As you may have noticed we’ve got a new look, I finally got some time over the weekend to do some upgrades and remodeling, I like it better I guess, I like the darker black theme, and I like the fluid theme as well, but the last theme was just a bit too dark. It’s amazing how hard it is to find decent free themes that have everything one might want in it.
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Title: iLuv Ultra Portable Stereo Speaker iSP100 @ TestFreaks
Review Link: http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/iluv-ultra-portable-stereo-speaker-isp100/
Review quote:
“Up on the review block today is another great little product from iLuv, not long ago i took a look at one of their DVD player/iPod docks and found it to be very nice all around, the one I have today is just as good really. The iSP100 iLuv Ultra Portable Stereo Speaker is just that, a portable speaker system to be used with anything that has a 3.5mm audio jack output on it, that means it’ll work for most anything. The iSP100 is very small making it nice and portable, it even comes with a cloth carrying case for protection, it’s well made and it surprisingly sounds very good for just how small it is. So read on to learn more… ”
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NEW CONTENT (Cases, Cooling and Power Supplies) – ThermoLab BARAM CPU Cooler
QUOTE: “ThermoLab has sent us the BARAM CPU cooler for testing. The BARAM is a Korean word which translates to airflow in English. Thermolab has taken great measures with BARAM to impart this cooler with that philosophy. ThermoLab looked at the basic tower style cooler design and came up with solutions to improve on this idea. With that quest, ThermoLab has developed some very innovative concepts which are put into practice with the BARAM. While a lot of this tech is nothing new, very few manufacturers have put it all together in one complete package.
The cooler ships from ThermoLab without a fan included. This does two things that benefit the end user in my opinion. First, it allows them to keep manufacturing costs down a bit and they can pass that saving on to their customers. Secondly, it allows the end-user to pick and choose what fan has the best CFM while still staying within satisfactory sound limits, depending on what each individual ear can take. For testing I went average on my fan choice and I’ll explain later why I made that choice. Enough with all this talk, let’s get to the BARAM and see what ThermoLab has come up with this time.”
For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1785/thermolab_baram_cpu_cooler/index.html
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GLOW Audio Amp One Review
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Article Name: Cooler Master V10 Hybrid Heatpipe/T.E.C. CPU Cooler Review @ Tweaknews
Article Url: http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/cooler_master_v10_review/
Article Snippet:
“Cooler Master’s V10 is impressive in many respects. Size and stature are reassuringly large, but fitment may be an issue for some motherboards and cases. The engineering innovation and design are quite nice, as is the fit and finish. Unfortunately, the high cost and potentially troublesome installation leave something to be desired. Frankly, there are better performing coolers out there that are half the price, easier to install and perform just as well.”
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Date: 03-15-2009Â By Vlad Mihaiescu
One of my favorite things about the game is the fact that unlike most of the other RTSs on the market today, Warhammer 40k – Dawn of War II actually uses four races (factions) instead of the standard three. Not only that but there is a good balance to all the races. The main problem that I have with the game is the lack of multiplayer maps, but I have a feeling that sooner or later either the game programmers or a third party will come up with additional maps. As for the single player campaign, although you only play as the humans (Space Marines) the game offered the most fun that I’ve ever had in a single player RTS campaign. But please, don’t just read the conclusion. If you have not read the gameplay and controls section of the review you may want to take a few minutes and do that. While the conclusion shares some facts it also shares my opinion. The gameplay and controls section of the review is filled with just facts.
Link: http://www.gamepyre.com/reviewsd.html?aid=1070&p=1
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There are plenty of good CPU coolers available, how will the Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer (CCF) do in our tests? Keep reading to find out!
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TITLE: Kensington’s Slim Blade Presenter Mouse @ LanOC Reviews
DESCRIPTION: Last July i had the chance to take a look at Kensington’s Si670m bluetooth mouse. I have been using that same mouse up until now, our friends over at Kensington sent me their Slim Blade Presenter Mouse to take a look at. A drastically different design than the Si670m that I enjoyed. How will it compare? Will this become my new laptop mouse?
ARTICLE URL: http://lanoc.org/reviews/kensingtons-slim-blade-presenter-mouse/
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OCIA.net has posted their review of the 24″ HP Debranded HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor. Below is a direct quote from the review:
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TITLE: G.Skill Titan 128GB SATA SSD FM-25S2S-128GBT1 @ Benchmark Reviews
DESCRIPTION: For the past several years, G.Skill has built a reputation for offering premium-grade products at economy-level pricing. Similar to their competition, G.Skill offers enthusiast products in several different markets. The brand name has been built on a solid history of quality system memory product lines, and not long ago they introduced the very impressive G.Skill FM-25S2S-64GB SATA-II MLC SSD.
Using a pair of JMicron JMF602B SSD controllers to organize two banks of Samsung K9HCG08U1M DRAM modules into a JMB390 controller, the new G.Skill Titan SSD offers an impressive capacity with internal RAID-0 performance to subdue stuttering. Benchmark Reviews tests the performance of the G.Skill Titan 128GB SATA SSD FM-25S2S-128GBT1 against over two dozen other products in this article, including its twin brother, the OCZ Apex.
ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=302&Itemid=60
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InsideHW.com has reviewed AMD Phenom II X4 810. Here is a quote from this review:
“Whenever is new generation of CPUs presented, either by Intel or by AMD, besides high-end models always are presented models for users that don’t demand top-performance levels. There are various ways to “slow down†existing high-end core. One of those is “partial amputation†of L2 or L3 cache memory, or “total amputation†of one or more cores. In most cases faulty segments of CPU are disabled although in some cases this isn’t the case. Sometimes manufacturer disables perfectly operational segments of CPU so demands for such CPUs can be met. This means that even if you bought triple-core CPU, it doesn’t imply that you got 75% of fully functional quad-core. Same goes for L3 cache…â€
Article link:
http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/CPU/AMD-Phenom-II-X4-810.html
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Titel: WaKü: CPU-Kühler Roundup 2
Text:
Mit einem neuen Teststand, einem übertakteten Core i7-Prozessor und überarbeiteten Testmethoden starten wir in eine neue Runde von CPU-Wasserkühler-Tests. Den Anfang machen in diesem ersten Roundup der EK Supreme, Leistungssieger aus unserem letzten Vergleichstest, der überarbeitete Aqua Computer cuplex XT di, der Watercool HK 3.0 sowie der XSPC Delta V3.
URL: http://www.dexgo.com/index.php?site=artikel/view.php&rubrik=Hardware&id=356
English translated by Babel Fish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dexgo.com%2Findex.php%3Fsite%3Dartikel%2Fview.php%26rubrik%3DHardware%26id%3D356
English translated by Google: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dexgo.com%2Findex.php%3Fsite%3Dartikel%2Fview.php%26rubrik%3DHardware%26id%3D356&sl=de&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
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The often forgotten mouse is an item nobody normally pays much attention to when buying or upgrading a PC. Truth is, it’s likely the most key component of any setup.
“As for making a difference in my game play, the answer is a yes* with a * for me. While I understood the reasoning for gaming mice, I never really thought much about it as I never really considered myself a serious gamer. That changed the last 18 months as I have been pretty much a regular Call of Duty 4 gamer, and as of late, I took competition a little more seriously. What this essentially means is that any sort of edge I could find, I would at least give it a try. From PC upgrades to a change in Internet provider, the last issues I seemed to have were my input devices. As I had been using the Microsoft Wireless Desktop 7000 for a while, one issue I have always had was the freezing (where my wireless connection would drop) on occasion. With the NZXT Avatar, this problem was obviously gone (I also replaced my keyboard with a corded one). ”
http://www.viperlair.com/index.php/reviews/nzxt-avatar-gaming-mouse.html
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