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Our review today is going to focus on the Crucial M4 512GB SSD and the most noteworthy thing about this SSD needs to be said right off. At under $1000, it sells for almost half of that of competitor new generation SATA 3 SSDs and its performance easily ranks it amongst the best in Gen 2 top tier 6Gbps solid …

TEST SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY This is The SSD Review Test Bench and a quick click on the photo will bring it up full size for closer inspection. Our main goal in testing is to ensure that all test results are as accurate as they can be and no anomalies slip through. We conduct all tests three times and, if necessary, …

ATTO DISK BENCHMARK 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications.  For our testing, 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.  Manufacturers prefer this method of testing as it …

AS SSD BENCHMARK VER. 1.5 AS SSD Disk Benchmark is perhaps the only benchmark program that was created for solid state drives. AS SSD does a good job of showing us that the drive betters Crucials listed specifications of 50,000IOPS.  Two other results also stand out, the first of course being the great 4k random results that we discussed earlier.  …

HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ BENCHMARK READ AND WRITE HDTune Pro is a great software program that lets us have a look at all aspects of testing through several separate tests: HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ FILE BENCH HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ RANDOM HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ EXTRAS There is nothing much more that can be said here …

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 …

To start things, our hats are off to Kelly Sasso and Crucial for sending us this drive as we believe we may just be the only site lucky enough to review it.  It was a totally unexpected arrival which accompanied the 128GB M4 that so many have been asking about, a review of which will be published within the next …

When Traveller’s Tales stumbled upon the idea of turning famous film series’ such as Star Wars into LEGO games, little did they know just how popular and big they would be. It seems every six or so months a new LEGO game is coming out now, but as gamers we seem to not be able to get enough of them.They …

As true as it was several years ago it stands today, the cheapest way to increase a system’s speed is to increase the amount of ram up to a certain amount. The magic amount used to be 4GB and it seems to be increasing to around 8-16GB especially with Microsoft pushing 64bit. Fortunately Crucial has put out a 8GB sport …

As more and more professional devices are moving to SDHC, having a high end card like the Patriot Memory LX Pro provides the ability for fast speed and response time when taking photos or recording HD video. The comfort of knowing that your card can react as quickly as you can on the moments that count the most is unprecedented. …

As more and more professional devices are moving to SDHC, having a high end card like the Patriot Memory LX Pro provides the ability for fast speed and response time when taking photos or recording HD video. The comfort of knowing that your card can react as quickly as you can on the moments that count the most is unprecedented. …

With the introduction of the laptop, the mobile office was created. You could take your show on the road and get some serious work done. Of course, you still had some limitations. Even today you have limitations; unless you want to carry around a laptop that weighs 10-15 pounds you are stuck with a small screen size. Fortunately, you do …

NVIDIA have completely blown away their previous generation GPU’s with the introduction of the GTX 5xx line up and while they are ‘good enough’ at stock speeds, it’s normal for AIB partners to push these GPU’s to their limits. MSI have tweaked the GeForce GTX 560Ti to 950MHz GPU / 1050MHz Memory, given it the ‘Hawk’ moniker, slapped on a …

High performance cooling has come a long way over the years and while most people associate aftermarket cooling options with overclocking that isn’t always the case. Some coolers may be best suited as high capacity alternatives to the cheap and unattractive OEM designs. Full story at Ninja Lane.

KitGuru has looked at a number of  Arctic Sound headsets over the past year which have impressed us by offering great performance at little cost.  We were very excited when Arctic offered us a sample of their latest earphones to review which also offer an impressive feature set for the price. Full story at KitGuru.