As you may have noticed, some of the LanOC crew is now on the ground at CES 2012. We still have plenty of news to share with you!  We have a lot of reviews that have come out over the weekend and the CES 2012 news is just starting to roll in. I have compiled some CES 2012 related articles at the bottom of the post.

Video Cards

AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB Reference Video Card Review @ TweakTown

ASUS Radeon HD 7970 CrossFire @ techPowerUp

XFX R7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation @ Benchmark Reviews

XFX HD 7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation 3GB Video Card Review @ TweakTown

Sapphire HD 7970 3GB @ OCC

PSU’s

FSP AURUM CM 650M Review @ Vortez

Cases

SilverStone Grandia DG06 HTPC Chassis Review @ MissingRemote

Cooler Master Cosmos II Full-Tower Chassis Review @ Techgag

Antec’s P280 enclosure @ The Tech Report

Sharkoon T9 Mid Tower ATX PC Chassis Review @ eTeknix.com

Storage

OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB PCI-E Storage Solution Review @ Real World Labs

Storage Visions 2012 - OCZ, Crucial, ioSafe and Intel @ Legit Reviews

Thecus N5200XXX @ Computing on Demand

Cooling

Enermax ETD-T60-VD CPU Cooler Review @ Hardware Secrets

Input Devices

Enermax Briskie Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Review @ TweakTown

Other

PowerColor JustSling @ techPowerUp

Nero 11 Platinum Software Review @ Hi Tech Legion

Eminent EM 7280 RT3 HD media player 320GB Review @ XSReviews.co.uk

Arctic MC001-BD Entertainment Center Review @ Overclockers Online

BenQ RL2240H Monitor Review @ Tech-Reviews.co.uk

CES 2012

Destination CES 2012 - LanOC Crew

Sanho Launches CloudFTP at CES

SolarFocus Announces "SolarKindle" - First Practical Solar Gadget

TechwareLabs Top Ten 2012 CES Predictions

CES Unveiled 2012 - A Sneak Peak At The Hot Products of CES 2012

Griffin Previews the Twenty Audio Amplifier for Airport Express at CES

This afternoon I headed over to the Venetian Hotel and Casino with the DSLR and the GoPro in hand for the "Big" news from Big Green! While we weren't expecting any huge news, it is always fun to see what Nvidia has to offer in the coming year. We know about Kepler but with the newest AMD cards hitting the shelves yesterday would Nvidia drop the bomb that the new cards were coming out? 

Well we made it safe and sound, after a half day of flying that is. I will keep this update short as CES hasn't officially started just yet. Alex and I flew into Las Vegas this morning meeting up with Skyler at the airport. After spending a well over an hour traveling and waiting in line for our rental car we were on our way. Our first stop... In-N-Out of course! 

This time tomorrow a few of the LanOC crew will be touching down in Vegas and prepping for CES this year. Our schedules are packed full of meetings with new and old company’s looking to show you guys the newest products in their product lines and products to get excited for in the near future. Although we will be posting up content here in our CES 2012 section you can also follow along with each of us on our social networks. Feel free to interact with us and tell us what you want to see for coverage. Click the read more below to get links to all of our social network feeds!

Things around the website have been a little slow, that must mean we are getting closer to CES. As the staff preps for their trips out to Las Vegas to cover the event review coverage has been a little slow. That doesn’t mean we don’t have things in the works for you guys while we are away. I am working on a couple reviews that you guys will really enjoy for early on next week right now. Here are the affiliate news postings from around the web, expect to see Jakob in here filling in for me next week to help keep you guys up to date with the affiliate news and pr while I am away. Next stop Vegas!

Motherboards

ASRock Extreme9 X79 @ SSDReview

GIGABYTE G1 Killer Assassin 2 @ Futurelooks

Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 Intel LGA 2011 @ techPowerUp

Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Motherboard Review @ HardwareLOOK

Sapphire Pure Black 990FX Motherboard Review @ Hi Tech Legion

ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews

Video Cards

EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews

AMD ATI Chips Comparison Table @ Hardware Secrets

PSU’s

Corsair Professional Series Gold AX 650 W @ techPowerUp

Cases

Mid-Tower Case Round-Up: Antec, Corsair, NZXT, Thermaltake @ HotHardware.com

In Win Mana 136 Case Review @ Hardware Secrets

NZXT Tempest 410 @ techPowerUp

Fractal Design Define R3 Review @ Vortez

Input Devices

SteelSeries Simraceway SRW-S1 Steering Wheel Review @ Legit Reviews

Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Gaming keyboard @ Rbmods

Tt eSPORTS MEKA G1 Keyboard Review @ TechwareLabs

SteelSeries Simraceway SRW-S1 Wheel @ Benchmark Reviews

SteelSeries SRW-S1 Racing Wheel - BCCHardware

Mad Catz Eclipse Wireless LiteTouch Keyboard Review @ Real World Labs

Memory

GeIL Evo Corsa 8GB 2133CL9 Dual Channel Kit Review @ Madshrimps

Audio

Corsair Vengeance 1500 Dolby 7.1 USB Headset Review @ OCC

Storage

RunCore Pro IV USB 3.0 MoonDrive @ TweakTown

Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Solid State Hybrid

RunCore RCP V mSATA T50 SATA III 120GB @ TweakTown

Verbatim Store 'n' Go USB 3.0 Hard Drive Review @ TechwareLabs

Corsair Performance Series Pro 256GB @ TweakTown

Cooling

Swiftech H20-X20 Edge HD Water Cooling @ TweakTown

Other

Piracy to Blame for Falling Music Sales? I Don't Think So @ Techgage

Amazon Kindle Wi-Fi 6-inch E Ink Display Review @ HardwareLOOK

This is why NYC is so awesome. 

Language = NSFW 

Today we posted up our review of the Cosmos II and of course everyone else did also. Today I have links to all of the other Cosmos II reviews from around the net along with other reviews for you guys to check out.

Cases

In Win BUC 101 Case Review @ Hardware Secrets

NZXT Phantom 410 Case @ Rbmods

Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition (VN10006W2N) Case Review @ TechwareLabs

Cooler Master Cosmos II @ TweakTown

Cooler Master Cosmos II Ultra Tower Case Review @ Legit Reviews

Cooler Master Cosmos II Review @ Neoseeker

Cooler Master Cosmos II Computer Case @ Benchmark Reviews

Cooler Master Cosmos II Ultra Tower Case Review @ Ninjalane

Cooler Master Cosmos II Ultra Tower Review @ OCC

Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ Hardware Secrets

Motherboards

Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z Z68 Motherboard Review @ eTeknix.com

Video Cards

AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com

Radeon HD 7970 @ TechReport

Cooling

Enermax ETS-T40-TA CPU Cooler Review@ Vortez

Storage

Corsair Force GT & Performance Pro SATA III SSD Roundup @ Legit Reviews

Patriot Pyro SE SATA III @Hothardware

Verbatim's 128 GB SSD @ Metku.net

Super Talent Tera Nova 120GB SSD @ SSDReview

Audio

Corsair Vengeance 1300 Analog Gaming Headset Review @ OCC

Arctic Sound P311 Bluetooth Headset @ Hi Tech Legion

Network

Synology DS212 2-bay NAS Server for Workgroups and Offices Review @ Madshrimps

Other

The Other Best Video Games of 2011

Asus Transformer TF101 Android Tablet Review @ TechwareLabs

2-Way USB 3.0 4-Port Hub Comparison @ Real World Labs

SteelSeries DESMO Gaming Eyewear Review @ Techgage

Toshiba Portégé Z835-P330 Ultrabook Review @ HotHardware.com

As we reflect on 2011 and what 2012 will have to offer I can promise you two things. You can expect to have a great time gaming in the New Year both at LanOC events and online with us also. Also you can expect to see exciting things with new series video cards and new mainstream CPU’s coming from all of the manufactures. That will keep us busy in the New Year and make sure you will have the fast rig possible to enjoy your games in 2012. Have a great new year! Here are todays Affiliate postings.

Cases

NZXT Phantom Case Review @ OCC

Bitfenix Raider Case Review @ Hardware Secrets

Antec P280 Performance One Case Review @ Ninjalane

Danger Den Q20 Black Series "Shadow" Acrylic Chassis @ TweakTown

Antec Eleven Hundred @ techPowerUp

Enermax Fulmo Advanced Mid-tower Case Review @ Hi Tech Legion

Video Card’s

Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 LP Review @ Neoseeker

Motherboard

GIGABYTE X79-UD5 @ TweakTown

GA-Z68XP-UD5 Motherboard Review @ Hi Tech Legion

Memory

Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB DDR3-1600 @ Benchmark Reviews

Storage

Zalman ZM-VE200 2.5” HDD Enclosure/Virtual Drive Review @ Tweaknews

Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro 750GB Portable Hard Drive Review @ Legit Reviews

Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 64GB Flash Drive Review @ Techgage

Kingston HyperX 3.0 64GB Flash Drive Review @ Legit Reviews

Hitachi LifeStudio Desk Plus 2TB External Hard Drive @ eTeknix.com

Network

Trendnet 200Mbps Powerline Networking @ BCCHardware

Input Devices

Steelseries Cataclysm Gaming Mouse Review @ HardwareLOOK

PSU’s

FSP Aurum CM 650w PSU Review @ XSReviews

Super Flower GOLDEN GREEN 1000W Power Supply Review @ Real World Labs

Cooling

Zalman CNPS11X Cpu Cooler @ Rbmods

Contest

Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Contest @ Legit Reviews

Win a Antec Kuhler Liquid Cooling System @ Bigbruin.com

Other

HD 7970: Bulldozer vs. Sandy Bridge vs. Nehalem @ techPowerUp

As we reflect on 2011 and what 2012 will have to offer I can promise you two things. You can expect to have a great time gaming in the New Year both at LanOC events and online with us also. Also you can expect to see exciting things with new series video cards and new mainstream CPU’s coming from all of the manufactures. That will keep us busy in the New Year and make sure you will have the fast rig possible to enjoy your games in 2012. Have a great new year! Here are todays Affiliate postings.

Cases

NZXT Phantom Case Review @ OCC

Bitfenix Raider Case Review @ Hardware Secrets

Antec P280 Performance One Case Review @ Ninjalane

Danger Den Q20 Black Series "Shadow" Acrylic Chassis @ TweakTown

Antec Eleven Hundred @ techPowerUp

Enermax Fulmo Advanced Mid-tower Case Review @ Hi Tech Legion

Video Card’s

Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 LP Review @ Neoseeker

Motherboard

GIGABYTE X79-UD5 @ TweakTown

GA-Z68XP-UD5 Motherboard Review @ Hi Tech Legion

Memory

Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB DDR3-1600 @ Benchmark Reviews

Storage

Zalman ZM-VE200 2.5” HDD Enclosure/Virtual Drive Review @ Tweaknews

Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro 750GB Portable Hard Drive Review @ Legit Reviews

Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 64GB Flash Drive Review @ Techgage

Kingston HyperX 3.0 64GB Flash Drive Review @ Legit Reviews

Hitachi LifeStudio Desk Plus 2TB External Hard Drive @ eTeknix.com

Network

Trendnet 200Mbps Powerline Networking @ BCCHardware

Input Devices

Steelseries Cataclysm Gaming Mouse Review @ HardwareLOOK

PSU’s

FSP Aurum CM 650w PSU Review @ XSReviews

Super Flower GOLDEN GREEN 1000W Power Supply Review @ Real World Labs

Cooling

Zalman CNPS11X Cpu Cooler @ Rbmods

Contest

Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Contest @ Legit Reviews

Win a Antec Kuhler Liquid Cooling System @ Bigbruin.com

Other

HD 7970: Bulldozer vs. Sandy Bridge vs. Nehalem @ techPowerUp

Boy oh boy, this could get interesting. If you own a PS3 I would start watching what happens with this. They did it once, it could happen again.

 Anonymous Threatens to take down PSN again.

I've spent all of 2011 trying to play nearly every game available. Sure I could call it work, but for the most part it was a good time. We had up and downs. With this year seeing the introduction of releases from major IP's like Elder Scrolls and Battlefield its been an amazing year for any gamer. No matter your preferences I'm sure you have found a game or two that tickles your fancy. After doing the gaming news for the year do you want to know what the Game Of The Year for me is? Read on to find out. Some of the entry's might surprise you!

Another humpday video to help you get through your day. Extra Internets to anyone who ends up walking around like that at the LAN. 

I'm sure everyone has seen the tweets from all of the ungrateful kids this year upset about not getting cars and iPhones. It wouldn't be complete without a video to go with it. Please be warned this video has lots of bad language.

Thanks to Skyler for the video

Love video games? Fed up with the same old festive drinks? We think we may have just the thing for you.

Inspired by our top 20 games of the year list – and our love of alcoholic beverages – I asked James Dance, owner of stylish Falmouth bar and video game arcade Loading, to create six new festive cocktails, based on the year's hottest titles.

He has recently designed drinks for Capcom's Street Fighter community event in London and made up an Alice: Madness Returns cocktail for Electronic Arts.

So, from the explosive Uncharted 3: Drinks Deception to the sophisticated LA Noire: Truth, Lie, Stout, these entertaining and exotic concoctions will be perfect for your Christmas gaming get-togethers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/dec/23/six-video-game-cocktails

Thanks to Mark for the link 

After a great but tiring holiday weekend I am back in action today, a few days later than planned. Like most people I decided to take a few days off to ready ourselves for the craziness that is CES that is coming up on us very quickly. Even considering we haven’t posted our affiliate news for over four days there isn’t too much waiting on, proof that the holiday weekend wasn’t just long for us. Anyhow here are the reviews from our affiliates for today, I hope you enjoy them.

Motherboards

ECS X79R-AX @ TweakTown

Cooling

Noctua NF-F12 PWM Fan @ Rbmods

Super Talent USB 3.0 Express ST4 32GB Flash Drive Review @ Madshrimps

Thermaltake Frio Advanced CPU Cooler Review @ eTeknix.com

Zalman CNPS11X Performa CPU Cooler Review @ Hardware Secrets

Intel LGA2011 CPU Cooler Roundup @ Legit Reviews

PSU’s

Rosewill HIVE 650 W Power Supply Review @ Hardware Secrets

Cases

XClio Touch 320 @TweakTown

Streacom FC5 Silent HTPC Chassis Review @MissingRemote

NZXT Phantom 410 PC Case Review @ Real World Labs

Fractal Design Arc Midi Black Case Review @ Legit Reviews

Raidmax Seiran Case Review @ Hardware Secrets

Diablotek Fly Mid-Tower Case Review @ Hi Tech Legion

Silverstone Grandia Series GD06 HTPC Case Review @ eTeknix.com

Gaming

Batman Arkham City 3D Vision Game Review @ Benchmark Reviews

Storage

Hitachi TOURO DESK PRO 3TB USB 3.0 External HDD Review @ Real World Labs

Corsair Performance Pro Series 256 GB Review @ OCC

Memory

Corsair Vengeance LP PC3-12800 16GB @TweakTown

Exceleram E30200A 8GB DDR3-Series Memory Modules Review @ Madshrimps

Input Devices

Thrustmaster Ferrari F1 Wheel T500 Review @ Vortez

Other

Energizer iSurge Travel Charging Station Review @ Legit Reviews

Sony Tablet S Android Slate Review @ HotHardware.com

Parrot AR.Drone @ techPowerUp

Well it’s finally here, the end of the week and also the last workday before Christmas. Our gaming news writer is coming up to the LanOC office so we can give his new build a kick ass water cooling setup tonight before we go out to celebrate a great year. I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Keep an eye on the site over the weekend though, just because it’s a holiday doesn’t mean we don’t have anything planned. Here are the reviews from our affiliates to give you something to read over the weekend.

Cases

NZXT Phantom 410 Case Review @ Hardware Secrets

Motherboards

ASRock X79 Extreme9 @ TweakTown

ASUS P9X79 Deluxe Intel LGA 2011 @ techPowerUp

Input Devices

Corepad Deskpad XL and XXXXL Review @ XSReviews

Memory

G.Skill Ripjaws X 8GB 2133 MHz @ Futurelooks

Video Cards

Club3D Radeon HD 6950 Battlefield 3 Edition Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com

Sapphire HD 6670 Low Profile Review @ OCC

Gaming

Trine 2: 3D Vision 2 Experience @ Hi Tech Legion

Star Wars: The Old Republic - First Impressions @ Techgage

Mining away hours of my life

Other

Samsung Galaxy Nexus with ICS Smartphone Review @ HotHardware.com

Nyko Power Pak+ vs. Hyperkin Power Plus Nintendo 3DS Extended Battery Power Shootout

GoldKey USB Data Security Token Review @ Legit Reviews

Yesterday Corsair announced the winner of their Vengeance® Cup Call of Duty® 4 tournament. In an exciting final match, the Anexis eSports team beat LowLandLions to take the top prize of $6,000. LowLandLions received $3,000, and third-place finishers Team-Dignitas received $1,000.

 

"We are very excited to announce the winner of the first Corsair Vengeance Cup, and congratulate Anexis ESports on their victory. Our thanks go to everyone who took part." Said Ruben Mookerjee, VP and General Manager for Components at Corsair. "The Vengeance Cup was a great way to celebrate the launch of our new FPS-optimized Vengeance K60 gaming keyboard and Vengeance M60 laser gaming mouse. They're an ideal match for the intense action of Call of Duty 4."

Click below to read the full release

I hope everyone had a good humpday, I spent the day working off and on rebuilding my main PC to fix a couple audio issues that were coming up. I’m back up and running now and ready to post up the midweek news from our affiliates.

Motherboards

ECS X79R-AX Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets

PSU’s

Thermaltake Toughpower XT Platinum 1275 W @ techPowerUp

XFX ProSeries 1250W @TweakTown

Enermax Platimax 1200W Power Supply Review @ Real World Labs

Super Flower Golden King 550w Review @ XSReviews.co.uk

Memory

Mushkin Redline PC3-17000 16GB Kit @ TweakTown

Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB DDR3-1600 Memory @ Benchmark Reviews

Storage

Hitachi Touro Desk Pro 3TB @TweakTown

OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS 120GB Solid State Drive Review @ eTeknix.com

Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD @ Rbmods

Cooling

Cooler Master GeminII S524 CPU Cooler Review @ TechwareLabs

Cases

Enermax Spinerex full tower Review @ XSReviews

Fractal Design Arc Midi Tower Case Review @ Hi Tech Legion

Antec’s Eleven Hundred @ Futurlooks

Xigmatek Elysium Case Review @ OCC

Input Devices

SteelSeries Sensei Gaming Mouse @ techPowerUp

Xebec Tech X-Line Multimedia Keyboard Review @ eTeknix.com

Arctic K481 Wireless Keyboard Review @ Hi Tech Legion

Other

eTeknix Christmas Hardware Buying Guide @ eTeknix.com

Building a BitTorrent Rig with the Zotac ZBOX Nano Plus @ Legit Reviews

Samsung MV800 Digital Camera Review @ Tech-Reviews.co.uk

Motorola Droid RAZR Smartphone Review @ Hothardware

MEGATech Gift Guide – Five Totally Awesome But Incredibly Useless Star Trek Gifts

Moving Your 'Non-Movable' Android Apps to an SD Card @ Techgage