Quote: Imagine having your own personal stenographer to transcribe our recorded words into printed text. With todays review item you need hire your own personal secretary as the Mac OS X based MacSpeech Scribe does the job for you. For those such as myself who detests typing, this program sounds like a godsend.

In years past, a Ninja would give a party attendee a sticker or a paper invite that would get them in to the party. Last year the Ninjas to ok the party invite to the next level when they created their own custom badge for their party attendees. This year, badge designers Amanda Woznia k and Brandon Creighton decided to take the badge to the next level, and then some. What started as a sketch on a napkin ended up as an amazing ha cker gaming and development platform.

DEF CON 18, the barely legal edition is in full swing and promises to be busier and crazier than ever. The event is cash only at the door w ith no reservations making the event very inviting to individuals that en joy privacy and not having their credit card hijacked. Be sure to check b ack with us for updates all weekend long. included in our coverage are ph otos of the now World Famous and highly sought after BlackHat Badge.

*Cooler Masters beastly new HAF X full tower gets built out by the Caveman with an i7, two ATI Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6 cards and a dremel. Check out our review of the newest Cooler Master High Air Flow full tower, complete with pics! *

Since 1999, we have been developing the BIOS Optimization Guide, affectionately known as the BOG. From a meagre beginning of a single page, it now covers over 440 BIOS options. As old BOG readers will know, we started offering two editions of the BOG since Revision 8.0 - a simplified edition and the complete edition.

Quote: The SilverStone SST-HDDBOOST is a very simple device once you read just th e first couple pages of the manual, being practically PnP in a set it and f orget it type of manner. The HDDBOOST gives any hard drive the boot times o f an SSD without sacrificing hard drive capacity, write wear on the SSD or the complications of having to change file paths when you would run program s off a secondary hard drive. One of the best features of the SST-HDDBOOST is that you are not limited to any SSD...

*Quote:* As a general rule of thumb wireless gaming mice are far inferior to their wired rodent cousins simply due to sods law which makes it run out batteries just as youre going for that important kill. Roccat are well versed in the wired sector of the market with designs such as the Kone and Kova warranting significant praise from reviewers and consumers alike. With the Pyra, Roccat has decided to throw its hat into the mobile gaming market ring but can the PC peripheral manufacturer succeed where numerous others have failed? Lets get started.

QUOTE: You can walk out of Walmart with a bag of cat litter, a bottle of ketchup, and a serviceable dual-core notebook with ample hard drive space and still have only spent around $600. This has made hulking towers, and even mid-to wer PCs, a less attractive option to the mainstream shopper who just wants to hop online and fire off a few Facebook updates, but this isnt without i ts drawbacks, namely heat and ergonomics.

Solid state drives not only offer an enormous reliability advantag e over traditional hard disk drives, they offer great performance increas es as well. Most people operate under the assumption it takes great money to get great performance. The Agility 2 claims to be the exception. Let s see if the Agility 2 has the moves to keep up with its boasts.

While a rather strange looking PC, the eMachines ER1402-05 desktop computer has a compact design that makes it great for home entertainment by connecting with your TV/stereo system or as a desktop computer in a compact space. Some of the feature include HDMI out, built-in 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, 2GB of RAM, and a wireless keyboard & mouse.

While a rather strange looking PC, the eMachines ER1402-05 desktop computer has a compact design that makes it great for home entertainment by connecting with your TV/stereo system or as a desktop computer in a compact space. Some of the feature include HDMI out, built-in 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, 2GB of RAM, and a wireless keyboard & mouse.

Today we look at CoolIT=E2=80s new high end cooler, the Vantage A.L.C. In this review we will di scover how it compares to the H50 in terms of performance and also look at it in detail to find ou t what features it has which could take processor cooling to a new level.

Dutch Company A.C. Ryan are a well known organisation who have been supplying after market parts and modding supplies to the community for many years. Today we are taking a look at several of their units, the Playon! HD Media Player with a 1TB Hard drive, and the =91Mini version which is sold without a drive

Dutch Company A.C. Ryan are a well known organisation who have been supplying after market parts and modding supplies to the community for many years. Today we are taking a look at several of their units, the Playon! HD Media Player with a 1TB Hard drive, and the =91Mini version which is sold without a drive

SNIP: MSI has introduced into the world the GTX-465 Twin Frozr II and it is most definitely a very appealing card. They really pulled all the stops out with this one as they made sure to have it appeal to a wide range of audiences while not sacrificing performance in the least bit. MSI created a card that is not only a very powerful card but it runs cool and is extremely easy to overclock using MSI Afterburner. Enough with the introduction for this card lets get down to business and check out what really matters.

Article Snippet: Patriots Bolt series of flash drives prove that file security doesnt have to come at a premium price. $25 for the 8GB model is easy on the wallet, and it performs just as well as any other flash drive out there and has a sleek look to boot. The AES 256-bit hardware encryption will keep your files safe in the event the drive gets lost or stolen, and the built-in software is straightforward and works great right out of the box.

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.

Quote: 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.

*Quote:* *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 Kingsons factory in Taiwan in order to see the birth of the products we all buy.* *Image URL:* http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/mac/articles/kingstonfactorytour/2/6.jpg We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

Excerpt: 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, a t any price. However we also like a little bit of balance in our lives so we have selected a few b oards which focus on other aspects such as value. Join us as we take a look at what the latest dev elopments on the X58 market are in a selection of tests including video encoding, SATA3/USB3 perf ormance and overclocking we will discover which boards offer the best for each consumer.

Why is USB 3.0 a big deal? Well to some it might not be... yet. It is rather new, so not many machines out there have it. If your machine doesnt have it, providing you have the room in your case, you can get an adapter card. USB 2.0 has a peak speed of 480MB/sec while USB 3.0 has a peak speed of 5Gb/sec. Those numbers speak for themselves. In this case Vantec revised their SATA to USB 2.0 adapter that connects to the back of a drive.

A major area of concern for any software vendor is maintaining a p latform that is secure and safe from vulnerabilities. Time spent analyzin g patch code and implementing updates is frustrating. Jeongwook Oh presen ts his latest attempt to reduce the workload with his tool DarunGrim v3.

Summary: The new technologies have definitely contributed to producing a very quiet PSU that any user appreciative of peace and quiet would want in his/her enclosure.

internal or external? While adding an internal drive negates the need for an enclosure, sometimes this is not an option. If you have a laptop or a small form-factor desktop you probably simply dont have the internal space for another drive. This only leaves you with the option of adding an external drive. Today were looking at the Macally G-S350SUAB hard drive enclosure. Styled after the Mac Pro, this device certainly looks sharp, but how does it perform?

*With the growing trend of governments cracking down on people using their phone while driving, its never been more advisable to pick up a bluetooth headset of some sort. Today were looking at a device with not only hands free functionality, but also music streaming and external storage connections. Lets see how it does.

Quote: Overall I am thoroughly impressed with the MSI 890FXA-GD70 motherboard . Why you may ask. It does exactly what it is supposed to do with out compl aining. Sure the performance was slightly behind that of the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, but it isnt the kind of performance difference you will notic e on a day to day basis. What you may notice on a day to day basis, is the price difference. At the time of this writing the MSI 890FXA-GD70 is $179.9 9 after rebate. That puts the MSI 890FXA-GD70 thirty bucks below the ASUS C rosshair IV Formula. Thats an extra thirty bucks you can invest into a bet ter graphics card or processor...

Slow secondary storage has been the biggest persistent gripe about PC gaming for quite a while now. While CPUs, RAM, graphics cards and sys tem busses have all been improving at a steady rate hard drives have sta yed more or less stagnant for the past decade. Enter the solid state driv e. At its most basic level, a SSD has the same basic structure as a USB f lash 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 p ulls ahead is, naturally enough, in the performance of those three compon ents. Today well be looking at the RealSSD C300 256GB SSD from Crucial. Taking advantage of the still-uncommon SATA 6.0 GBps interface, this driv e promises to deliver blisteringly fast performance.

Quote: 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 dont 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 wouldnt 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 Clarkdale 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 isnt 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.

The MSI GTX 460 Cyclone sports a custom heatsink to offer lower temperatures and noise levels, along with some excellent overclocking potential through their MSI Afterburner software. The card were looking at today also comes with a factory overclock for those who might be hesitant to overclock their GPU, and it is also the 768MB variety as well.

This model comes clocked 50MHz beyond stock and also has a improved cooling solution. However, what really makes this card unique is the manually adjustable Vortex fan. According to PowerColor the simple act of adjust the height of the fan can reduce back pressure, improving the efficiency and reducing the noise level.

*Quote:* *Another day, another GTX 460 review. This time we take a look at MSIs 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?* *Image URL:* http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image//skymtl/GPU/MSI-GTX-460-OC/MSI-GTX-460-OC-6.jpg We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

Quote: The PixelSkin for iPad is the super-sized version of the PixelSkin line.

*Quote*: *Sporting an APS-C sized sensor in an ultra thin body, this camera attempts to play with the entry level SLRs while at the same time catering to the higher sales volumes of the point and shoot crowd. This particular market segment is becoming increasingly crowed as amateur photographers seek to leave the confines of their tiny sensors in hopes of better photos at higher ISOs. Panasonic, Olympus, Sony, and now Samsung have chosen this demographic to wage war in. . .* If you feel that your readers would find this of interest, wed sure appreciate a post in your news section.

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.

Samsungs 9000-series of LED HDTVs. Samsungs 9000-series HDTVs - LED backlit LCD displays which support High Definition 3D movies when used with active 3D glasses, make streaming digital content over a network via DLNA a breeze and provide excellent picture quality and clarity across the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio panels. All that in a package so thin its amazing.

The launch of NVIDIAs GeForce GTX 460 resulted in a significant price drop for Radeon HD 5830 graphics cards. As those cards are now in a very interesting price range, they get more attentions from customers. So HT4U.net started to present some individual designs. Today we will look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 5830.

Excerpt: Today we shall try to answer the following question. Whats 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 isnt as obvious as it may seem.

After an announcement already at Cebit it took until now for HT4U.net to receive a test sample of ASUSs graphics card series with DirectCU cooling solutions. HT4U.net presents the ASUS Radeon HD 5830 DirectCU that is built on an own design.

*Quote:* One thing that has pleased many a hardware nerd in the past few years is that geek culture has received a bit more recognition in main steam society its no longer hugely uncool to be a bit more technologically inclined. Because of this, theres certain nerdy fashions that are beginning to cross over one of these is the pen drive round the neck. However finding one that appeals to women was always going to be a bit harder to do, however Moneaul Swarovksi have a solution: crystal.

Quote: OCZ has been on the cutting edge of SSDs since they hit the consumer marke t and are on the pioneer trail once again with their most affordable PCI-Ex press based SSD yet - the RevoDrive. As implied, this isnt their first PCI -E drive but it is the first that carries a price tag that rivals that of t he more traditional SATA port based SSDs. At an MSRP of $349 for the 120GB version (part number OCZSSDPX-1RVD0120), they arent what you would conside r inexpensive for storage devices in general, but considering the performan ce, hardware onboard and pricing of similar capacity SSDs, the price point is rather impressive. The RevoDrive features a pair of Sandforce SF-1200 co ntrollers in a RAID 0 configuration - all on one card. Think of it like the NVIDIA SLI and ATI Crossfire cards with dual GPUs on one card. You get al l the benefits of a traditional RAID 0 configuration without the hassle and expense of multiple drives and add-in RAID controller cards. Weve seen th e performance of just one Sandforce based drive begin to hit the SATA II ba ndwidth ceiling, and moving to a higher bandwidth interface will really all ow the RevoDrive to stretch its legs...

Today we bring you a first look at NZXTs eagerly awaited Phantom case. This is the beauty we first showed you during Computex which has ju st 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 ha ve the nicest case out there then you should consider the Phantom.

Quote: Up on the review block today Ive got another phone from Samsung called the Gravity 3 and its a phone that is a messaging phone at heart, but it s got decent email functionality and of course you can browse the internet an d the social scene too. The Gravity 3 is a large sized phone, its a slider with a nice large full qwerty keyboard that is just great to type on.

Quote: Hello readers! Today I have something special for you. MusicSkins has sent me over a promo code to share with you that will give you 20% off anything in their online store and they also sent me over a skin for my Apple iPod nano 5th Gen so I can show you what its like. So read on to check out Th e Beatles skin that I got for my nano and to learn the promo code so you can get 20% off your very own skin!

QUOTE: It appears Rosewill is out to redefine what a gaming keyboard is all abo ut. Rosewills RK-800g doesnt come equipped with macro keys, media keys, o r gaming profiles. It doest have any onboard memory, integrated LCD displa ys, or even a USB connector. Nope, youll find nothing of the sort on Rosew ills version of a gaming keyboard. So whats so special about the RK-800 g that earns it the gaming moniker? Good question, and if youre hoping we ll answer it for you, well, youre better off wasting the next few minutes surfing hilarious YouTube videos. But hey, every click counts, so keep read ing anyway, well make it worthwhile.

Western Digital may be marketing their new VelociRaptor family of high-speed hard drives as enterprise-class hard drives but they are also very popular with hardwarehttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif enthusiasts who just cannot resist their 10,000 RPM spindle speed.

Hell, its about time growls Tychus Findlay in the opening cinematic. The poster-boy for bad-ass pretty much echoes the sentiments of every real time strategy fan the world over. Finally, the sequel to 1998s game of the year has arrived and promises to bring all the glory and a ll the horror but it is fair to say it has a huge weight of expectation resting on it.

SNIP: When we think of power supplies for our computers there are still quite a few people out there that think that a PSU is just something that powers our computers. They also still feel that any ole PSU will work on our computers. This is not the case A PSU is the most vital component of our computers. The PSU in my opinion is just as important as our CPUs, our video cards, motherboards, memory, HDDs/SSDs and sound cards. You are only as fast as your slowest component, if your PSU cannot properly supply your computer with enough power then your entire computer is the slowest component.

If you are anything like me you have quite a few gadgets lying around, most with their own chargers. This means you have a bunch of diff erent cords to plug in, which takes up most of your power strip and just makes a mess of wires and connectors. While there is nothing we can do ab out all of the chargers that come with these devices there is something y ou can do about the mess. This is where the IDAPT I3 Universal Desktop ch arger comes in. It is a simple device that has 1 power connection and all ows you to charge up to 3 devices at the same time! Lets take a look=85

Anyone in the market for a small and sleek entry level home theater PC knows that there are many options. With so many systems at very different price points, finding the right balance between capability and dollars can be difficult. The Inspirion Zino HD from Dell certainly has the right look, and being based on AMDs 780G chipset, the right lineage. Keep reading to find out if it can check theboxes on the feature list without busting your wallet and find a nice cozy spot next to your TV.

Article Snippet: With this being the second LED TV I have tested from Samsung, nothing much has changed with regards to pros and cons of thin panel LED technology. The picture quality and colors are second to none and the 1.1inch overall thickness is nothing less than astonishing.

Editors Choice award from the well-known IT web media Techpowerup.com for its excellent performance, versatile functionalities, hard-solid hardware, user-friendly graphical user interface, the fashionabl e Multimedia Station 2, and iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app QMobile for users to access the multimedia files stored in the NAS on the go. TS-859 Pro Turbo NAS also offers iSCSI service and serves as both IP-SAN and NAS which grant s flexibility, ultra-high performance, easy configuration and management, wit h an affordable price for business and entry-level enterprise customers to enjoy the advantages of cloud computing environments. TS-859 Pro Turbo NAS is equipped with Intel=AE Atom dual-core processor delivering exceptionally high performance with extremely low power consumption for 24/7 operation. TS-859 Pro provides versatile enterprise-class applications to maximize server consolidation in the business environment and is also an affordable solution capable of secure data backup, encrypted file sharing, and iSCSI service for virtualized and clustered cloud computing environment. According to Techpowerup.com, =91Imagine having a web server, an FTP server and a file server in your sma ll business. All these are easily replaced by the QNAP TS-859=85QNAP has a NAS with the functionality for every user, may it be for your home network, a small start-up or a growing business. TS-859 Pro is one of the QNAP Turbo NAS business series which has been certified as compatible with VMware=AE vSphere4 (ESX 4.0 and above), Citrix =AE XenServer, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms. The NAS offer s enterprise-level iSCSI features such as SPC-3 compliant, multiple LUNs per target, MPIO, MC/S, and LUN (logical unit number) masking. It offers up to 16TB storage capacity via 8 hot-swappable SATA hard disks, dual Gigabit LAN ports with failover, load-balancing and multi-IP setting capabilities, RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 6/ 5+hot spare/ 6+hot spare configurations, online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and RAID recovery. TS-859 Pro is also upgradable to the latest firmware v3.3 for more applications. The new V3.3 firmware is now available for download free of charge from http://www.qnap.com/. For the complete review, please visit Techpowerup.com http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/QNAP/TS-859_Pro/1.html QNAP offers the broadest lineup of NAS server enclosures currently available. QNAP Turbo NAS servers are available in 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bay tower & rack mount configurations to fit consumers needs, including small/medium business, workgroups, and entry-level enterprise networks. Mos t QNAP NAS servers feature hot-swap removable cartridge drives with 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drive support, and offer unique features including virtual disk, and dual Gigabit LAN ports with fail-over, load-balancing and multi-I P setting capabilities for all Intel-based models. QNAP NAS servers are ideal for simple website hosting, ultra-high performance RAID storage supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 5+ hot spare and 6+hot spare (5 drive and higher models), stand-alone file downloading, network-wide backups, printer sharing, video surveillance, and a whole lot more. QNAP NAS servers are fully compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and UNIX networks and incorporate green power management technologies. *About QNAP Systems, Inc.* QNAP Systems, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 2004 and is dedicated to bringing world class NAS storage, professional NVR video surveillance, and network video players to consumer, small/medium business, and entry level enterprise market segments. QNAP leverages not only hardwar e design but also a growing core competency in software engineering that is precisely focused on bringing to market products that offer the highest available performance coupled with outstanding reliability, scalability, an d ease of installation and use. QNAP is a multi-national company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, and subsidiary offices in China and the United States. *About Techpowerup.com* Techpowerup.com is an influential and professional web media devoted to providing interesting computer news, and best-in-hand reviews and previews to its world-wide readers. *QNAP Systems, Inc.* TEL: +886-2-8698-2000 FAX: +886-2-8698-2270

Quote: I must say that the NZXT Phantom is superior in quality and offers many great features. The amount of space on the interior is astronomical and will surely be a great choice for many computer users today, as well as for long periods of time in the future. NZXT has brought a lot of features to the table with the Phantom that are new to me and surely new to many others. The integrated fan controller is probably my favorite, though not completely necessary for the fans packaged with the Phantom as they already are silent at full speed.

NZXT first previewed the Phantom at Computex 2010 and then only as a little teaser to wet our appetites. The release date is now scheduled for early September at the latest and will be available in Black, White and Red with a suggested MSRP of $139 USD. Weve got the pre-release first look so there may be some minor tweaks before the case goes retail, but you can expect most of it to be the same. Lets dive in.

Why do we overclock? Its really a very simple question, but one that has found new meaning over the years. It used to be that computer hardware enthusiasts had very few options when it came to choosing a processor, and building your own custom system was simply not possible. This was back in the day when computers featured a Turbo button, overclocking from 33 to 66MHz was a click away. Back then, overclocking the CPU could push clock speeds past any production level. Today the market is different, and overclocking the processor could result in very little additional performance. With so many dual-, quad-, and hexa-core processors now sold on the open market, overclocking has transformed itself from a tool to help people work faster, into a hobby for enthusiasts. Enthusiast overclockers demand only the best performance from their computer hardware, which is why the aftermarket heatsink industry is thriving with fierce competition. Benchmark Reviews tests the latest Intel LGA1366 heatsinks in this Best CPU Cooler Performance Q2-2010 article.

*The Vantec NexStar Superspeed SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter follows the simple mantra. The NexStar SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter is a small and portable device that offers all the the high speed power and functionality that you would get from a full sized enclosure or dock. The USB 3.0 Adapter has an SATA port that is compatible with any 2.5 or 3.5 SATA I and II hard drive. The USB connection can support the extreme USB 3.0 speeds but is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0 as well as 1.1./

With the NH-C12P SE14, Noctua has another quality cooler that lives up to their reputation of quiet operation thanks in part to the included 140mm NF-P14 fan. The SecuFirm2 mounting hardware remains one of the easiest to install among high end coolers and cooling performance is good. Full compatibility with all current AMD and Intel sockets mean that no matter what CPU you have, the NH-C12P SE14 has you covered. The C-type design of the NH-C12P SE14 should allow for a wide range of motherboard and case compatibility.

ASUS thought of the overclocker when manufacturing this card. Proof of this can be seen by the cards Probelt. The Probelt will allow the user to check GPU, Memory, and PCI-E voltage at anytime with a multimeter. The card is also equipped with ASUSs Super Hybrid Engine. The SHE should give us 54% better OC stability, as well as scoring 19% better then the average 5870. Not only that but ASUS included an Extreme Cooler, which should give us a 13% cooler card. ASUS even included a Real-time Hardware Loading Monitor

Today, we have for review a Geeks.com Mini USB 2.0 LED Projector. This mini-projector is aptly named: it literally fits in the palm of your hand. With a built-in speaker and various input options, it seems like the perfect gadget for showing slideshows or movies in the absence of a TV or suitable monitor. Also, because its so small, it should be ideal for quick and easy setup.

Today saw the release of one of the most anticipated titles this decade. Unless youve been under a rock for a very long time you would have seen our GamingHeaven coverage on StarCraft II over the last few months, well here we are with what is likely our final piece of coverage before the fable d review is published very soon!

Today saw the release of one of the most anticipated titles this decade. Unless youve been under a rock for a very long time you would have seen our GamingHeaven coverage on StarCraft II over the last few months, well here we are with what is likely our final piece of coverage before the fable d review is published very soon!

Quote: Today we will be reviewing one of the eight case choices from the folks at Cupertino. Specks PixelSkin HD for iPhone 4 is being offered in lieu of the Apple Bumper among with six other case models. I have been reviewing Speck iPhone 4 cases this past month and have found their quality and style to be top notch. The PixelSkin HD for iPhone 4 continues that trend.

I remember being a young kid, taking that $5 red laser pointer wit h the different end caps to school. I would shine it on the white board a nd annoy the teacher, or even mess with pets while at home. I thought tha t it was bright, and that beam seemed to travel forever. I remember watch ing star wars and laughing at the fact that they could use light saber s to cut limbs like butter. There was no way that a laser could do tha t. I was wrong. Although not the most powerful laser produced by Wicked L asers, the Spyder II is a force to be reckoned with. The model we will ta ke a look at has an intense 300mw beam that can run constantly for up to 80 min. Is this just an over rated toy, or a truly awesome tactical laser ? Join us as we find out.

Quote: It seems like everyone is adding a HTPC to their media center. When you have a PC in your living room, you need a way to control it from your couc h. Rosewill has released the RK-V1TP Super Slim Wireless-Touchpad Keyboard to address just this niche for only $59.99 plus shipping. The keyboard uses a 2.4-GHz wireless dongle that plugs into your USB port to provide a range of up to 20 meters. The 2.4-GHz wireless provides a connection that is n ot required to be line of sight and is necessary for many HTPC installation s. This new offering from Rosewill competes with other wireless 2.4 GHz key boards from Adesso, SolidTek, and others as well as with more expensive Blu etooth options like the Logitech DiNovo Edge keyboard/trackpad combo...

The Samsung LN55C650 is a 55-inch high-definition LCD TV that has lightning fast pixel refreshes and network features that allows you to stream audio and video from any computer to it from the remote. It has a 16:9 wide screen aspect ratio, 1080p resolution, lots of connection options, and above-average picture quality.

Two motherboards with AMDs 890GX chipset goes head to head to see which one takes the top spot.

Article Snippet: Silenx, apropos of their name, has produced a very quiet cooler (silent at lower fan speeds) that has pretty good cooling performance. Unfortunately, when they targeted gamers and overclockers for their marketing niche, the Effizio just cant quite carry the load.

Quote: I also am not a huge fan of going back to only having three buttons on my mouse, the two side buttons are helpful for navigating the web browsers as well as other applications, it would have been nice to see at least two more buttons added to the mouse. I like the fact that there are no drivers that need to be installed for the Cruiser, you just plug the receiver into an empty USB port and your ready to use the mouse.

*Quote:* *In the competitive world of SSDs, there are two things that consumers usually look for: price and performance. Usually, these two dont go hand in hand but Corsair is seeking to rewrite the book when it comes to these two factors. They are trying to do this with the brand new F120 drive and they seem to have succeeded.* *Image URL:* http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/akg/Storage/F120/Corsair_Force_F120_top_ang_sm.jpg We would appreciate it if you would post this up in your News section.

Antec has been around for a long time. Chances are, if you enjoy building your own computers or even tinkering with them, you have heard of Antec. They make a myriad of components and accessories for a wide range of computer users. One of the areas in which Antec has always had a strong presence is computer cases. Many of their enclosures have received very high marks from all across the industry, earning them a lot of recognition in the computer world. In the summer of 2010, Antec released a new line of computer cases known as the Dark Fleet. In this article, Benchmark Reviews is taking an in-depth look at the Antec DF-30 Mid-Tower Computer Case. At right around $100, the DF-30 represents the most inexpensive case so far in the Dark Fleet line. We will be exploring the DF-30 Mid-Tower Case to see if it stands up to the name Antec has worked so hard to earn.

*Quote:* *ATIs lack of anti aliasing support for StarCraft II has been well publicized but official responses to the situation were few and far between. We now have what we have been waiting for: clarification.* We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

Catalyst Driver investigations. In this article, vw_factor & caveman-jim look at performance improvements, new features, and general usability in todays new Catalyst 10.7 release - which also offers some major improvements for Eyefinity.*

We have seen so many different Speeds of DDR3 ram on the market , ranging anywhere from 1066 Mhz to 2400 Mhz. The mid range ram used by m ost people is the DDR3 1600 Mhz. Crucial graced us with their new and upc oming ram and having seen the speeds of the ram we previously tested, we were eager to see what we could achieve. This new 4GB DDR3 kit features C rucials new Ballisitx heatspreaders and onboard temperature sensors an d monitoring software, lets take a look=85

SNIP: You go out and purchase a 200+ on a CPU and immediately you purchase a 60+ on a heatsink that will ensure your CPU does not get hot. Well you should also consider the video card to be fitted with a aftermarket heatsink as well. Today we at Bjorn3d.com going to be looking at three different types of GPU heatsinks. One of these heatsinks is a stock aftermarket cooler, the Vapor X from Sapphire. We are also going to be looking at a new heatsink contender in the market of heatsinks, that company is GELID. Too finally going to look at another heatsink from a manufacturer that is well renowned as being one of the best, Zalman.

Quote: Today for review THQ has sent me over The Last Airbender for the Wii. The game is based upon the movie of the same name. The game follows through the view of Prince Zuko whereas the movie followed Aaang, so in the game you ge t a different perspective on things than the movie offers. Its something n ew really and not exactly a game based on a movie as one might think of when you think of movie based games. Thats a good thing as most movie based games dont work well usually. So Ive got a ton of screen shots and a rather long game play movie for you, along with my thoughts and impressions of the game=85

Quote: Its been a bit since Ive taken a look at any USB 3.0 related product s hasnt it? I think the last thing was an enclosure, and while enclosures are nice I much prefer docks, theyre just so much more useful and so muc h more easier to use. Today for review Ive got a product from our friends over at Cirago, its the CDD2000 USB 3.0 hard drive docking station. Thi s dock from Cirago is well made, and looks good, and it works well. The price is lower than many others out there so if youre made the jump to USB 3.0 then you might want to read more..

Direct X 11 has been bitter sweet since its launch. The sweet: beautiful graphics, tessellation, dynamic lighting, triangles out the wazoo.

When GamingHeaven was fortunate enough to be given a beta key from Blizzard for the new WoW expansi on I jumped at the chance to get a sneak peak at what Blizzard have in store for us. Future blogs will cover our experience in the latest incarnation of WoW... for now, lets discuss what WoW actu ally is and take a look at what new features Cataclysm holds...

Quote: Antec has been making cases for well over 20 years for all levels of users . Today we are looking at the newest line from Antec called Dark Fleet. The Dark Fleet line was designed with gamers and power users in mind. The new Dark Fleet series are completely new builds and has 3 cases in the lineup, the DF-30 and DF-35 mid towers, and the case we are looking at today the DF -85 full tower. With the Dark Fleet Antec brings some new features to the t able that are improvements over previous cases they have made. The newest f eatures are Fleet-Swap and Fleet-Release. Fleet Swap is drive bay SATA hot swap system that can be relocated anywhere in the drive bay. Fleet Release is the new front drive bay access door system that not only holds an LED fa n with independent variable speed control knob, but an improved tool-free r emovable fan filter...

These days, there are so many mobile GPU models that it has become quite impossible to keep up with the different configurations. Therefore, we decided to compile this guide to provide an easy reference for those who are interested in comparing the specifications of the various mobile GPUs in the market as well as those already obsolescent or obsolete.

Enthusiast motherboards are designed to squeeze every bit of perfo rmance out of your hardware. MSI releases their Big Bang XPOWER motherboa rd. Does it have the power to impress us, or will it just be another flas h in the pan? Read on to find out.

Review Snipit: I love little gadgets, and I have a fondness for flashlights for some reason.. I got the Gorillatorch for review a while ago and Ive found it to be one of the most useful products Ive ever got for review. Joby has introduced another Gorillatorch though called the Gorillatorch Flare, that is similar to the original but offers a brighter beam with three levels of brightness and a strobe. In addition to the standard white light though included is a red light, thats kind of where the name flare comes from. The red light can be solid or strobe only. The Gorillatorch Flare has legs that are flexible to wrap around anything but it also has magnetic feet so it sticks to many surfaces giving it the ability to get light exactly where you need it.

Quote: Today Ive got a brief review for you of a rather simple but yet very useful product from Scosche called the flipSYNC. I dont know about you but Im always looking for a USB cable, even though Ive got many of them I never seem to be able to find one when I need it. The flipSYNC offer both mini and micro style UBS connection with a standard USB connector on the other end so you always have both of the popular connections ready when you need them. Its all packaged in a very small handy casing that you can cl ip right on your keychain to take with it with you.

Article Snippet: Prolimatech has a worthy product in their Armageddon CPU cooler, offering the PC enthusiast community top-notch performance in a well-engineered product with excellent fit and finish.

Micro Star International, better known as MSI, should need no introduction. They have been around for nearly 25 years building high quality motherboards, video cards, and other PC related products. Their motherboards rank right up there with the household name companies. Today I will be looking at MSIs latest X58 motherboard, the Big Bang XPower. Sporting USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s, this board also has some construction features that probably make it the best-built X58 board on the market, and has all of the niceties found on MSIs other Big Bang gaming boards. Will the XPower satisfy? Read on to see!

The GTX 460 is the latest in the Fermi lineup, and its certainly priced competitively, but more importantly it looks to erradicate those issues of the GF100 with a tweaked architecture. The ASUS GTX 460 TOP 768MB brings a few ASUS-specific features to the table, setting its sights directly on the Radeon 5830 in terms of features, performance, and price. And from what weve seen, Nvidia looks ready to stick it to ATI with this new card, and ASUS may be well positioned to capitalize on the resurgence.

Quote: The Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W power supply produced a mixed bag of results during testing. The DC voltage load regulation was excellent and on a par with other power supplies in this class, but it did produce a disappointing set of results for AC noise/ripple. I always measure the AC noise/ripple levels at or near full DC load, which will always produce worst case results, but this is the recommended method as per the ATX12V V2.2 specification and the Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W doesnt perform too well.

*This week Computer ED is joined by Intels Daniel Snyder to discuss what else? CPUs. In this discussion Daniel and Ed, examine what changes the CPU has taken over the last decade, technologies and what CPU may be the best fit for a user based on needs. Ed also reviews the ATI Radeon HD 5550 GDDR5 and examines the difference in performance with the memory refresh.

Usually high-end cases are the ones that attract all the excitement, but the majority of people will be looking for a well-priced mid tower case like the Cooler Master Elite 430. Cooler Masters newest addition to the Elite series retains an identical interior build existing since the Elite 370, but gave it a unified paint job and new exterior shell on the RC-430-KWN1 model. The Elite 430 is small and light, yet maximizes interior space to fit even the longest graphic cards. This new release is aimed to be competitive among the mid tower market, Benchmark Reviews investigates whether the Cooler Master 430 succeeds or not.

*Quote:* *When we think of high end graphics cards, prices floating around the $600 or $700 mark usually pop up but a number of manufacturers are now trying to push the boundaries of pricing and performance even further. ASUS has now entered the bleeding edge market with what they are calling the ARES a dual HD 5870-totting behemoth that retails for a cool $1200 USD.

With high-definition movie files reaching upwards of 40GB and popular applications starting to break 10GB, the average consumers requirements for hard drive space are rapidly increasing. Hard drives rated in megabytes are quickly dissappearing from inventory shelves and are being replaced by drives that are rated in terabytes. Presented today is a device that fit that description, graciously provided by Geeks.com.

Since 1999, we have been developing the BIOS Optimization Guide, affectionately known as the BOG. From a meagre beginning of a single page, it now covers over 440 BIOS options. As old BOG readers will know, we started offering two editions of the BOG since Revision 8.0 - a simplified edition and the complete edition.

We announced our new Forums last week and when we did we told y ou we would be having a giveaway. We really want people to join the forum s and be active and we will be rewarding members that contribute to the T hinkComputers community. Our good friends at Antec were nice enough to pr ovide 3 great prizes for us to give away to new forum members. Those priz es include the brand new Dark Fleet DF-85 Full Tower Case, the Dark Fleet DF-35 Mid Tower Case and the TruePower New TP-750 Blue 750W power supply . Read on for all of the details on how you can win these awesome prizes!

*Quote:* *ATP trails in the burst with a top-end of 55.1MB/sec, but manages to keep reading faster at 52.3MB/sec. It certainly is no slouch as you can see in Crystal DiskMark as well. Even though the random 4K and 512K performance isnt great when writing to the card, keep in mind that RAW image sizes are around 9MB. Youll see great performance on this card. . .* If you feel that your readers would find this of interest, wed sure appreciate a post in your news section.

The enthusiast cooling market really is a busy place at the moment, despite reviewing coolers from Gelid, Akasa, Noctua, Spire, CoolIT and Xigmatek in the past few months there is still a large sel ection out there which may appeal to consumers. Today, for the second time in as many weeks, we ha ve a selection of the newest on our test bench allowing us to see which is the most appealing in a very crowded marketplace.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 460 768MB ENGTX460 TOP video card was found to be about 4% faster than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB reference card. T he video card features a mild 25MHz boost on the GPU core clock and the 20 MHz memory overclock, so we knew it wouldnt run laps around the original design. This card has plenty of overclocking headroom left in it though and to be honest we were shocked to see that ASUS didnt launch this card with a higher pre-set factory overclock...

With home media computers finding their way into many peoples liv ing rooms a need for high-powered hardware in smaller form factors is on the rise. Sparkle has answered the call for more power in a smaller size with their low profile sized GTS 250 nVidia GPU graphics card. Maintainin g a larger cooling setup for performance and designing the overall card t o fit in a low profile scenario makes this card the perfect graphics work horse for a media computer or slim desktop computer.

This guide was written in response to the numerous fallacies about the hard disk drive that are still being propagated in many forum discussions.

It has been one month since the launch of the Apple iPhone 4 and a lot has happened since then. We wanted to discuss our experience with the new iPhone over the last month, from call reception to overall usability. Some of our experiences are good and some are bad, as with most other iPhone 4 users.

Excerpt: Today we shall review NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 graphics card as well as a couple of original GeForce GTX 470 cards from Gainward and InnoVision.

With the game taking place in the same amount of space as before, some gamers were worried that the y might be getting short changed. After all, its the industry standard to make things bigger and longer than before. Yet while Pacific City might be the same size, it certainly isnt in the same state. Could it be possible that underneath all that rubble there could be something to rival, or even surpass, the first game in the series?

SNIP: For years, I have been trying to find a HD recorder that can not only record any Cable/Satellite show, but also one that would allow me to record my dads old VCR movies onto the computer so that we can optimize them to todays standards. I am always on the lookout to try new things, to review the unique or unusual devices that can or will make our lives a whole lot easier.The Hauppauge HD-PVR is such a device that can make our daily movie/show watching lives a lot easier.

Article Snippet: I already knew that Synology made quality home NAS units, and now I can say they make good business grade NAS units as well. Fast performance is a must for a NAS in an office environment, and the DS210+ did not disappoint.

Quote: The QNAP WebUI is very well presented and laid out, with great navigation, and a fully comprehensible interface that provides all the information and feedback you could possibly need to know. It is made easier still with many step-by-step wizards to guide you through the various aspects of setup and configuration. I would go as far to say that you could use the NAS without a manual if you were at least slightly familiar with network and disk configurations.

Im a multi-display guy and I have been for a long time. It i s very hard for me to work with just one display. I really like to have m y work on one screen and other things like instant messenger, iTunes, and Twitter on the other screen. This is pretty easy to do when you have a d esktop system, but what about a laptop. Many people are moving away from desktops and going to a laptop as their main system. I would love to do t he same, but I cannot work on a small laptop screen. Well Accell has just the thing for me the UltraAV DisplayPort to DVI Multi-Monitor adapter. T his little device will allow you to enjoy multiple monitors from a single DisplayPort output, lets take a look=85

the ProlimaTech Super-Mega heatsink cooler for Intel CPUs. The Megahalems was ProlimaTechs first run at CPU-coolers, and a very successful one at that.

*/Star Trek Online fans arise, Computer Ed is joined by Daniel Stahl of Cryptic to discuss the change of leadership for the MMO Star Trek Online. Daniel and Computer Ed explore the game where it, where it was and where it is going. In the final segment we have posted Ed does an off the air air interview specifically for internet listeners where he asks Daniel some tough questions and give Daniel a chance to address omse of the critics of Star Trek Online.

*Quote:* *Having cut their teeth with the Apple crowd, OWC isnt a company that is well known to most PC users. However, with the Mercury Extreme Pro series of SandForce-based SSDs, theyre trying to break into the enthusiast PC market in a big way. In this review we look at the 120GB version to see if it measures up to the competition.* *Image URL:* http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/akg/Storage/OWC/Mercury_Extreme_Pro_top_ang_sm.jpg We would appreciate it if you wold post this in your News section.

The Level 10 is a 53 pound aluminum chassis that combines a modular design along with a central pillar to create a case... that doesnt look like a case at all. In fact, it actually appears more a work of structural art rather than a means to house your computer hardware. Still, even with the exceptional look of the case only a select few will be able to take it off the showroom floor. This is due to the extremely high retail price of the Level 10 at $799 it costs as much as the highest-end graphics cards on the market.

For the past two years OCZ has been capitalizing on the Jonathan Fatal1ty Wendel name to promote their gaming series of memory and power supplies. The product we have for review today is the new OCZ Fatal1ty 750W power supply. The 750W carries OCZs exclusive PowerSwap five year warranty, ensuring if you ever experience a problem with your power supply, youll get a new replacement and not a refurbished unit. The 80Plus Bronze certification rates the 750W at a higher efficiency, and the new modular cable design utilizes low-profile, molded cables rather than stiff, bulky nylon mesh wrap. nVidia SLI-Ready certification determines the 750W to be dual-GPU capable, with quad +12v rails and four 6+2pin PCI-e cables.

The name Rode means quality to me. That is what you get with the Rode Podcaster Microphone! This is not a cheap USB microphone you find at the big-retail stores. This is a pure 100% broadcast, pro audio microphone. If youre looking for the best of the best to make your podcast, broadcast or studio sound like a pro, Then look no further then the Rode Podcaster Microphone.

KeyShot 2 is the next generation of photorealistic real-time rendering, said Max Freeman, VP of Marketing, Alibre Inc. Alibre Design and KeyShot 2 is the complete end-to-end solution for our customers, combining extreme ease-of-use, a high level of capabilities, and native BIP export.

BBC has reported on news of a serious flaw in VBulletin 3.8.6 that allows anyone to easily access the main administrator username and password for the popular forum software. This could also enable hackers to access user data, such as e-mail addresses or edit the forum software at will.

QUOTE: System builders are at a crossroads of sorts when it comes time to choose a storage solution. Do you go for balls-to-the-wall performance and slap yo ur wallet silly by investing in a high performance solid state drive (SSD), or are you better off picking up a high capacity, yet slower performing ha rd drive for a fraction of the cost? There isnt a clear cut answer, but th anks to SilverStone, there might be an alternative. What if you could have both performance and capacity, and not have to spend a fortune to get them?

Quote: Without a doubt in my mind the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula motherboard i s a force to be reckoned with. The ASUS Crosshair IV Formula is one of the best looking motherboards I have tested, but looks always take a back seat for me when it comes to computer components. Performance is king, and the A SUS Crosshair IV Formula easily takes the crown today! For the most part pe rformance across the board was above and beyond that of either of the AMD 8 90GX chipset boards that were compared today...

Believe it or not, people still like to read. Some even like to re ad by the water. For these people M-Edge has their Guardian case for keep ing your Kindle 2 dry. So is this case your next must have Kindle accesso ry? Read on to find out.

Excerpt: Foxconn H55MX-S is priced under the psychological threshold of $100. Naturally, it has but basic functionality and isnt meant to be overclocked. At the same time, it has a few advantages you dont normally find in products cheaper than a hundred bucks.

..The SandForce-1200 controller seems to have a great potential offering solid sequential throughput and very fast random access times across a range of transfer sizes. You may experience reading and writing speeds that reach the 250MB/sec. The SF-1200 also showed a great performance when the SSD handled random writes with larger transfer sizes, and this was proved in our IOMeter workloads that contained a mix of read and write operations...

Antec have been rather busy of late, busy creating the Dark Fleet series that is. The Dark fleet series is Antecs newest range of gaming PC cases and consists of three models, the DF-30 and DF-35 Mid Tower cases, and the DF-85 Full Tower case. Today Benchmark Reviews has the pleasure to bring to you the Dark Fleet DF-85 Full Tower PC case. The DF-85 comes with a whopping seven fans pre-installed, an external 2.5 SATA Hot-Swap bay, an internal 2.5 SSD mount and four movable Fleet Swap Hot-Swap drive interfaces with Fleet Release doors for easy access. This is just the tip of the iceberg though, please read on to see whats hot and whats not with the Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 Full Tower PC case.

Sometimes when youre on the go, electric outlets are either impossible to find or rarely available. Moreover, its dreadfully incon venient to have to plug in when you could be moving, all because your pow er-hungry smartphone has a battery that lasts what seems like minutes. En ter mobile power packs, such as the Choiix Power Fort battery pack. It s a small black box which has two purposes: charge your small electronics and double as a flashlight. ThinkComputers has the review.

*The Choiix Power Fort affords the simplicity of a power source without needing the outlet. The Choiix Power Fort is a pocket sized charger that is able to charge any USB device at the same rate as the standard wall plug would provide, which can be up to 3 times as quickly as it would charge through standard USB. Perfect for the traveler, the wall plug can be switched out to fit many international standards and even include a car charger. So even in the busiest and mobile times in our lives, we can be assured that no matter what life throws at us, our devices will still be at arms reach and ready for action./

*Quote:* *The GTX 460 has only been on the scene for a few weeks and there are already a huge number of pre-overclocked cards being offered. One of these is the 1GB Superclocked model from EVGA which comes with an external exhaust system that is supposed to decrease overall case temperature. In this exclusive review we take a look at EVGAs new card.* *Image URL:* http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image//skymtl/GPU/EVGA-GTX-460-SC-EE/EVGA-GTX-460-SC-EE-5.jpg We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

Gigabytes flagship GA-P55-UD6 motherboard has just been ousted from its position as the companys top Intel P55 Express-based platform! What could Gigabyte possibly replace this motherboard with... but itself? Meet the Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD6, a special revision of the original P55-UD6 motherboard that adds next generation features to Gigabytes already double-stuffed flagship motherboard.

Quote: Today we will be looking at the Advanced Screen Protector (Apple iPad Series) from Proporta. This screen protector is designed to cover the entire front surface of the iPad. It is designed to be replaceable and washable due to its non-adhesive static application.

Well Nvidia has finally blessed us with its presence by entering the Direct X 11 Video Card race. The problem with the new Nvidia cards (as has been the case with most Nvidia cards recently) is the heat issues and all that heat needs to be dealt with somehow and the reference cooler used in the reference design is noisy, and it has to be in order to cope with al l the heat these GPUs put out. MSI saw a need and filled it with their new , not so reference designed cooler system: The Frozr II. This cooler professe s to be not only cooler then reference design but also considerably quieter.

*Quote*: *The first thing I really liked about the NB30 is the removable keyboard.

Quote: Today for review Ive got another Samsung phone called the Smiley and it s meant to be a very user friendly and social centric phone. Its a slider phone that does have a qwerty keyboard, along with a 1.3mp camera. The Smiley is meant to be a messaging device about all and thats where it shines, the keyboard is rather small and cramped but with time youll bec ome accustomed to it and youll be typing like a pro in no time flat. it is a basic phone though, so dont except too much from it and you wont be disappointed, but its very inexpensive so that a good thing.

*Seagate recently launched their new Adaptive Memory technology, to bring the fast user experience of Solid State Drives to the affordability and capacity of traditional rotational drives. We test Seagates Momentus XT 320GB and 500GB models to see how well Seagate hit its target goals.*

In recent times Sennheiser have been producing headsets designed for enthusiast and pro gamers and their PC 360 headset (Hardware Heaven Gold award winner) is regarded as one of the best products f or that market. Being the best does come with a price though and in the case of the PC 360 it is =C2=A3160, a big ask for the average consumer but thankfully Sennheiser also offer similar products at lower price points. The subject of today=E2=80s review, the PC 330 G4ME, is one such product. With a design philosoph y which is similar to the more expensive model it could be ideal for gamers on a budget...

MSIs multimedia lineup features a quite uncommon device, the Air Keyboard. The miniature device promises to control a HTPC without consuming a lot of space.

Beside the usual colorful and feature-rich PC cases there is a market for simple, but quiet ones. HT4U.net today reviews, if the Coolermaster Sileo 500 can fit into this second group.

HT4U.net tested every type of USB-drives in the past. Newly launched models usually have not much to differentiate from earlier ones.

The Razer Mamba is a fantastic gaming mouse. It feels great and its highly-precise laser sensor makes it a great joy to use, whether its for gaming or for work. I can also choose to use it wirelessly, or attached to a high-speed USB cable. It has remained my favourite mouse for the last two years... until recently.

Quote: The GPU block we are looking at today is from Aqua Computers aquagraFX series of water blocks. It is a full cover block that is CNC milled from a solid block of copper. The top and backing plates are made from stainle ss steel. This not only looks nice, but steel is lighter than copper and the inlet ports are also made from Delrin plastic, which is even lighter yet. Overall the aquagraFX water block weighs in at 850g that is 350g li ghter than the 1.2kg Danger Den full copper block we recently looked at. The lighter weight will mean less stress on the card and a lesser chance of snapping something that shouldnt, but can it keep the GF100 Fermi core as cool?

SNIP: When the GTX 400 series cards launched in March 2010, consumers were greeted with a new architecture that met our expectations, and Nvidia lovers finally had an alternative to the ATi HD 5000 series. Nvidia stole back the single GPU performance crown, also made their footprint on tessellation with very impressive results. CUDA cores were increased, overall performance was increased, now Nvidia lovers finally had a DirectX 11 card to purchase. Aside from power draw and heat output, the only real negative trait the GTX 400 series had was pricing.

Today we will take a look at the AMD:s newest consumer class quadcore cpu. AMD Athlon II X4 640 is a 3.0GHz processor and we will be taking a look at how well it performs against AMD Phenom II X4 and the older AMD Athlon II X4 635. Lets have a closer look at it.

Zalman is once again in the spotlight here at Benchmark reviews, returning today with the ZM-NC3000U notebook cooler. Regular visitors may remember the ZM-NC2500 Plus notebook cooler from Zalman was reviewed here not to long ago. While the function is the same, the design is very different. The Zalman ZM-NC3000U notebook cooler sports a big 220mm centre mounted fan and has a sand blasted, anodized aluminium vented surface surrounded by a glossy black outer bezel, which makes for a very nice look indeed. We aim to see in this review if this design difference will offer any more performance over its younger brother, so join us now as we examine the design and analyze the capabilities of the Zalman ZM-NC3000U notebook cooler.

Quote: The Prolimatech Super Mega certainly exceeded my expectations after taking a close look at it and handling it for a while, but I did find the lack of real copper fins a little disheartening, as Prolimatech markets it in a way that would make it seem that they should be solid copper. I suspected this by looking at the color of them, which was a bit of an orange tint and seemed a little unusual for the way copper typically looks. Taking away the copper sections, the Super Mega is nearly identical to its older sister, the Megahalems, but weighs close to 200 grams more.

Quote: How would you like the internet in your pocket, to be able to take it with you everywhere you go? Well now you can with a MiFi! The MiFi I have today from Virgin Mobile offers you the same features that others offer, but this once doesnt require a contract, its a pay as you go type of device. I t offers you the freedom to pay when you need it only and youre not stuck on a contract for something that you might not use all of the time. So read on to learn more..

The Griffin is just one of the many awesome cases of IN WINs Destiny Series. This case is aptly named Griffin to convey a sense of th e power and strength of the product. In Win has geared the Griffin toward s users who want an aesthetically pleasing case along with functionality and decent airflow. They have also added tons of nice features at a great price. Now lets take a look at the INWIN Griffin and see if the right case for you.

The ASUS SBC-06D1S-U is a slimline external Blu-ray optical drive that enables users to enjoy High Definition movie playback as well as the normal everyday uses of optical drives. Its powerful yet energy efficient and we put it through an entire battery of tests to see just how well it performs.

The SAPPHIRE HD 5550 family of graphics cards are available in a wide array of configurations to suit different performance, budget, feature set and output configuration requirements. Every board in the HD5550 range packs 320 Stream processors and is fully compliant with Microsofts DirectX 11 API, enabling the highest quality effects available on the PC platform today, as well as accelerating ATI Stream compatible applications including a variety of video transcoders and media players to ensure the best possible media viewing experience.

Jase & Anson are back this week with a jam packed show! They will be talking about Is the Console DEAD? Bioware thinks so! Also Gray Twombly calls into the show to talk about Guild Wars 2 scrapping healers & tanks in the game! All of this coming up on this episode of Reboot!

*Quote:* In the world of high end cases there are ones aimed at aesthetics centric gamers and there are ones built for feature hungry enthusiasts. However occasionally a company comes along that seems to mix the two up, one such firm is Antec. Today were taking a look at a model from their Dark Fleet series, the DF-85 which has a tonne of fans, an SSD dock and gamer front panel stylings. Will it please both camps, just one or neither? Lets see.

*Quote:* In the world of high end cases there are ones aimed at aesthetics centric gamers and there are ones built for feature hungry enthusiasts. However occasionally a company comes along that seems to mix the two up, one such firm is Antec. Today were taking a look at a model from their Dark Fleet series, the DF-85 which has a tonne of fans, an SSD dock and gamer front panel stylings. Will it please both camps, just one or neither? Lets see.

Snippet:Technology savants never limit themselves on how many gadgets they can amass. This always leads to cluttered desks, tangled chords, and too many different USB cables than you know what to do with. Griffin has come to save the day with the Girffin Simplifi, a magical little unit that docks your iPod, reads your memory cards, and gives you two extra USB ports. It organizes your desk with a single unit instead of multiple docks, cables, readers, and chords. It is a MUST have and I welcome you to read this review to improve your digital lifestyle.

home of mankind and protected by Thor, God of thun der, and his hammer. The Midgard is a high performance case designed to offer enthusiast-grade fun ctionality and performance at a very low retail price, lets find out what it is like.

Microsoft today announced the release of a beta for the next version of Microsoft Security Essentials. The beta is available to everyone for free and has a few added features, but mostly new protection and inspection engines. The interface has been tweaked just slightly, but it looks generally the same.

Today we will be taking a look at the Jetway NC63-330-LF Mini ITX motherboard, which utilizes the Dual core Atom processor and the Nvidia ION chipset.

Quote: Hello once again. Its been a while since I got any reviews online, but today is your lucky day. Our pals at Geeks.com continue to provide goodies for review, and today Ill be taking a look at the Canon PIXMA MP980 All-in-One. Its a nice printer that can be connected to your home or off ice network via wired or wireless connection that offers a good many functions, nice inkjet print quality and an LCD panel for operation. Lets take a lo ok.

Quote: SRS made a believer out of me with their HD Audio Lab software. Not only did it stand up to music, movies, and games it stood up to the opini on of a true music lover. HD audio Lab was able to take the media I had a nd actually make it better. It made my headphones sound like I was watchi ng a movie at the theater, so much so that I had to break out my Gameskul ls GS-1 Gaming Helmet to see what was up. And I am glad to report that ye s, it even made the often muddy sounding GS-1 sound killer...

This article compiles the best benchmark results we collected of various CPU models using x264 HD Benchmark 3.0 , a free CPU benchmark developed by graysky, Dashken and Adrian Wong. This CPU performance comparison guide currently covers 185 different CPU models but this is just the beginning. We will keep updating the results as new results come in, so please contribute your results.

We reviewed our first SandForce-based solid state drive about a month ago and since then the SandForce drives we have checked out have e ither been 120 or 128GB drives. While these are nice drives many people s till cannot afford them. Today we will be looking at a 60GB drive that is based on the SandForce controller. The 60GB size is perfect for most sys tems as you can fit most of your programs and operating system on the dri ve then just use a regular SATA drive for all your media and other things . The 60GB size is also great for upgrading your laptops hard drive. L ets check out the G.Skill Phoenix Pro 60GB Solid State Drive.

The Scythe Yasya is a heatsink with use for both sides of the coin. It can operate silently, or offer beefier cooling power with the built in fan speed controller that goes in through an expansion slot. It has a unique look, and Scythe is known for their fans, but how does this heatsink hold up against stiff competition? Lets find out!

Quote: The N4100PRO can be had at a street price of around $379, which is certainly more reasonable than the other units, but units such as the Synology DS408 come with a more powerful processor and double the memory for roughly $120 more. The N4100PRO is a solid unit with features to match or exceed others out there on the market at a good price, just dont expect it to set any land speed records with its data transfer rates, which I think is the real killer here.

The AMD 880G Northbridge and SB850 Southbridge are two of the latest bits of chipset silicon designed to bolster AMDs position in the mainstream PC market. They were released about a month apart this Spring, as part of a full line of 800-series chips, and ASUS wasted no time putting them into production. Key items that help make the M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 motherboard stand out are native support for SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0, and AMDs latest game changer, the Phenom II X6 CPU. With both Core Unlocker and Turbo Unlocker functionality built right into the board, this combination could be the magic ticket to dynamic-clocked, quad core processing on the cheap. Benchmark Reviews is pleased to review one of the latest ASUS motherboards, using the latest entries from AMDs new 800-series chipset.

*There is nothing timid about the Cooler Master V6 GT in design or cooling capabilities. The Cooler Master V6 GT may not have the quirks of Roths work, but it certainly has the styling of dead on American Muscle, in this case Muscle Cooling. Two 120mm fans capable of 2200 rpm move air through a nickel plated fin array with six 6mm heatpipes in a V formation. A switch designed to resemble an oil cap from the era when chrome valve covers ruled sits on top, acting as a color changing LED switch. The top and side shrouds of the Cooler Master V6 GT are cut and molded with angular aerodynamics. One look tells you right away, the Cooler Master V6 GT was not meant to be only driven slowly to church on Sundays./

*Quote:* *Thermaltake was one of the first companies to release a high-end CPU cooler but in recent years they have struggled to find their stride.

Quote: When people think of a bluetooth headset most think of the kind that stick in your ear for making calls, but there are others out there like the one I have for review today. MobileFun has sent me one from Sony Ericsson that s just called the MW600 but despite its unoriginal name its a headset that is packed with features. The MW600 is a heads that allows you to play music from you phone through a set of stereo headphones, make calls like you woul d with any other headset or you could use the built-in FM radio.

When I first saw the Phantom Lapboard, created by Phantom Entertainment Inc. , I was surprised to see it was advertised for Home Theater PC (HTPC) usage. The design, while aesthetically pleasing, is anything but your typical HTPC keyboard design. Needless to say, I was skeptical. I have had several weeks to evaluate the Lapboard and I believe the designers were influenced by American architect Louis Sullivan. Sullivan coined the phrase form ever follows function, or simply put form follows function. Read on to see why the Phantom Lapboard pays homage to Sullivans principle.

Article Snippet: At first I was very skeptical about the Frio. Having had a few Thermaltake products before and being left slightly unimpressed by them I hoped the Frio wouldnt be the same. To my delight and surprise this particular cooler turned out to be a monster. With 2 included fans and build quality to rival even the best cooling solution manufacturers, the Frio is easily one of the top air coolers to consider out there today which is no easy feat to say the least!

Excerpt: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB is quite a success, considering the recommended price. It outperforms the cheaper AMD Radeon HD 5770 and performs on a par with (and in some tests outperforms) the similarly priced AMD Radeon HD 5830. Fast tesselation, the advantage of the Fermi architecture, remains in this product as well.

Summary: LR performance in a compact body is a separate concept in camera development, it seems, and as Olympus would put it: Not a compact. Not an SLR. Its a PEN!.

Today we get the chance to look at the OMNI A.L.C. for the first time and what better card to start with than the GeForce GTX 480, one which would very much benefit from aftermarket cooling. Can th e Omni give us CoolITs usual level of quality and provide performance that GTX 480 users have bee n looking for, lets find out...

As successful as Windows 7 has been, everyone has been wondering when Microsoft will release Service Pack 1 for Windows 7. In fact, when Microsoft intends to release Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is of great interest to many corporations which make it a point to migrate to a new Microsoft operating system only after the first service pack is issued.

Quote: The Western Digital TV Live Plus brings Netflix streaming within the graphic user interface, which is something the WD TV Live is unable to d o. While other players like the Seagate FreeAgent+ have introduced Netfli x functionality via firmware/software upgrades, Western Digital has intro duced an brand new unit to the market with this =91enhancement. For th ose that have already invested in Netflix and their monthly subscription, this may be the set-top player that you have been waiting on....

*Quote*: *After charging, I used them in every AA device I had. I tested them in everything from a cordless beard trimmer to a flashlight. They lasted about 2 hours in trimmer, which isnt too bad as the trimmer eats batteries. Ne xt I tried them in my AA mini-Maglite, but they would not fit as the cap is to o large. . .* If you feel that your readers would find this of interest, wed sure appreciate a post in your news section.

Multi-monitor gaming was thought to be reserved for those who can afford massive setups, fortunately ATI has released a sub $100 card that can dish out multi-monitor gaming for all of you that want in on the acti on but dont want to spend the big bucks to do it.

The Sony Alpha NEX-5 is a unique digital camera that features a 14.6-megapixel CMOS sensor as well as a strong auto focus and the most unique, a flip out and adjustable LCD display. Theres also a few nice features includes, like Sweep Panorama, and more.

SNIP: Over the last few year most of us have collected a significant amount of digital media on our computers. Weve taken tons of photos, saving every one, as well as rip our music collection and possible even our movie collection to disk. Add to that all the important documents we have saved as well as all the software we bought and downloaded and it is not odd that the need for more storage has increased year by year.

Quote: When anti aliasing is enabled in the control panels of each respective manufacturer, only the Nvidia cards showed a difference in frame rate or visual quality. The HD 5830 did not show a difference in frame rate when Anti aliasing was enabled showing that AA is not enabled for ATI cards at this time. At this point, it looks like only Nvidia has this option available to the gamer. When enabled, the GTX 460 still has the muscle to deliver acceptable frame rates in the resolutions that gamers at this price point play in, namely 1920x1200 and below.

Akasa has released the year 3 new cpu coolers. One of them is the Freedom tower cooler, a medium-priced allround cooler for Intel and AMD boards.

*All the video cards tested produce more than acceptable frame rates at both resolutions the ATI versions could only be ran using in game settings. The NVIDIA versions via the NVIDIA control panel have the ability to force Antialiasing (AA) and Ansitropic Filtering (AF), being able to manipulate AA and AF increases Eyecandy which smoothes, enhances image quality and filters the overlay of the video being rendered./

*Armed to the teeth with enthusiast class features, the Dragon Slayer is fully equipped to handle the latest pixel crunching gaming gear. The Slayer is able to hold two ATI HD5970s in Crossfire and has room for up to six drives. It stands side by side with you, fighting heat inside as you frag away for hours. Its chain mail inspired steel mesh keeps your hardware cool while protecting it from harsher elements... like thrown objects by your LAN party opponents in frustration, as they submit to your dominion in virtual combat. /

Looking to build a monster Folding @ Home rig? This may be the board for you. MSI has fashioned the Big Bang XPower board for enthusiasts, as its built with six PCI Express slots, military-grade components, and OC Genie for some easy auto overclocking. Toss in a great price and youve got an awfully nice setup.

Wings of Liberty is right around the corner and i s bound to be one of the most popular PC games of the last few years. In thi s article we take a look at this games performance with a number of today s most popular graphics cards. Who will come out on top? The answer might surprise you=85* We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

Herman Miller is a company that engineers function, and architects fashion. Their Aeron chair has dominated the industry, and influenced our perception of what a good chair should be. Welcome the Herman Miller Embody chair. Designed specifically for people who work for hours at their computer, Embody is the first work chair that benefits both mind and body. More than just a solution towards minimizing the negative effects of sitting, Herman Millers Embody chair was also designed to deliver positive effects on the body. In this article Benchmark Reviews takes you on a tour of the Herman Miller Embody ergonomic office chair, and demonstrates how much better sitting all day can feel.

Quote: At TestFreaks we like green products, theyre innovative and of course t hey offer something to help do a small part in helping conserve our planet. One thing that comes to mind when you mention green products is solar power, yo u cant get much more green than power from the sun, its virtually limit less and a free source of power. Today for review Ive got the Monaco mobile solar charger from our friends and Wireless Ground. This little product is small and portable and can be used to charge many types of small devices like MP3 players, phones and Bluetooth headsets. It comes with two common mini-USB style tips, but it also has a regular USB port on it so you can charge virtually anything that can be charged via USB.

Since 1999, we have been developing the BIOS Optimization Guide, affectionately known as the BOG. From a meagre beginning of a single page, it now covers over 440 BIOS options. As old BOG readers will know, we started offering two editions of the BOG since Revision 8.0 - a simplified edition and the complete edition.

Quote: With the ability to control and monitor five case fans and the tempe rature of the zones they are meant to cool, the Sentry LXE is right on pa r with what we have come to expect in the functionality of the products f rom NZXT, and lets not forget the styled, modern look of the unit itself . The Sentry does a great job of controlling your fans and keeping your c ase at the temperatures you desire. Installation is a snap and can be don e in a matter of minutes.

Quote: With the ability to control and monitor five case fans and the tempe rature of the zones they are meant to cool, the Sentry LXE is right on pa r with what we have come to expect in the functionality of the products f rom NZXT, and lets not forget the styled, modern look of the unit itself . The Sentry does a great job of controlling your fans and keeping your c ase at the temperatures you desire. Installation is a snap and can be don e in a matter of minutes.

Summary: If hardware specifications dont mean much to you, and you appreciate and value design, ideas and usability, this might just be the right choice, since there is nothing like it currently on the market.

When you work with computers there will always be a time when you end up working in small spaces and bad light. Joby have come up with a solution to this with their Gorialltorch light that has three magnetic feet that can be twisted and turned around anything.

ProlimaTech, the company behind the award-winning and record-setting Megahalems heatsink, has released a successor to the overclocking throne: the ProlimaTech Super-Mega heatsink cooler for Intel CPUs. The Megahalems was ProlimaTechs first run at CPU-coolers, and a very successful one at that. Having already earned the Benchmark Reviews Editors Choice Award and countless accolades from other websites, ProlimaTech has built high expectations with their follow-up products. The Super Mega is ProlimaTechs plan to remain seated comfortably at the top. In this exclusive article, Benchmark Reviews examines the ProlimaTech Super Mega and illustrates the improvements made to the original Megahalems design

It was a few months ago that we reviewed the MSI 890GXM-G65 micro-ATX AM3 motherboard, and while the 890GX was the first of AMDs newest chipsets to be released this year, it was far from the last. The latest to join the 800-series lineup are the 880G and 870 mainstream boards, as well as the flagship 890FX. MSIs implementation of the 890FX chipset offers many of the same features that the 890GXM does, such as their Heatpipe Thermal Design, Military Class Components, OC Genie Technology, 140W CPU Support and Active Phase Switching for better power efficiency. Even so, theyve reserved a few special features just for their flagship model, like DrMOS for superior power handling capability, improved Military Class Components, Unlock CPU Core support, Real Time OC Dial and Winki, a Linux-based instant-on OS.

Quote: EVGA has done a superb job with the GeForce GTX 460 768MB SuperClock ed edition video card. They took the NVIDIA reference design that we love d so much in our launch review and tweaked it by giving it even higher cl ock speeds. This give the GeForce GTX 460 768MB even more horse power for gaming and that is something you can never have enough of. They also bac k the model that we tested with a limited lifetime warranty, so if the ca rd should ever fail in the years to come you wont be left high and dry w ith a dead card and empty pockets. The EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB SuperCl ocked video card was found to be 6-11% faster than the NVIDIA reference d esign. This is a significant performance difference and for not having to mess with any software it was really nice for those that just want to in stall some video cards and not having to mess with overclocking software. ..

Quote: EVGA has done a superb job with the GeForce GTX 460 768MB SuperClock ed edition video card. They took the NVIDIA reference design that we love d so much in our launch review and tweaked it by giving it even higher cl ock speeds. This give the GeForce GTX 460 768MB even more horse power for gaming and that is something you can never have enough of. They also bac k the model that we tested with a limited lifetime warranty, so if the ca rd should ever fail in the years to come you wont be left high and dry w ith a dead card and empty pockets. The EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB SuperCl ocked video card was found to be 6-11% faster than the NVIDIA reference d esign. This is a significant performance difference and for not having to mess with any software it was really nice for those that just want to in stall some video cards and not having to mess with overclocking software. ..

Its The Open weekend and what better way to spend time between rounds than knocking a ball about i n Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. Read our review to find out if the latest instalment is a worthy compan ion to the oldest of golfs majors.

Covering 425 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive comparison allows you to easily compare 20 different specifications for each and every card. If you need to find out about the specification of any card, just come over and check out our Desktop Graphics Comparison Guide.

Quote: Although the iPhone 4 was recently released, there is still a world fille d with millions of iPhone 3G and 3GSes. As those phones are used more and mor e their battery life becomes shorter and shorter. This is where todays product comes in to help save the day. The MiLi Power Skin(HI-C20) is an external battery/case that protects the iPhone while providing power when needed.

QUOTE: For years, water cooling your processor was a difficult and often frighten ing task relegated to enthusiasts with a penchant for risk (and reward). Yo u needed to basically engineer your own device based on parts that may or m ay not have been designed to work together, and then cross your fingers tha t it would all work out.

Quote: As an overclocked card, I did not expect much headroom to be left but Palit usually leaves a bit in the tank for the enthusiast. When I used the available tools to overclock this card, I was able to pull another 106MHz from the core/shader clocks and another 56MHz on the GDDR5 memory for increased bandwidth. Each of these clock speed bumps netted measurable performance increases across the tested games. Something well worth the effort and time.

In the market for a dual-GPU capable AMD motherboard, and one thats capable of achieving some huge overclocks? Gigabyte has you covered, with its 890FXA-UD5. In addition to having native SATA 3.0 support, USB 3.0 support can also be found, along with 4 PCI-E x16 graphics slots, a near-perfect board design and good pricing.

With Cooler Masters recent release of the HAF X the anticipation culminating since CES 2010 can finally be relieved. This new edition to Cooler Masters High Air Flow series is a full tower case truly meant for enthusiasts. Heavy-weight systems packing huge power need a heavy-weight case with mammoth cooling performance. Model RC-942-KKN1 builds on successful features from the past while incorporating some new ideas. The case was designed to do two things extremely well, hold lots of high performance parts and keep them cool. Read on while Benchmark Reviews evaluates the HAF-X.

* *By now we should have all come to the realization that the majority of higher-end SSDs on the market will be released with a SandForce controller at their hearts. Patriot is one of a long list of companies that have jumped on the SandForce bandwagon for their Inferno series of drives.

At the end of last year week took a look at one of ASRocks f irst nettop the ION 330HT, which was built around Intels Atom processo r. With the release of Intels Core processors ASRock rebuilt their net top series around this new architecture. These new nettops bring more pro cessing power, full native 1080p playback, 7.1-channel HD audio, 802.11n wireless networking, and USB 3.0 support. We will be looking at the Core 100HT today which features an Intel Core i3-330M processor, 4GB of DDR3 m emory, a 500GB hard drive and a SuperMulti optical drive. Lets take a look and see if the Core 100HT is perfect for your home theater setup.

It is a great time to be a gamer. Direct X 11 finally came to bless us with tessellations and dynamic lighty goodness. There is a down side too all this wonderful graphical goodness. You need to pump some serious wattage into your gaming rig just to get things rolling. This is where we begin our review today, Sparkle has bestowed a 1250W PSU upon us and I for one could not be happier. With all the influx of high wattage Nvidia cards popping up left and right it can be hard to stay on top of things. Lets take a look at this behemoth of a PSU and see if this is the right choice for your next custom gaming rig.

I think I have obtained another obsession or perhaps the better word is hobby? Within the last few months, I have dove into the world of flashlights, but these are not your old regular flashlights that grandma grew up with, these are high powered LED-type flashlights which I have found to be invaluable and superior in every way possible the technology is staggering! In this long-term review (theres nothing better than reviewing flashlights in a long-term basis, as any flaws are revealed) I am going to be reviewing the military series JETBeam M1X and the tactical backup series JETBeam JET I PRO V3 LED flashlights and putting them through the normal wear and tear situations, which will reveal how these flashlights have handled long-term usage.

*//Hi Tech Legion and Diamond Multimedia have been collaborating for a month long giveaway @ Hi Tech Legion. Five prizes have been given away to date. Three days remain for the last leg of our giveaway. Come visit Hi Tech Legion for your chance to win a Diamond Multimedia HD 5770 XOC Video Card./

Today well be taking a closer look at two of A.C. Ryans products, the PlayON! HD and PlayON! HD M ini to find out if they live up to the hype. The PlayON! HD is a set top box with inbuilt hard dri ve that will play a wide array of media directly from the hard drive in the box or via your networ k.

*Quote:* As the home gamer revolution swept into the desktop PC market, one of the most common changes was the transition from the typical beige casings on everything from monitors to towers, to a much cooler looking black. Now this has become the norm and it seems some companies are attempting to break away from this mold one of them is Xigmatek. Today were taking a look at their recent release, the Midgard White Knight, a snowy coloured chassis that has quite a fresh clean look. Lets check it out.

*Quote:* As the home gamer revolution swept into the desktop PC market, one of the most common changes was the transition from the typical beige casings on everything from monitors to towers, to a much cooler looking black. Now this has become the norm and it seems some companies are attempting to break away from this mold one of them is Xigmatek. Today were taking a look at their recent release, the Midgard White Knight, a snowy coloured chassis that has quite a fresh clean look. Lets check it out.

*Quote*: *Its nice to see the C300 from Crucial is on the cutting edge of performance and technology. They use their own NAND and RAM in this unit, combine it with a great SATA 6Gbps capable controller from Marvell and let the good times roll. It has blistering read speeds and while the write speeds arent the fastest on the planet when it comes to consecutive writes, the random 4K writes are really fast and this drive maintains great performance levels across all file sizes. . .* If you feel that your readers would find this of interest, wed sure appreciate a post in your news section.

Super Talent is one of the leading memory and storage device compa nies in the global market today and has released their latest USB Flash D rive called the Express Drive USB 3.0. The Express Drive is just on e of the USB 3.0 drives that Super Talent has just recently released to t he market.

SNIP: When looking at buying a new power supply you should always look at trusted brands first. Not only can a bad PSU blow itself up, but it can take everything else with it. Your $30 investment in a cheap PSU can quickly become a $500+ investment. Seventeam is definitely a brand that you can trust. Seventeam makes PSUs for brands such as Cooler Master and Silverstone, these are some of the most well known companies in the business, if these companies can trust Seventeam to supply them with PSUs then you should to.

Article Snippet: If you use a laptop often or are simply looking to invest in a good accessory for it, this is a product worth checking out. It features great aesthetics and provides improved ergonomics while sending a constant flow of air to the bottom of your laptop.

The Larkooler Universal Water Cooling Kit is a new product from Taiwans GBU International Corporation. Interestingly, GBU didnt start out as a water cooling specialist they developed wireless networking and security systems. Go figure. But since their move into the water cooling realm in October 2009, GBU has been looking to offer convenient water cooling kits to consumers in a cost effective manner.

*The ATI Radeon HD 5570 512MB GDDR5 has gotten that same upgrade. The Radeon HD 5570 comes equipped with DDR5 memory rather than DDR3 and keeps all its other same baseline specifications as well as price tag. The 5570 is supposed to remain the sub $100 budget friendly video card that can be used by both casual gamers and mainstream users that want to take advantage of ATI Stream as well as Eyefinity and DX11. There are 512MB as well as 1GB versions available. I will be reviewing the 512MB version of the new 5570./

GIGABYTE has grown a lot in the market lately. They mainly produce top-notch quality motherboards and GPUs, and they have even entered new areas as well. We couldnt say they had a specific motherboard for each user until they finally released their Mini-ITX H55N-USB3 motherboard.

*Quote:* *Our initial impressions of the GTX 460 768MB were extremely positive since it offers amazing performance for a card that is priced at around $200. But what happens when you combine two of them together and then add a bit of EVGAs Superclocked goodness? Will this combination prove to be a match for higher-end cards like the GTX 480? Lets find out!* *Image URL:* http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image//skymtl/GPU/EVGA-GTX-460/LARGE/EVGA-GTX-460-4.jpg We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

Here at OCIA.net, our fans are used to reading content on enthusiast computer hardware and accessories. Once in a blue moon, however, we receive a product whose primary focus is usability, rather than performance. Todays review item, the Choiix Comforter Lapdesk, fits neatly into that category. Choiix is a new division of Cooler Master whose accessories and peripherals are geared towards the computer user rather than enthusiast.

Over the past six months, Corsair has been phasing out its older SSD line-up and replacing it with new series with catchier names, such as Reactor, Force and Nova. The latter is what were taking a look at here.

If youve been holding out for AMDs latest chipset and its 42 lovely lanes of aggregate PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth, this may just be the budget-oriented motherboard youve been searching for. Meet the Biostar TA890FXE motherboard, an AMD 890FX platform that eschews tons of frilly extras for a core feature set and competitive sticker price. Naturally overclocking friendly, Biostar have added core unlocking into the BIOS on this board so up to five cores may be unlocked from certain AMD triple or quad-core CPU models. The usual overclocking caveats apply in full force, or course, but if you do your research and pick up the right chip, this motherboard has the tools to enable you to unlock all working cores. About the only feature the Biostar TA890FXE motherboard skimps on is USB 3.0 - it just doesnt have it.

Quote: Up for review today Ive got a GPS program for Windows Mobile phones called MobileNavigator and its from Navigon. Ive used many stand alon e GPS units and I have TomTom on my phone actually, but in my time with Navigon MobielNavigator Ive really come to like it. The software works and looks great, its fast and it updates quickly to keep up with you. When it come s to navigation youve got many options in the settings and several choices for how you want to get where youre going. you choose POIs, enter your o wn, or even import contacts from Outlook to navigate to. Overall I like this software, and Im going to use it from now on instead of TomTom I think =85

*For the average user, the humble mousepad is of little concern with any old advertising freebie doing the job. At gaming level though, the mat becomes much more significant: tracking and precision are key and so a high quality mousepad becomes vital. Speedlink already have an extension range of pads in a variety of colours, shapes and sizes but the Repute is designed specifically for gamers. Lets take a look in more detail.

Quote: Today for review Ive got the Samsung ML-2525W laser printer that is actually rather inexpensive coming in at under $100 most places online. The ML-2525W is a basic printer for sure, its meant for business use, but yo u can use it in your home of course, especially with such a low price. The ML-2525W does feature three types of connections, USB, Ethernet and wireles s so youve got choices. Its quick and easy to setup, within minutes I w as up and running and producing high quality prints with a very high print speed.

Most enthusiasts will agree that the standard CPU coolers supplied by Intel and AMD just dont cut i t in terms of performance. For those who want extra thermal performance from their system there ar e a plethora of aftermarket coolers out there, tailored to a variety of different needs and today we are going to look at three of these the Akasa Venom, Noctua C12P SE14 and Xigmatek Balder SD12 83.

Quote: Overall, I like the SilverStonePS05-B Black Steel ATX mid tower PC case. With the current price of $39.99 after rebate, I think its a steal. It offers great features, a great look, and sturdy construction, which is a feature usually found in more expensive cases. The black paint job was we ll done and was very appealing. It didnt have many issues that were even close to a deal breaker. Oh, and it has no issue fitting in a GTX 480 (w ith a little maneuvering, mind you).

Looking for a less flash case that is still stylish, functional, a nd fits in your desk? Need a sensible sized case to contain that power th irsty gaming rig? Then NZXTs VULCAN mid-size tower case is designed for you! From NZXTs crafted series comes the VULCAN, a micro-ATX motherboard case featuring enough space for 2 ATI 5970 graphics cards, 2 CD/DVD driv es, up to 4 Hard drives, and up to 5 cooling fans. These features in a mi d-tower case will please any computer builder looking for a small case to contain a big system.

Microsoft yesterday released the first public betas of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for their Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 operating systems. These service packs dont add many new end-user features, but they do make these operating systems a little more system administrator friendly for small and large businesses.

Though well equipped, including Asus TurboV, Asus Express ga te, and Asus EPU6, among many other features, that first Asus X58 motherb oard I had, the P6T, has become a little dated, especially compared to As us newer motherboards. The P6T had 8+2 phase voltage regulating, Asus has since improved on that with other boards. And both USB3 and SATA 6Gb/ s has been released since the P6T was released. So to bring the venerable X58 up to date, Asus has released a couple of new X58 boards. Today I wi ll be looking at the Asus P6X58D-E motherboard, a new Asus board sporting 16+2 phase power, true USB3 and SATA 6Gb/s, and support for the Intel Bl oomfield processor and Microsoft Windows 7. Read on to check out the Asus P6X58D-E motherboard!

Quote: When giving praise, it is usually a good practice to provide some criticism to give boths sides of the fence. The GTX 460 performed amazingly and the only real con that comes to mind is the fact that the error correction feature makes it harder, but not impossible, to overclock the memory. To do so properly, memory intensive benchmarks must be run until the drop-off point is found performance-wise.

The NZXT Tempest EVO PC is the latest product in their Crafted Series, looking to combine functionality and value. However, affordable and practical do not always go hand-in-hand, but this chassis looks to live up to such expectations with its features and design, and a promise to not be hard on the wallet.

*Enter the NZXT Vulcan, a micro-ATX gaming chassis designed with LAN Party in mind. The NZXT Vulcan is the latest addition to NZXTs Crafted Series, joining the ranks of the Hades, Tempest, Nemesis, Lexa S and Apollo as the first and only micro ATX of the group. The Vulcan was specifically made to handle large and high temperature video cards while in a smaller form factor.

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. OCZ Technology, an enthusiast memory company and pioneer of consumer SSD products, further commits to their passion for high-speed storage and delivers the OCZ Vertex 2. Based on the SandForce SF1200 controller, the OCZ Vertex 2 Extended SSD delivers up to 50,000 IOPS with incredible bandwidth speed. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 Extended OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G against some of the fastest storage solutions on the market.

The GTX 465 performs well for its price and responds well to overclocking which seems consistent with its bigger brothers. The GTX 465 gives Nvidia a lower priced DirectX 11 part to compete with ATiâ€s HD 5800 series cards which have seemingly had a stranglehold on the market. You also get the latest benefits of Nvidiaâ€s cards including 3D Vision Surround, PhysX and Purevideo HD.

Quote: Today for review Ive got my first phone for the T-Mobile network from Samsung called the Gravity T. The =91T in the name stands for Touch, as in touch screen. This new phone from Samsung is sort of small but its slide r that opens to reveal a full qwerty keyboard to make messaging and any other text entry that much easier. Im very fond of phones with hardware keyboards, I just like them and the one on the Gravity T is excellent and easy to use. This is my first phone on the T-Mobile network and Im impressed overall, I hate no problems with it, everywhere I went I had a signal. The screen on this phone is fairly big, and rotating it to landscap e mode allows for nice a nice web browsing experience. The Gravity T features panels like you might find on an Android phone, and it also uses widgets which you can add or remove to the screens so you can customize it the way you want. The Gravity Touch is a decent phone, so read on to learn more about it..

*Quote:* While SSDs may be all the rage these days, there are still a lot of people chugging along with traditional HDD offerings. In fact in many cases, this is a preferable option as while slower, there are much bigger storage capacities available and theyre much cheaper when considering the cost per GB. Some downsides to these units though, are noise output - in some of the faster drives - and in some cases heat. There are many products available to aleviate this issue, but today were looking at one from Nexus.

What we have here is a notebook that comes in at $961 (we=E2=80 ve seen it in the low $800=E2=80s), 8 hour battery life while web surfin g and working in documents, the power to easily to edit videos and photos, the flexibility to game in a pinch, 4+ hours of DVD playback with the capab ility of hardware assisted Blu-ray playback, all in a thin and light packag e. With all of that in mind, I would have no problem recommending the ASUS U30Jc to anyone in the market for a new laptop under $1000...

http://www.twistdock.info/aboutus/press/pressquotes/). TwistDock is expandable and integrates with the PS3, working with both the Original and the Slim versions of the PS3 gaming console.

So your Windows PC is running slow, crashing, or acting funny. You re sure theres no hardware issues. This leaves one big suspect: malware. W hen XP was ruling the roost, reinstalling operating systems once or twice a year was the norm for a lot of users. However, installing a fresh version of Windows is not always practical or possible. So what do you do? Put on y our geek cap, be ready to bring a bevy of anti-virus hammers on the malware infecting your system, and read on!

In a time when the first person shooter genre seems weighted down in reality, or some close approxi mation of it at least, it does beg the question what the frag-hungry gamer does for some actual R& R these days. If not crawling on their bellies through a network of Vietnam like tunnels, or havin g to keep one eye on ammunition supplies, or even having to be wary of their own commanding office rs, there is always something heavy trundling over that reality based horizon that can make the wh ole thing sometimes too intense, if not out and out stressful. What are we supposed to do for fun these days if every game puts players through an emotional boot camp?

Article Snippet: Not having reviewed a SilverStone case in the past, I was nevertheless aware of their reputation for quality and performance. Therefore, I had high expectations when the Fortress arrived here in the Tweaknews lab. To say that I was impressed with this chassis would be a bit of an understatement. With top-of-the-line cooling performance, a rich and innovative feature set, great looks and a roomy and convenient interior, this is easily one of the best chassis Ive had the pleasure to review.

Quote: If you are looking for a cheap upgrade to your system that is going to give you the latest in mainstream DirectX 11 cards, you are going to be looking at getting either an HD 5670 or HD 5550 and Sapphire has a great lineup when it comes to either of these models with their HD 5670 Ultimate and the HD 5550 OC. For the $20 difference between the two cards, I would put my money on the HD 5670 Ultimate, not only are you going to get better performance and a faster card, you are also going to be getting a few included accessories and a much higher overclocking headroom.

Looking for a budget case where the features out-number the spe cifications? Look no further, the Aerocool PGS Vs-9 Mid Tower Case is her e to help. With a feature list to long to list some things included with this affordable case are a complete black paint job, both inside and out, support for more fans than you can imagine and support for longer video cards. Read on further to see the extensive list of features.

* *In the grand scheme of things, the basic design of computer keyboards hasnt changed since their inception decades ago. However, Eclipses new Litetouch LCD keyboard strives for innovation with the use of a customizable LCD touch pad. Can this serve as a new benchmark in keyboard design?* *Image URL:* http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/wp-content/uploads/eclipse.jpg We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

Today we will be taking a look at a silent gaming mouse from QuietPC who specializes in quality solutions for silent computing. The mouse has a rather unusual name, the JNL-101K, but dont let that fool you since it has a rather straightforward design.

Zalman is a name synonomous with cooling in the PC industry and they have enjoyed great success in the CPU and GPU cooling market.

There has been a trend lately of no maintenance liquid cooling solutions. These systems take the guesswork and complicated component selection out of the equation and bring simplicity and great performance to the table. Lets investigate how the CoolIT ECO A.L.C. performs as compared to a big, heavy air cooler.

*The CoolIt ECO A.L.C. brings many of the advantages of liquid cooling to the mainstream user without breaking the bank at a mere $69.99. The CoolIt ECO is a solid CPU cooling solution and allows the user to unclutter the case to increase airflow, all while remaining self contained and very easy to install. The two major foreboding aspects of liquid cooling, price and complicated install and maintenance, are not a worry with the CoolIt ECO. The CoolIt ECO is comprised of two main components, a pump with the contact block and a 120mm fan/radiator assembly. The pump is as easy to install as any air cooler, needing only four thumbscrews to secure it in place. The fan/radiator assembly installs in exactly the same manner as a standard case fan./

QUOTE: As different versions of Word are the bane of MS Office users, so too is Adobe Reader the bane of PDFs... its unbearably slow and massively bloated for what most people need. Thankfully, there are alternatives that can provide greater functionality, faster load times, and a smaller memory footprint.

Quote: Up for review today Ive got a scanner from Epson called the Perfection V330 Photo Scanner. By the name you could guess its made for photos so i t can scan negatives, but you can do a lot more like OCR and it also can act like a copier, scanning directly to your printer. The scanner includes a fe w software programs that work well with it. The V330 itself is fast and quiet , but it has one small problem, read on to learn more..

There are a plethora of jibs, cranes, steadi-cams, tracks, dollys, shoulder mounts, and rigs on the market and most of them are pretty costly.

Jase & Anson are back this week with a brand new episode of Reboot! This week they will be talking about the Blizzard Storm of WoW and how the community flipped out! They will also be previewing Mafia II and then they count down the top 15 video games to not play alone! All of that coming up on this episode of Reboot!

Excerpt: i3DSpeed informs you about performance of popular graphics cards and the best price/performance deals in the market. This time we added test results of ATI RADEON HD 5830, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465, factory-overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470/480.

Quote: The Pixel Skin HD features the familiar Tiled Texture pattern used in previous Pixel Skin incarnations. It is very similar in appearance to the original Pixel Skin case but is composed of a different material than the usual silicone. Since the iPhone 4 has a squared shape the new PixelSkin HD case carries a lower profile making it feel thinner than previous PixelSkin cases.

After using both the GeForce GTX 460 768MB and GeForce GTX 460 1GB the GeForce GTX 460 1GB is clearly the way to go for gamers. With most gamers running 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 resolutions the extra memory and incr eased bus speed is well worth the extra $30 MSRP. The GeForce GTX 460 1GB i s also faster, cooler and less power hungry than the GeForce GTX 465 in our testing. This makes it the card of choice for anyone looking for an NVIDIA card under $300. After looking back at the benchmark performance numbers, we wouldnt understand why anyone would want the GeForce GTX 465 over the G eForce GTX 460 from the gaming perspective...

Quote: For review today Ive got the Motorola Droid X for Verizon Wireless. So Ive had my time with the Droid X, about a week and a half to play with i t, and Ive come away with several thoughts on it, and the majority of them are very good. The Droid X is a big phone, theres not doubt about that, but big is nice sometimes, and for this phone, big is the way to go. The Droid X ha s a big beautiful screen that just makes doing everything that much more enjoyable. The phone itself is very responsive, its fast, never once did it slow down no matter what I did. I generally dont think of phones as gami ng platform really, but the Droid X does games, and it does them very well, that large screen is just great for gaming truly. The Droid X is one of the nicest phones Ive ever had a chance to review.

These days, there are so many mobile GPU models that it has become quite impossible to keep up with the different configurations. Therefore, we decided to compile this guide to provide an easy reference for those who are interested in comparing the specifications of the various mobile GPUs in the market as well as those already obsolescent or obsolete.

The Tailgater from ION Audio does exactly what the name suggests, it provides a portable audio solution. Its a single speaker system with microphone, musical instrument, auxiliary inputs, and an iPod/iPhone dock connection to play audio from a variety of sources.

$500 is not much to pay for someone determined to have the best of the best video card, but this only describes a handful of well-off indiv iduals. The rest of us have to make trade-offs naturally, we want the bi ggest bang for our buck. Cards like the GeForce GTX 465 exist to fill tha t niche they offer performance thats fairly close to their top-end bret hren for a more reasonable price. Sparkle has sent us a card that looks t o be gunning for that market of enthusiastic-gamer-who-isnt-filthy-rich, based on the GeForce GTX 465 using nVidias reference design.

SNIP: Nvidia went a little different on these GPUs and both models have 336 Shaders but they have subtle differences in design. The 1GB model has a wider memory bus at 256 bit and the 768MB card has 192 bit memory bus. Having two GTX-460s is a little confusing so we will be referring to them as the GTX-460 768 and GTX-460 1GB. The GTX-460 1GB has 32 ROPs and the 768MB model has 24 ROPs. SO our major differences on the two card are the 1GB card has 256MB more memory, 8 more ROPs and 64bit more memory bus. The projected prices on the cards are $199 for the 768MB model and $229 for the 1GB model.

Anyway, rumours tell us that this GTX460 card should be a brilliant mid-range card, and from nVidias current pricing, I predict it to be priced around =A3160-190. Rumours also mention that this card may well overclock brilliantly, however, we wont make any assumptions at this point in the review.

*The EVGA GeForce GTX 460 DirectX 11 Video Card contains NVIDIAs latest GPU the GF104. The EVGA Geforce GTX 460 can be purchased with either 786 MB or 1GB of memory and starts at a price point of $199.99 USD. At its price point the EVGA GTX 460 falls in the middle of the Sweet Spot for mainstream gamers./

The drive we have for evaluation today is the OCZ Vertex 2 50GB, the successor to the popular Indilinx-based Vertex we looked at a year ago. As you may have guessed, the Vertex 2 uses the SandForce SF-1200 which is now used in several other drives from other manufacturers besides OCZ. But what makes the OCZ drive unique is a custom firmware from SandForce that is optimized for maximum IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second).

NVIDIAs GeForce GTX 460 1GB-GDDR5 graphics card empowers DirectX-11 video games to deliver unmatched geometric realism at the $220 price point. Based on the same Fermi architecture that powers their high-end GeForce GTX 480 model, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 delivers mid-range performance for gamers on a budget. The GeForce GTX 460 comes armed with NVIDIAs GF104 Fermi graphics processor, and packs seven Streaming Multiprocessors for a total of 336 CUDA Cores and 56 Texture Units. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests 3D video game frame rate performance on the 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card, and compare our results against the most competitive graphics products in the segment. NVIDIAs GTX 460 price tag fits in nicely between the Radeon HD 5770 and $Radeon HD 58.0. In the following pages, Benchmark Reviews demonstrates how well the GeForce GTX 460 performs against these other DirectX-11 video card products.

NVIDIAs GeForce GTX 460 768MB-GDDR5 graphics card empowers DirectX-11 video games to deliver unmatched geometric realism at the $200 price point. Based on the same Fermi architecture that powers their high-end GeForce GTX 480 model, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 delivers mid-range performance for gamers on a budget. The GeForce GTX 460 comes armed with NVIDIAs GF104 Fermi graphics processor, and packs seven Streaming Multiprocessors for a total of 336 CUDA Cores and 56 Texture Units. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests 3D video game frame rate performance on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB video card, and compare our results against the most competitive graphics products in the segment. NVIDIAs GTX 460 price tag fits in nicely between the Radeon HD 5770 and $Radeon HD 58.0. In the following pages, Benchmark Reviews demonstrates how well the GeForce GTX 460 performs against these other DirectX-11 video card products.

Despite a name which is close to the existing GTX 465 the GTX 460 is based on a new class of Fermi/ GF100 GPU. Today we find out how it compares to the existing GTX 400 range, the GTX 200 series and its direct competition, the Radeon 5830. Will the changes and refinements in the architecture ena ble the GTX 460 to excel in our real world testing of games, Blu-Ray 3D and GPU computing?

*Quote:* *NVIDIAs GTX 400-series have so far been met with a mix of rave reviews and harsh criticism but with the introduction of the GF104 core, a new leaf in Fermis history could be turning. The first two cards using this new core are the GTX 460 1GB and GTX 460 768MB which both target the sub-$250 market with what looks like a perfect combination of price, performance and yes, even efficiency. In this review we take a closer look at these two cards and see if they are able to upset ATIs dominance at this price point. * *Image URL:* http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image//skymtl/GPU/GTX-460/GTX-460-1.jpg We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

These Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB DDR3-1600 memory modules are their new budget offering, bringing the respected HyperX name in an affordable package to the masses. Does budget mean cheap or slow with these modules? Well, that is exactly what were about to find out. The budget sticks have a couple surprises in store, not the least of which is overclocking headroom. How high can they go? Read on to find out.

Quote: Digital photo frames are one of those things that are nice to have really.

Quote: Today for review our friends at Geeks.com have sent me over the Argosy HV676 HD Media Player for review. This is a small portable little device that lets you play music and videos and even look at your pictures on yo ur TV via HDMI, component or composite connections. This product just has quit e a few problems with it, I wont spoil the surprise, youll have to read on to learn more..

Since 1999, we have been developing the BIOS Optimization Guide, affectionately known as the BOG. From a meagre beginning of a single page, it now covers over 440 BIOS options. As old BOG readers will know, we started offering two editions of the BOG since Revision 8.0 - a simplified edition and the complete edition.

The Taiwanese manufacturer In Win is still quite unknown in Europe.

The originally launched NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards could not impress entirely. The 400 series came late, noise and power dissipation were suboptimal. Now Zotac offers the AMP! Limited Edition that should make some things somehow better. HT4U.net shows what it can deliver.

Solid State Drives become more and more popular. Especially those equipped with a SandForce controller promise best performance. With the OCZ Vertex 2 HT4U.net presents another candidate.

Quote: Verizon has sent me over the BlackBerry Bold 9650 Smartphone for review today, and for me its treat, its my first BlackBerry ever, popped my berry as it were! Seriously though the Bold 9650 is a world phone, so inside youll also find a sim card, something which you dont find on many Ver izon phones, but in this case its necessary. Included with the phone youll find a power adapter with tips for several parts of the world and a nice carryin g case, along with a wired headset. The phone itself is interesting to use, and as a first time user I feel its decent, its a phone for business people, so it doesnt exactly feel friendly for the average person., but then again its not meant to be a phone for the average person is it?

The NotePal U2 comes equipped with a pair of 80mm low profile fans measuring only 10mm thick. They also have a grill on the intake side to prevent injury from the fan blades. The unique advantage this unit has over many competitors is the ability to move the fans to a more advantageous position like under an inlet vent or where a hot hard drive sits. Worth considering is that many notebook manufacturers pay little to the cooling of the hard drive which can significantly shorten its lifespan. The ability to cool this area of the notebook could increase its life.

SNIP: This motherboard supports the latest Intel® Core i7 processors in LGA1366 package with integrated memory controller to support 3-channel (6 DIMMs) DDR3 memory. Supports Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) with a system bus of up to 6.4 GT/s and a max bandwidth of up to 25.6 GB/s. Intel® Core i7 processor is one of the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world.

The Sapphire Radeon 5550 Ultimate sports upgraded GDDR5 memory and higher core/memory clock speeds, offering a performance boost in a card that has low power consumption and runs very quiet. Suitable for an HTPC setup and those looking for some light gaming on the cheap, at $100 the Sapphire 5550 Ulimate attempts to offer good value for those people with a very moderate budget.

Feeling the urge that you need to upgrade that old video card in your system, but trying to avoid spending all that hard earned cash? If so, you just might find yourself looking at something like the ASUS EAH5750 Formula 1GB GDDR5 video card.

*The Diamond HD Media Wonder Mini HD Media Player combined portability with versatility. The Mini HD Media Player allows either a composite or component connection to play many popular media formats on the television. The Mini Media Wonder can output video in 720p and is the size of a mint tin. There are inputs for USB as well as SD/MMC so it covers the most major forms of portable storage./

The ES34169 appeals to both business and home customers while also trying to appeal to the wallet. Will the plethora of features and option s provide enough reason for businessmen and home users alike to buy the c hassis or will the slightly high than average price tag deter them to a d ifferent chassis instead?

Summary: If youre into diving, youve probably always had the desire to captu re the beautiful underwater landscapes and their vibrant fauna in form of photography.

SNIP: Nope, it is not the end of the world either. Prolimatech has brought upon a great CPU cooler that breaks away from their traditional CPU cooler design. We all know Prolimatechs MegaShadow, Megahalems CPU coolers to be one of the best CPU coolers out on the market today. Even I am rather shocked at the performance of their new CPU cooler, the Armageddon.

Despite the availability of a small business edition, Backup Exec doesnt really shine as a small business product, especially when compared against alternatives specifically aimed at the SME which are both easier and simpler to use. Higher up the food chain the Symantec software has a lot more going for it and in a large enterprise the ability to spread backup processing across multiple systems and only buy the options actually required are real selling points. That said, CAs ARCserve is just as effective and comes with deduplication as standard. Moreover, Backup Exec faces stiff competition from its sister product, NetBackup, also from Symantec, calling for careful evaluation and testing before deciding which product to go for.

There are many different computer speaker systems out there, ra nging from a 2.1 to a 5.1 setup. That makes it hard to choose what is bes t for your individual needs. As a gamer, finding a decent surround setup with easy controls is pretty difficult and one that doesnt take up you r whole desk or room is even harder. Problem solved! SoundBar setups is a new style of speakers, in which all of the speakers are built into a bar format that can be easily mounted or placed on stands or desks. In this review lets see if the ASUS Cine5 is going to be your next speaker pur chase.

Antec is one of the premier computer accessory manufacturers, and their cases have garnered a well-earned reputation for quality and features. Indeed, the Antec Hundred series of cases (the Two Hundred, Three Hundred, Six Hundred, Nine Hundred, and Twelve Hundred) are considered by many to be the benchmarks in their classes for cost-effective enthusiast level cases. Antec has just introduced their new Dark Fleet series, with several new models sporting an edgier style than theyve previously shown. Benchmark Reviews examines the mid-tower Antec DF-35 case to see how it fares against the competition.

Quote: When I was testing the Xpower out, the problem I had always run into with the test CPU was trying to run the processor at bclocks higher than 205Mhz. It was just a bit stubborn. 200x21 and 205x20 were no problem, above that limit was a no go. The Xpower did allow me to reach up to a 213Mhz bclock for an improvement over prior boards. The design seems to work allowing me the highest stable overclock on air for this chip to date

The new SandForce drives offer killer performance, even leaving the Indilinx drives in the dust. Normally such performance boosts come with a stiff premium, but in the case of the Corsair Force F120, thats simply not happening. We have a drive here that is crazy fast and a pretty darn good deal when you look at the competition frankly, its a standout.

Logitech has released their new HD webcams with the Logitech Vid webcam software so you can make HD calls to each other. Today we are going to try out the new C510 model that they sent us, we are going to see what type of picture quality we can expect and also what it actually requires of our computers.

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Quote: This is where Logitechs new remote the Harmony 300i comes along. In hop es of simplifying a great device, Logitech has released a series of entry leve l remotes that can be programmed with a new simple online interface. These remotes are designed for easy set up to control small home theater setups.

The SAPPHIRE HD 5670 ULTIMATE has 400 Stream Processors and sports 1GB of the latest DDR5 memory. With clock speeds of 775MHz core and 1000MHz (4GHz effective) for the memory, it delivers the same performance as fan cooled models, but with a totally silent heatpipe cooler, making it the fastest silent cooled graphics card available today.

Quote: Overall the BIOSTAR TA890GXB HD is a solid Micro-ATX motherboard for what it is. It isnt being marketed as an extreme overclocking board, be cause its not. It is a board designed for the mainstream market who are looking for a board that will support the latest processors from AMD and have great integrated graphics without breaking the bank. I could easily see the BIOSTAR TA890GXB HD being used in a system for an HTPC or any sys tem that you want the best bang for the buck! At the time of this writing , the BIOSTAR TA890GXB HD is the lowest cost 890GX chipset motherboard at Newegg.com at a nice low cost of only $94.99 plus shipping and is $35 le ss expensive than the next Micro-ATX motherboard...

Even though primarily known for their chassis, Antec has already e xpanded their influence in different direction with quality hardware. The ir chassis are usually very unique and we have reviewed such cases by Ant ec before. Everyone likes to show off their cool cases with unique design s but thats not everyones goal especially in budget builds.

The all-new Sony Reader Daily Edition PRS-900 eBook reader improves upon the previous Sony Readers by adding one huge feature: wireless downloading. Some of its other features include a 7.1-inch touch screen, expansion slots, an included stylus, but it does have a few downfalls, from the high price to image contrast problems.

SNIP: It has been a while since I played with a top end AMD CPU. Sure Ive played with a few AMD CPUs here and there, but they were mainstream CPUs and not AMD top end counter parts. Even then, I was limited to what I could do because they were not my personal CPU. Well, my dad picked himself up an AMD 1055T Thuban six core CPU, and I happened to have one of Gigabytes flagship motherboard, the 890FXA-UD7.

If you are looking for the fastest graphics card around and don=E2=80t mind dropping $1200 to get it, ASUS has the fix for you. Their latest graphics card takes the reference design of the HD 5970 and increases the on-board GDDR5 memory up to 4GB, adds dual HD 5870 graphics cores each clocked at 850MHz, and a custom made cooling solution to create a product that will blow though any game with ease.

USB 2.0 is most popular due to wide compatibility but transfer speeds are slow in todays standard. Other options like FireWire, eSATA and the recently introduced USB 3.0 offer much more bandwidth but of course many computers dont support these various interfaces. Until now, the tradeoff has been speed versus compatibility. But with Seagates new FreeAgent GoFlex portable hard drive, you can get the best of both worlds. The GoFlex drive ships with a standard USB 2.0 interface but what makes this drive unique is the ability to remove the interface and replace it with a complete different interface.

The progress made in the design and implementation of CPU coolers over the last few years has been little short of amazing. While both Intel and AMD provide perfectly adequate coolers with their boxed retail CPUs, enthusiasts will want to consider a third-party CPU cooler for their rigs from both performance and styling standpoints. Overclocking your CPU mandates something better than the stock cooler, and if youve a windowed case, looks dont hurt either. Cooler Master was founded to produce advanced cooling products, and in this review Benchmark Reviews looks at the latest in their line of V coolers, the Cooler Master V6GT (model RR-V6GT-22PK-R1).

Quote: The Corsair AX1200 power supply is one of the most efficient power supplies I have tested for OCC, but it gets better. The DC output voltage load regulation was almost perfect with all the rails maintaining their voltage within a 20mV window from zero to full load, whilst keeping ripple/noise levels well within the permitted levels. The Corsair AX1200 power supply could be the best power supply in this class at the moment and it will take some beating.

We have no doubts about Prolimatechs renowned reputation for top cooling products, but the Samuel 17 is a different breed since its not designed for absolute killer overclocking performance. It will be interesting to see if it can live up to its moniker, reflecting the David and Goliath story from the Bible. Can this little cooler succeed?

Back in March while attending CeBIT ASUS were showing off a rather interesting looking card from th e same team which designed their limited edition MARS cards from 2009. This new, unreleased card w as based on Radeon technology and was essentially designed to take the 5000 series architecture as far as it could go. Today, 4 months later, we finally get the chance to see what the ASUS enginee rs can do when tasked with creating a product aimed at consumers who want the most unique Radeon m oney can buy. We will be combining the ARES with a Core i7-980X overclocked to 4.25GHz and running it through a se lection of real world tests including gaming and Blu-Ray 3D playback to find out how well it compa res to the standard 5970 and 2x480 in SLI.

We announced our new Forums last week and when we did we told y ou we would be having a giveaway. We really want people to join the forum s and be active and we will be rewarding members that contribute to the T hinkComputers community. Our good friends at Antec were nice enough to pr ovide 3 great prizes for us to give away to new forum members. Those priz es include the brand new Dark Fleet DF-85 Full Tower Case, the Dark Fleet DF-35 Mid Tower Case and the TruePower New TP-750 Blue 750W power supply . Read on for all of the details on how you can win these awesome prizes!

The future of Joby certainly looks bright. While their lineup of products maybe simple, they are effective and do their job extremely well.

Today we are going to have a look at the P193. Antec changed the marketing motto of this case to a class of its own. The P193 is larger than its predecessor and also boasts new features when comp ared to the older model. In this review we will examine the new P193 and see how much of an improv ement over the P190 it is.

Quote: The ASUS ARES is the fastest, most expensive and heaviest graphics card that we have ever benchmarked here at Legit Reviews. What is there not t o like about it? If you have $1200 burning a hole in your pocket this rig ht here is the ultimate video card in the market today. This is one of th ose products that is reserved for those that want the ultimate video card at no matter what the cost is...

These days, there are so many workstation graphics card models that it has become quite impossible to keep up with the different configurations.

If you are one of the growing population of iPad (Over 3 Million s ince April 3, 2010) users then you have probably bought or are looking fo r an iPad case. The next most useful accessory for the iPad is a stand. L ikewise eReader users quickly realize the need for an eReader stand makin g consumption of ebooks much easier. Hands free you can now accomplish mu ltitasking and use of your eReader or iPad at the same time. Today we wil l take a look at the LapWorks Recliner, a device aimed at improving and e asing your use of an iPad or eReader.

Article Snippet: Sapphires Ultimate Edition HD 5550 is a videocard that has the structure and poise of a good videocard, but is lacking in a couple fundamental foundation elements to be deemed anything Ultimate.

Quote: The ShockWave SU-201s were less than impressive and a letdown. The sound quality was only marginally better than what comes with my laptop, and they require power provided by the USB port while a second TRS connection is needed for the audio. The layout of speakers is also disappointing due to the location of the volume control dial. As the volume is increased on the SU-201s, distortion takes over and whatever you are listening to becomes nothing more than a muddy mess.

Antec really has not really introduced anything super ground br eaking in a long time. I mean they did start their gaming case line with the 900 case and some other cases followed, but they have had the same st yle cases for quite some time. This year at CES I was extremely excited w hen I saw a set of cases that looked nothing like that Antec cases of the past and finally brought them up to date internally. The cases Im tal king about are the Dark Fleet series. This new series has 3 cases, 2 mid towers and 1 full tower. Today we will be looking at the full tower, the DF-85. This case features so many features we cant list them all here! So go ahead and read on as we check out the Dark Fleet DF-85!

/*Snippet:*/ /The Diamond HD Media Wonder Full HD Media Player bridges all of your media to your TV. The HD Media wonder allows nearly all media to be played over the Internet, through USB storage, or over a computer network. The Media Wonder has full 1080p capability as well as UPnP options. There is built in RSS and Internet Radio features as well so you can be kept up to date on the news as well as stream your favorite online radio stations./

Although NZXT produces a wide-range of products, its fan controllers have become one of the highlights of its line-ups. The reasons are threefold: features, performance and price. We were left quite impressed with earlier Sentry models, and we can say that NZXT has done it once again with its Sentry LXE.

Solid State Drive storage devices have become the hot ticket for high-performance computer enthusiasts. Impartial towards either PC, Linux, or Apple platforms, SSDs have the power to transform slow computers into blazing-fast speed machines. The SandForce SF-1200 has quickly become the de facto SSD controller for companies seeking recognition, and for good reason. The G.Skill Phoenix Pro embraces the SF-1222TA3-SBH processor to produce up to 50,000 IOPS with only 7% over-provisioning to generate maximum performance with optimal capacity. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the 60GB G.Skill Phoenix Pro SSD FM-25S2S-60GBP2 against some of the fastest storage solutions on the market.

As the big brother to the P55, the LGA1366 socket X58 chipset has been lagging behind in terms of new features that have been implemented in the other chipsets, specifically USB 3.0 and SATA III 6Gb/s. As a result, ASUS has released the P6X58D-E, featuring USB 3.0 and SATA 6G, hence the -E

Quote: The PNY GeForce GTX 465 graphics card that we have on the test bench tod ay is a dual-slot single GPU video card that measures in at 9.5 in lengt h and uses the part number VCGGTX465XPB. The GeForce GTX 465 is the same length as the GeForce GTX 470, but is one inch shorter than the GeForce G TX 480. If you have a small system this card should be able to fit in mor e cases and be easier to route wires around since it is shorter in length . The PNY GeForce GTX 465 XLR8 video card features reference clock speeds of 607MHz core clock (1215MHz on the stream processors) and 802MHz on th e 1024MB of GDDR5 memory...

The Samsung SyncMaster PX2370 is a 23-inch widescreen LCD monitor that offers excellent image quality with many features and a stylish design. The slimness alone of the screen is enough to catch the eye of a potential buyer. Budget buyers looking for a larger-sized screen will like the PX2370 because its priced very competitively compared to other 23-inch displays.

Quote: USB 3.0 is all the rage, its the new in-thing, so as with USB 2.0 we ve got accessories for it. One such accessory is the often overlooked USB hub, on USB 2.0 theyre like as dime a dozen, but with USB3 things have gone u p in price. On motherboards and add-in cards, youre usually limited to onl y one of two USB 3.0 ports as of now, so if you need more youll need a hub obviously. Today for review Ive got a very well made four port USB hub f rom Siig, yeah its USB hub, not much exciting, but it is one of the nicest h ubs Ive seen and it works great.

Today Cyberlink are adding the next big feature to PowerDVD 10 Ultra 3D in an update called Mark 2, free to existing v10 Ultra users, which adds support for the Blu-Ray 3D platform the official st andard for 3D optical media in the home.

Western Digital divides their internal hard drives into three distinct families - the WD Caviar Blue for their basic hard drives, the WD Caviar Green for their quieter, cooler hard drives and the WD Caviar Black for their performance-grade hard drives.

SNIP: With the introduction of the GF100 core (Fermi) weve been seeing cut down variants appearing slowly. First we saw the mighty GTX-480 and were a little set back when instead of 512 Shaders (Cuda Cores) we were told it had 512 Shaders but only 480 were exposed. Then we saw the GTX-470 Variant and it has 448 Shaders. The drop from 480 Shaders to 448 Shaders made it an attractive, more moderately priced variant that offers most of the power of the GTX-480 at a substantially reduced price. Figure GTX-480 runs right at $500 and GTX-470 runs $350 you lose 32 Shader units but save $150 at little cost to performance.

As well as addressing the many shortcomings of the ageing 2007 product, SharePoint 2010 equips the platform well to cope with new technologies and the ever changing IT landscape. Alternatives may have started to overtake it, but the new release more than restores the balance in Microsofts favour. For new customers and those looking to develop or enhance existing applications its a natural choice, although those happy with what theyve got might want to postpone upgrading until they have a real need for the new features. Either way, SharePoint 2010 makes even more sense than ever and should be one of the first platforms considered for any Web collaboration project.

Theres no question that GRUB 2 brought on numerous improvements over earlier versions, but it also introduced a small downside... a relative overhaul to how things are done. There are no more menu.1st (or similar) files that keep a simple configuration, nor are all of the commands the exact same at the command-line. You might have been an expert with GRUB 0.x, but youll still face a small learning-curve with GRUB 2.

*Quote*: *The ASRock X58 Extreme 3 motherboard is a high-end solution for those of you looking to build a nice Core i7 system with tons of GPU, Stream Processing, CUDA and PhysX support. It is a nice refresh to the X58 line from ASRock as it now incorporates USB 3.0, SATA 3.0 and eSATA 3.0 (6Gbps).

In September 2009, AMD unleashed a torrent of personal computing potential by introducing the market to the first sub-$100 quad-core processor, the Athlon-II X4-620 Since then, like it has with the entire Athlon-II series, AMD has been releasing newer versions of their inexpensive quad-core CPUs In this article, Benchmark Reviews takes a look at AMDs latest release in the Athlon-II X4 line, the Athlon-II X4-640 ADX640WFK42GM AM3 Processor Built on the Propus die, the Athlon-II X4 series cuts costs by eliminating any L3 cache and limiting the L2 cache to 512KB per core In looking at the performance of the Athlon-II X4-640, we will compare it to other recent AMD offerings in a similar price range, the Athlon-II X2-260 and the Athlon-II X3-445.