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The Llano APU (the desktop variety on test here is codenamed ‘Lynx’) contains the CPU, GPU and northbridge. As a consequence production costs and physical power costs are reduced greatly meaning cost to the consumer is lowered and a competitive performance level is maintained while providing a convenient and streamlined solution. Full story at Vortez.

Have you ever been on a long car ride in the middle of a blazing hot summer afternoon without air conditioning? Well, for those who have always had air conditioned cars, you should try it for a day. Make sure to try it with the windows rolled up, and you will get a feeling of what being stuck in a …

Even though the days of the beige box are over, there still arent a huge number of cases on the market that have a visual wow-factor. A number manufacturers like Lian Li and Fractal Design produce very elegant looking cases which are easy on the eye but arent exactly exciting. Other manufacturers like Cooler Master and Antec take a different …

This year Thecus introduced the new Triple X designation. XXX doesn’t have anything to do with those movies being made in California, but stands for Xtreme Power, Xtreme Value and Xtreme Function. The N5200 namesake has been with us for several years, but when paired with the new XXX features takes on a whole new form. To start things off, …

In this review we will be looking at the Thermaltake FrioOCK which happens to be the high powered upgrade to the popular Frio that we reviewed last year. The Frio ended up as a contest prize and we have been looking for a suitable replacement ever since. Full story at NinjaLane.

Thinking back to all of the Lian Li and Lancool cases I have had the pleasure of looking at over the past few years, I have seen what spending a bit more in the case of Lian Li gets, and what is offered at a budget in the Lancool line. That already in my head, there are certain expectations I …

Today we’re going to be looking at our first A75 chipset motherboard in the form of the ASUS F1A75-V Pro. Of course, we’ve already done a big preview on this board that covered everything on the board and the BIOS; because of that we’ll be getting straight into the test system, talk about overclocking and get into the performance side …

Looking back when I was a stubborn and arrogant little child (Some 3-4 years ago), it was almost crystal clear to me that laptop cooling pads were a waste of money. A Reason? Well, at the time, it seemed ludicrous as to why and how adding additional cooling to the underside of a notebook could improve performance when; (A) Even …

Logitech are a brand that don’t really require an introduction, as they are very much like a household brand now, with more products on the market than every before, in many different areas of the peripheral market. One of the main accomplishments for them is in the keyboard market, offering very unique products for all types of users. Now before …

Today we are going to look at the Corsair Obsidian 650D Mid-Tower case which is the smallest model in the Obsidian range.  It shares the same styling cues as the larger 700D and 800D cases but comes in at a much more affordable price point.  It doesnt look like Corsair have compromised much on the feature set to achieve this …

There are hundreds of gaming mice on the market at the moment all competing by presenting different unique features, customisation and superior specifications. Today we are taking a look at a gaming mouse that offers many advanced features and customisation options, but the question is- does it actually perform? CM Storm is a subsidiary of the highly respected PC power …

Keeping with the theme of storage weve got going lately Ive got a hard drive dock from a company called Siig for review today. It doesnt have any fancy name but it does have a cooling fan built into it, something that I dont think Ive ever seen in a hard drive dock. Lets just get right into it.. Full …

As you may know by now, Cougar is a brand that belongs to HEC/Compucase, and the Evolution is a mid-tower case with interesting features, such as a 3.5″/2.5″ hot-swap docking station, a two-channel analog fan controller, and eight expansion slots, offered for USD 110 in the US. Let’s check it out. Full story at Hardware Secrets.

STORAGE AND PERIPHERAL BENCHMARKS CrystalDiskMark CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for hard drives (as well as flash drives) that enables rapid measurements of sequential and random read/write speeds. The USB 2.0 test was performed using the 64GB Patriot SuperSpeed USB 3.0 flash drive: The USB 3.0 test was performed using the 64GB Patriot SuperSpeed USB 3.0 flash drive: XFast …

COMPUTATION AND PRODUCTIVITY BENCHMARKS 7-Zip 64-Bit Edition 7-Zip is an open source file archiver designed originally for Microsoft Windows. 7-Zip operates with the 7z archive format, and can read and write several other archive formats. The program can be used from a command line interface, graphical user interface, or Windows shell integration. Sorenson Squeeze 7.0 Sorenson Squeeze is a compression suite for video. It encodes to multiple …