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With the new release of the GTX 550 Ti upon us, we have the ASUS factory overclocked GTX550 Ti DirectCU TOP for review today. The 550 Ti is not intended to a be top contender in the market, but rather a lower-end card with great upgrading potential via overclocking and SLI. With the ASUS 550 Ti coming with the DirectCU …

Many of you might not have heard of Chill Innovation, a Scandinavian company who have been working within the power supply sector for 9 years now. They are targeting the enthusiast performance media center audience with their new 520W Virtually Silent Modular ATX power supply. Full story at Kit Guru.

Up on the review block today Ive got another HD webcam from Logitech, the C510. A little bit ago I looked at the C910, which is pretty much the top end camera, this C510 is more middle range offering 720P resolution. The resolution is lower but the features are the same like pan, tilt and zoom and numerous special effects. …

NVIDIA have completely blown away their previous generation GPU’s with the introduction of the GTX 5xx line up and now it is the turn of the GTX550-Ti to show the world what it is made of. Rumours of the specifications suggesting the GTX550-Ti is just an overclocked GTS 450 have been around for a while now but all the details have not quite …

While we may have reviewed many Antec cases before, do you think I’m going to turn down the chance to review some revamped versions of their entire performance one line? Exactly. Today I spent my 9-5 taking pictures and testing the Antec 1200, the big boy of the bunch. This is the v3 that comes with a USB 3.0 connector …

We have done it again so it seems!!!  We are throwing a bit more gold into the pot by having a ‘week only’ giveaway right in the middle of our Intel 17-975 Extreme Site Giveaway!!! The SSD Review and Fractal Design have joined forces to offer a Fractal Design Define R3 giveaway to a lucky site member to be drawn …

Hot on the table in our labs today is the LSI 9260-8I MegaRAID 6Gb/s SATA+SAS internal RAID card and it happens to be sitting beside 8 Crucial C300 SATA 3 SSDs and 8 OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSDs. We are going to put this card through its paces and brace yourself because we have been pulling off amazing speeds …

This is The SSD Review Test Bench with the LSI 9260-8i installed along with a number of other storage favorites.  A quick click on the photo will bring it up full size for closer inspection. TEST PROTOCOL Our main goal in testing is to ensure that all test results are as accurate as they can be and no anomalies slip …

LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER Once the LSI 9260-8i is installed and recognized, there needs to be a means by which we can set up and fine tune our RAID configurations.  This is where the MegaRAID Storage Manager comes in and the application is included on the DVD or can be found on the website.  Click on the image for a …

AS SSD BENCHMARK V.1.5   IOPS   . . . . . . . ATTO DISK BENCHMARK V.2.46 We couldn’t resist but to comment about the ATTO score because these, typically, are where you are going to see manufacturers drawing their specifications from.  Its a quick and easy method of simply testing a set length at different transfer sizes of raw …