The maximum speed officially supported by an Intel Core i3/i5 CPU is 1333MHz, and most will know too well that that even lower priced Intel H55/P55 Motherboards can support a 200 BCLK. If you like to dabble in the dark art of overclocking there are a few good reasons to choose a 2000MHz (PC3-16000) RAM kit. . Firstly you have the options …
Read More »From the Palit line up of Nvidias flagship card we can reveal the specs rumoured to be in the GTX 570. Our friends over at SweClockers.com have obtained a leaked product spec sheet suggesting that the card will come equipped with 480 processing cores running a core clock of 732MHz, 1280Mb of GDDR5ram with the Memory clock at 1900MHz (giving a combined …
Read More »“The Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS Dasher offers increased responsiveness over regular mouse pads. With the Thermaltake Dasher Mousepads enlarged surface area, you have the freedom to move your mouse across the screen faster than the competition, even in Eyefinity or Surround monitor setups. The Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS Dasher Mouse Pad comes with a 1-year warranty and is designed to withstand the …
Read More »Cooling is a necessity for high performance gear. From the humble passive heatsink to the monstrous dual-fan tower coolers, airflow is an essential part of the process. Typically we connect fans to our devices via the motherboard, or directly to the PSU. If we’re lucky, we can control the fans via software such as SpeedFan, otherwise the hum of high …
Read More » It was just a few days ago that the internet was abuzz with news of Super Talents new offering of its UltraDrive MX 480GB SSD which promised a new era in consumer SSD capacities. The idea of 480GB of SSD property on a single SSD immediately became the driving force to our contacting Super Talent and suggesting a review of …
Read More »TEST BENCH CONFIGURATION Motherboard Asus Rampage III Gene SATA 6Gb/s USB3 CPU Intel i7-930 CPU@2.80Ghz (OC’d to 3.2Ghz) RAM 6Gb G.Skill 1600 Triple Channel Graphics MSI N460GTX DDR5 768MB Power Supply OCZ ModXStream-Pro 600w CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212+ OS Windows 7 64 Bit Ultimate Wifi Belkin Surf & Share Wireless USB Adapter Monitor Dell E228WFP 22″ Flat Panel …
Read More »3. CRYSTAL DISK MARK VER. 3.0 X64 Traditionally, the JMicron series of controllers have not been the best at demonstrating those all important 4kb random write scores. This is the second time in recent weeks we have looked at the newer release of the JMF 616 where they are showing much better results. For those not familiar with the importance of this specific …
Read More »6. HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 – BENCHMARK The Super Talent has an average access or seek time of 0.1ms which is considerable better than a hard drive and the major contributor to visible difference in your SSD experience. As a brief explanation, seek time with a SSD is quick because it simply needs to locate the information, regardless of size, and return …
Read More »7. PCMARK VANTAGE HDD SUITE The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of …
Read More » It was only a few weeks ago that the SSD Review evaluated one of the fastest drives on the market with the Super Talent USB 3.0 SuperCrypt Flash drive pulling in scores of 254MB/s in our testing and then showing absolutely incredible side by sides with true solid state drives. Well, it seems that wasn’t enough for Peter Carcione and Super …
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