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Our first hands-on experience with NVIDIA´s Fermi comes from Sparkle GTX 470, a high end video card which we compare a whole bunch of previous and current generation competitors. Is the nextgen from NVIDIA worth the money? Read on to find out.... |
by stefan @ 2010-07-27 |
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GlacialTech have successfully build a very cheap, easy to install and good looking little CPU cooler; it is mostly intended for environments that do not imply overclocking. In the performed tests, however, even if on the package it was listed that the i5 750 CPU is supported with its stock 2.66GHz frequency, I could do 3.2GHz without problems at all and with decent temperatures too, in both IDLE a... |
by stefan @ 2010-07-25 |
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The E Ink Digital Hour Clock Watch with Black Leather Band from Art Technology is a product with very good quality materials and interesting technology which is also integrated in some tablets and mobile phones.... |
by stefan @ 2010-07-25 |
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The RX-1.1K Gold Power Supply is the latest from Nexus, comes with enough juice to power multiple GPU systems, but also high overclocked CPUs. It is not one of the most expensive on the market and comes with a carry pouch in which we can find the extra modular cables.... |
by stefan @ 2010-07-25 |
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Gigabyte introduced a new ITX mainboard based on the H55 chipset that also features USB3.0 onboard. We tested the board to see if ITX boards are finally grown up and can be used to build an all-round system.... |
by Terw_Dan @ 2010-07-21 |
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The Brando Bond Spy Sport Watch is a gadget with multiple functions: it can take photos, video with audio or record only audio. For recharges, when we do not have the computer near, we also get a power adapter and the 4Gb memory inside the watch can be also used as a storage device.... |
by stefan @ 2010-07-15 |
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TRENDnet have developed one of the first 450Mbit model routers, with the code name TEW-691GR. From the performed tests, we cannot see ultra high speed on Wireless 300Mbit devices, but the manufacturer claims that when having 450Mbit adapters, the situation changes completely. A firmware update will also be available later to enhance the performance with 300Mbit adapters and the Wired speed was the... |
by stefan @ 2010-07-15 |
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Microsoft has announced plans to release of an out-of-band update on Monday to address the Windows Shortcut flaw revealed less than two weeks ago. The software giant has been keeping a close watch on the use of .LNK files exploiting the vulnerability and has concluded that it needs to act faster than usual.
Microsoft typically releases security patches on the second Tuesday of each month, with the next slated for August 10. Redmond is releasing this fix eight days early, at approximately 1PM EDT Monday. All currently supported versions of Windows are vulnerable, including Windows 7, so the majority of Windows users should be receiving this patch.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company this week announced financial results for the second quarter of 2010. The firm reported record revenues and profits, which is an indicator that its customers expect demand for their products to uptick. The company's most advanced 40nm node brought the company 30% more revenue than in the previous quarter and the demand towards the process was growing more rapidly than the demand towards other nodes.
In the second quarter, demand for TSMC’s wafers continued to be strong, and wafer shipments in all major semiconductor market segments increased from their first quarter levels. Advanced process technologies (130nm and below) accounted for 72% of wafer revenues. Among the high-end production technologies, 40nm got the maximum actual boost: it not only grabbed additional 2% of TSMC's revenue share, but considering the increase of the company's revenue by 13.9% quarter-over-quarter, the output of wafers processed using 40nm technology increased by 30% sequentially.

Dumpdag is Tones' befaamde dag vol superkortingen. Een jaarlijkse traditie die intussen door andere winkels werd gekopieerd.
De volgende dumpdag is op zaterdag 31 juli 2010 in onze winkel in Heist-op-den-Berg.
Wat mag je verwachten?
- duizenden producten aan stuntprijzen (geen afgedankte hardware maar splinternieuwe producten!)
- gratis hardware (we delen de ganse dag gadgets uit en verloten knappe prijzen onder de kopers)
- wedstrijden en animatie (win volledige PC's en andere hardware)

Several models of GeForce GTX 460 768MB can be had for less than $200 while the prices of big brother with 1GB memory can be had for $220. The lower prices puts pressure on AMD, and even though prices have remained fairly stable for a while now they should go down in the near future if AMD wants to remain the leader in DirectX 11 graphics cards.
NVIDIA is marketing the new card as much as possible, e.g. StarCraft 2 coupons, to catch up to AMD's dominance on the DirectX 11 market. AMD has its second generation DirectX 11 architecture around the corner and NVIDIA is trying to move out new Fermi models for the low end segments.

With a new GPU and a tweaked architecture designed for the €200-€250 segment, NVIDIA is counting on attracting the mass gamer market. At last, the GF104 is with us, in the Geforce GTX 460 card, or rather the GeForce GTX 460 cards that we have run through their paces both in technical terms and performance in practice.

We have great news from TGT, the company that is doing overclocking for Point of View. Last week they rolled out its GTX460-768MB Ultra Charged Core (820 MHz / Memory 4000 MHz), but the real winner of overclocking contest is GTX 460 BEAST with its GPU running at 850 MHz.
There will be tree levels of overclocking Charged, Ultra Charged and BEAST. For GTX 460 core speed that means, 780 MHz Charged, 820 MHz Ultra Charged and 850 MHz „BEAST“.

Mindteck, a company that offers embedded software development and consultancy services, has released power consumption data after testing sleep, idle, low-use, and high-use scenarios of various Windows PCs. The researchers also built a model to estimate cost savings by using a centralized power management policy. What really piqued our interest, though, was that Mindteck looked at the effect of processor chipset drivers on the power consumption (in watts) of Windows XP and Windows 7 with varying driver configurations and older hardware.

Today we are going to talk about six mainboards on AMD 890FX chipset, namely: ASRock 890FX Deluxe3, Asus M4A89TD Pro and Asus M4A89TD Pro/USB3, Biostar TA890FXE, Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 and MSI 890FXA-GD70. We will compare their technical specifications, BIOS functionality, overclocking potential; will check out their performance and power consumption.

AMD Llano and Ontario systems have appeared on BOINC or the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing if you prefer.
It’s hard to draw any real conclusions from the numbers, as the clock speeds for the two CPUs aren’t listed. Without knowing that it’s hard to compare the processors to current products in the market, but the Ontario is looking a lot more “ready” than the Llano. The only numbers on offer is measured floating point and integer speeds in million ops/sec, The Ontario comes out with 1,351 million ops/sec for floating point and 3,047 million ops/sec for integer performance running Windows Server 2008 of all things.
We also managed to dig out some numbers for the same CPU running an unspecified version of Linux with kernel 2.6.31.5 and here the floating point speed is slightly lower at 1,330 million ops/sec, but the integer performance went up slightly to 3,120 million ops/sec. This compares quite favourably to Intel’s dual core Atom 330 which only manages 871 million ops/sec for floating point and 2,249 million ops/sec for integer.

Mini-ITX motherboards are typically designed for low power consumption and cherished for their compact form factor. So what happens when you replace a low powered system with an Intel H55?

OCZ Technology has once again brought cutting-edge high-speed SSDs into the value storage segment with their Agility 2 series. Based on the SandForce SF1200 controller, the OCZ Agility 2 SSD delivers up to 20,000 IOPS with incredible bandwidth speed. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the 120GB OCZ Agility 2 Extended OCZSSD2-2AGTE120G against some of the fastest storage solutions on the market. Just when PCs were starting to seem irrelevant in this fast-paced world of mobile gadgets and smart phones, along comes a new product that changes the entire landscape. SSDs, or more formally Solid State Drives, have finally lifted computers beyond the age of spinning metal magnetic platters. Delivering a boost in speed that no memory upgrade or new processor could ever dream of, solid state drive technology has sent hard disk drives packing.

CoolIT has become well-known for their thermoelectric (TEC) cooling solutions such as the Freezone and Freezone Elite, and appears to be heading into the more “mainstream” market of water cooling with the release of recent products. As such, the ECO C240 A.L.C. is strictly a water cooling-only product, there is no TEC technology at work here. This means the system should be simpler and more cost-effective to produce, allowing novices enter the world of water cooling very easily and affordably.

This Kingston HyperX blu memory turned out to be a little bit surprising for an entry-level offering. You can easily keep it at the JEDEC standard of 1333 MHz and tighten the timings to 6-7-6-20 @ 1.5v for a very efficient and lower voltage set of memory, or set it by the XMP profile to run at the rated 1600 MHz speed and timings. You could also tighten the timings at its rated speed, to 7-8-7-27, for an even more efficient stock speed setting.

Kingston is one of the largest and best known memory manufacturers in the world but their production facilities are usually hidden from prying eyes. In this article, we take you deep within Kingson's factory in Taiwan in order to see the birth of the products we all buy.

Even with the price of SSD’s still out of range of some users we see an amazing variety of models giving the most hardcore and wealthy enthusiasts a great selection to pick from. OCZ itself manufactures a model for any price or performance range. We already took a look at their budget/mainstream focused Agility; today we have a chance to put their new Vertex 2 to the test. Will the added cost equal better performance?

This is a fantastic case. It’s light, stylish, and fits all of my components very efficiently. I have so many more good things to say about this case than bad. This will most likely be the new case I hang on to for years and years, but this time because it’s absolutely ideal for me, not because nothing better pops up on it’s own.

ASUS Crosshair IV Formula is undoubtedly an original and interesting product. Its features, like GameFirst and ROG Connect, are actually useful and may come in handy. The bundle includes everything you need, and then a bit more.

Today we look at a number of boards designed for those who must have the best products available, at any price. However we also like a little bit of balance in our lives so we have selected a few boards which focus on other aspects such as value. Join us as we take a look at what the latest developments on the X58 market are; in a selection of tests including video encoding, SATA3/USB3 performance and overclocking we will discover which boards offer the best for each consumer.

We all trying to acheive faster speeds with pretty much
everything we do. Just last week I have timed myself depositing some cash in
to my bank account from ATM. The whole process took nearly 3 minutes and
even that puzzled me as what can be done to speed up the process. The same
applies to the hard drive speeds. We are at the point where the bottle neck
in the average PC is the hard drive and its speed but everything comes with
a price. Buying a SSD could be an expensive task. Depending on the capacity
you easily can throw down 300$ for 128 Gig SSD hard drive. Sure the
performance is unmatched to the mechanical hard drives but the capacity sure
doesn't sound so appealing. Thankfully our friends at Seagate have came up
with a hybrid solution, Momentus XT.

The need for PSUs who can offer quiet work alongside more power and efficiency is ever-increasing. This trend has been spotted by numerous manufacturers, who have recently presented the market with their own visions of quiet PSUs. Cooler Master can’t be an exception, of course, so they decided to present, besides the already available and well-known Silent PRO series, the Silent PRO Gold series. The new series encompasses PSUs from 600 to 1200 W of power, so that most users be able to pick the appropriate model for them with ease. The model we’ve tested was the golden middle - pun intended - with an 800 W sticker on the case…

The ModXStream Pro 500W features six connectors for its modular power cables, with the two red outputs available for PCI Express for graphics power connectors, while the other four black outputs are available for other power requirements such as Molex, Serial ATA power and so on.
As you might expect, the main required ATX power connectors are attached directly to the PSU despite the modular nature of the rest of the unit, giving us the usual assortment of a 24-pin connector together with one eight-pin and two four-pin ATX +12V connectors.

"The Humane Reader, a device designed by computer consultant Braddock Gaskill, takes two 8-bit microcontrollers and packages them in a 'classic style console' that connects to a TV. The device includes an optional keyboard, a micro-SD Card reader and a composite video output. It uses a standard micro-USB cellphone charger for power. In all, it can hold the equivalent of 5,000 books, including an offline version of Wikipedia, and requires no internet connection. The Reader will cost $20 when 10,000 or more of it are manufactured. Without that kind of volume, the each Reader will cost about $35. (src: /.)

With the development of hardware technology, hardware replacement rate is accelerating.With the emergence of new generation of products, a lot of flagship product become normal products.When internal structure of processor changed, the performance of new generation processor will be substantially better than previous generation.
So a lot of friends will have this question: Since the new generation processor performance will increase significantly over the previous generation, Will todays entry-level processor performance beyond flagship processors of previous generation products?

Advanced Micro Devices passed Nvidia in graphics chip shipments in the second quarter, according to a report from a marketing research on Wednesday, adding to Nvidia's woes.
AMD's ATI graphics unit took 51 percent of the standalone, or "discrete," graphics chip market compared to Nvidia's share that was just shy of 49 percent, according to Mercury Research, a Cave Creek, Arizona firm that tracks graphics chip shipments. This is a sharp reversal from the same period a year ago when Nvidia had about 59 percent of the market and AMD had just under 41 percent.

Today's value comparison spans 11 cards with price tags ranging from around $140 to $680. Since Nvidia has yet to launch a sub-$200 DirectX 11 product, we'll mainly be studying match-ups at $200 and upward. This exercise should help us answer questions on everyone's lips. Is the GeForce GTX 460 1GB truly a better deal than the 768MB model and the Radeon HD 5830? Should you get a Radeon HD 5850 or a GeForce GTX 470? Are top-of-the-line cards always ripoffs? And will Lindsay Lohan serve her full 90-day jail sentence?

Geforce GTS 450, will now release on September 13th, pushed back two weeks from initial expectations of late-August. In addition, the early clock speed estimates run at 789 MHz core, 3760 MHz for 1GB GDDR5 memory over a 128-bit memory bus.
Further information regarding functional units remains unclear. Most rumours suggest between 192 and 256 SP. At 789 MHz, it will also be the highest clocked Geforce card ever, surpassing the card it is replacing, the GTS 250 (which itself is a rebranded 9800 GTX+), finally marking the end of the highly successful G80 line of GPUs first introduced nearly four years ago!

It’s true. AMD’s entire desktop product line exists below $300, and we won’t see a real push for the high end crown until next year with Bulldozer. Until then, the real competition happens at lower (and arguably more interesting) price points where AMD gives you more cores for less, while Intel offers lower power consumption and better single threaded performance.
The ultra high end is still alive and well, despite the lack of competition in the market. Apple just announced its own dual-socket, 12-core monster that will begin shipping next month. Even Intel will tell you that it’s seeing more interest in the Core i7 980X than any previous Extreme Edition part. And the interest isn’t misplaced.

Slow secondary storage has been the biggest persistent gripe about PC gaming for quite a while now. While CPUs, RAM, graphics cards and system busses have all been improving at a steady rate; hard drives have stayed more or less stagnant for the past decade. Enter the solid state drive. At its most basic level, a SSD has the same basic structure as a USB flash drive: a bunch of NAND flash memory chips, a controller to tie them together, and an interface that talks to the outside world. Where a SSD pulls ahead is, naturally enough, in the performance of those three components. Today we'll be looking at the RealSSD C300 256GB SSD from Crucial. Taking advantage of the still-uncommon SATA 6.0 GBps interface, this drive promises to deliver blisteringly fast performance.

It's been more than a decade since the original StarCraft was released, but unlike a wide majority of the titles released in this time frame, the game never really faded away and throughout the years remained the benchmark of what a well-conceived real-time strategy game should be.
For that reason StarCraft II needs no introduction. This sequel has been in the making for what seems like forever, although it was only officially announced in 2007. One way or another, the delays do not seem to have discouraged anyone from wanting to play the game, and if anything, it has made us more desperate to get a taste of it.
On usual TechSpot fashion, now with the game out in stores we are taking an in-depth look at how your gaming system will handle StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. We have tested a huge range of graphics cards using three different resolutions and an equal number of visual quality presets. In addition, we have evaluated CPU scaling testing AMD and Intel CPUs of current and previous generations.

The 29th of July, how scary is that? - One month already down into the second half of the year and what a start to the back end of the year it's been. Really, out of nowhere we've seen NVIDIA bounce back with a model that everyone wants to get their hands on and while ATI at the moment continue to hold the value for money cards, when it comes to the high budget folks it looks like NVIDIA may have taken it in the most important category, the $200 bracket.
It's going to be an interesting second half and I'm sure we're going to see new models from both the green and red team. For now, though, let's look at the latest Cat drivers.

As part of Gelid Solutions Silent line-up, the implication is that the Tranquillo will be silent. In that respect, the expectation has been met and exceeded. One of the compliments I can bestow on this cooler, is that my son walked into the room and asked what was broken since it was so quiet in the room. Kind of an eye-opener once the white noise of high CFM fans used in air cooling are no longer there. Performance enhancements for the Tranquillo will be limited to adding a higher CFM fan to increase the cooling capacity of this cooler, since running a second fan on the back side is not supported due to its 'v'-shaped design. But then you step away from the concept of the Tranquillo.

Many years ago, overclocking was not limited by Intel/AMD like nowadays. As it is usual, when they see they can make extra money from the consumers by limiting their features to those who pay more, they don't hesitate to take advantage of that. In the last years, the Intel made it a little bit "impossible" for those who want to buy a CPU with unlocked multiplier. Intel was limiting that feature to the Extreme Edition CPUs. AMD took this as an opportunity to approach consumers with a feature their competition wouldn't give and so the AMD Black Edition CPUs appeared. AMD has been kindly enough to offer Black Edition products for each segment in the market, and that means you can find a BE (Black Edition) CPU for less than $100. Intel is striking back with a pair of new processors which feature an unlocked multiplier without the $999 tag. Today, Benchmark Reviews will analyze the Intel Core i5 655K Unlocked CPU which basically is a Clarkd! ale based 2-cores/4-threads processor with Intel HD graphics and specially aimed at overclockers. Is the unlocked multiplier good enough to pay that little extra or isn't it worth it? Is it better to overclock with multiplier or should I to raise the BCLK? Those answers and more will be covered as Benchmark Reviews tests the Intel Core i5-655K Clarksdale processor, model BX80616I5655K.

Neoseeker has another graphics card review lined up for your reading pleasure. Today we're covering the PowerColor PCS+ Vortex edition of ATI's HD 5770. The Vortex features a manually adjustable GPU fan that promises improved cooling by up to 15 percent, but does it really make any difference? What about the performance of the card itself?

Another day, another GTX 460 review. This time we take a look at MSI's overclocked, custom cooled Cyclone OC edition. Not only does this GTX 460 have one of the largest heatsinks we have seen in a while but it also retails for a mere $10 more than the reference version. Could this be a match made in heaven?

In this review Frostytech is testing a novel heatsink from Beijing-based DeepCool Industries Co. called the Ice Warrior. Victorious names aside, the Ice Warrior heatsink is a 155mm tall tower heatsink that utilizes six 6mm diameter copper heatpipes and a fairly hefty copper base plate. The novel bit about this heatsink is the rubber over moulded fan it ships with.

Today we shall try to answer the following question. What's better: a triple-core CPU with 512KB L2 per core or a dual-core CPU with 1024KB L2 per core? On the one hand, the former has an additional core. On the other hand, each core of the latter has twice as much cache available. This isn't as obvious as it may seem.

Patriot's 100 GB Inferno SSD drive uses the Sandforce SF-1222 controller which is the company's latest and has found its way into many SSDs from major manufacturers on the market. Patriot is offering a unique five year warranty with their drive that uses a massive 28 GB overprovisioning to keep performance high at all times.

Mimicry is the highest form of flattery and when done to reduce cost and make a product similar more available to the masses, there isn’t anything wrong with it. To call the OCZ Technology RevoDrive a true PCIe drive like the io-Drive is a bit of a stretch. The RevoDrive takes the PCIe signal and routes it through a Silicon Image RAID controller. From the RAID controller the data is passed through to two onboard PCB SSDs. This should reduce latency from the RAID controller to the drives since it eliminates the SATA cables. In reality there really isn’t much difference between buying two 60GB Vertex 2 60GB drives with a RAID controller and the RevoDrive when it comes to performance, but OCZ didn’t really design the RevoDrive to flatter the Fusion-io or accomplish performance outside of the realm of the above scenario.
OCZ’s main goal of the RevoDrive was targeted at another set of numbers that are just as important to end users, cost numbers. By using just one PCB for the Silicon Image RAID controller and dual SandForce SSDs, OCZ was able to keep the cost lower than if each of these components was purchased separately. Add in the elimination of additional documentation, packaging, cables and such, OCZ was able to really get the cost down on this one making it not only accessible to the consumer market, but in some cases the best option for desktop users looking to get the absolute most out of their Dollar, Euro or Peso.

It isn't often that you see innovation in PC fans. Other than the occasional oddball sizes, fans are generally standardized in design. Seemingly answering the call, Sharkoon has created the Silent Eagle series of PC fans. Sharkoon has applied some clever ideas to their fans in hopes to differentiate them from the others on the market as well as increase performance. Today, HardwareLogic has the Silent Eagle 80mm and 120mm models up for review in order to determine if the innovation equals improvement.

Today we bring you a first look at NZXT's eagerly awaited Phantom case. This is the beauty we first showed you during Computex which has just now arrived at our door. The Phantom is simply an amazing case packed with features and all fit into a highly polished exterior. If you must have the nicest case out there then you should consider the Phantom.

The obvious advantages of slot-in reservoir can not be denied: They look just great in the front of the case! Many manufacturers have recognized this fact and have implemented different concepts. The probably most well-known version is the repack series offered by Alphacool, which has been reviewed by Freeocen in the new white revision. Other popular manufacturers have been looked at in a complete round-up by Aquainfos. We at Aquatuning hope to have been able to shine a light on the jungle of choices!

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