The HAF Series of cases brought about the aesthetics of battle-hardened military vehicles. Each offers the user access to customizing their airflow and rearranging their internal system layout. Together, these features were realized for the first time within the HAF 932, and they will be back again in the new HAF 932 Advanced.The HAF 932 Advanced also comes with an …
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After looking at the P67-UD7 board from Gigabyte, we were left with a feeling of excitement and joy knowing that we had a fantastic product at our disposal, and we assumed that nothing better could come along. Whilst that feeling was great, it was also short lived quick quickly. Z68 arrived within days of the launch spouting new features from …
Read More » The V.REX L-1200 is yet another tempting product by 3R System and although it doesnt bring anything new and not already seen with their cases still it does feature way more room for cable management, USB 3.0 ports, 5 pre-installed fans, top 3-way fan controller and the latest version of their HDD noise killer 2. Full story at RWLabs.
Read More » Sapphire is the first to utilize AMD’s E350 (Zacate) APU – a combination of CPU and GPU computing technologies onto a single die, and AMD’s answer to Intel’s Sandy Bridge graphics integration. The form factor is a power-saving mini-ATX, dubbed Pure Fusion Mini E350. Does it stack up against Intel’s offerings? Full story at TechWare Labs.
Read More » After our recent review of the 120GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G, I think you are familiar with Other World Computing. The OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G didn’t put the company on the map, but it did verify that OWC belongs in the same legend as OCZ, G.Skill, Patriot and the rest of the Team SandForce landmarks. Of all the SandForce …
Read More » GIGABYTE has been extremely aggressive with the new Z68 chipset and it’s very much out with the old and in with the new. Over the past few weeks the GIGABYTE Z68 boards have been the ones to show up a lot in corner stores for sale. And after hearing that they hope to achieve 80% of channel stocking at launch, …
Read More » Our review today is going to examine a 4GB kit of Patriot Viper Extreme Division 2 memory. This kit is rated at DDR3-1600 (or 800MHz) at timings of 8-9-8-24 with 1.65v. Based on the quick specifications, it is clear that this low-latency kit is designed for extreme performance. BACKGROUND Patriot Memory is a long standing company that was founded in …
Read More »3. SiSoftware Sandra Professional Business Edition (Latest Version) SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information and diagnostic utility. It provides most of the information (including undocumented) needed by testing hardware, software and other devices. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level, Sandra presents information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound …
Read More »4. Futuremark PCMark Vantage Professional 64-Bit Edition (Version 1.0.0.0) PCMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed for Windows, offering one-click simplicity for casual users and detailed, professional grade testing for industry, press and enthusiasts. A PCMark score is a measure of via a computers performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music …
Read More »SYSTEM OVERVIEW AND TESTING PROCEDURES Test System I Test System II Motherboard GIGABYTE 870A-USB3 GIGABYTE P67A-UD7 CPU AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition @ 3.20GHz Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz (3.80GHZ Turbo Boost) GPU AMD Radeon HD4670 EVGA NVIDIA GTX 560Ti Operating System Windows 7 64-Bit Windows 7 64-Bit In order to present an unbiased review, I decided …
Read More » Thermaltake have been in the market for quite some time and have always been known for making some of the weirdest and wonderful products on the market. This ranges from cooling products to cases and as time goes on, more style gets added to their quirky range of products. Today we are taking a look at a controversial product from …
Read More » Just before the launch of the HD 6790, HIS emailed us and asked if we wanted to get a sample of the normal version, or if we were happy to wait a couple of extra weeks for the IceQ X Turbo one. Since we had a reference clocked card already on the way and the IceQ X and Turbo series …
Read More » Just when you think you have seen just about everything you can out of the all-in-one water coolers, someone is always trying to find a way to make their product stand out against the rest in the crowd. When we took a look at the KÃœHLER H2O 620 a little while ago, I was impressed with what Antec and Asetek …
Read More » It was some time ago that we were putting our Test Bench together and we were contacted by a company called Icy Dock. As coincidence had it, Jeff Sung, Sales and Marketing Manager of Icy Dock USA, thought we might be interested in their 4 in 1 SAS/SATA Backplane RAID Cage for our new system. Today, we find ourselves with …
Read More »ICY DOCK METAL 2.5″ TO 3.5″ SATA/SSD CONVERTER WITH RAID (MB982SPR-2S) Once again, this cage is a very well built metal cage and will hold two 2.5″ drives for RAID use and fits into a 3.5″ adapter slot. It would be a great idea for hard drive use but, on the SSD front, there are two limitations of the unit. …
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