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With everyone expecting the overall outlook for electrical retail stores to remain fairly bleak, the main competitors are working to find new ways to deliver shareholder value and return a dividend. At Multiplay i43, there was a surprising announcement on the main stage. Heres what they said and a question: Should other retailers be worried? Full story at Kitguru.  

Cooling is a major feature of the TJ08-E and instead of relying on two fans you get the power of a single 180mm air penetrator fan to direct air where it needs to be. This design also promotes a positive air pressure situation that will vent the chassis faster than simply using more fans. Full story at Ninja Lane.

We have just taken a look at the Cooler Master NotePal U Stand. This is a notebook cooler and a stand that supports laptops up to 17″ and is designed specifically for use on your desk and it can help reduce neck strain as it is able to elevate your laptop screen up to eye-level. Please check out our review …

I’ve said before that since the coolers included with retail CPUs are both quiet and effective at stock clock speeds, overclocking is the only reason anyone should buy a third party CPU cooler. Well, this isn’t strictly true: not all third party CPU coolers are designed to handle ultra-high overclocks in massive tower systems; sometimes, what you need is a …

Enermax has entered the CPU cooler market, and we are reviewing their first model: the ETS-T40-TA, which has a tower heatsink, four U-shaped heatpipes, and a 120 mm an. Here is a snippet: We tested the ETS-T40-TA CPU cooler from Enermax, best known as a power supply manufacturer. This cooler has a tower heatsink, four U-shaped, direct-touch heatpipes and a …

The Lich King was the master and lord of the Scourge, and he ruled over them telepathically from the Frozen Throne on top of Icecrown. Well, I guess until I killed him about a year ago, but that is beside the point. The Thermaltake Frio OCK, a strange name for a product, literally means Cold Over-clocker King (sic). So what …

Corsair announced new capacities available for its Force GT Series SSD today right on the heels of its recently release of new capacities for the Series 3 line as well. As a bit of refresher, we reviewed the GT 120GB here and the Series 3 120GB here where we detailed the difference in performance between the two through use of …

With a URL like SpireCoolers.com, it’s not hard to understand that Spire are most well known for their heat sink fan combinations. However, you may have heard they make cases too. Today — despite it being a holiday, yes, I’m dedicated — I’m reviewing the Spire Savit 6005B. It’s got a snappy name and a matt black exterior with a …

Crucial has posted a firmware update (0009)  for its M4 line which can be downloaded at Crucial.Com by M4 owners. The good news is that the firmware provides significant performance increase for all capacities of the M4 SSD and Crucial has all capacities of their M4 SSD on sale now at great prices. We initially thought this to be a …

INTERIOR COMPONENTS The Runcore T50 SATA 3 mSATA 120GB SSD is assembled on a printed circuit board (pcb) which measures 51mm x 32mm x 4mm and weighs under 30 grams.  The easiest way to understand how small this is has been depicted in the phot on the first page of this report.  It is exactly 1/3rd the size of the …

ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER. 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications. ATTO uses RAW or compressible data and, for our benchmarks, we use a set length of 256mb and test both the read and write performance of various transfer sizes ranging from 0.5 to 8192kb. …

HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 BENCHMARK HDTune is a great software program which covers all areas of our testing and does a great job of showing how capable this drive truly is. FILE BENCHMARK RANDOM TESTING EXTRAS All of the HDTune tests seem to be in order except for the ‘Sequential Outer’ result in this test above.  In most other SATA …

PCMARK VANTAGE X64 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 …

I have been saying for some time now that mSATA SSDs would soon find there way into each and every notebook and things are well on there way. To think that a little ingenuity could see a laptop today pushing transfer speeds above 500MB/s with a terabyte plus hard drive right beside it. This raw power in ultraportables such as …

It is almost four years to the day that the first consumer solid state drive was making its appearance which makes todays EXCLUSIVE SATA 3 mSATA SSD review truly sweet. Runcore is timing this ‘world first’ release with the news that they are also opening shop in California to better serve North American enterprise and client needs. The Runcore T50 …