The V3 Black is one of the most affordable cases from Thermaltake. It aims straight for the likes of Xigmatek Asgard, which sells for a similar price, trying to walk the thin line between usability and ultimate affordability. We take the V3 Black apart, to see if it manages to go the distance or falls short in the required categories
Thermaltake V3 Black @ techPowerUpThe PowerColor PCS+ AX5870 1GBD5-PPDHG2 graphics card is one of several new HD 5800-series video cards released by ATI AIB partners in the last couple months that follow a new design pattern. Advances in power-semiconductor packaging have allowed for a simpler VRM implementation that consumes much less real estate on the board. At the same time, the use of a down-flow HSF arrangement eliminates the dead spots found below and behind the blower wheel on the reference design. The combination makes for a smaller, more efficient, and more reliable card that's less costly to produce. I call that progress, but there are others who bemoan the process of removing cost from a design. I can understand the angst if functions and features are being removed, but finding a cheaper way to deliver the same performance is a good thing. Benchmark Reviews has tested some ATI Radeon HD 5870 video cards already, so the performance and features of the GPU are hardly n! ews, but we thought it was time to sample one of the new 2nd generation cards and see how the design has matured. Please follow along as we give you a detailed look at one of the latest high-end Radeons from PowerColor.
PowerColor PCS+ AX5870 Video Card @ Benchmark ReviewsToday we are going to look at another "Special Edition" from Noctua, this time it's the NH-C12P SE14 CPU cooler that we will be testing. Much like the NH-U9B SE2, the NH-C12P SE14 uses the exact same heatsink as the original cooler but this time instead of adding extra fans the folks at Noctua have included a bigger fan than the original by pairing this heatsink with the new Noctua NF-P14 14cm fan. . .
Noctua NH-C12P SE14 CPU Cooler - BCCHardwareWe have a lot of gadgets on our desks these days and managing all of those cables can make for quite the monstrous mess. Helping to clean up some desktop clutter is the IDAPT i3, a simple system that lets you charge three different items simultaneously. MEGATechNews puts it through the gadget gauntlet to find out if it’s worth your hard earned disposable income.
MEGATech Reviews - IDAPT i3 Desktop Charging SystemThe biggest physical difference is the mounting system, as you might be able to see Noctua has changed it up a little (it's now even easier to install then the original). With the NH-U9B you get mounting brackets for the LGA775, LGA1336, LGA1156 from Intel, and the AM, AM2, AM2+ sockets from AMD which should pretty much cover the good majority of CPU's produced in the past few years. . .
Noctua NH-U9B SE2 CPU Cooler - BCCHardware– 32GB and 64GB drives feature tough aluminum shell and quad-channel design for maximum performance and durability -
FREMONT, California, April 19, 2010 — Corsair®, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer and flash memory products, today announced the 32GB and 64GB Flash Survivor™ GTR USB flash drives. These drives share their high-performance lineage with the award-winning Flash Voyager® GTR, and are among the fastest, most rugged USB flash drives available today.
The Flash Survivor GTR USB drives use the same quad-channel technology employed in the recently announced Flash Voyager GTR series. This enables the Flash Survivor GTR drives to achieve read speeds of up to 34MB/sec and write speeds of up to 28MB/sec. In head-to-head testing in the Corsair Labs (details can be found here) the GTR architecture produced substantial performance gains over typical high capacity USB flash drives.
Looking for a laptop that is as light as a Netbook and the performance of mid-level laptop and has a 13 inch screen? TechwareLabs is reviewed the ViewSonic 13.3-inch ViewBook Pro and we are impressed. Read on to see what this thin and light weight wonder has to offer. The ViewBook Pro comes with some very unique features that will set it apart from the competitors. Let’s take a closer look at what the ViewBook™ Pro from ViewSonic has to offer.
ViewSonic -Viewbook Pro @ TechwareLabsNVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 was announced a few weeks back - now we got the first production sample of the card from ASUS. Compared to the GTX 480 we saw much more reasonable power consumption numbers as well as fan noise and heat.
ASUS GeForce GTX 470 Fermi @ techPowerUpThe SSD market is littered with competitors, but up to now, few companies behind mechanical storage have entered the arena. Last month though, Western Digital scratched its name off the list, with the help of its SiliconEdge Blue models. We're taking a look at the 256GB variant here, so let's see how it fares against the competition!
Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB @ Techgage.com"Cooler Master's GX 750W has proven itself to be a very capable power supply. With impressive stability, quiet operation, compact design with plenty of connectors and sleeved cabling, this PSU brings a lot to the table and does so with a fairly modest price tag."
Cooler Master GX 750W Power Supply Review @ TweaknewsIn the past year numerous manufacturers have hopped onto the gaming peripheral bandwagon in an attempt to expand their businesses. Gaming mice have become incredibly fancy, with 6000DPI, 1200Hz polling rate, and anywhere from five to twenty buttons. As companies attempt to product differentiate, the visual design of gaming mice are becoming more exaggerated. Steelseries take a different approach this time for the minimalistic Kinzu optical mouse. Benchmark Reviews peaks under the covers of this ordinary looking mouse to see where it lies amidst the hundreds of gaming mice out on the market.
SteelSeries Kinzu Optical Gaming Mouse @ Benchmark Reviews"A good way to ensure that you get maximum life from your desktop is to do your part in making sure your system stays cool. A good CPU cooler is an excellent way to prolong the life of your desktop. Allowing you to work proficiently, and reduce the number of errors that are linked to overheating. The Spire TherMax Eclipse CPU cooler has it’s heat pipes strategically placed to ensure quick heat displacement. The TherMax Eclipse also has two fans that can be placed onto the heatsink for maximum cooling."
Spire TherMax Eclipse II CPU Cooler Review @ BayReviews.com“Charging stations for iPods and iPhones have been few and far between. Now I'm not talking about the simple (and overpriced) apple single dock. That is virtually useless in my opinion. Many families have more than one device in the household and using the supplied USB cable and tying up a port and a computer can become inconvenient. Tying up multiple outlets can be cumbersome. So finding a solution to charging multiple devices at once is a niche that needed filled.”
[News] Griffin PowerDock 4 Charging Station Review @ Virtual-HideoutI think it’s fairly common knowledge that the HD 5870 cards are powerful cards and HIS has upped the ante with its HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo 1GB model. Bumping up the factory clocks for both the core and memory and then throwing on their own efficient iCooler makes this HD 5870 card even more attractive. Bundled together with that is a copy of the hugely successful Modern Warfare 2 and you have another piece to tempt you.
News - HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo 1GB Review at Overclockers OnlineToday we will take a look at two motherboards manufactured by Gigabyte. First is GA-MA890GPA-UD3H which is based on new 890GX chipset and the other one is GA-MA790X-UD3P which is based on the old highend chipset 790X. We will compare these motherboards against each other and see if the new chipset performs better than the old flagship.
Gigabyte GA-MA890GPA-UD3H & GA-MA790X-UD3P @ RbmodsNow that everybody has arrived and settled in, the event is officially open since this morning. The welcome was presented by Cristina Garmendia, Minister of Science and Innovation. The case mods are installed, the dewars filled, let's roll....
Campus Party 2010 in Spain - Day 2 @ Madshrimps"Today we are looking at a new cooler from Thermaltake designed specifically for overclocking and high powered CPUs. Thermaltake claim that it can dissipate up to 220W of heat, so it should be able to keep even an overclocked i7 running smoothly."
Thermaltake Frio CPU cooler Review @ XtremeComputing"Overall, the Samsung SyncMaster XL2370 is an excellent premium 1080p monitor for the consumer wanting to pay more to get a top of the line product. The picture quality, color reproduction and contrast alone makes up for the difference in cost and after a weeks worth of use, the money will be deemed a good investment."
“If you were looking for that perfect brown leather flip case for your iPhone, you might want to hang on and wait until revision 2 of this unit, which I hope Incipio takes these ideas and makes it happen. At a retail price of just $29.99 too, this case could have made a huge splash in the market in my opinion. Considering some of the crappiest molded silicone junk is selling for $15-$25 as it is, this high quality leather flip from Incipio is a fantastic value for what you get. It's too bad they missed the mark, if even by a little, which is all it takes in this incredibly competitive market segment.”
Incipio Leather Flip iPhone 3GS Case Review @ Virtual-HideoutWe've taken a look at a handful of drives from Kingston's V and V+ Series of solid state drives, and this time around we actually have the smallest capacity drive on hand. This 30GB drive is intended for use as a boot drive, meaning you load your operating system and core programs to it, and use a second drive for file storage.
Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB Solid State Boot Drive Review @ Bigbruin.com