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Thinking about HIS, outside the standard reference based cards I can think of three series; the iCooler, IceQ+ and Turbo. Since the launch of the HD 5000 series, we’ve seen the HD 5750 get the iCooler treatment and today it’s...
Read More...One of ASUS’s greatest success stories has to be the EEE PC netbook, but has this success rubbed off on their full fat Notebook range? Link
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Sapphire’s Radeon HD5670 offers a budget friendly introduction to some of the new features first made available on the higher end HD5000 series of cards. While it doesn’t do anything to really “wow” you, it does provide a compact, low...
Read More...In recent interviews Kevin Levine has stated that Bioshock was never meant to be the success it was. Speaking from past games he had developed which were critically acclaimed but never sold well, he expected Bioshock to suffer the same...
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Armed with new a new GUI and priced very competitive Promise offers the SmartStor series NS4600 NAS unit with four swappable HDD bays, RAID functionality, eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet, USB (2.0) and then a heap of software functionality that blows you...
Read More...A case that has some promise in what we are looking for is new Thermaltake Element Q. The Q (as we will call it) fits right in home with the other members of the Element as it shares the same...
Read More...A couple of weeks ago, Kingston announced a revision to its V+ series of SSDNow drives. In addition to a brand-new controller from Toshiba being utilized, along with Toshiba NAND, the new V+ drives support TRIM right out of the...
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At Patriot Memory’s booth at CES this year Cameron and I were given the opportunity to see Patriot’s new Valkyrie Network Attached Storage server. Little did I know that the company already had a growing line of NAS products designed...
Read More...We’ve seen plenty of Republic of Gamer motherboards in the last three years, and with each new board there are yet more unique features or hardware, not to mention an overall design that becomes ever more refined. Essentially it’s a...
Read More...Microsoft has officially cancelled plans to release Alan Wake on the PC, ruining the hopes of fans who had hoped the game would not remain an Xbox 360 exclusive. Although Alan Wake was originally announced as a PC exclusive title...
Read More...The good news from Samsung if you are interesting in 3D TVs: The company’s first models will be available in a couple of weeks, and aren’t priced in the stratosphere compared to its usual offerings. The bad news: The new...
Read More...Asus enters the fray of H55/H57 motherboards with it’s flagship model…. Link
Read More...Just before CES we were made aware of an incoming package from Vantec. Instead of bogging us down with a sit down meeting where we could go over performance graphs, pie charts and a bunch of nonsense that you guys...
Read More...I’m pleased to report that new patches are now available for 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark06, 3DMark05, 3DMark03, PCMark Vantage and PCMark 05. These updates feature some pretty significant changes, including improved system hardware detection, improved GPU clock speed detection and faster...
Read More...It’s hard enough to be a video card manufacturer that embraces both sides of the fence, let alone one that only specializes in one of the two major producers of GPUs. Companies like PowerColor, Sapphire and HIS need to really...
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