TechTip - Bring Back the Quick Launch Bar in Windows 7
Once Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview boots to the virtual machine desktop you'll be presented with the totally new 'Metro' user interface. It will take a bit of learning to get used to this maze of icons.... navigation is very different and we here at PCSTATS found it quite frustrating, at first.
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Beginners Guides: Hard Drive Data Recovery This weekend, save your money and use PCSTATS' Jedi knowledge to put your PC in tip top running shape without spending a cent. Dig into a pile of handy Guides, and sweep the performance sucking dust bunnies out of that old computer for good. Make your computer run better, run s... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Beginners Guides: How To Install/Remove AMD Socket FM1 CPU and Heatsink Killed a hard drive without backing up? Deleted your babies first photo and already emptied the recycling bin? Not to worry, you can probably recover your data with the help of this guide from PCSTATS.
Logitech UE Mobile Boombox review: temple of boom? AMD made several noteworthy accomplishments with its socket FM1 'Llano' processor, the most important being the integration of a graphics core directly onto a CPU die which substantially reduced motherboard complexity. Major architectural changes were ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 Ultrabook Review Quote: For its small size the Mobile Boombox sounds very good, even with the volume maxed out the sound doesn't distort. The volume doesn't go very high, however, and the sound is very directional. Like most Bluetooth speakers, the Boombox sounds better when you hook it up with the 3.5 mm jack instead of Bluetooth. ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Intel SSD 335 240GB review: 20nm entry-level SSD Lenovo's IdeaPad Yoga 13 ultrabook is designed to give users flexibility in a way other ultrabooks don't: This ultrabook features a unique, dual-articulating hinge that lets the Yoga 13's touchscreen fold 360 degrees, converting the machine from notebook mode to tablet mode. Thanks to its special hinge design, the Yoga 13 can also be used in "stand... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
How-to: installing Windows 8 without product key If Intel manages to make the SSD 335 significantly more affordable than the Samsung 830 256GB and the Crucial m4 256GB, then it becomes a potentially interesting entry-level SSD option. With current prices the 335 is a dime-a-dozen SSD, nothing more. ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
HotHardware Holiday Gift Guide: Tablets & Smartphones Installing Windows 8 is a bit different than installing the previous version of Windows. Windows 7 you could install without entering a product key, but when you install Windows 8 you are required to fill in a key right-away. For a normal installation that doesn't matter much. But if you only want to experiment with Windows 8 for testing purposes, ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
HH Holiday Gift Guide: Notebooks & Desktops Portable devices are becoming ever more powerful, and users are increasingly using them to keep up with news and friends, get work done, and remain entertained. Smartphones and tablets have never been so powerful, and if you're in market for either, it's going to be a fun holiday season. Whether it's for yourself or someone else, consider this y... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Seasonic X-1250 1250W Power Supply Review 2012 has been a banner year for both notebooks and desktops, in terms of design and innovation. It's not every holiday season that you get to swoon over a new Windows operating system and freshly designed hardware to go with it, but those in the market this winter will be treated with Windows 8 and some slick new machines should they choose to go t... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Review Seasonic makes some of the best enthusiast computer power supplies in the world. It has long produced some of the cleanest power producing PSUs along with being some of the quietest on the market. The new fully modular X-1250 sports many enthusiast features and touts gold level efficiency. Is this new X-1250 worthy? ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Intel’s Haswell CPU It seems that Treyarch, the developers, have tried to focus on a more developed backstory and character storyline than actual gameplay. That may not sit well with gamers who want a full blown world war experience. ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Roundup: Power Supply Units with 600-700 W Capacity Intel’s Haswell CPU is the first core optimized for 22nm and includes a huge number of innovations for developers and users. New instructions for transactional memory, bit-manipulation, full 256-bit integer SIMD and floating point multiply-accumulate are combined in a microarchitecture that essentially doubles computational throughput and cache ba... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
cards as large as the NVIDIA GeForce GTX We would like to talk about nine power supply units from the most popular 600-700 W wattage range, which represent six different series of devices from four manufacturers: Chieftec, Cooler Master, Corsair and Zalman. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cases/display/chieftec-coolermaster-corsair-zalman.html ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
The Agility 4 SSD gets tested and.... Cooler Master's CM Storm Scout 2 boasts "ultramodern rifle appeal" in the world of mid-tower enclosures. It features support for three 5.25" drive bay devices, seven hard drives, two SSDs, and graphics cards as large as the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 or AMD Radeon HD 7970 thanks to a removable hard drive tray. Hit our review to find out if this ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
ASRock Z77 OC Formula The Agility 4 was designed to sit on the upper tier of the attractive mid-range SSD market, and features Indilinx's Everest 2 controller which should help in preventing performance drop-offs seen in previous drives which also used asynchronous NAND flash. See how the Agility 4 holds up in terms of performance in our latest OCZ SSD review. ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Crucial Adrenaline Solid The ASRock Z77 OC Formula comes across as a motherboard designed for extreme overclocking, yet retails for a deceptively modest price. We review ASRock's Intel Z77 offering to see if pulls any punches in overclocking performance! ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Plextor M5 Pro and M5S vs. Plextor M3 Pro and M3 Review "Crucial has introduced the Adrenaline Solid State Cache in an attempt to reach SSD read/write speeds without having to replace your current disk drive. Will it be a viable option to get the best of SSD performance with the larger and more inexpensive hard disk drive solution? Let's find out." ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
ADATA XPG Xtreme Series 2x8GB DDR3-2133MHz CL10 Plextor has recently refreshed their SSD lineup by replacing the good old M3 Pro and M3 models with the new promising Plextor M5 Pro and M5S. We decided to compare all four products against one another and also against the new products from the competitors available in the today’s market. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/plextor-m5... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
frames per second is not sufficient It's been quite some time since out last memory review. Today we are having a look at one 16 GB dual channel kit from ADATA. This kit belongs to their XPG Xtreme Series and offers large capacity without cutting performance. Running at DDR3-2133 MHz, it isn't the fastest high capacity kit around. But ADATA is known for their quality better than oust... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Corsair AX860i Power Supply review "I spent literally hundreds of hours testing this, and I think the results are the first conclusive performance comparisons between Windows 8 and Windows 7, especially in gaming. I wanted to make sure that I didn't run any tests that were hardware limited. For gaming performance, frames per second is not sufficient to portray actual gaming perf... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Crucial shows off new Ballistix Sports VLP modules For this article we review the Corsair AX860i PSU. The 860 Watt Power Supply is grand in performance, the one massive 72A 12-volts says it all really. Excellent for multi-GPU solutions and hardcore overclockers. Similar to the premium model Corsair also embeds their LINK technology into the PSU. That means you can monitor the PSU with the help of s... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Gaming in Windows 8 vs Windows 7: what's the difference? According to Crucial, these modules have the lowest profile currently available in the market. Hardware.Info UK was able to sneak a peek through the picture displayed. As you can see the modules are rated as DDR3-1600, using 9-9-9-24 timings and 1.35 volts. ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Mini-ITX motherboards review - Part 2: AMD Socket FM1 After many hours of benchmarking, we can finally and convincingly settle the debate about whether gaming in Windows 8 is better or worse than in Windows 7. And the answer is: it's the same! ... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Is There a Touchable Windows 8 Laptop For You? The ASUS P8Z77I-Deluxe is perhaps the most comprehensive mini-ITX board that we've seen. Features include PCI-Express x16, 2x DDR3, 2x SATA600, 2x SATA300, 2x eSATA, Intel-based Gigabit LAN and a Realtek ALC898 audio codec. The mini-PCIe slot is filled with a combined 802.11n WLAN and Bluetooth adapter. What's different about this board is that ASU... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
Call of Duty: Black Ops II GPU & CPU Performance If you’ve played around a bit with Windows 8, you know it’s just one of those things that needs to be touched. A mouse is okay, a trackpad gets by, but don’t-call-it-Metro begs to be touched. The live tiles and lengthy Start screen are designed for just that, and nothing else truly satisfies. While manufacturers haven’t exactly flooded the marke... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
The Best SSD for Less Than $100? For Call of Duty fans, developer Treyarch just delivered an early Christmas present when they released Black Ops II this week. As the ninth game in the Call of Duty franchise and the sequel to the 2010 game Black Ops, we are hoping to see something meaningfully new from Black Ops II. But as usual, our main concern from a performance article pers... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
How to Change the Start Screen Background in Windows 8 Computers relying solely on age old hard disk drive technology should be deemed a thing of the past. Mechanical devices suffer from slow response times, so if and when performance matters, spending a small amount of money on upgrading a PC's boot drive could pay off enough to render other potential upgrades useless. But of course, the major is... [PCSTATS] Read More ...
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