Wednesday, February 25, 2015

IT News Head Lines (PCSTATS) 2/26/2015

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XFX XTS 520W Passive Modular Power Supply Review



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XFX Radeon R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card Review
For PC users who are serious about noise there really is no alternative to a passive power supply. Sure there are power supplies on the market that operate incredibly quietly (such as Be Quiet’s Dark Power Pro range) and even power supplies that don’t spin up their fans until they pass a certain load amount, normally 40% load (Corsair’s AXi range f... [PCSTATS]


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XFX PRO 650W XXX Edition Semi-Modular Power Supply Review
AMD’s R9 290X is back in business when it comes to competing with Nvidia’s equivalents. The custom R9 290Xs easily beat out equivalently priced or sometimes even more expensive custom GTX 780s making them a solid proposition for any gamer on a budget but wanting maximum performance. Today we are looking a highly competitive R9 290X from XFX which h... [PCSTATS]


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XFX PRO 450W Core Edition Non-Modular Power Supply Review
XFX’s PRO series of power supplies are well renowned among the enthusiast community for their great performance and fantastic value for money. Anyone who’s ever heard about XFX’s current PRO series power supplies will know they are made by Seasonic – one of the primary reasons for their high build quality and great performance. The PRO series is di... [PCSTATS]


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2015 Alienware 15 & Alienware 17 Launch
When you’re building a budget system with fairly minimal power requirements you won’t really find wattages lower than 400-450W for a standard ATX power supply. While getting a cheap power supply may be important to ensuring you can keep costs of a system build down it is also important to remember that you still need a decent quality power supply: ... [PCSTATS]


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HyperX Cloud II Headset Review
On the 6th of February, 2015, Dell Malaysia invited us to the launch of the newly-enhanced Alienware 15 and Alienware 17 gaming laptops. Held at KL Live @ Life Center, the event also showcased the refreshed Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook and Alienware Area-51 gaming desktop.

When we were allowed in, we had time to catch some shots of the stars of the ev... [PCSTATS]


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WD My Passport Wireless Review: Shared Wireless Storage
“HyperX, a sub-division of Kingston, hit the market strong over the few last years. They have created a name that has been praised by many and they have taken a big leap into PC Peripherals and Accessories arena. This year at CES 2015 they launched a revision called the HyperX Cloud II headset. We are going to put the new HyperX Cloud II to the te... [PCSTATS]


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Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X 8GB
The Western Digital Passport Wireless is a member of a new class of storage devices that combine run-of-the-mill USB storage with wireless hotspot and media center functionality. These devices essentially marry what used to be two separate drives - an external USB device and a media device that can stream data wirelessly to connected devices. They ... [PCSTATS]


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Gigabyte X99-UD4 Rev 1.0 motherboard Review
AMD recently announced its hardware partners could start offering their own versions of the Radeon R9 290X with 8GB memory. Sapphire was the first (and as of yet the only) to be able to offer us a 290X with 8GB memory, namely the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X. We put the graphics card to the test and compared it to the 4GB edition to find out whe... [PCSTATS]


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ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer mATX Motherboard
Gigabyte X99-UD4 Rev 1.0 is an ATX form-factor motherboard, but they managed cram in 4x DDR4 DIMM slots on both sides of the LGA 2011 V3 socket and 4x PCIe x16 slots along with 3x PCIe x1, dual M.2 connector, a USB 3.0 header and a lot of SATA III ports. It goes without saying that there might be some ‘hit-and-miss’ with the layout, but that largel... [PCSTATS]


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AeroCool XPredator X3 Devil Red Edition Midi Tower Review
ASRock is aiming to offer gamers an uncompromising set of features with its micro-ATX X99M Fatal1ty Killer motherboard. Doing so will require integration of the X99 chipset’s features and the plentiful PCIe connectivity of Haswell-E CPUs. How does ASRock’s gaming-series mATX offering stack up to the tough competition that is Gigabyte’s X99M-Gaming ... [PCSTATS]


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ADATA XPG Z1 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 Memory Kit Review
It seems that although the most popular PC cases nowadays are mITX and mATX compatible ones there's still a large crowd out there that prefers midi and full towers and thus as expected manufacturers are doing their best to please them too. Now i can't say that I’ve seen many midi towers lately which I’d like to own myself either because they look v... [PCSTATS]


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Seasonic Platinum Series 660W Modular Power Supply Review
The 5820K has shown that a strong boost in CPU performance can be obtained for a reasonable price increase over the LGA 1150 Core i7 CPUs. And many of the X99 motherboards sit well below £200, making them affordable to enthusiast buyers. But where that entire value logic of Intel’s X99 platform starts to fall short is at the expense of DDR4 memory.... [PCSTATS]


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Seasonic Platinum 1050WXP3 PSU Review
Since joining eTeknix over 3 years ago I’ve seen us work with a lot of big brand names and have personally done countless reviews with those brands. Power supplies are something I’ve been covering for just over a year and in that time Seasonic is a brand we’ve never worked with directly. The word “directly” is key as Seasonic “indirectly” work with... [PCSTATS]


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Seagate Desktop 3.5? 4TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Review
Today we look at the latest high end power supply from Seasonic – the Platinum 1050WXP3. This unit follows on from the success of the previous 1000W Platinum but brings some upgrades into the mix. The new unit has a pure copper bridge to improve high current conduction and a new IC added to the fan control based on hysteresis to reduce the number o... [PCSTATS]


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Sandisk Extreme Pro 480GB Review
In today’s market, there are countless storage options out there for you to choose for your current system or for a new build that you are planning and in general we find one of two main options being selected for the primary boot drive – this being either a hard drive which offers up large storage capacities, or a solid state drive that mainly off... [PCSTATS]


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