Tuesday, February 7, 2012

IT News Head Lines (PCSTATS) 2/7/2012

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Gold and Bronze: NZXT Power Supply Units Roundup



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Compact Network Attached Storage from Synology: DiskStation DS411 Slim
Today we are going to talk about five power supply units from NZXT ranging in capacity from 650 W to 1000 W and certified according to 80 PLUS Bronze and Gold standards.
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Intel Core i7-3820 vs. Core i7-2700K and Core i7-3930K
This compact product working with 2.5”hard drives brings low power consumption (“green” solution), quiet operation, reliability and easy disk replacement in a small size. The operating system, Synology DiskStation Manager 3.0, delivers rich features for multimedia, Internet sharing, data protection and energy-saving options. Read more in our review... [PCSTATS]


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Corsair Vengeance M90 Performance Laser Gaming Mouse Review
In the nearest future Intel is going to start selling their new quad-core LGA 2011 processor – Core i7-3820, which will boast low price tag of only $285. Let’s see how attractive the new product is going to be.
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Vertex 3 120GB SSD Drive
Corsair has recently entered the mouse/keyboard gaming peripherals market and decided to make a good impression. The M90 mouse features multiple programmable buttons for RTS/MMO gamers, contains an aluminum chassis for increased durability and comes with the Avago Technologies ADNS-9500 LaserStream Gaming Sensor. ... [PCSTATS]


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HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks Webcast
"The Vertex range of drives can be considered the benchmark when comparing performance in their respective range and with the release of OCZ’s Vertex 3 range we are now offered with 500MB/s write and 550MB/s reads. Today we bring to you OCZ’s 120GB model of the Vertex 3 which is offered in 60GB, 90GB, 120GB, 24GB and 480GB variants"
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AZZA Fusion 3000 Tower Case
In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Marco, Iyaz and Dave discuss the Asus Transformer Prime Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” update, AMD's A8-3870K Black Edition unlocked Llano APU, Dell's Alienware X51 small form factor gaming PC, the brand new AMD Radeon HD 7950 and details our most recent contest where three lucky winne... [PCSTATS]


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Kingston HyperX 2400mhz Review
"Today for review we have the AZZA Fusion 3000, the smaller brother of the Fusion 4000. It is a bit of a misnomer, however, to refer to the Fusion 3000 as a "smaller sibling" considering the daunting size of this 10 slot full-sized tower case. It fits up to an Ultra ATX motherboard with plenty of room for the long, over-sized graphics cards. Let's ... [PCSTATS]


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Radeon HD 7950 Overclock Guide
Intel’s X79 platform has transformed the high end enthusiast market, with performance levels outside anything that AMD can currently challenge. We have reviewed several memory kits in recent months but today we are looking at the latest HyperX 2400mhz memory 8GB kit from Kingston.


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Xclio Touch 787 Super Tower Chassis Review
We take a Radeon HD 7950 overclock it the normal way and then voltage tweaked. So that way we will demonstrate not one, but two maximum overclock conditions alongside TDP, heat, noise and performance levels.

You will notice that if you go for long lifespan a long-lived card that overclocking the old fashioned way will not disappoint. A good GHz... [PCSTATS]


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AXIOM EP125 V3 8” 125 Watt Subwoofer Review
"On top of an improved Touch panel of this chassis, we are also moving up in chassis classes. Here we go from the mid-tower design of the Touch 320, skip right over full towers, and deliver a Super Tower chassis! The optical bays stay tool-less, but this time there is a whole new look at HDD mounting. Similar to what I have seen in press releases f... [PCSTATS]


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enthusiast community with the A8-3870K
Recently, we reviewed the Axiom M3 v2 bookshelf speakers and found them to be great speaker for the price point but bookshelf speakers are only capable of reproducing the higher areas of the sonic spectrum.

Bookshelf speaker based audio systems require a subwoofer to produce the lower frequency ranges that the bookshelf speakers cannot accurate... [PCSTATS]


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Thermaltake SMART 630W Power
AMD entices the enthusiast community with the A8-3870K, an unlocked version of its A8 APU. That means no locked multipliers. Will it allow for new levels of performance? Find out in our review!
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ROCCAT Alumic Mouse Pad
A couple of weeks ago, we have taken a look at the Thermaltake SMART 730W power supply. The SMART series is a value oriented line of PSUs designed to be not only budget friendly, but also eco-friendly. But the thing is, not everyone needs 730W. To cater to those who only need a power supply that delivers a moderate amount of juice, what we have her... [PCSTATS]


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Financial Analyst Day
ROCCAT's newest double sided gaming surface is dubbed Alumic. New for the Alumic is an aluminum core construction, to which ROCCAT has applied two different plastic surfaces. The Alumic features a control and speed side in order to accommodate all gaming styles.
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MSI Z68A-GD65G3 Motherboard
AMD has released an updated roadmap for these next two years, and the
information contained within is quite revealing of where AMD is going
and how they are shifting their lineup to be less dependent on a
single manufacturer. The Financial Analyst Day has brought a few
surprises of where AMD is headed, and how they will get there.
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10% Motherboard Price Hike due to Value of Cu + Chinese Minimum Wage Raise
Today we have a motherboard review for you, we finally got back on track and are focusing on hardware and MSI is a big step towards our goal. We are looking at the Z68A-GD65G3 that has some nice features such as; UEFI, Military class components, and even THX audio. Lets find out if also performs as well as expected.

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Kingston DataTraveler 109
Motherboard vendors ASUS and Gigabyte are expected to hike their motherboard prices by about 10% as early as the end of the first quarter of 2012, in response to increases in the price of copper and labor costs in China.

Further, Digitimes reports; "
Motherboard prices were hiked by 5-10% in early 2011 to reflect increased material costs and... [PCSTATS]


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Seasonic X-1050 PSU: Gold at Kilowatt+
"Kingston is one of the world leading vendors for computer memory, USB flash drive and other similar storage products. Today we will take a look on one of their latest products; DataTraveler 109. This DataTraveler 109 is a slim (I mean extremely slim), stylish USB flash drive available in the market and it is also with urDrive; a free preloaded app... [PCSTATS]


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Zotac GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores @ Hardwareoverclock.com
Seasonic recently entered the ranks of kilowatt PSU makers with new 1050W and 1250W models in its X series, and a 1000W model in its new X-derivative Platinum line. Our acoustics-focused review of the 80 Plus Gold approved X-1050 finds Seasonic in fine form.
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SoundGraph iMON SmartBay Review
Hardwareoverclock.com has just posted another videocard review. Last week we have taken a look at the Zotac GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores. The Gen2 of the GTX 560 Ti is a secret tip. The performance is better, the overclocking performance is also awesome. Is this the new price/performance tip?

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Hauppauge HD PVR Gaming Editing Review
The iMON SmartBay product from SoundGraph is an iPad/iPhone dock with multiple functions; it incorporates an IR sensor and comes with a remote. With the product, we can charge or data sync our iOS device, listen to music even when the computer is off, power on the PC by using the small remote and linked to the other provided softwares like Remote+ ... [PCSTATS]


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Samsung 470 Series 128GB SSD Review
Today we have the Hauppauge HD PVR Gaming Edition that we will be taking a look at. You may all be familiar with the previous normal Hauppauge HD PVR, but this edition now offers you 1080i recording resolution for PS3/Wii/Xbox 360. There are many of you how love to watch YouTube videos of peoples edited videos of COD of Gears Of War, and especially... [PCSTATS]


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Mad Catz TRITTON Gears of War 3 Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound
In this review at ocinside.de the Samsung 470 Series 128GB SSD is compared against some SSDs of ADATA, Crucial, Mach Extreme Technology and OCZ.
Since it is a SATA II SSD, it surely will not be able to keep up with the top 6 Gb/s drives, but let us take a look at some benchmark results, to see what Samsung can get out of the 30nm memory in combina... [PCSTATS]


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Ozone Onda 3HX Headset Review
The TRITTON Gears of War 3 Headset from Mad Catz comes with 2 Full-Range 40mm Drivers and thanks to the included Dolby® Digital EX / Pro Logic IIX / Dolby Headphone Decoder, the product can reproduce realistically surround sound, for an interesting experience in games, movies or music. The master volume can be adjusted from the decoder box or from ... [PCSTATS]


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ASUS Transformer Prime Review
"The Onda 3HX features high quality 40 mm speakers, an ultracomfortable headband, soft cushions for long gaming sessions, and a high quality detachable microphone. Furthermore the Onda 3HX is compatible with PC, X-box 360 and Playstation 3 providing compatibility across multiple gaming platforms."
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Verbatim's Store'n'Go 1 TB USB3.0 Portable Hard Drive.
Ever since the first Android tablets arrived a year or two ago things have been developing fast. ODMs and chip designers jumped onto the bandwagon fast as PC sales are declining, and much like the initial netbook market, the tablet market is on the rise.

We test the The quad-core Tegra 3 based Eee Pad Transformer Prime, an unbelievable product.... [PCSTATS]


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