Well I hope you all had a good holiday and didn’t party too much… here’s the news:
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Title: PowerSquid Home Theater Surge Protector PD-SQ3K-CALAMARI @ TestFreaks.com
Review Snipit:
“Our friends at Cable Organizer sent me over the PowerSquid Home Theater Surge Protector for review, yes it’s the real thing, from Flexity, the original makers of the Squid surge protectors. There are many other imitations out there, I’ve got a few myself actually, but only the real PowerSquid from Flexity is the original that offers great features over the imitations like swiveling plug, illuminated outlets, lifetime warranty and warranty protection of up to $500,000 for connected equipment. ”
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Title: AMD Shanghai Opteron 2384 @ Phoronix
Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13345
Summary: “Last quarter AMD introduced their “Shanghai” Opteron processors that join the ranks of Intel’s Harpertown Xeon CPUs that are 45nm quad-core server/workstation parts. Initial reviews of these new AMD Opteron processors have been very positive, but how do these chips perform with Linux? In this article we have our hands on a few of the fastest Shanghais, the AMD Opteron 2384 clocked at 2.7GHz, as we see how well they compare to the older “Barcelona” Opteron processors.”
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Title:
NZXT Guardian 921
Link:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NZXT/Guardian_921
Brief:
The Guardian 921 is an interesting looking chassis, featuring a “shield” as a door and a “head” raised above the rest of the case with a temperature LCD screen. Included with the case are three temperature sensors that can be placed at important locations that need to be monitored.
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The chip in your PSP was designed to run faster than it does out of the box. By default, the CPU runs at 222Mhz, but the MIPS R4000 processor was designed to run at 333Mhz with a 166Mhz bus. I don’t need to spell out for you what it means that the most powerful handheld gaming device is factory underclocked.
Well, Sony allowed developers to change the clock speed from within the game, starting with Bios 3.5, which GoW takes advantage of. What about the other games that turn into slideshows? How do you unlock the CPU and get them to run faster?
Review URL ::
http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1452
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The chip in your PSP was designed to run faster than it does out of the box. By default, the CPU runs at 222Mhz, but the MIPS R4000 processor was designed to run at 333Mhz with a 166Mhz bus. I don’t need to spell out for you what it means that the most powerful handheld gaming device is factory underclocked.
Well, Sony allowed developers to change the clock speed from within the game, starting with Bios 3.5, which GoW takes advantage of. What about the other games that turn into slideshows? How do you unlock the CPU and get them to run faster?
Review URL ::
http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1452
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Hardware Bistro has just posted latest review on Thermolab Baram Heatpipe CPU Cooler. Thanks
Quote: “We have seen quite number of heatpipe coolers and today we will introduce you a new thermal cooling company; Thermolab. Thermolab is a Korean company and their latest CPU cooler; Baram is a tower CPU cooler with 5 heatpipes which is the most heat pipes cooler that we have ever seen so far. Let us find out more about this interesting cooler and see how it performs against other competitors.”
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| NZXT Tempest Case Review |  |
Author: Ben Sun Date: 1-2-2009
NZXT calls their Tempest case the Airflow King and I would agree with that. With two front 120mm fans, a 120mm fan on the rear, a 120mm fan on the side panel and two top 140mm fans, this case has more cooling fans and airflow than any other Med-Tower case I’ve ever seen. In terms of aesthetics, the geometric shapes of the case gives it a slightly modern look that many can appreciate if you want something different than the traditional rectangular box without totally modding the case. Some would question the availability of only three 5.25 drive bays by default. I would say that most people don’t use more than two DVD or Blu Ray drives in their case and the ability to use 8 HDDs as an option, makes this tradeoff worthwhile.
Review Link: http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/hardware/1844_1.html
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Title: SilverStone Fortress FT01 Case Review
Link: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/675
Category: Reviews
Summary:
FT01 is a high-quality all-aluminum mid-tower case from SilverStone, targeted to the very exigent user. Is this a good product? Let’s see.
Here is a snippet:
“FT01 is a high-quality all-aluminum mid-tower case from SilverStone, targeted to the very exigent user. Its superior quality is achieved by using a “unibody” chassis, i.e. the top, front and bottom panels of the case are made by a single aluminum sheet (very thick, by the way) that was bent using automotive-level press machines, a concept that was introduced by the Tejmin TJ07 case from the same manufacturer. Let’s explore all the features from this case.”
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CPU3D had its first contact with the community under the name AMD3D back in October 1999 and quickly became part of a fast-growing community of various interests on hardware reviews. After its re-branding to CPU3D in 2005, they expanded its leadership function of proving independent hardware reviews on a professional level. An ever-growing community and more than 12 million visitors a month we are even happier to welcome this new strong partner and take reviews of computing products together with him to a 3D dimension.
Furthermore we are excited to inform you over our prospective public relation activities for the coming year. So stay tuned at CPU3D and fnaticMSI to make sure you don’t miss any news.”
Read the rest of the article here … http://www.cpu3d.com/article/6941-1/cpu3d-exclusive-fnaticmsi-enters-the-3rd-dimension/introduction.html
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Eagle Eye DVD & Blu-Ray Disc Review @ Ascully.com
Quote
“Computers controlling our lives. Hmmm not an original idea, but then again, in our times it’s more plausible than it was even 10 years ago. Eagle Eye has intrigue, fear, paranoia, and politics……”
Article Link – http://www.ascully.com/blu-ray-reviews/eagle-eye/
Podcast Link – http://www.ascully.com/after-the-show-50-eagle-eye-blu-ray/
Article Title – Eagle Eye DVD & Blu-Ray Disc Review @ Ascully.com
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Title: Linux Solid-State Drive Benchmarks @ Phoronix
Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13338
Summary: “With the number of netbooks on the market continuing to increase each month and more of these mobile devices switching to solid-state drives for their reliability, extended battery life, and faster performance, SSDs are becoming quite common and finding themselves meeting many Linux hosts. How though does the real-world performance differ between hard disk drives and solid-state drives on Linux? We have run several tests atop Ubuntu on a Samsung netbook with a HDD and SSD. In addition, we have also looked at the encryption performance using both types of drives.”
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