, June 18, 2010 | By: WillI guess a DX 11 high end GPU roundup is possible with NVidia bringing in the GTX 480 & 470. Now the question is the GTX 465 worth it's money over the Radeon 5830? It will all be told someday.
"On the ATI based side we have Sapphire's 5970 Toxic 4GB and the Asus Matrix 5870 Platinum. From NVIDIA partners we have Zotac GTX 480's, Gigabyte and Palit GTX 470's and Gainward GTX 465s which allow us to compare single GPU and SLI based setups. We will be covering real world gameplay, PhysX, 3D Vision, GPU computing, High Definition / 3D media playback and power/noise readings in this review to establish which products are worth purchasing."
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LC Power, Silverstone & Cooler Master PSUs: Clash of the Titans @ InsideHW
Published: Friday, June 18, 2010 | By: WillWith the PSU being the heart of a great Computer build it is always nice to see a roundup of the big boys to get a good idea of what someone may need. I am very curious to see which ones turn out to be top dogs of the pack.
"Latest-gen graphics cards consume an awful lot of power, and that seems
to increase with each generation. The same could be said for CPUs as
well. A configuration that would be able to run the latest games in high
resolutions often requires more than one graphics card. The usual 500 W
PSU simply won't be enough in such situations. We thought that it would
be interesting to delve into PSUs that could power overclocked quad-core
or hexa-core CPUs combined with two or more graphics cards. We borrowed
a couple of PSUs from LC Power, namely Metatron series models of 1000
and 1200 W. The remaining two arrived from SilverStone and Cooler Master..."I think I'm for the Cooler Master or maybe the SilverStone. Wow it is hard to pick.
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GTX-480 Thermal Study @ Bjorn3D
Published: Friday, June 18, 2010 | By: WillHere might be a good read to help clear the air about all the heat the GTX 480 makes. Well let's hope this article is not a lot of hot air for we here know that the GTX 480 is one hot running beast. This is just during normal gaming sessions that we have come to this conclusion.
"When the Nvidia GTX-480 hit the shelves we saw a lot of sites reporting what we considered high temperatures on the GPU. A lot of those sites were relying on Furmark and chose not to game for hours on end in a variety of games and get thermal readings that way. We can understand the initial rush to publish because in reviewing it's publish now or suffer a loss of traffic on the review or article.
We can't understand not going back and studying the thermal envelope of the GTX-480 after the initial reviews. So we fired up the GTX-480 and gamed for days on end (a dirty job but someone had to do it). Each game we ran we gamed for hours and hours then dropped out and took temperature readings. Each benchmark we used we ran multiple benchmarks back to back and dropped out and took readings. In all we spent 3 weeks gaming, taking thermal readings, and checking ambient temperatures to ensure continuity of testing."I think a pun was in there somewhere.
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Corsair Force Series 120GB SandForce SF-1200 SSD Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2010 | By: WillThese new SandForce SSD drives are all the rage. This is for a very good reason as well. They are fast and rock out the benchmarks very well. On a real world usage scale they are extremely fast as well.
"As far as performance is concerned, we observed almost exactly what we saw with the Force 100GB drive, as we expected. We found both of these drives to be among the best performing MLC SATA II drives available which is typical of the all Sandforce based drives we have seen from nearly all manufacturers. The prices for SSD's haven't come down much as of late with the economy doing the yo-yo and NAND being consumed voraciously by iPads and smartphones. With Corsair freeing up more available capacity without having to add more onboard NAND really helps add to the value of the drive without increasing production costs, so the consumer wins. While the Force 120GB drive is listed online at Amazon for $350, it looks like they don't have it in stock yet which means the price is almost assuredly going to come down once it is more widely available - unless there are supply issues..."
Nice drives, but the price is not very cheap.
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Gigabyte HD 5870 SOC, PowerColor PCS+ HD5870 Graphics Cards @ iXBT Labs
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2010 | By: WillThe new custom Radeon HD 5870 are hitting the market and they look to be awesome. I do like the custom PCB on the Gigabyte, and I bet it is a great overclocker. Let's read to see how they both work out for gaming and overclocking.
"Today we have a couple of customized solutions based on the Radeon HD 5870 GPU. Both have proprietary coolers, and Gigabyte's card also has an original PCB. Besides, both graphics cards are factory-overclocked."
Enjoy!
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In Win Diva sff chassis @ Hardware Bistro
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2010 | By: WillDo you have a Princess or Diva geek in your life. Well it looks like InWin has brought out the perfect case for that special someone. Check out this review to see if this is a case that is built for a Diva.
"In Win is one of our favourite brands as they always produce innovative and high quality products although their retail business was just started. Today we will bring you another cutie chassis from In Win; Diva. In Win Diva is not really a successors of Allure but they will be in same category which is purposely designed to capture female market. Let us go through in detail without further delay."
I think my 3 year old Little Princess might like it. It's pink of course she will like it
