Thursday, August 12, 2010

IT News HeadLines (PCSTATS) 12/08/2010


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Quick Review: Samsung BD-C6500 Blu-ray Player @ PCSTATS

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ASUS GeForce ENGTX460 TOP 768MB Video Card Review @ PCSTATS
"The Samsung BD-C6500 Blu-ray player is the midrange model in their product line, offering built-in wireless support, but no 3D playback. In a market crowded with set-top players, console systems and even HTPCs, how does the C6500 compare? - The C6500 also supports a wired Ethernet connection or Wi-Fi over 802.11g/n. 802.11g-based routers work just... [PCSTATS]

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G.Skill launches 48GB Kit for EVGA SR-2 @ PCSTATS
"The ASUS GeForce GTX 460 768MB ENGTX460 TOP video card was found to be about 4% faster than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB reference card. The video card features a mild 25MHz boost on the GPU core clock and the 20MHz memory overclock, so we knew it wouldn't run laps around the original design. This card has plenty of overclocking headroom lef... [PCSTATS]

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Power Supplies With Fake 80 Plus Badges @ PCSTATS
Gskill introduce a 48GB kit for the EVGA SR2!... [PCSTATS]

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HIS HD 5550 & 5570 "Silence" Graphics Cards @ PCSTATS
Portable external storage devices of high capacity hold 2.5" laptop drives in a USB-interface casing. Are they all equal? We examine the 1TB and 640GB FreeAgent Go drives from Seagate and find them to be exceptional in at least one very important way (for most SPCR readers): acoustics.... [PCSTATS]

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Gigabyte GO OC 2010 North America Overclocking Championships @ PCSTATS
The HIS HD 5550/5570 are a trio of budget graphics cards that have good potential for silent cooling. Though not great for 3D performance, they are energy efficient and they are all equipped with fanless heatsinks.... [PCSTATS]

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ASRock Core 100HT-BD HTPC (Intel Core i3) @ PCSTATS
The 2010 North American Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship features 12 of the best overclockers from North America, so you know it will be a good time to get them all in the same room. Read on to see what happens as we'll be updating this article as the day goes on. Think of it as a live blog this time around! ... [PCSTATS]

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Lian Li Test Bench PC-Q06 @ PCSTATS
"The ASRock systems we looked at last year made use of Intel Atom technology, undoubtly the most talked about CPU of 2009, but fast forward and ASRock has decided to put the Atom to rest for now with this generation and has gone with the faster Core i3 mobile processor. This should provide a boost in performance compared to the older models, but it... [PCSTATS]

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G.Skill Flare DDR3 2000 MHZ C7 AMD kit review @ PCSTATS
The PC-Q06 belongs to Lian Li's first series of benchtables. These are made of ananondized aluminium and they're therefore lightweight and good loking. Ergonomics being the most important thing about bentables we have to clarify if the Q06 is able to convince especially at this point. ... [PCSTATS]

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PowerColor 5770 PCS+ Vortex @ PCSTATS
We test and review the G.Skill Flare DDR3 2000 MHZ C7 AMD kit. These kits are optimized for AMD platforms preferably with the new six-core X6 processors, and in specific some ASUS motherboards. The kit we'll be testing today obviously comes from that series and is a 2,000MHz CL7-9-7-24 1.65V 4GB (2GBx2) DDR3 kit with its latest Flare heatsinks.... [PCSTATS]

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GIGABYTE's H55N-USB3 Mini-ITX Motherboard Loaded Up @ PCSTATS
" The core was overclocked nearly 6% over reference 5770 speeds, and only 2% on the memory side. Without effort, 970 MHz core and 1360 MHz memory was easy to attain using only ATI Overdrive setting clock rates and fan speed. The gains equate to 8% more speed on the core from factory clocks and 11% more on the memory - not bad at all. Temperatures p... [PCSTATS]

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Contemporary Graphics Cards in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty @ PCSTATS
"After our short time with the H55N-USB3, we felt that we might be missing out on something. We knew from the testing that GIGABYTE had a great little board (literally), but we wanted to know if you could really push the H55N-USB3. To find this out, we dropped in our Core i7 875K, 4GB of Corsair DDR3 RAM, the H70 Cooler, F120 SSD and our Radeon ... [PCSTATS]

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Best DDR3 SDRAM for AMD Phenom II X6 @ PCSTATS
The world has been waiting for the sequel of the legendary StarCraft for over a decade. While only time will tell whether the novelty will be as popular as the predecessor, the game has already captured minds of almost all gamers in the world. With the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a question of possible hardware upgrade arises, and we... [PCSTATS]

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Antec Notebook Cooler Basic @ PCSTATS
How greatly do DDR3 frequency and timings affect the performance of contemporary Socket AM3 systems and what will happen if we pair Phenom II X6 processor in an AMD 890 FX based mainboard with DDR3-2000 SDRAM?... [PCSTATS]

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PC Power & Cooling 950 Mk II Power Supply @ PCSTATS
" In the past, notebook coolers have featured a few fans wrapped together in a block of plastic. While relatively effective on paper, not all designs were functional or ideal for all laptops. Today, Antec provides a solution that is aesthetic in appearance, yet simple and functional in design with the passively cooled Notebook Cooler Basic... [PCSTATS]

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StarCraft II - Wings of Liberty (PC) Review @ PCSTATS
When we think of power supplies for our computers there are still quite a few people out there that think that a PSU is just something that powers our computers. They also still feel that any ole' PSU will work on our computers. This is not the case A PSU is the most vital component of our computers. The PSU in my opinion is just as important as ou... [PCSTATS]

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ASUS CineVibe Rumble Feedback USB Gaming Headset @ PCSTATS
Western Digital may be marketing their new VelociRaptor family of high-speed hard drives as enterprise-class hard drives but they are also very popular with hardware enthusiasts who just cannot resist their 10,000 RPM spindle speed. To cater to this exclusive group of enthusiasts, Western Digital first introduced the Raptor and Raptor X hard dri... [PCSTATS]

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ECS H57H-MUS Black Series @ PCSTATS
"The world of audio headsets is an extremely competitive market. There are some 20+ brands that I can think of right away, and so, for a brand to enter such a domain is a rather brave journey. We've seen the likes of ARCTIC recently tackle the audio market with confidence and conviction, and there is no reason why a successful brand like ASUS c... [PCSTATS]

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Creative Labs ZEN X-Fi Style Portable Media Player Review @ PCSTATS
"Earlier this year we reviewed an Intel H55 motherboard and found it to perform well under Linux both in terms of compatibility with the latest Linux distributions at the time as well as the overall system performance with our slew of open-source benchmarks. Intel's H57 Chipset was launched at the same time, but with the very few difference... [PCSTATS]

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ASUS U30Jc 13.3-inch Notebook @ PCSTATS
Whenever you start a discussion about MP3 players, you have to address the elephant in the room. Yes, we all know that the Apple iPod dominates this space, but that does not mean that we should ignore all the other options. Before you head out and blindly buy another iPod, maybe you should take a moment to look at the Creative ZEN X-Fi Style 8GB to... [PCSTATS]

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Axle Geforce GT 220 Videocard Review @ PCSTATS
"I'm never sure why some of the notebooks that perform the best arenÂ’t exactly good looking. Some of the good performances tend to be chunky notebooks that are not as easy on the eyes as some of the thinner machines with less power. Today I am checking out the sexy little ASUS U30Jc notebook. The little machine is clad in shiny aluminum and has ... [PCSTATS]

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