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SLI vs. CrossFireX: The DX11 generation

GOOC 2010 – The GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship Lands in Los Angeles, USA!

 GIGABYTE once again assembled several industry leading sponsors in LA  this past weekend (August 6 – 8th) to provide their best hardware for this extreme frequency competition. The goal is to overclock the living snot out of the components provided by Intel, GIGABYTE, Kingston, and Thermaltake. They’ll specifically be overclocking the CPU, GPU, and memory to come up with high frequencies and amazing scores in some leading benchmarks to get themselves a place at the finals in Taiwan.

Futurelooks News Flash - GOOC 2010 - The GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship Lands in Los Angeles, USA

Today we are unboxing the Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000.

The box is very bright and vibrant and gives clear information about the product inside. It also shows a clear view of the product, and includes the main features.

Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000 Unboxing Video @ eTeknix.com

Enthusiasts have lost sight of the original purpose behind overclocking, which was made popular because it could make something slow become fast, thereby getting something more for your money. Then at some point the computer industry went from asking consumers to pay more for the faster products, to demanding you pay more for products you might be able to make faster. This article will focus on one of the lesser-known threats to the desktop PC platform: overclocking.

Desktop PC Platform: Killed By Overclocking @ Benchmark Reviews

"ECS is a company know for their cost-effective motherboards, and we were surprised to see them releasing a high-end socket 1156 motherboard with two SATA-600 ports, two eSATA-600 ports, four USB 3.0 ports, three PCI Express x16 slots, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, a POST diagnostics display, and a 14-phase voltage regulator circuit."

ECS P55H-AK Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets

Zotac's latest announcement is to report its latest addition to its line of mini-ITX motherboards. Zotac have focussed a lot of their energy on their mini-ITX range of boards as of late, and so far have been a sucess.

Zotac to release its new H55-ITX motherboard with WiFi @ eTeknix.com

"Besides standard passive- and air cooling there is also the enthusiast water cooling section in the computer industry. As a matter of fact, water is used by people who want a silent PC, a more chilled PC and even a more stylish PC.

Recently XSPC released their new cooling block, the XSPC RASA. We were lucky enough to get our hands on a prototype model and wanted to test and review it right away... With our apoligies to you and XSPC we are a little late with releasing this review but can assure you it was worth the wait. Ladies and gentlemen, I present: The XSPC RASA CPU cooler block!"

XSPC Rasa Waterblock Review - XSReviews

Running at 800 MHz GPU and 1000 MHz memory, Palit's GTX 460 Sonic Platinum is one of the highest clocked GTX 460 cards out there. It also comes with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory which can provide a performance boost over the 768 MB variants too. Being priced at reasonable $249 this card looks like a good alternative to a reference design purchase.

Palit GeForce GTX 460 Sonic Platinum 1 GB @ techPowerUp

" While most products on the market have a general "me too" feel, Cooler Master breaks out into the portable power source market with their Choiix Power Fort series. Combining some unique features and the ability to use standard cables, the Power Fort is a good competitor in this marketplace. "

Cooler Master Choiix Power Fort Advanced Review @ ASE Labs

"As I stated earlier, the 12v connector on the motherboard was difficult to access with the heatsink installed, and I almost had to unscrew the motherboard and tilt it out to get it to plug in. This is something that consumers will have to get used to either way, because as processors get hotter, the coolers will continue to increase in size unless a manufacturer has a mega breakthrough in cooling technology. Regardless, the Thermalright Silver Arrow is a significant contender to the current market of heatsinks and is a great choice for anyone searching for a new, high end heatsink and is not afraid of dealing with its massive size."

Thermalright Silver Arrow Review @ OCC

There is no doubt that the NVIDIA GTX 460 has created quite a splash since its introduction. The reconfigured Fermi architecture of the new GF104 chip gives the card a welcome boost in gaming performance, compared to the first GPUs in the series. With 1/3 fewer transistors to feed, the board uses much less power, runs cooler, and it overclocks well with just air cooling. With that kind of capability baked into the basic design, it didn't take long for NVIDIA's partners to start releasing overclocked editions with advanced cooling hardware. MSI has taken on the challenge, and released one of their custom designs under the Cyclone banner. Benchmark Reviews can't resist a good HSF assembly; that much should be obvious to long term readers. So here we are with a detailed review of the MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5/OC video card.

MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5/OC Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews

Have media on your PC, but want to watch it on anything but the PC? With ASUS' O!Play, getting that job done is simple. Take 30 seconds to hook it up to a TV, and you can stream media through a network, or via external storage, such as eSATA or USB. It's simple, and at $100, it's not too hard on your pocketbook, either.

ASUS O!Play Air Media Player @ Techgage.com

"The NXZT Sentry LXE High Performance Touch Screen Fan controller gives you the ability to place your control where you need it most. If you need the Sentry LXE on a shelf off to the side as a readout, it works just as well as on the desk within arm's reach. Attaching the brushed aluminum display to a PCI card via a ribbon cable is all that's needed, so routing the wire and keeping it out of the way is quite easy to do."

NZXT Sentry LXE High Performance Touch Screen Fan Controller Review @ Hi Tech Legion

"We recently looked at the SunbeamTech Airbox USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure and now we have the Eagle Tech Consus USB 3.0 enclosure to test. Obviously, USB 3.0 is supposed to be faster than USB 2.0 but we will compare out test results with results from our eSATA and USB 2.0 tests."

Eagle Tech Consus USB 3.0 Enclosure Review @ BayReviews.com

And there we have it, the Sparkle Gold Class 1000w power supply and I
have to say I am impressed. While the appearance isn't my cup of tea, it
wouldn't exactly be fair to take off points for personal taste. But whether
or not one agrees with the appearance, there's no arguing that Sparkle's
Gold Class Series power supply is a solid contender. The unit manages some
spectacular line regulation and even so with the heat on in our hot box. At
the same time, it balances efficiency well.

News - Sparkle Gold Class Series 1000W Power Supply Review at Overclockers Online

"Visiontek has created a dual GPU graphics card with two independent video controllers. This allows the graphics card to support up to four monitors simultaneously. However, unlike most Eyefinity options which use DispalyPorts for the connection, the HD 4670 x2 can do this through four dual-link DVI ports. This could be very beneficial to anyone with multiple DVI monitors and no means to tie them all together."

Visiontek Radeon HD 4670 x2 Review @ Neoseeker

Benchmark Reviews is a consumer technology website that tests gadgets of all types, but maintains a focus on desktop computer components. To this end, we collectively follow certain market trends more than others. Over the past few years, I've personally watched certain technologies such as mobile devices grow ripe on the vine while others like cellular broadband have withered. Yet, regardless of focus, one particular concept has continually ruled the industry: more for less. To some degree this moniker shaped the birth of desktop PCs, but may also very well become the death of it...

Desktop PC Platform: Fears and Predictions @ Benchmark Reviews