Posted by Becky on 14th May 2012 - 0 Comments
LanOC have reviewed the Lian Li PC 100 “The Hammer” - if sleek and expensive is what you want then this may be the case for you:
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"Once again Lian Li has come up with a unique design that should make other case manufactures second guess how they are designing their cases. The new design is far from being trouble free, but if you can get past the interesting issues like trying to run your cables through the case to the front to hook up to the rear I/O panel, then you will be rewarded with amazing airflow and lots of room. Speaking of lots of room, this has to be one if not the only mid tower case on the market that can fit an XL-ATX motherboard and any length video card that you can imagine. Add all of that with Lian Li’s typical high quality and all aluminum construction and you have a good case. If they flipped the motherboard around the other way and cut a couple holes in the motherboard tray they would have one of the best cases on the market."
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You can read the full review here.
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Posted by Becky on 11th May 2012 - 0 Comments
Bjorn 3D have reviewed the Gigabyte Sniper M3 motherboard - here's a snippet:
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"The Gigabyte Sniper M3 is the board we are taking a look at today. Just like the previous G1 motherboard line from GIGABYTE, the Sniper M3 it is a gaming centric board with many gaming style features all packed into a micro ATX form factor board. We have seen other offerings of gaming boards that are mATX and they are usually lacking in specific areas due to the small size and the simple fact that there is only so much PCB real estate. Gigabyte prides itself on the high feature set provided by the G1 series. The Sniper M3 should be no different and we expect to see some good thing from this board. Now lets take a look at what Gigabyte has to offer on this go around."
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You can read the full review here.
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Posted by Becky on 10th May 2012 - 9 Comments
Today sees the launch of the GeForce GTX 670, being the latest in the 600-series from NVIDIA. The GTX670 has a much more consumer friendly price tag than the GTX 690 released recently, let's see what the reviewers think:
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"The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 has become the card to have if you are looking in the $400 price range and want the best of everything!"
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Legit Reviews
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"The GTX 670 is a strong addition to the latest range of GeForce cards. From that price point and above NVIDIA are hard to beat and we look forward to seeing how they take on the Radeon 7800 series..."
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Hardware Heaven
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"Overall the GTX 670 is a beast of a card that comes at a reasonable price of $399 when looking at the current-generation high-end segment. AMD's HD 7950 costs $380 and is hopeless against the GTX 670. HD 7970 at $450 might be a tiny bit faster, but loses on power and noise - and is 50 bucks more expensive."
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Tech Power Up
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"Ultimately, we feel that the new GeForce GTX 670 is another strong offering from NVIDIA. The card offers all of the features of the higher-end GeForce GTX 680 and 90+% of the performance, but at a lower price."
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Hot Hardware
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Posted by Becky on 9th May 2012 - 0 Comments
Benchmark Reviews have taken a look at the CM Storm Sentinel Advance II Laser Mouse which features a colour changing panel as well as a comfortable ergonomic design:
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"Back in September 2009, CM Storm released the Sentinel Advance Laser Gaming Mouse. It sported a 5600 DPI laser sensor, which was the top-of-the-line at the time. 5600 DPI is still very high for a gaming mouse. Now Cooler Master is releasing the next evolution of this gaming mouse, the CM Storm Sentinel Advance II Laser Gaming Mouse SGM-6010-KLLW1. Sporting an Avago ADNS-9800 laser sensor, the Sentinel Advance II has the capability to scale up to 8200 DPI and all the way down to 200 DPI. In this article, Benchmark Reviews examines the CM Storm Sentinel Advance II Laser Gaming Mouse SGM-6010-KLLW1.
As a gamer, I've come to recognize just how important it is to have a good gaming mouse. One of the most important aspects that I have come to rely on is on-the-fly DPI switching. One of my favorite mice of all time is the Microsoft 5-button laser mouse. I really enjoyed the fit of the mouse and the fact that I could comfortably maneuver between the buttons without accidently hitting the wrong one. Even though I had looked at a lot of other mice, I kept reverting back to that mouse. I'd even tried mice with the ability to switch the DPI settings on-the-fly. It actually wasn't until the original CM Storm Sentinel Advance that I finally put away the Microsoft mouse and started using a new one. I'm excited to look at the Sentinel Advance II and see what has changed and improved."
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You can read the full review here.
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Posted by Becky on 8th May 2012 - 0 Comments
Frosty Tech have reviewed the Corsair Hydro H80 Watercooling System, which seems to give good performance if a bit noisy:
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"Corsair's Hydro H80 is a no fuss, no mess CPU liquid cooling solution that installs with ease onto Intel socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775 and AMD socket AM3/AM2/FM1 processors. The unit consists of two parts, a 12v DC pump head with integrated reservoir and thin skived copper waterblock, and the fluid-to-air aluminum heat exchanger.
The whole system ships fully assembled, pre-filled with a distilled water/propylene glycol/anti-bacterial coolant and is pre-plumbed. The small square pump/waterblock is connected by 24cm of black flexible FEP tubing to a 154x120x45mm aluminum liquid-to-air heat exchanger. Two 120mm fans are supplied with the system and rotate at 2600-1300RPM to move the air through the heat exchanger. Retail price for this system is on the order of $115 USD/CDN, all you have to provide is a rear 120mm mounting hole in your PC case."
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You can read the full review here.
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Posted by Becky on 4th May 2012 - 0 Comments
Kit Guru have reviewed the Visiontek 800W Modular Power Supply - here's a snippet:
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"Visiontek have been an AMD partner now for many years, releasing video cards for the American audience. They have been enhancing their product portfolio in recent years and today we are reviewing their latest 800W power supply, a modular design with 80 Plus Bronze Certification.
The Visiontek 800W Modular power supply is a design which features over-current, over-voltage and short circuit protection. It incorporates a 120mm ‘Nano Cooling’ fan and meets UL, TUV, CB, CE, FCC, RoHs standards."
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You can read the full review here.
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Posted by Becky on 3rd May 2012 - 9 Comments
Further to the news posted by V_R on Tuesday, the GTX 690 card is here! According to NVIDIA the GTX 690 is capable of matching two GTX 680s in SLI, and the test results seen certainly seem to back this up. All reviews that I have seen describe this as the fastest single GPU that they have seen... but the $1000 price tag is likely to put many people off.
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Tech Power Up
Hardware Heaven
Bjorn 3D
Hot Hardware
Benchmark Reviews
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Posted by V_R on 1st May 2012 - 0 Comments
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Nvidia kept this one quiet, but early on Sunday morning it revealed what will, almost certainly, become the fastest graphics card on the planet. As naming convention dictates it’s a dual-GPU card and, as high-end gaming silliness dictates, it arrived at the office in a wooden crate.
We found the office crowbar and got to work and, within seconds, the GTX 690 was laid bare: cold industrial aluminium, a pair of windows looking through to the two vapour chamber coolers within, and the large central fan that’s saddled with the unenviable task of keeping the two cores cool.
Those cores are tweaked GTX 680 chips. There are still 1,536 stream processors per core, which equates to 3,072 across the entire card, but the table-topping clock speed of 1,006MHz has been lowered to 915MHz, with its maximum boost of 1,058MHz now standing at 1,018MHz.
Elsewhere, the numbers are just as impressive as they were on the original GTX 680: 3.5 billion transistors in each core makes for a 7 billion total across the 282mm PCB, and there’s 4GB of RAM across the card running at 6,008MHz.
Nvidia claims the GTX 690 is more power efficient than two GTX 680s running in SLI, but the new card still needs a pair of eight-pin power sockets on its backplate. Display outputs, meanwhile, stretch to three DVI-I ports and a mini DisplayPort socket.
One thing Nvidia is keeping close to its chest, though, is price. The GTX 690 will begin hitting shops on May 3, with wider availability four days later. We’re going to strap this monster into our test rig and see what it can do, with a full review going live later this week. Until then, though, let us know in the comments: is this your next graphics card, or does its (inevitably) high price put you off?
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Read more: What’s in the box? An Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 | PC Pro blog
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