| Thursday News Edition |
| Antec CP-850w - XSs @ xsreviews.co.uk |
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on July 02nd 2009
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Whenit comes to PSUs, for years now the ATX unit has taken centre stagewith little thought going into producing a different form factor.However, Antec have changed all this and decided that it is time for arevamp. Their new form factor, christened the CPX, is a lot bigger soas to allow more room for the guts and allow a less restrictiveairflow. Electrically, it’s just an ATX power supply but unfortunatelythe size means that a limited selection of cases can take the unit –unless of course you’re into modding. Antec clearly hope the new formfactor catches on and their first model is the CP-850, but is all thehype really justified? Let’s have a look...
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| Technic3D/Spire TherMax II @ technic3d.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on July 02nd 2009
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The Spire TherMax II CPU Heatsink arrived Technic3D. The unive rsally compatible TherMax II is the big brother of the original TherMa x cooler. Designed with four 8mm copper U shaped heat-pipes enclosed b y fifty-five aluminum stacked Micro-fins. The heat-sink base is equipp ed with the Direct-Touch heat-pipe technology. The Its cooling capacit y ranges all the way from low end Micro-processors, up to today's hott est 150W dual-core processors. See you in the following Review the The rMax II compared with many other Cooler on a Intel Core i7 920.
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| Corsair CX400W Power Supply @ hardwaresecrets.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on July 02nd 2009
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CX400W is the simplest power supply offered by Corsair. Is it a good product? Let’s see.
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| TechwareLabs s the NZXT Khaos Aluminum Full Tower Gaming Chassis @ techwarelabs.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on July 02nd 2009
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When on the look out for a new case to out fit your rig, you may have a peek over at what NZXT is producing. NZXT is still a young company, only being established in 2004. However, they have produced a fairly decent sized list of computer chassis, some with a very unique design and look. With the NZXT Khaos at hand, one can only speculate as to what NZXT has in mind as a
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| MSI Wind U100 Netbook Overclocking Guide @ legitreviews.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on July 01st 2009
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Once the dynamic overclock setting has been enabled you then must pick the percentage of the overclock. You can select a CPU overclock of either 8%, 15% or 24%, for a maximum overclock of 2GHz. Once the percentage picked you just load the operating system like normal and use the Wind U100. When you are ready for a little more processor power you just need to press Fn+F10, and 'Turbo' mode will be enabled. You have to be plugged into AC power for the setting to work and you should see one of the above icons when you enable or disable the feature. Our MSI Wind U100 was unstable with an overclock of 24% due to instability of the memory module. That means the highest overclock that could be reached was 15%, which is still a great overclock on the Intel Atom N270 processor....
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| World-Exclusive:Sapphire HD 4730 512 MB @ techpowerup.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on July 01st 2009
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Sapphire's new HD 4730 is based on the RV770 GPU which is used on the HD 48xx Series. Such a choice had to be made because the availability of the HD4770 GPU is extremely limited at this time - while customer demand is up. Sapphire offers their card with 640 shaders and 512 MB GDDR5 memory at an extremely competitive price point of only $79. But is that enough to take over that market segment?
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| Rocketfish 550 W Power Supply @ hardwaresecrets.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on July 01st 2009
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Rocketfish is one of the house brands from Best Buy and recently they released a new 550 W power supply. Let’s see if this unit will survive our tests.
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| Seventeam ST-750P-AF Power Supply @ hardwaresecrets.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on July 01st 2009
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Seventeam is slowly entering the US market and ST-750P-AF is one of the few products from them available around here. Is it a good product? Can it deliver its labeled power? Check it out.
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| Antec ISK300-65 Mini-ITX HTPC Computer Case @ benchmarkreviews.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on July 01st 2009
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Benchmark Reviews recently called on the Antec ISK300-65 Mini-ITX HTPC computer case to complete our NVIDIA ION Home Theater PC project.
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| ASUS Radeon HD 4890 Voltage Tweak Graphics Card @ tweaktown.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on July 01st 2009
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The Voltage Tweak model from ASUS is something we've heard about for a while now. The idea behind it is that ASUS gives the user even more control of the card when it comes to overclocking. Not only do you have the ability to overclock the standard clocks like memory and core, but you also have the ability to adjust the voltage. You may be wondering what this exactly means; it gives you the ability to adjust the voltage to higher levels which in turn gives you the ability to run the card at even higher speeds, much like you do with a CPU where adding more voltage gives you the ability to obtain higher clock speeds.
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| AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition Processor @ legitreviews.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on June 30th 2009
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For our liquid nitrogen testing we insulated the motherboard with a combination of artist eraser and Vaseline and mounted our K|ngp|n F1EE liquid nitrogen pot on top of the CPU with a dab of Arctic Silver Ceramique for the thermal compound. After pulling the pot down to around -188 Celsius we began our runs starting with 3DMark 2006. We were using a Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P with two Corsair Dominator GT 1866C7 2GB modules, two AMD HD4870x2 video cards at 822MHz core 950MHz memory, and a single Corsair HX1000 PSU powering the entire system. We had to push the vcore up to 1.8v to achieve the following 6.6GHz screen shot on the AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition processor...
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| Changing the Game - A Brief History of CPU's @ techwarelabs.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on June 30th 2009
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The history of the modern day CPU is one that we tend to overlook. We now want 2, 4 and even 8 cores for our desktops. Join Tom Gowing as TechwareLabs gives you a brief History of the CPU and what we have to look forward to.
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| Cooler Master Hyper N520 CPU Cooler @ modders-inc.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on June 30th 2009
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The Cooler Master Hyper N520 is a compact dual 92mm fan CPU coolerthat utilizes five heatpipes to dissipate the heat through the cooling fins.Will it impress or will it leave us wanting more?
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| TechwareLabs s the NZXT Avatar Gaming Mouse @ techwarelabs.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on June 30th 2009
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Looking for a mouse that's made to fit you? Want to be able to frag across the map with the simple click of a thumb, leaving your enemy looking at the sky in a pool of his own blood? Join Ian as we take a look at NZXT's introduction to the Gaming Mouse line-up, the Avatar Gaming Mouse. Will this mouse make you the MVP, or force you to hold onto that 2D grenade? Join TechwareLabs as we take a look...
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| SilverStone ST70EF 700W Power Supply @ pcper.com |
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Posted by newsbot
on June 30th 2009
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The SilverStone Element ST70EF 700W PSU delivered excellent voltageregulation with very good efficiency. The ST70EF is quiet, runs cool duringnormal operation, and includes a good compliment of fixed cables/connectors.The only weakness we found was relatively high levels of AC ripple on the DCoutputs when the PSU was subjected to extreme loads.
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