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Today I’m going to talk about AC Ryan’s PlayOn!HD2 media player. Just recently I took a look at KWorld’s media player and this follows suit. One of the negative impressions I had with the KWorld player, however, was the UI. AC Ryan has not made the same mistake, believe me.AC Ryan’s PlayOn!HD2 media player has an absolutely gorgeous user interface …

After a 14 year gestation, Duke Nukem Forever has finally arrived. Those of us who played the original Duke Nukem games after weaning ourselves from Doom and Quake have finally had our patience rewarded, but adding a little frosting to the cake is the fact that Duke Nukem Forever was coded to take full advantage of NVIDIA’s 3D Vision technology: …

OCZ Technology has another winner on its hands with the RevoDrive X2 100GB PCI Express SSD! It is hard not to be impressed by an SSD that offers read speeds of up to 740MB/s and write speeds of up to 690MB/s. A variety of tests were run on the RevoDrive X2 and a collection of five other “high speed” SSDs, …

Well, its official, Tobias Brinkmann is back within the OCZ fold as Director of Caching and Hybrid Drives. So what is this new role all about and why was OCZ so keen to get their business development guru back on board? KitGuru peaks at satellite footage from San Jose and ponders. Full story at Kitguru.

At the end of the day, the only problems with the NH D14 are the price (around£70) and the gargantuan size which can cause fitting problems with a selection of supporting hardware. Enter the NH U12P which received an update in recent months to Special Edition SE2 status. This cooler can be picked up for around the£50 mark in the …

As SSD technology continues to radically change the storage landscape, hybrid devices of many varieties are popping up left and right. Today, we are going to look at a device called the RAIDon HyBrid RunneR which is a blend of both HDD, and SSD. Primarily aimed at the user-on-the-go, the RunneR is a very interesting device that allows for data …

As we can see, installation is just as simple as any CD-ROM device; simply slide it into your drive bay and then tighten it into position. It is then as simple as installing a SATA data cable and then connecting power to the device. The device fits snugly and perfectly into a standard 5.25 inch drive bay. Now, I know …

Once the device is physically installed into the computer, the next task is to setup the program that allows us to control and configure the RunneR, the HyBrid GUI (Graphical User Interface) The user can install an operating oystem directly to the drive at this time if it will be used as a boot drive.  Power up the device and …

Once configured and setup, one thing we did notice was that the device is not NCQ compatible. This results in some abnormally low random access high QD results. In order to provide an accurate representation of the performance of the device we compiled results from two setups with the device itself. The first result will be performance with the HDD …

IOmeter 2008 We ran some IOmeter configurations to test several access patterns on the device. Again, we are looking to compare the differences of the different setups. The Sequential 64mb test is to measure the overall speed with large files, and the 32mb test is to test with medium file sets. As you can see the SSD Alone still shows …

Real World Usage There is a bit of confusing data here. The device benchmarks, so far, show extremely great gains when compared to a HDD used alone. The acceleration over the typical HDD is quite impressive yet it still lacks behind the performance if you were to use the SSD alone. Occasioonally synthetic benchmarks can be a bit misleading. The …

Operating System Load Times Once again we are going to see the performance of real world usage except this time in regards to the amount of time it takes to load the operating system (Win7) using the three different scenarios. The lower time of loading is best. The SSD Alone only slightly outperforms the SSD/HDD combo inside of the HyBrid …

I think everyone reading this already has a passion for motorsports. We all have interesting stories about adventures on and off the track and dreams that most likely will never be fulfilled. I spent a large part of my childhood at dirt tracks in the Midwest; places like Kokomo Speedway and Eldora.The highlight each year, though, was the Indy 500. …

At the end of last month during Computex we saw the AMD 990FX chipset launch which brought with it some strong features. One of the more appealing ones was that it supports the new Bulldozer CPUs that are due out later this year. Because AMD aren’t changing the socket, though, for the first generation of Bulldozer we can have boards …

It might not seem like SSDs have been around very long, but OCZ has been a pioneer in the technology for almost four years already.They’ve traditionally offered several different options for performance enthusiasts, from economic yet responsive storage to premium high-speed enthusiast solid state drive solutions.While their Vertex series deliver the fastest SSD’s available, the more affordable Agility family accommodates …