Week of January 25, 2009

"Recently we've been reviewing some pretty high end graphics cards, and while it's all well and good checking out the £100 plus fair, the real money is made for the manufacturers in the budget, to mid range cards. So, if you're looking at the current generation of ATI's GPUs, and anything with 4 and 8 at the start of the name is too much for you, perhaps the 4670 from HIS is up your street; let's test it and find out."

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Swedish headphone manufacturer Jays recently released the much anticipated c-Jays supra-aural headphones. Their slim design together with a customizable sound signature has made quite a stir amongst the headphone crowd.

In this review we’ll be looking at an innovative and new cooler from ThermalTake called the SpinQ. The SpinQ is a very unique heatsink in that it employs a heatpipe design that is cooled internally by a large and powerful squirrel cage blower.

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The DFI LanParty JR X58-T3H6 Motherboard is absolutely feature-packed for a micro ATX motherboard. In fact, it contains a lot of the features you'll find on most high-end enthusiast motherboards. Take for example the diagnostic LEDs, mini heatpipe chipset cooler, onboard power-on and reset switches, and the clear CMOS jumper located at the rear ATX I/O panel. That's not it ... DFI also uses solid capacitors throughout the motherboard for longevity and stability, and then of course ... you have DFI's infamous UV sensitive green and yellow connectors/slots.

In this article, we'll be showcasing the Ideapad Y530 specifically, which offers a competitive array of features at a reasonable price point. With multimedia capabilities being a focus these days, we thought this model would more than cover the bases with its generous, yet rather portable 15.4" display and Intel Core 2 Duo processor packed inside.

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"The Thecus N4100PRO uses an AMD Geode LX800 processor and 256MB of DDR memory for powerful data-processing capabilities. The N4100PRO has the capacity for four 3.5" SATA hard disks for up to 4TB of storage! To keep data secure, the N4100PRO features various RAID modes, including RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and JBOD. Managing your RAID array is easy with the N4100PRO's advanced RAID management features, including RAID expansion and RAID level migration. To top it off, the N4100PRO comes equipped with a big, bright LCM module, which displays useful status messages such as IP address, date and time, and RAID status, making it easy to keep an eye on the condition of the N4100PRO..."

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"The Razer Moray In-Ear Noise Isolating Gaming Earphones exceeded my expectations. The entire product is intelligently designed, from the packaging to the smallest product detail. The earphones themselves are light and small and fit comfortably and snugly within your ear, enabled by the three sizes of interchangeable ear-buds provided. The cord is a bit longer than that found on your average pair of earphones which is nice. The included storage pouch is quite convenient as is the included airplane adapter."

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"This keyboard, like most other Razer products, is meant to be used by gamers and the company's great experience in that market really shows. The Lycosa has a nice array of useful features that should be appreciated by this crowd. The first thing anyone opening this box will notice is the mirror-like, glossy look of both the keyboard's casing and keys. The only downside is that it's hard to keep it clean as the tiniest dust particle will be clearly visible. However, and surprisingly enough, fingerprints aren't so much of an issue as they barely show up and a quick wipe using the supplied cloth will clean those few obvious marks in a second. While the sound ports aren't a ground breaking feature, I can see them widely used by people whose sound system consist of a pair of headphones and a microphone."

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Tagan may not be as synonymous to the North American masses when it comes to power supplies, but they certainly know how to build one. I can recall when the best PSU you could buy was in the 550W range, and even then it had 1W on the 12v line. In all retrospective, I personally blame it all on SLI ,and those magnificent things we like to call VGA cards. If you compare gaming graphics today, to that of ten years ago, its no wonder we have such high power requirements, and standards, for supplying power to our systems. With that said, it is no wonder that Tagan's mainstream series, the SuperRock, comes to us sporting 680W of power, but can it pull off the basic requirements for powering a mainstream system?

"Being a "celebrity" of sorts does tend to paint a target on you, and Wendel is no different. Instead of praising him as a role model and successful entrepreneur, critics have harped that Fatal1ty branded products have steep price tags and that you are essentially paying extra for the "Fatal1ty" name. A quick check at a popular online retailer reveals that most Fatal1ty branded gear is priced according to its competition. Others tend to forget that the majority of Fatal1ty products are top quality; he doesn't just go around and endorse every product thrown at him. It is with this mindset that we present the OCZ Fatal1ty Series 700w Power Supply for review."

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“Almost all TFT displays nowadays are in 16:9 format with HDMI connector that goes hand-in-hand with popularization of HD video standard. ViewSonic went a step further and thanks to resolution of 1920x1080 packed in reasonable sized panel, we can now enjoy in HD resolution instead enjoyment in just HD format. Design is for today standards usual. Piano finish that was considered few years ago as very elegant solution, nowadays is so common that it becomes boring. Power button is lighted with intensive blue light that cannot be disabled and this can become very distracting element in a dark room. OSD menu has a lot of useful options so its “retro” look can be forgiven…”

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When choosing a heatsink for overclocking your processor, two things come to mind. How well does it cool, and how quiet is it? Zalman has been known for its silent PC hardware for quite some time now. Today we will be looking at the Zalman CNPS 9300AT. CNPS stands for Computer Noise Prevention System. This heatsink is the smaller version of the extremely popular CNPS9700 and CNPS9500 models.

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"This N7AD-SLI motherboard from ASRock certainly had potential to be what it was created to be: an affordable enthusiast board that, while not a top dog, would be a great overclocker, and a board that would allow for upgrades like SLI. Performance on this board was decent, but we were left wondering how much better it would have been if we had not had the limitations that we had in setting our DDR timings..."

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If we are going by US prices, at the end of the day we think the G.Skill F3-12800CL8T-6GBHK with its Samsung HCF0 ICs have slightly more overhead than the Elpida-based Corsair DHX+ modules we looked at earlier this week - if your Core i7 CPU can stretch, the memory should accommodate. It may not have anything like the funky and more importantly, moddable (but also patented), DHX+ heatsinks on the Corsair but a case with good airflow should keep the G.Skill cool enough. Moreover, they have a lifetime warranty to cover mishaps and being low profile they're less likely to chance interference with a large CPU heatsink.

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OCZ may not have created the Solid State Drive, but they've done more to bring SSD technology mainstream than any other company in the industry. Once SSDs could outperform their HDD counterpart, it was all about price and capacity. The OCZ Core Series helped to offer affordable Solid State Drive technology to the masses, but capacity and stuttering became new issues. Using a pair of JMicron JMF602B SSD controllers to organize two banks of Samsung K9HCG08U1M DRAM modules into a JMB390 controller, the new OCZ Apex Series SSD offers an impressive capacity with internal RAID-0 performance to subdue stuttering. Benchmark Reviews tests the performance of the OCZSSD2-1APX120G against over two dozen other products in this article.

The G.Skill F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ is a 6GB (3 x 2GB) PC3-12800 memory kit featuring relatively mild 9-9-9-24 timings with a low recommend voltage of just 1.5-1.6 volts. This particularly model can be considered a mid-range offering in G.Skill's current triple-channel DDR3 product line, which is currently topped by a blisteringPC3-16000 7-8-7-20 model that will be available shortly.

When I started this review I'll admit I wasn't familiar with CSX's memory, but I will say I have come away with a very positive outlook. While typically PC6400 kits don't get a whole lot of fan fare, CSX's CEC line delivers on their goal of overclocking with a budget kit. If what CSX has to offer in their budget line is any indication, I can understand why their Diablo line has made some noise in the enthusiast market in other countries.

"Considering how long it took XSR to get it's first high end graphics card review, it's interesting that they are now one of our most oft-reviewed pieces of hardware. Not to be the exception to the rule is our recently acquired 9800GT from XFX. The smaller brother of the more well known GTX branding, the GT saw excellent sales during the 8 series for it's high end performance, with lower end price tag. Let's see if increasing the initial number by 1 makes much of a difference."

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“What sounds better than a GTX260? Right, two GTX260 in SLI mode. Hardwareoverclock Austria has compared the SLI Bundle to other GTX cards.”

At the time, AMD planned to release the card at a slightly lower price point than the competing GeForce GTX 280, but it took quite a while for the Radeon HD 4850 X2 to finally materialize. When it did arrive, in the form of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2G GDDR3 we'll be showing you here, the 3D graphics landscape had changed somewhat.

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There has seldom been a time in GPU history that has been more exciting. New more powerful GPU's are popping up all over the place. Last year we saw the introduction of the 4870, 4870x2, GTX-260, GTX-260 216, GTX-280, and this year already we've seen the GTX-295 and now the XFX GTX-285 XXX. That's more excitement than we've seen in a long time. Combine that with the Core i7 introduction and toss one of those puppies on a good board with the Intel Core i7 965 Extreme and you've got heart pumping graphics madness.

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"Today we look at one of Nvidia's newest GPUs, the GeForce GTX 285. EVGA ups the ante over Nvidia's reference design by increasing the core, memory, and stream processor clockspeeds, resulting in the GeForce GTX 285 SSC Edition. But how does it all compare to Nvidia's previous videocards, and the current king of the hill, ATI's HD 4870 X2?"

"Today for review I've got the SilverStone Noble Breeze NB01 Notebook Cooler, and like all products from SilverStone it's very well made, and it's aesthetically pleasing as well. Besides those fine attributes, the Noble Breeze actually works at keeping your laptop cool, and it's virtually silent while it works. "

GELID Solutions was born after several key players left the company Arctic Cooling and came together to form GELID. With the high quality of products produced by Arctic Cooling, let’s hope that the standard is matching with this new brand. The CPU Cooler up today for review here at Tech-Reviews is the GELID Silent Spirit. Time to find out how well the Spirit competes…

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Instead of opting for the typical dual slot fan cooling, the Atomic sports a single slot self-contained water-cooling solution that also supports the CPU. The addition of a new CPU waterblock is something which I find quite unsual ... as Sapphire are not really specialists in CPU cooling. This unusal waterblock has a built-in 12V pump which is required to pump the coolant around the entire watercooling system. The coolant is then passed through a 120mm radiator or heat exchanger, which is cooled by a single 120mm fan.

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Over the years Asus has been one of the top innovators in the PC market, regardless if it has to do with their mother boards or any of their many other product divisions. And with the release of the new Intel Core i7 Asus hasn't stood still either by bringing out several mother boards before the CPU was even officially released. Since the CPU's release Asus has upped their offerings in the i7 field by offering no less than seven different models to fully cover the entire market price points.

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"The FT01 Fortress from SilverStone was an awesome case in terms of silence, great looks, and good cooling. The add-on modules round out the case, and help it stand out beyond the competition. I personally suggest having a hot swappable CP05 module per hard drive, as it makes installation, maintenance, and routing the cables much easier. There are no sharp edges in the case, and all of the fans are safely behind fan grills– except when the hard drive bay is removed. The 5.25” drives tool free feature is also very nice and sturdy."

With media centers rapidly gaining in popularity and taking on the role of a handful of home theatre devices, consumers re moving away from the traditional upright style mid tower, and adopting the flat lying desktop to suit the style of entertainment devices. The nMedia HTPC-1000B is as its name suggests, an HTPC, that has been designed with the style and size to match elegance of most modern AV equipment. While it may be devoid of the numerous bells and whistles toted by other cases, it offers a classy simplicity that makes it perfect for its purpose.

"Overall we were pleased with the OCZ Vendetta 2 Heatsink's performance. Across the stock and overclocked speeds, the cooler performed much better than the stock cooler and on par with the Thermaltake. We did find the Thermaltake quieter overall at the high speed settings, but at the lower speeds, the Vendetta 2 was less high pitched to our ears. Neither cooler was as silent as the stock cooler, but they did perform on a different level."

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"MSI has labeled the X58 Platinum as part of their "Gaming Series", to prove out their point they have included several niceties that have come to be expected by the premier gaming Motherboard Manufacturers such as Asus, DFI, EVGA et all. Putting MSI clearly on the map of enthusiasts who want performance and stability for as little coin as possible."

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Only recently AMD launched the Phenom II X4 processor that scored pretty well with us. So we decided to test it with the order of the day, the ECS A780GM-A Ultra motherboard. It has great all-in-one features like 160w CPU support and on board video processor based on the ATI HD3200 that supports Hybrid CrossFire.

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The Microsoft Sidewinder X6 Keyboard has to be one of the most configurable keyboard available today. With the ability to to switch from normal to gaming mode and being able to store as many as 30 different macros make the Sidewinder X6 a must have for anyone that is serious about having the best input device available. The keyboard also features superior lighting as well as special lighting for (WASD) keys, these keys feature not only back lighting but they also have frontal lighting making it easier to find during night time gameplay.

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Today we look at Thermaltakes Toughpower Cable Management 750W PSU. The Toughpower 750w is a modular power supply with simple clean look. It is SLI ready with a large 14cm fan keeping it cool and rated for 80% plus efficiency. Read on as we take this power supply and find out if it has what it takes to power your system.

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“Today we’re looking at Patriot’s big green flagship monsters…codename Viper series. Tapping into the realm of extreme gear, Patriot has high performance memory modules that are rated at 2000MHz, virtually the fastest memory speeds to date. What's interesting about these modules, however, is that these Patriot sticks sport some “Nvidia Green” theming and are specifically designed for the 790i Ultra Nvidia chipset (though they are certainly compatible with other motherboards)."

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“Republic of Gamers (ROG) badge, that can be found on cover of this notebook, is known from graphics cards and motherboards and it emphasizes gaming character of this notebook. Besides its obvious gaming pedigree ASUS G71 actually belongs to desktop replacement notebook category. Even if you never encountered ROG badge in your life, after first glimpse at this notebook it will become obvious that it is intended for gaming population. Large number of openings, colorful blinking diodes and lights combined with, usual for this kind of products, red-black color theme makes this notebook very noticeable…”

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With a cost around $200 - $250 USD the Kingston KHX16000D3K3/3GX memory certainly doesn't come cheap. However, an extra edge in performance is what every diehard PC Enthusiast wants, and these modules unquestionably deliver. These Kingston memory modules are the fastest speed currently available on the market.

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"The requirements of 80 Plus certification are greater than or equal to 80% efficiency and 0.9 power factor or better at 20%, 50% and 100% load for all rated AC input voltages. The OCZ ModXStream-Pro 600W didn't quite meet the requirements of its claimed 80 Plus certification with an efficiency of 77% at full load on 110VAC. The results at all other stages are satisfactory and an efficiency of 84% at 230VAC is very good. These results are very typical with a peak efficiency at approximately 50% of rated full load, excellent power factors at 110VAC and excellent efficiency at 230VAC. The power supply gets an overall pass at all stages, because it meets the requirements of the ATX12V V2.2 specification for ATX power supplies."

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When NVIDIA released their GTX 285 and 295 earlier this month, they successfully reclaimed the performance crown for both single and dual-GPU graphics cards. We're finally putting both of these models through our grueling testing, in both single card and SLI configurations, to see just how much value can be had when compared to previous offerings.

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OCZ has recently launched the Throttle. It is one of the kind portable storage as it is a flashed based drive but uses eSATA port and USB for data transfer. By combining both technologies, OCZ virtually ensures that the drive will have the better transfer rate and at the same time, keeps the durability of the flash based storage. Bjorn3D is quite fortunate that the good folks at OCZ are kind enough to ship one of of the Throttle drives to us for a review. Today, we shall see how this thing performs.

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Throughout 2008 Corsair released a great range of power supplies which quickly earned them a strong reputation as a quality provider in the market. Today we will take a look at Corsair's tenth power supply product, the TX850 850W PSU. The TX850 is a newer, upgraded version of the very popular TX750 which we reviewed a few months ago. The TX series units are designed to offer great electrical performance at the best possible price to performance ratio.

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"Today’s review will be one that completes the previous DSLR review. Our last review was in regard to the Olympus E-420 Digital SLR that consists of a smaller Four-Thirds sensor produced by Olympus inside a very compact body. I left impressed by the E-420 but it did have shortcomings I was not happy with. For this review l will be looking at a camera that uses a larger sensor (APS-C), is in direct competition with the E-420, is from a company that has a storied history and is currently one of the leading market share leaders in the industry. Meet the Nikon D60 Digital SLR Camera and read on to see how the Nikon D60 fairs under my ruling."

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The GA-EX58-UD4P is the latest high performance X58-Express Series motherboard from GIGABYTE, designed to unleash the awesome power of Intel's new Core i7 processors and replaces the GA-EX58-UD5. Equipped with a host of new features including the new QPI interface, 3-channel DDR3 support, 3-Way SLI and CrossFireX support, Ultra Durable 3 technology and the industry's most extensive range of overclocking features, the EX58-UD4P is bringing excitement back into the high performance motherboard industry. In this article, Benchmark Reviews compares the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P motherboard to their EX58-EXTREME, Intel's DX58SO Smackover, and last-generations GA-X48T-DQ6.

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"The Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 512MB GDDR4 will alleviate your worries. The HD 4670 512MB GDDR4 by Sapphire gives you both options and performance with very little admission. The Sapphire HD 4670 GDDR4 is the newest and fastest to the 4600 series in the Sapphire family and is already tuned to perfection. The HD 4670 512MD GDDR4 comes with a wealth of connections options and software to help you get off on the right foot with that new computer."

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"There is no doubt that the iPod has a strangle-hold on the digital music player industry. In fact, iPods have become so popular that some people call all music players iPods. Yet, there are many other brands and other types of players. So we set out to see if we could find an iPod competitor that was feature-rich, capable, and had good sound quality. We found that player in the Zen by Creative. In fact, the Zen had all of these traits plus one more. It is also affordable. "

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While air cooling solutions continue to progress, liquid cooling still offers better cooling performance. But most users shy away from liquid cooling as being too “advanced”. CoolIT, makers of a wide range of cooling product, sent us one of the CPU cooler products, the Domino Advanced Liquid Cooling (ALC) CPU cooler, which promises liquid cooling performance without hassle.

"The Megahalems has shown itself to be an all around great heat sink. It performs solidly at stock speeds and works well with quieter fans but what it really craves is heat and lots of it. Throughout this article I couldn't help notice the similarities between the TRUE and the Megahalems. They both use the same amount of heat pipes and even have a similar overall design. The only difference really is that the TRUE offers a wider range of compatibility with AMD chips."

"Having used the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard for the last few weeks I have been very impressed with the performance. For anyone looking at a moderate cost, high performance solution it is definitely the way to go. Overclocking is where the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P really shines, I was able to take my retail Q9450 with just an 8x multiplier and crank it up a full 1200MHz without going over 1.3v..."

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Although these modules are optimised to run with Intel Core i7 processors, they do not feature Intel Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP). This doesn't mean that these Platinum Series are no good ... quite the opposite. OCZ's Platinum modules are designed to offers the latest extreme speeds, ideal for overlocking enthusiasts. What makes these modules different from the rest, is that they offer an extremely low latency of 7-7-7-24, while maintaining a low voltage of 1.65V. Most triple channel DDR3-1600 kits have a memory latency of 8-8-8-24. If you require XMP ready kits ... then you might want to take a look at OCZ's Intel Extreme Series.

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"Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 review which also features the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 has 18% lower clock speed, 45% lower memory speed and is 18% more expensive than the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 is the little brother of the more expensive and powerful ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2."

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"Filling in the rather niche space between commonplace 22-inch LCD monitors and larger 26-inch models, Acer's 24-inch P244W promises buyers a hefty chunk of screen and full 1080p resolution for a reasonable $340. While the price manages to please, though, not many other aspects of this monitor really do. Mediocre image quality, a wobbly, barely adjustable mount, and lackluster connectivity all had us reluctantly admitting that you get what you pay for when it comes to monitors."

Today in the lab we have Cooler Master's new case the CM Storm Sniper. Never heard of CM Storm before? Well I am sure you have heard of Coolermaster, right? Well CM Storm is Coolermaster's new gaming line of cases. The Sniper is to be considered the best gaming case for the true gamer. Coolermaster realized that gamers want the best in their rigs, so Coolermaster decided to equip the Sniper with large fans that are positioned to cool all areas of the case. To make the building process to go smoothly the case is almost completely tool-less. This just the start of what the Sniper has to offer. If you want to know what else is in this case you will have to read ahead.

"If you're planning on pulling an all-nighter, the headset is extremely comfortable and wont hurt your ears even after long hours of gaming! And don't worry about leaving your game for eating, because you have a 30 foot range with which to work. So as long as your fridge and microwave are within that perimeter, you can have a meal and still play your game. The chat boost may not increase the chat volume over the sounds of your chewing, but you can always increase chat volume manually if need be. If it is an in-game noise, however, every bit of your conversation would be crystal clear."

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If you are one to appreciate the difference between a computer case and a computer CASE........or if you're a dreamer that likes to just look at pretty and shiny things, then today we have something just for you: a Smooth Creations computer system. We'll be examining a hotrod gaming rig that is a piece of art, with the LanShark being a custom plexiglass, micro-tower creation. Michelangelo or Mickey Mouse? You be the judge.

In this review we show you how Samsungs actual flagship of the Spinpoint F1 series performs in our detailed testing parcours. As usually we show you senquential and random read/write performance and you'll be able to see if the Spinpoint can cope with the other drives in our test or not.

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From the PCB to the cooling, the Revolution R700 Deluxe has been completely designed from the ground up by Palit to offer customers the best HD 4870 X2 available on the market today. Interestingly enough, even though the Revolution can be considered Palit's flagship ATI product, they have decided to keep near-reference clocks for some reason. On the other hand, this is one product that is extremely hard to find these days even though when it was released you could special order it from a few select retailers.

“Crisis that hit world economy has major influence at IT industry. nVIDIA announced losses in range from 40-50% compared to previous quarter and lot of other companies are firing employees as response on incoming troubles. Nevertheless there are companies that are not influenced too much by all this and one of them is ATI. Since launch of Radeon HD 4000 series ATI managed not only to regain its feet, but also to kick back and since then ATI didn’t make bad move what so ever. Last two moves were price drops on Radeon HD 4870 and HD4870X2 as reaction at new nVIDIA models and replacement of HD 3850 models. Soon we can expect to find HD 4850 graphics cards with price tag around 70€, so we decided to test one interesting model that is signed by BIOSTAR that can be even more interesting than some HD 4870 models…”

“The coolest thing about the UE 10 Pro’s are the three individual speakers and an integrated passive crossover circuit board that directs the low-end frequencies to a dedicated speaker for bass, the mid-range frequencies to a speaker for the vocals and the high frequencies to a speaker dedicated for treble.”

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There are certain products in every category that somehow manage to attain legendary, if not mythical stature. In the Intel socket based motherboard world that status is frequently obtained not by feature count, not by component selection, not by build quality, but by an ethereal capability to do one thing well: overclock the pins off the latest generation of Intel CPU. The fact that this capability is inextricably linked to the skill of the person tweaking the BIOS, and in many cases is difficult to repeat, only seems to add to the legend. Just as it is impossible to predict which aspiring new actor or actress will become the new darling of the Hollywood glitterati, there is an element of chance as to which motherboard among the many on offer will grab the brass ring. GIGABYTE Technologies Inc. offers 24 version of P45 based Socket 775 motherboards, yet one of them is a diva of the overclocking community. Benc! hmark Reviews is pleased to bring you our findings on the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard.

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All things considered, given the choice between this and the Evercool Transformer 6, I would take the Titan Cool Idol because of its slightly better performance, more adjustable fan, and other minor details mentioned earlier in the review.

"The portable DVD player we have for review from Geeks.com is the PDV-70X from Spectroniq which offers a 7" widescreen LCD display housed in an attractive silver body. It supports 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio, has a standard 480 x 234 resolution, supports DVD, VCD, CD and JPEG playback and advertises up to 2½ hours of power with the included rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack."

"While making a few preliminary testing observations I noticed that the Seagate ST3750330AS burst rate seemed to be abnormally low. At first I couldn't discern why this was but after a little more poking around I discovered the drive was operating in SATA I mode. To switch it to SATA II mode meant removing the world's smallest jumper that was so tiny and pushed to the back of the block I had completely missed it in my earlier visual drive inspection, but taking the jumper off solved the low burst rate situation."