Patriot PC2-6400 2GB Dual Channel Memory Kit
Viper Lair :: Friday, January 19, 2007
“Overclocking was decent, impressive that they could stretch beyond 800MHz @ 4-4-4-12 but none the less, very little gained by doing so. Patriot once again brings a solid competitor to the market space, giving the consumer a nice alternative to the well known brands that also looks good while doing it with the all black heat spreaders! Another underrated feature is the warranty. Patriot offers a lifetime warranty which is a nice security measure for peace of mind.”
Corsair at CES 2007
Techgage :: Friday, January 19, 2007
Corsair doesn’t normally announce many products all at once, but at their suite during CES they had some interesting flash products on display, in addition to their killer PC2-10000 kit.
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO
A True Review :: Friday, January 19, 2007
Cooling your CPU is very important as we all know. Because of this, there are hundreds of solutions for a person to choose from. Arctic Cooling offers a CPU cooler that promises to provide exceptional cooling with very little noise by utilizing heatpipe technology. While most of these solutions tend to cost around $40-50, Arctic Cooling’s Freezer 64 Pro is a very affordable solution. Normally, that means they took shortcuts and the cooler does not work all that well. CaseCooler.com allowed us to test the Freezer 64 PRO from Arctic Cooling, so let’s find out how well it performs.
Seagate Savvio 15K – Next Gen Enterprise Drive?
Techgage :: Friday, January 19, 2007
Seagate announced a new addition to their Savvio lineup earlier this week, the 15K. These new drives boast impressive specs all around, including the fact that it’s contained in a 2.5″ frame. Even though these are the fastest drives available on the market, they use far less power than their 3.5″ counterparts.
Vantec Iceberq 6 VGA Cooler Review
Big Bruin :: Friday, January 19, 2007
Many stock coolers may get the job done, but the Vantec Iceberq 6 VGA Cooler may be just the upgrade for enthusiasts who aren’t satisfied with just getting the job done. The Iceberq 6 dropped temperatures on the test GPU by about 13%, and as a bonus it dropped the case temperatures by about 10%.
OCZ FlexXLC Edition DDR-2 PC-9200 Memory – Chilled to Perfection
Tweak Town :: Friday, January 19, 2007
Companies like OCZ, Corsair and Crucial have really made some names for themselves with modules breaking into the 1000MHz+ DDR barrier, and today we are about to show off some of the latest enthusiast memory from one of these companies, namely OCZ.
Today we have the FlexXLC Edition memory modules designed to run at 1150MHz DDR or 575MHz out of the box using a few memory voltage tweaks along with some really innovative cooling. So come and see just what OCZ’s latest memory modules have to offer.”
NZXT Adamas Premium Crafted Chassis Review
Overclockers Club :: Friday, January 19, 2007
“Adamas, Greek for unconquerable or impenetrable. NZXT certainly wasn’t kidding when they named the beast. This mid-tower weighs in at a hefty 20 pounds with 2-3mm thick aluminum throughout most of the case! Along with the 300lb capacity, it was also designed with cooling in mind, with its exterior and drive bays being finned, yes that’s right, finned. And to top it all off, it stands tall in its all brushed aluminum with not a single flashy LED or annoying light in sight. In all probability, it’s another great case from NZXT.”
What Can Brown(out) Do For You?
PC Mech :: Friday, January 19, 2007
Most people notice power fluctuations only when light bulbs flicker or when there is a complete blackout. But power supply is rarely without glitches. From time to time there are surges, spikes, and brownouts — extended periods of low voltage — that people don’t even notice. For electronic equipment even such minor aberrations can be fatal.
Spire Verticool III Cooler
Technic 3d :: Friday, January 19, 2007
“The Spire Verticool III CPU Heatsink arrived Technic3D. The third Generation fom the Verticool Line better than the Verticool II?. See you in the following Review against others CPU Cooling.”
Crucial Ballistix 2GB DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) Memory Review
Hardware Logic :: Friday, January 19, 2007
“Far be it for us as a review site to pick favorites, but one thing we can do is point out that Crucial’s offerings have performed exceptionally well on our test benches in the past. Today’s sample marks the third Ballistix product we’ve looked at in the past year, and fourth Crucial memory kit overall. Most recently we put their 10th Anniversary DDR2-667 kit under scrutiny and were blown away by the overclocking headroom. In fact, our only real gripe was we felt that it could (and should) have been marketed as a faster kit, so when we received Crucial’s Ballistix DDR2-800 with respectable timings (4-4-4-12), we were eager to throw our gauntlet of benchmarks at ’em and see what kind of overclocking performance we could squeeze out of a higher clocked kit.”
mCubed T-Balancer bigNG Advanced Fan Controller Review
Madshrimps :: Friday, January 19, 2007
“mCubed introduced their first product back in 2004, named the T-Balancer XL we tested it and found it to be the most advanced and feature rich fan controller out there; rather than waiting for the competition to catch up, mCubed decided to up the stakes and they’ve released the T-Balancer bigNG, which aims to improve on the features and capabilities of the XL.”
CES 2007 Coverage- Aopen, Enermax, Silverstone, and Zalman
XYZ Computing :: Friday, January 19, 2007
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show there was a lot of ground to cover and a lot of companies showing off their goods, so in this article we are going to try to get through four companies in record time. While each of these are staples of the computer hardware community each only had a few noteworthy products for the show so we are going to get through them quickly and show off the new gear. The highlights include new Mini-ITX gear from Aopen, great new cases from Silverstone, and a few surprises from Zalman.
Super Talent Expands U.S. Manufacturing Facility to Fourteen Surface Mount (SMT) Lines
Super Talent :: Thursday, January 18, 2007
Boosts Manufacturing Capacity in U.S.A. to 1.4 Million Units per Month
HighPoint RocketRAID 2340 Controller – Supporting 12,000GB of storage
Tweak Town :: Thursday, January 18, 2007
“Today we are going to take a close look at one of HighPoint’s very latest controllers and it’s one of the most impressive ones we’ve looked at so far, the RocketRAID 2340. Coming in at a little under $500 USD, it’s certainly not a cheap product but its feature list is neither short. Using special Mini-SAS connectors, it allows you to add up to an extra 16 SATA or SATA II hard drives to your system and run in a range of different RAID modes including 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD. In fact, it has not just one but two controller chips on the card, which is powered by the PCI Express x8 slot for plenty of bandwidth throughput for extreme storage requirements.
Clearly it is designed more for small to medium-sized businesses with quite serious storage requirements. If you’ve got some cash to spend and are looking for a high-end controller card, which currently gives you the ability to store at least a whooping 12,000 gigabytes of data, using a total of 16 x 750GB drives (I just hope you have a monster-sized case…), you’ve come to the right place! Let’s get started and take a close look at the RocketRAID 2340 product from HPT and see if it is worth the asking price and just how it performs against other recent onboard motherboard controllers in RAID 0 and non-RAID environments.”
Sunbeam 9-Bay Acrylic Case Review 
Think Computers :: Thursday, January 18, 2007
“Sunbeamtech was established in 2000 as a cold cathode fluorescent lamp manufacturer, but has recently added computer hardware to its product lineup. Notably, it produces a line of modular power supplies in competition with Ultra’s X-Connect series, as well as lines of keyboards, mice, cooling devices, and cases. It cases use a patented fan structure called “Core-Fan,” a lip on which fans can sit and be easily adjusted wherever needed within the height of the case. This review is for one such case, the 9-bay Acrylic Case, a transparent chassis ready for a high-performance, water-cooled, gaming, showcase rig. However, flaws make the future of this case unclear. Read on for the review.”
Spire VertiCool 3 Heatpipe CPU Cooler Review
Tweaknews :: Thursday, January 18, 2007
“Spire has done a great job with the VertiCool III in regards to its cooling ability. It holds up well against some pretty good competition while bringing a bit of its own individuality to the table. The addition of a fan speed control device will allow the user to dial in just the right noise-to-performance ratio for their particular hardware and environment. It doesn’t have any fancy lighting or other visual enhancements, just great performance.”
Fantec DB-337US and DB-338US2 Review
Technic 3d :: Thursday, January 18, 2007
“The Fantec DB-337US and DB-338US2 3,5″ HDD Case arrived Technic3D. The perfect mobile 3,5″ HDD Cases? The two external HDD Case with USB or eSATA can you see in the following Review.”
Fedora 7: The Linux Knight in Shining Armor?
Phoronix :: Thursday, January 18, 2007
“Fedora Core 6 was released on October 24, 2006 and scheduled to come out a half-year later is the seventh major release for the Fedora Project. However, unlike Yarrow, Tettnang, Heidelberg, Stentz, Bordeaux, and Zod, Fedora 7 is shaping up to be the most ambitious release yet. With all the work and reform going into Fedora 7 it poses the question, will Fedora 7 be Linux’s knight in shining armor?”
Noiseblocker CoolScraper V2 Heatsink review
Driver Heaven :: Thursday, January 18, 2007
“Noiseblocker is a German company specializing in silent computer cooling solutions. We have tested some of their products in the past, which we found to be of high quality albeit somewhat expensive. Since Noiseblocker is a rather new company, their product line-up is still small. Noiseblocker mainly focuses on designing and building some of the best quality computer fans around, but also produce other cooling related products, such as CPU coolers and accessories. Today we will take a look at the second revision of their CPU coolers, the CoolScraper 120 V2.”
Watercooling for your memory
PC Stats :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Win 2GB of ATI Crossfire Certified DDR2 RAM with OCZ and OC3D
Overclock 3d :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Fancy winning some lush OCZ DDR2 memory certified for use with ATI Crossfire based systems and compatible with all DDR2 platforms? Look no further than this post for more info!
Corsair Augments Flash Readout USB Product Family with 4GB and 8GB Capacities
Corsair :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
— New capacities join the Flash Readout family to merge visual functionality and storage capacity to bring a new class of USB products to mobile users —
CES 2007 Coverage- VIA
XYZ Computing :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
At CES this year VIA took over the Lunch at Piero’s event and despite being off-campus from the rest of the show, there were still a few cool things being shown off. It looks like VIA is finally interested in getting something going, so it might just be an exciting year for fans of small form factor computing.
CES 2007 Coverage- Razer
XYZ Computing :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Razer’s big news at 2007’s CES was not an input device as we expected, but actually more audio equipment. In addition to a sound card and headset they will soon be producing speakers! This 2.1 speaker system, known as the Mako, is the product of cooperation between Razer and THX, the same organization that certifies equipment for theater-quality sound. This is not only Razer’s first speaker system, but the first speaker system to be co-designed by the people at THX.
CES 2007: Corsair
Think Computers :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
“On the last day of the show I headed up the Corsair’s suite at the Bellagio. I really was not sure what to expect other than just some new memory, but Corsair has some really cool new products coming out this year that you should definitely know about. I was very impressed with Corsair’s new flash memory products, so let’s take a look!”
CES 2007 Wrap up
Hardware Logic :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Well, our wild and crazy week has come to an end, Paul and Blake are both safely home, having endured a full week of my ranting and rambling. We definitely saw the full spectrum of quality, and marketing at this years show and today HardwareLogic takes a look at the good and the bad of CES 2007.
Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2007) Report
Target PC :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Fujitsu had their Lifebook P1610 mini tablet pc on display. This device spots an 8.9” WXGA display and is powered by the mobile Intel Core Solo ultra voltage U1400 Processor on the 945GMS chipset. Maximum ram memory size is 1GB (one slot) and a choice of a 30GB, 60GB or 80GB hard drive running at 4200RPM (P-ATA 100). This device is one of the most versatile mobile computing products we have seen to date.
ASUS Striker Extreme – nForce 680i to the Max
Tweak Town :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
“Today is ASUS’s day in our labs. We have been sent the extremely feature packed ASUS Striker Extreme motherboard based on nVidia’s new nForce 680i chipset for our testing purposes – it falls into the “Republic of Gamers” series of boards from ASUS and it’s the first for the Intel platform. We are today going to see how well it performs and just what you get for the over $400 USD asking price when compared to a regular 680i motherboard and DFI’s impressive RD600.”
CES 2007: From Ultra Mobile PCs to Solid State Disks
HW Upgrade :: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
We continue our recap of the Consumer Electronics Show 2007 by looking at new ultra mobile PCs by Sony and solid state disks by Samsung. We also take a look at MSI’s new notebooks, some of which use unannounced chips, and fingerprint protected USB drives. Creative’s booth is also covered, along with their Xdock Wireless which fits right into the “digital home.”
