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USB hubs are great to add more ports to your computer, but most of them come with long cables and those that don’t are usually bulky and cumbersome making them hard to plug into tight spaces, especially on laptops.

Today for review I’ve got the USB 2.0 4-port Hub with Fold-away Plug and extra Power input from our friends over at USBFever, and it’s actually a fairly cool little product. It features a USB plug that rotates 315 degrees and also revolves 90 degrees as well making it so that it will fit in the tightest of situations. It even includes an extra USB power cord in case you need to have more power for the devices you plug into the hub that might need it. So continue on for a quick look at a simple little gadget that actually works well…

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Title:
Air Live HP-3000E 200Mbps Ethernet over Powerline Adapters

Link:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AirLive/HP-3000E

Brief:
Power Line adapters utilize the existing cables in your home to establish a network where Wifi is not an option. The Airlive HP-3000E is the company’s newest offering of such a system, it promises up to 200 Mbps of bandwidth

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Titel:
Foxconn A79A-S vs. MSI K9N2 Diamond – NVIDIA vs. AMD

Teaser:
AMD (and ATI) versus NVIDIA. The ultimate battle. We took two boards, one with nForce 780a and GTX 260, and one with 790FX/SB750 and
Radeon HD 4870 for a comparison.

Link:
http://www.tweakpc.de/hardware/tests/mainboards/msi_k9n2_diamond_vs_foxconn_a79a-s_sb750/s01.php

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AMD Spider Platform 9950 Black CPU Review

Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-28-2008

For a retail price of $230, the 9950 is an interesting choice from AMD. This has driven the price of the 9850 Black Edition down to the $200 level in 1000 unit quantities. The 9950 performs higher than the 9850 across the board as to be expected from a CPU that doesn’t have any architectural differences than the higher clock speed over the older CPU.For those wanting performance, but at an affordable cost the 9950 does well for the target area its aimed at. It plays games, runs Photoshop and works with all media without a problem. Not the fastest CPU in the world, but neither is it a lag dog.

Review Link: http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/hardware/1810_1.html

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Title:
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB Toxic Video Card Review @ TheTechLounge

Quote:
“This is the ATI counter-point to the 9800 GTX+: Sapphire’s Toxic HD 4850.  It may be alone, and it may not be more power-friendly, but it’s, ahem, wickedly fast.  The icing is that it doesn’t really cost more than other HD 4850s–sure, it’s on the high side, but it’s still cheaper than a 4850 and a Zalman heatsink.  The astounding thing is how closely the Toxic keeps up with an HD 4870, cards that cost close to a hundred dollars more.”

Article URL:
http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/564/Sapphire-Radeon-HD-4850-512MB-Toxic-Video-Card/

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