Tuesday, November 5, 2013

IT News Head Lines (PCSTATS) 11/6/2013

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In Win BATMAT mousepad



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NZXT H230 Computer Case Review
“When we think of mouse pads we think about square-ish floppy foam, or even thin textured plastic ones that slide around and have to be secured to the desk just to stay in one place. With earlier versions of mouse pads we were constantly making sure they were clean or overly careful of spilling something on them. Well friends, we don’t have to worr... [PCSTATS]


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AMD expected to reach global GPU market share of 40% in 6 months
The H230 is called by NZXT as a Classic Design. Minimal Hassle. Budget Case. Some of those statements I would have to agree upon, but I think you get more than what a normal budget case offers.
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Review: PNY XLR8 Pro 240GB SSD @ Custom PC Review
AMD's global market share for GPUs is on the rise since the launch of its Radeon R7 and R9 series and is expected to increase to 40% over the next half year, according to Taiwan-based graphics card makers.
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Radeon HD card from AMD
As such, today we’ll be doing a review on the PNY XLR8 Pro 240GB SSD. PNY offers a complete line of SSDs oriented towards the entry level user to the enthusiast/enterprise user with the XLR8 Pro that we’re reviewing falling into that enthusiast user category. Like most enthusiast class SandForce..."
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In-depth look at QNAP’s new QTS 4.0, TS-x70 Pro NAS
We are looking at a new high end Radeon HD card from AMD. It's the AMD Radeon R9 290X
4GB. It's called a GeForce GTX TITAN killer, let us see if that is true or not. Let the
game begin.
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ASUS Maximus VI Impact review: extreme Mini-ITX board
The TS-470 Pro, 670 pro and 870 Pro are available with 4, 6 and 8 bays, and all run on a powerful Intel Core i3 3220 Ivy Bridge processor. They have 2 GB of RAM and 512 MB dedicated storage for the OS. They come with two Gigabit LAN ports, and with an expansion slot you can add two extra Gigabit ports or a 10 Gigabit port.
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Cooler Master Cosmos SE
Implementing all of the extra features that belong on an RoG board on a compact Mini ITX board was a challenge, and ASUS had to come up with some clever solutions. The components for the CPU power supply, for example, have been put on a vertical PCB, and the SupremeFX sound card is also located on a separate PCB (which benefited the audio quality).... [PCSTATS]


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Synology DiskStation DS414
“The Cooler Master Cosmos and Cosmos II are some of the best cases on the market as far as features and options go. They are also renowned for their sheer size as well; however, Cooler Master has gone and shrunk the venerable Cosmos just a tad and made a few other tweaks. The result is called the Cosmos SE and it might just be awesome. The Cosmos S... [PCSTATS]


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Apple 27-Inch iMac (Late 2013) Review, Haswell Inside
The product we are looking at here, is the Synology DiskStation DS414. It's a 4-bay NAS
box with a lot of options. There are good opportunities for connecting external devices
via 2x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0 and 2x Gbit RJ45 connectors. The NAS box also uses their
popular DiskStation Manager 2.0 software, but let us see how it performs.
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Nvidia G-Sync in action
It's hard to believe there's a full fledged system packed inside Apple's slim and sexy iMac chassis. It was roughly a year ago when Apple revamped its all-in-one line, tasking the company's engineers to flatten the design as much as possible without sacrificing performance. What emerged was a sleek display measuring just 5mm at its edge with up to ... [PCSTATS]


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Crucial M4 SSD 128GB Review
The G-Sync demonstration was very impressive, and it could very well have a very positive impact on PC graphics. For a final verdict it's of course too early. It will have to be thoroughly tested with a variety of hardware configurations and games. It’s a shame that consumers are forced to choose between this and AMD’s equally impressive Mantle and... [PCSTATS]


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LaCie 5Big Thunderbolt 10TB DAS Review
Nothing gets my cooling fans going like a new hard drive! With that, I have yet to hop on the SSD wagon, until now. I have resisted as long as possible because even though the benchmarks were there, the prices just were not. Crucial thinks they can make me a believer and is trying to butter my biscuit with the M4 SSD…

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Lenovo IdeaCentre Erazer X700 Gaming PC Review
The 5Big line-up gets a Thunderbolt upgrade and the performance is astounding. Read on as we look at the 5Big Thunderbolt from LaCie."

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Lian Li PC-A79 Full Tower Case
If we asked you to name five gaming PC manufacturers, Lenovo probably wouldn't make the list. No other company in the world ships more PCs than Lenovo, but of those machines, relatively few are dedicated gaming boxes. Traditionally, Lenovo has focused its efforts on business class desktops and laptops, though the company is known to play in perform... [PCSTATS]


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VisionTek Radeon R9 280X Video Card Review
"The Lian Li PC-A79 Full Tower Case is all aluminum, comes has lots of drive bays, fans, dust filters, USB3 ports, plenty of space to work, full size removable motherboard tray, cable management holes & is water cooling ready. The styling is simple, but elegant and the build quality is exceptional. The only down side to this case is the price, but ... [PCSTATS]


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ASRock Z87 Killer and Z87 Extreme11/ac motherboards
The VisionTek Radeon R9 280X is an excellent card in terms of performance. I threw it up against an SLI setup and in most cases it was able to out perform it and at a cheaper price too.
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AMD Radeon R9 290X review: AMD's new high-end Hawaii GPU
The most striking aspect of the Z87 Extreme11/ac is its 22 SATA ports. 16 of them can be used for professional SAS drives and are provided by LSI SAS3008 controllers. Two of the 22 ports are combined with two mSATA ports, located between the PCI-Express slots. Thanks to a PLX 8747 chip the board is suitable for both 4-way Crossfire and 4-way SLI. O... [PCSTATS]


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A Cup Of Coffee And Google Glass
The Radeon R9 290X is an extremely powerful graphics card, faster than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 in almost every benchmark, and faster than the Titan in more than a few. With 4K resolution, which of course is still very exotic for all but the early adopters, the Radeon R9 290X takes first place in every single benchmark. Nvidia still frequently do... [PCSTATS]


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NZXT Source 530 Case
Wearable computing is all the rage, and for good reason; pretty much everyone can agree that although our smartphones are immensely powerful, they're actually rather inconvenient. Using one requires at least one hand, often two, and it's cumbersome to dig into your pocket, purse, or bag to retrieve them whenever you get a notification. We're slaves... [PCSTATS]


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Falcon Northwest Tiki: Haswell and Titan Team Up
"The NZXT Source 530 Case has a simple, but elegance design. It's much more affordable than other full tower cases on the market. Also, it has all the main features you should be looking for including, lots of drive bays, tooless design, cable management, plenty of fans can be installed, as well as being water cooling friendly. This is a bang-for-t... [PCSTATS]


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Windows 8.1 models unlikely to ignite PC demand
Falcon Northwest is a big name in a very niche market of luxury PCs. The company is known for special touches like custom cases (think FragBox) and mind-blowing, artist-rendered panel images. The company has also built the rest of its reputation on blazing PC performance. Falcon Northwest recently shipped its Tiki to take on the other small form fa... [PCSTATS]


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Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide
The PC market is unlikely to reverse its decline in 2013 and 2014 despite the arrival of new Windows 8.1 devices, sources in the supply chain have commented.
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Review: Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H LGA 1150 Motherboard @ Custom PC Review
Covering 566 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive comparison allows you to easily compare 24 different specifications for each and every card. If you need to find out about the specification of any card, just come over and check out our Desktop Graphics Comparison Guide.

We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. We will keep this gui... [PCSTATS]


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hammering six SSDs
"With the release of Intel’s latest Z87 chipset and their accompanying Haswell parts, many motherboard manufacturers are scurrying to put out their latest generation of motherboards and with some of the features we’ve seen from various vendors this generation, competition is fiercer than ever..."
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be quiet! PowerZone 1000W
We're in the process of hammering six SSDs with an unrelenting torrent of writes to see what happens as the flash wears out. Today, we check in on the drives after 200TB of writes.

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AMD Radeon R9 290X Review
“The be quiet! PowerZone 1000W power supply features stunning styling, fully modular design, and quiet operation. Priced at $189 and 80Plus Bronze certified, can the performance measure up? Let’s take a closer look at the PowerZone 1000W and see if it can meet be quiet!’s claims and our expectations.”

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AMD Radeon R9 290X Review: Welcome To Hawaii
This is the one we've been waiting for. The Radeon R9 290X brings some truly new technology in the form of the GPU code-named "Hawaii." Read on for our pleasingly-yet-slightly-threateningly-detailed review.
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AMD Radeon R9 290X
AMD has launched their new top-end Radeon R9 290X graphics card today. The new flagship wasn't ready in time for AMD's recent October 8th launch of midrange product, but the new top of the line model, based on the GPU codenamed Hawaii, is ready now. The R9 290 series GPU (Hawaii) is comprised of up to 44 compute units with a total of 2,816 IEEE-200... [PCSTATS]


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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 OC / GTX 780 OC review
The GeForce GTX Titan blew us all away eight months ago with its mindblowingly fast GPU. The catch, of course, was that Nvidia wanted $1,000 for it. In a sense, the Radeon R9 290X could be considered AMD's Titan, as it takes the Tahiti architecture and stuffs with nearly 2000 million more transistors.


It's the most complex and powerful GPU AMD... [PCSTATS]


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MSI’s Master Overclocking Arena 2013
The Gigabyte GV-N770OC-2GD and GV-N780OC-3GD are good video cards. Their performance is in line with other GeForce GTX 770 and 780 cards, and the overclocking potential is fine. A strong side of these cards is how silent they are when idle.
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Review: SanDisk Extreme II 240GB SSD @ Custom PC Review
We’re doing live coverage of MSI’s Master Overclocking Arena 2013 overclocking event today. 16 overclockers from all over the world compete in three benchmarks; SuperPi 32M, Cinebench 11.5 and 3DMark Fire Strike. We’ll updating the link below all day long with new pictures.



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Samsung XP941 NGFF M.2 PCIe SSDs in RAID 0
We are looking at a new Radeon HD card from AMD. It's their AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB. Will
this outperform some of their older and existing Graphics Cards on the market?
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HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks
Sometimes we get fortunate enough to have just the right hardware at just the right time. Such was the case when Sony sent us their new VAIO Pro 13 Ultrabook with a Samsung XP941 M.2 PCIe SSD for review. That SSD provided performance speeds over 1GB/s and enabled our statement of the VAIO Pro 13 as being the smallest, lightest and highest performi... [PCSTATS]


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Thecus shows new entry-level NAS and talks next-gen firmware
In our latest episode of HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks, Marco, Dave and Iyaz discuss the ASUS Transformer Book T100TA Bay Trail-based 2-in-1 device with Windows 8.1, NVIDIA's G-SYNC technology and various PhysX and game dev-related announcements from NVIDIA's recent event, Battlefield 4 game play and performance, the Falcon Northwest Tiki SFF ... [PCSTATS]


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be quiet! Power Zone 850 Watt Power Supply Review
Hardware.Info recently took a trip to Taiwan and visited the major technology manufacturers on the island. The coming days we will share our observations and what we learned from the various conversations we had with industry people on location. Our first report comes from NAS manufacturer Thecus. Among other things, we got a first look at the upco... [PCSTATS]


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MSI Z87 XPOWER Motherboard
With the new Power Zone 850 watt PSU, be quiet! has delivered a unit that delivers top tier features and performance, but does so at a price point that is very reasonable. The be quiet! Power Zone 850W shows off a fully modular cable system with excellent layout, all solid caps, 135mm Silent Wings fan and 80-PLUS Bronze efficiency."
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