News for January 13th 2009
I need sleep… I’m exhausted, I’d like to just lie back down and sleep all day, but my work won’t get done will it?!
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Quote: 2009 is the year of the PSU here at Overclock3D as we make major improvements to our PSU testing labs with a SunMoon SM-268 ATE load tester
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TITLE: Palit GeForce 9800 GTX+ Video Card NE/98TX+XT352 @ Benchmark Reviews
DESCRIPTION: Benchmark Reviews has had the wonderful opportunity to review and critique some of the best and most powerful video cards currently available anywhere. These items are very exciting, dreams of playing your favorite video game as large as life and silky smooth abound. Wouldn’t it be great if we could all afford one of these monster video cards? Today Benchmark Reviews will take a close look at what I’ll call a junior monster. Currently fourth in nvidias lineup of single GPU cards, the Geforce 9800 GTX+ is a card for the mainstream gamer and offers refinements on an already proven design, specifically the wildly popular and powerful G92 core. With a die shrink to 55nm speeds are up and temps are down. We will focus specifically on the PALiT non reference design Geforce 9800 GTX+ NE/98TX+XT352. With it’s nearly silent cooler and slightly overclocked core this card should put up some good numbers. Let’s get to it!
ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=286&Itemid=72
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NEW CONTENT (Audio) – Samsung YP-Q1 MP3 Player
QUOTE: “The latest in sexy pocket bulges this week comes from the masters of Korean gadgetry, Samsung with their latest MP3 player that touts a 2.4″ screen with a resolution of 320×240. Available in 4, 8 and 16GB flavours, you can be sure of fitting all your episodes of neighbours on it to watch on the train.
Loading up the player with some bangin’ tunes and Samsungs quality audio electronics are obvious once it’s going. The sounds in pure mode (no DNSe or street mode enhancement) come in crisp and clear to the ears.”
For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1711/samsung_yp_q1_mp3_player/index.html
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We’re a day late and a dollar or two short with our last news coverage from CES 2009. Below are the links for the last days coverage.
BCCHardware @ CES 2009 – Sony Ericcson and BlueAnt –=– Gallery
BCCHardware @ CES 2009 – Thermaltake –=– Gallery
BCCHardware @ CES 2009 – Zalman and Thrustmaster –=– Gallery
You can check out the full gallery from CES here: http://xrl.us/bebvbj
You can also check out the full list of CES coverage articles here: http://xrl.us/bebvbm
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Title: CES 2009: Gadgets Galore
Link: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/681
Category: Articles
Summary:
Learn about the exciting new gadgets and gizmos from CES 2009.
Here is a snippet:
“New technologies and new gadgets are always a big attraction for those attending CES Consumer Electronic Show. We all look on in amazement at what the human mind can conceive and achieve. The big question, however, is always whether the new product will be the wave of the future or a flash in the pan. So we looked at some of the gadgets and gizmos at CES this year with that in mind. ”
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Jays C-jays Headphone Review:
Link: http://www.rbmods.com/Articles/Jays/C_jays/1.php
Quote: We have previously reviewed a few pairs of earphones from Jays but today we are going to actually take a look at a real pair of headphones. This is a pair of really light weight headphones and they almost give a flimsy feeling when playing around with them but what will we think in the end?
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Title:Â Sunbeamtech Tuniq Core Contact Freezer Review @ Vortez Hardware
Link: http://www.vortez.co.uk/review.php?id=21
Snippet:Â ”Up for review today is the Sunbeam Core-Contact Freezer, a fairly standard looking cooler but with subtle design differences. Find out more in this review.”
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Title: CES 2009: Cell Phone Introductions
Link: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/680
Category: Articles
Summary:
We took a look on the new cell phones introduced at CES 2009.
Here is a snippet:
“CES, the Consumer Electronic Show, is the biggest tech show on the planet and the cell phone is the most popular tech product in the world. So it is not surprising that cell phones played a prominent role at CES this year. With the wild popularity of the iPhone, many companies are focused on developing the iPhone killer. So we found many new phones with touch screens, additional applications, and Internet connectivity like the iPhone. However, we also found several unique phones that have their own distinctive personalities. Here is a look at what we found.”
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TITLE: 3D Vision for GeForce Benchmark Performance Impact @ Benchmark Reviews
DESCRIPTION: At the time that I received the 3D Vision for GeForce kit from NVIDIA, Benchmark Reviews was packing up for the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. While I would personally consider the 3D Vision kit to be an experience enhancing product, and not a competitive tool, there have been a few questions in regard to the overall impact on frame-rate performance. So with CES behind us now, I have returned to deliver some benchmarks showing what kind of performance you can expect from the 3D Vision for GeForce gaming kit.
ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=276&Itemid=58&limit=1&limitstart=5
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Title: Topower Silent EZ 400W PSU Review on Technic3D
Link: http://www.technic3d.com/article-773,1-topower-silent-ez-400w-netzteil-im-test.htm
Quote: “The Topower Silent EZ 400W PSU arrived Technic3D. See you in the following Review from Technic3D the next PSU Review with a good price, modular cable management and a high efficiency. The Topower have a 120mm fan, 4xSerial ATA connectors and 2x PCIe 6-Pin connectors. Better than the 350W?”
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Title: Features of Phoronix Test Suite 1.6 “Tydal” @ Phoronix
Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13368
Summary: “We are preparing to release Phoronix Test Suite 1.6 “Tydal” later this month, which is our largest and most significant update to date. Phoronix Test Suite 1.6 has quite a few changes internally as well as a number of new features and added tests. While there are over 200 changes making up this release codenamed Tydal, in this article we are sharing some of the most significant work in this forthcoming release.”
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“These days, almost everyone is aware of the need to back up their computers, but not everyone actually does it. True Image Home 2009 makes backing up a computer system pretty much as easy and straightforward as possible. Even experienced users will love the way the software automatically makes sure you are never left unprotected from the inevitable hardware or software failure that can destroy a lifetime of digital files, photos, videos and documents. This latest version isn’t a great improvement on last year’s already excellent version, but the incremental changes make an already strong product even better. True Image Home 2009 is all the home user and non-networked small business user needs to make secure, regular and hassle-free backups of Windows-based computers.â€
http://www.itreviewed.co.uk/rev.php?id=876
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iXBT Labs Review: Intel Core i7 920 Processor
Excerpt:
“Core i7 is apparently a good product. We insist that its main goal is not to improve performance. It wouldn’t be a failure even if it was less efficient than Core 2. Anyway, it’s 7% more efficient. What else there is to wish?”
Article: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/cpu/intel-ci7-920-p1.html
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Quote: Looking for a replacement for the stock Intel Cooler? Fancy dabbling in the overclocking dark arts? Maybe Asus have the answer…
Link: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/cases_cooling/asus_triton_81_skt1366_cpu_cooler/1
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At the Consumer Electronics Show this past week, NVIDIA was demonstrating a new reference platform for an ultra small form-factor multimedia PC and we should underscore the word “ultra”. To say this new product concept is tiny would be an understatement. Consider if you will, an entire PC, capable of decoding and playing full 1080p HD video content, in a box that fits in the palm of your hand with a 3″ x 4″ motherboard.
We met with Drew Henry, NVIDIA’s General Manager of MCP products, at CES and he gave us a tour of Ion, as well as a demonstration of its capabilities. We’ve got NVIDIA’s Ion in today’s HotHardware Video Spotlight, so we’ll let Drew do the talkin’.
Direct Link:
http://hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIAs-Ion-Small-FormFactor-PC-Platform-/
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“From the makers of the amazing Battlefield franchise comes a first-person action adventure unlike any other. Available for next-generation consoles and the PC (that’s what we like to see – Ed!), Mirror’s Edge definitely takes risks. Moving the first-person game in a totally new direction, DICE, an Electronic Arts studio, has done something radical with the traditional established mechanics of first-person movement. What’s makes Mirror’s Edge special is that it changes the way that players are able to move in first person. No more restrictions, no more being blocked by simple barriers such as walls and fences. In Mirror’s Edge you can move like a real person (albeit a very flexible one!), with the ability to run, jump, vault and slide in a way that has never been seen before in a first person game. Mirror’s Edge is also special because it introduces a strong iconic videogame heroine called Faith who, predictably, is very hot.â€
http://www.itreviewed.co.uk/rev.php?id=875
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Title: Cables Unlimited Wireless USB Kit with Transmitter and Receiver with Base @ TestFreaks.com
Review Snipit:
“Cables Unlimited sent me over their Wireless USB Kit with Transmitter and Receiver with Base out for review a bit ago, and it allows us to make our USB ports cable free. The kit includes two USB thumbdrive like devices, power adapter and a base for the receiver. The base acts like an adapter, the actual receiver has a male USB connection on it, the base has two female connections, one inside and one outside to plug in your peripheral that you want to make wireless, the power adapter is used to provide power to the external wireless USB adapter. ”
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