Monday, May 31, 2010

IT News HeadLines (PCSTATS) 31/05/2010


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Seagate BlackArmor WS 110 - Review @ PCSTATS

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SilverStone Strider Plus 750w Power Supply @ PCSTATS
Here we are yet to take a look at another business grade storage solution. Its not tough to come up with a usable storage for a project but it is important to keep all of your work files in one place. Having a small NAS or DAS near by would be a perfect solution. Either way you are looking to spend at least 400$ for a storage system. If you are... [PCSTATS]

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G.Skill Phoenix 100 GB SSD with SandForce SF-1200 Controller @ PCSTATS
"I'd like to take this moment to introduce you to the SilverStone Strider Plus 750 Watt Power Supply, a fully modular system. This unit is a new premier power supply from SilverStone that I'll have the privilege of testing here today. We have looked at a few SilverStone power supplies in the past and all have walked away with an award of some sort.... [PCSTATS]

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Sapphire HD5850 Toxic @ PCSTATS
Phoenix is the name of the newest SSD from G.Skill. It is equipped with the SandForce SF-1200 controller, a very high performance and an attractive price. Let's take a look at it and the benchmarks. ... [PCSTATS]

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Arctic Cooling ARCTIC C2 4-Port USB Charger @ PCSTATS
"It's already been a while since Ati launched their HD5850 and 5870 cards, and now manufacturers are starting to come up with more special models. After market coolers, higher clock speeds and also longer warranties and crazy bundles are something you normally don't see from day one. So what's different with the HD5850 Toxic?" ... [PCSTATS]

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Crucial Ballistix PC3-12800 (1600MHz) 6GB Kit @ PCSTATS
With the Maximus III Extreme ASUS shows it next motherboard from their already very well known ROG series. It comes with a lot of interesting and useful features such as two USB 3.0 port, the iROG connector as well as the RC Bluetooth receiver. Furthermore the board should also feature brilliant performance. ... [PCSTATS]

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Corsair Flash Voyager GTR Flash Drive @ PCSTATS
"Today we'll be looking at a conservative PC3-12800 or 1600MHz DDR kit. Maybe we'll get a surprise when it comes to testing the kit. Before we get that far, though, let's have a look at the package and the modules themselves. As always, we have the need; the need for speed. When it came to overclocking the kit honestly went a lot better than I t... [PCSTATS]

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AMD/ATI vs. Intel/Nvidia Gaming Performance @ PCSTATS
Flash drive capacities are growing larger and larger at 32GB and beyond, but with write speeds limited to around 17MB/s or less, you could be spending quite some time in order to fill a drive to capacity. Though this may not matter if you're only looking to move a few Excel files, if you need to move high resolution photos or HD video from place to... [PCSTATS]

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OCZ Vertex 2 100GB SandForce SF-1200 SSD Review @ PCSTATS
With the Phenom II X6 AMD has a CPU which is able to compete with Intels Core i7 models. Furthermore AMD announced the availability of their new "Leo"-platform which includes motherboards, processor and graphics card. For us this is cause to compare the two archrivals AMD/ATI and Intel/NVIDIA using our benchmarking parcours. ... [PCSTATS]

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Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced Mid Tower Case @ PCSTATS
"The OCZ Vertex 2 is an ideal successor to the original Vertex series as it has proven to be one of the fastest SSDs that we have ever seen here at Legit Reviews. It was able to give the Intel X25-M G2 160GB SSD and Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB drives a run for their money in many of the benchmarks. We were able to reach read speeds of up to 280MB/se... [PCSTATS]

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Verbatim SmarkDisk Crossfire 1TB USB External Hard Drive Review @ PCSTATS
"I am sort of ashamed to say it, but I missed out on grabbing a CM 690 the first time they released onto the market. At that time I had still to figure out that a case really can be more than a place to house components. From what I can gather from hanging out around forums is that the original version was a highly rated addition by most people who... [PCSTATS]

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Computex 2010 PREVIEW - ASUS Rampage III GENE X58 Motherboard @ PCSTATS
“External hard drives are still used quite often, I actually have 4 external hard drives hooked up to my main machine right now. External hard drives are very popular because they are easy to install (just plug them in) and make it so you can transfer files between 2 machines with ease. Today we will be taking a look at a 1TB drive from Verbatim. T... [PCSTATS]

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Intel's Core i7-875K and i5-655K processors @ PCSTATS

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MSI 3DMark11 Demo at MSI Big Bang Booth - Computex 2010 @ PCSTATS
"Take, for instance, AMD's recent resurgence in desktop processors. Although Intel has held the overall performance crown in an unbroken run since the introduction of the first Core 2 Duo, AMD has been able to stay on the radar of PC enthusiasts through cunning and guile. When it had no hope of catching up to the fas... [PCSTATS]

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Computex 2010 - 3DMark11 Preview from FutureMark! @ PCSTATS

MSI Partners with Futuremark to Provide the First Hands-on Demonstration of 3DMark® 11 at MSI Big Bang Showcase Area during Computex Taipei 2010

City of Industry, CA. - May 28, 2010 – Micro-Star International (MSI), a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and consumer electronic devices ... [PCSTATS]

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How To Install Windows 7 and Media Center on a HTPC @ PCSTATS

PCSTATS has a couple new screenshots from the upcoming Futuremark videocard benchmark that will be on display for the first time ever at Computex 2010 next week. 3DMark11 contains tests for modern videocards which feature Tessellation, Depth of ... [PCSTATS]

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Asus GTX 480 1.5GB and the Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 5870 2GB video cards @ PCSTATS
"For most enthusiasts installing Windows 7 is a breeze, a far cry from the cumbersome install of Windows 95/98/ME/2000. Windows Vista and 7 are extremely simple to setup, requiring almost no input from the user, even someone who knows very little about computers can run through the setup with an easy to follow guide. Today we're going to run th... [PCSTATS]

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HP EliteBook 2540p @ PCSTATS
"Asus is one of the first manufacturers to actually have GeForce GTX 480s available to buy (at least intermittently), so we were delighted when the firm's Voltage Tweak edition of the card arrived in the ITShootOut.com office. This happened to coincide rather nicely with the arrival of our 2GB Sapphire Toxic edition 5870 sample, allowing us to pit ... [PCSTATS]

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PowerColor PCS++ HD5770 @ PCSTATS
"HP's newest laptop, the EliteBook 2540p can transform any room into a home or professional office in the blink of an eye. Though HP's graphical processor isn't the greatest and slows the machine down during games and 3D software, the EliteBook 2540p has very fast components, versatile ports, a light weight and has great power for nearly any profes... [PCSTATS]

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CPU Round-up: Sub-$100 Intel and AMD Processors Tested @ PCSTATS
As PowerColor already invested a lot of development into the PCB for its Radeon HD 5750 GoGreen, it seems as if the manufacturer also wanted improve other products. So what seems to be extremely efficient could turn out as overclockerÂ’s dream. HT4U.net shows, if this is really the case.... [PCSTATS]

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Samsung NB30 Netbook Review @ PCSTATS
Recently we compared a dozen AMD and Intel desktop processors priced between $100 and $200 in order to determine which offered the best performance vs. price ratio for mainstream computer users. But then we asked ourselves, what can be had for less than $100? Today we will be focusing on almost a dozen AMD and Intel chips priced below this mark.... [PCSTATS]

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Corsair Flash Survivor GTR 32GB USB Flash Drive @ PCSTATS
So, here we are at the end. Is the NB30 a decent netbook? Well, yes. Is it a pretty damn good netbook? Yes as well. As far as netbooks go, the NB30 is exactly as I would expect: Intel Atom, 10? screen, light, small, and itÂ’s packing some serious battery life. What separated the Samsung NB30 from being just another netbook is the protective fini... [PCSTATS]

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Thermaltake Frio Review @ PCSTATS
There is no denying that Corsair has made some significant improvements to the Survivor family. The latest GTR spanks the competition in speed and still manages to provide water resistance to a very durable enclosure. ... [PCSTATS]

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