Enermax MODU87+ 600W Power Supply Review
Very efficient and virtually silent! If you are looking for a very quiet mid-power PSU with excellent efficiency, good voltage regulation, and modular cables; the MODU87+ 600W deserves a close look....
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In case you forgot about the Thermaltake Level 10
Thermaltake pretty much owns the high end of the enclosure market with their Level 10 case. For only $700 you get a case which offers separate compartments for each and every component you have and one of the most well designed wire management systems going. This not only gives a unique appearance to the case, it also gives you incredible flexibi...
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6 cores and more, what CPUs you should expect to see in the coming months
DigiTimes has posted an unofficial timeline for releases over the coming year and most of the news is about AMD. Sure, Intel's new dual and quad core i5's and i3's are interesting, but we have been waiting for AMDs new line of chips for a long time now. The second quarter will see three Phenom II X6 models which will probably not quite match the ...
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Phenom II X6.... What We Know So Far
Before we get locked down with an NDA, I thought I would post what info we have seen so far about AMD's upcoming 6-core CPU. Last year AMD made some news with the first 6 core server chips, based on the Istanbul core design. This made it into the Opteron lineup as the 2400 and 8400 series of products, and has been available for around 9 months ...
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Intel releases SSD friendly AHCI/RAID driver
For the past few months, Intel has been working on a new Rapid Storage Technology (RST) driver to replace the old Intel Matrix Storage Manager (IMSM) series. The new RST 9.6.0.1014 has been released and includes the following support: In AHCI mode, passes TRIM to attached SSD's. In RAID m...
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PC Perspective: Weekend Gaming Edition
AMD for the Common Gaming Good? AMD is pushing for a new level of cooperation between game developers and hardware vendors - specifically in the areas of stereoscopic 3D (or S3D) and in-game physics. AMD's strategy is to open up the APIs so that any developer can take advantage of S3D and physics regardless of their choice of hardware underneath...
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GRB 080319B, aka the Clarke Event; the greatest light show you might have seen
The joys of the PC, building your own rig, cleaning off strange crud, customizing a watercooling setup for it, diagnosing random crashes when you game on the PC, the fun never ends! Even your virtual hardware can drive you batty. You did back everything up recently, right? You could switch to Linux and see if that helps; just make sure you ...
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Heavy reading - over 50 CPUs rounded up for your perusal
Athlon II's and Phenom II's in both triple and quadruple core flavours, Celerons, Xeons and Pentiums, Plus Core 2's Core i5's and Core i7's, all put together into one giant review. Processors running from under $100 to a dollar below $1000, it is a large gamut to get through. One must imagine that no matter how long it takes you to read through t...
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A tale of two Radeon HD5770s
There are many types of HD5770s, from the stock models to ones with custom cooling and factory set overclocks; two of which are up for review at InsideHW. The MSI HD5770 Hawk and the POWERCOLOR PCS+ AX5770 are similar in some ways but vastly different in others. Mostly likely thanks to the improved cooling on the MSI HAWK, they managed a much mor...
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Have a P55 that needs more memory bandwidth and are sporting a thick wallet?
The Patriot Viper II Sector 5 2000MHz 4GB DDR3 kit sports timings of 8-8-8-24 and a price of $55 per gigabyte. If that seems a little steep to you it is because that is exactly what it is, however that is the penalty you pay for RAM that runs at 2GHz. The extra bandwidth did show up across the boards in the testing Legit Reviews did; though perha...
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Gigabyte's slip is to the gain of anyone wondering about 6 core AMD CPUs
The quick eyes at The Inquirer spotted a nice tidbit of information released by Gigabyte accidentally. They revealed the clock speeds of two of AMD's upcoming 6 core CPUs in a BIOS update that were enough to determine the clock speeds with the help of the leaked CPU list. Unfortunately what was not leaked were MRSPs for the CPUs so the pricing is ...
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Shopping for a 700W PSU?
You can see a comparison of the Enermax ECO80+ 620W, Nexus NX-8060 600W, Scythe Kamariki 4 650W and the Sharkoon Silent Storm 660W at Madshrimps. All these PSUs sit in the same class of power supplied and several of the models are rated as having 80+ efficiency but not all are created equal. There are differences in the cabling, the noise and coo...
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Get Blu-Ray for cheap
It has taken a while before the industry realized that if people need to pay almost the full price of a PS3 to get a Blu-Ray drive that most people will choose the Sony product over a 5.25" internal drive. The prices have plummeted, at least on the readers if not the writers which is why the LITE-ON iHOS104-08 Blu-Ray Driveis a rather nice product...
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Can Google make it on the small screen?
Microsoft tried and failed miserably with their WebTV/MSN TV initiative to bring the functionality of a PC to the TV. AppleTV did a little better but never really caught on. Now Google, in association with Intel and Sony, are trying out set top box technology on the Dish Network. They hope to make hitting sites like Twitter and Picasa as easy a...
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Acer 11-inch TimelineX 1830T Leaked Specs
Acer has revealed a new line-up of TimelineX laptops, and perhaps the most interesting of the bunch is the TimelineX 1830T. The 1830T is an 11-inch 1366x768 notebook featuring an Intel Core 2 Solo CPU and the Intel GS45 chipset. Using the Intel integrated graphics, the new 1" thick notebook is reported to last 8 hours. Connectivity includes HDMI, 8...
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Yet another not yet released Blizzard game teaser
Join The Escapist, who obviously got their hands on a beta key, in introducing the Terran race from StarCraft 2 : The Unreleased. From Schwarzenegger impersonating Thors to the odd merging of Dropship and Medic that is the Medivac, all the units are covered along with a quick look at their capabilities. Or, if you want something a little light...
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AMD has a different sort of new driver in the works
According to the information [H]ard|OCP received, the new ATI 10.3a Catalyst Driver Update will focus on performance, to the point of not being WHQL certified when it first becomes available. This is fairly big news as lately the big goal that AMD has been striving for is to release a driver every month, regardless of how little has changed. 10....
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Bringing SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0 to the Clarkdale crowd
As its name suggests the ASUS P7P55D-E Premium is indeed a P55 based board, which incorporates both the new data transfer standards, being SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0. It also overclocks easily, as [H]ard|OCP could hit a 200MHz BCLK with all voltages set to auto, as long as they adjusted the CPU speed to remain near stock. A slight tweak to the volt...
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Razer is at it again, behold the Imperator
For $70 you can get hold of Razer's new Imperator gaming mouse, able to change from 100 up to 5600 DPI and it does not use drift control ensuring that how you move your mouse is exactly how the mouse moves. Seven customizable buttons ensure you can choose the most comfortable configuration for yourself. It even has drives for Macs. Techware Labs...
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Microsoft Reveals Plans for IE9
Microsoft is revealing more details about its IE9 Platform today and the improvements you can expect to see when IE9 is finally released. The focus for this Preview is standards compliance and performance enhancements. The software developer showed off its ability to handle HTML5 and CSS3, while touting improved performance through multi-t...
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ASUS combines the power of a mobile Core i5 with Optimus
The ASUS N61Jv-X2 is a 16" notebook with some serious power under the hood, a Core i5-430M with 4GB of DDR3-1066 and nVIDIA's GeForce GT325M 1GB Optimus powering the 1366x768 screen ... it even has a USB 3.0 plug. ASUS wanted to keep this notebook under $1000, so the storage is platter based though that can easily be rectified after the fact. Whe...
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Getting keyboard/mouse/game controller signal to PC in different room
Help me ye PC Gods.... My computer is 3 feet from my HDTV with a wall in between - the TV is in our bedroom, the PC is in the study). I want to play...
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Maine Moose Safe After Falling Into Moose Pond
"Game wardens in Maine say a moose is back in the woods thanks to some human help it got after it broke through the ice on Moose Pond in the town...
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Crysis - Guns FTL
Was playing a bit of Crysis at the weekend, and it is Oh so good, but its a bit easy even on delta. I mean I got up to the first guys in the nano...
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Born to Kill Silverstone Raven RV02
I have start this project a few days and i'm here too share with you guy's i hope you like what i already do and enjoy! Born to Kill Silverstone...
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SMP2 (A3) core update: version 2.17
. ---Quote--- Image: http://en.fah-addict.net/images/categories/cat_projet.png (http://en.fah-addict.net/news/news.php?cat=5) A new version of...
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Want to make sure they'll mesh
I'm a newb when it comes to building computers, just to get that out of the way. I'm getting ready to put together a budget pc and want to know if...
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Helping a friend on Ebay
My friend was banned from using Ebay because she posted stock images instead of pictures she took herself. Ebay warned her but she didn't have...
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SataII Ports ''Not Detected"
Hey there. I just rebuilt my computer with a Biostar TA790GX A3+ motherboard, AMD Phenom II, some DDR3 RAM, and a new power supply. I have two IDE...
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Fire Fox question
How do I get rid of this empty bar? I've tried everything! And why is firefox acting like crap!? I've tried chrome but it seemed slow although I did...
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Excessive Spam the past few days...
I honestly cannot believe the amount of spam accounts that were created the past few days... Should we stop the creation of new accounts temporarily...
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Let us welcome yet another new Froggie to the Team !
*A Froggy Welcome To* *darima* *to the* *PC Perspective Folding Frogs* *Team 734*
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What's with this "new" HDD??
To get things rolling I'm going to give general situations until I can get back to playing with the system. Unfortunately this will be done from...
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Do laptops choke off SSD performance?
I'm thinking of picking up an SSD and an OptiBay for my late 2009 15" 2.53 Unibody Mac Book Pro. The basic plan is to install the OS, applications,...
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