| G-360 And G-550 Power Supply Devices Review (Part 3) |
| The choice of connectors depends on the number of PSU’s wattage but the CPU power cable is too short. It has the same length as in the low-end model above , but the SSR-550RM is used in a large system case where the 550mm cable will not be long enough to be shielded inside the mainboard. |
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| G-360 And G-550 Power Supply Devices Review (Part 1) |
| Seasonic’s former Gold-certified PSU product series used to be expensive and the high-wattage power consumption (except for the fanless models) and so, despite their great technical standards, these products are still beyond the ordinary users’ reach. |
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| Arduino Due - A Microcontroller Board |
| Arduino has made a name for itself by producing micro controller boards that are simple and easy to use. Up until no, it has stuck with AVR-based processors. However, in the past eight years things have moved on in the silicon world, and some users are abandoning AVR for the more powerful ARM-based chips. |
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| Compact Liquid Cooling Systems Roundup – Front Runners (Part 4) |
| In contrast to the low-level liquid- cooling systems, these products may challenge the best air-cooling equipment. The Corsair Hydro H100i Extreme Performance with its large radiator is always the top in standard configuration. It works more efficiently than the air-cooler not only at the highest or average of two SP120L Corsair fan speed but also the speed at 1,000 and even at 800 RPM. |
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| Compact Liquid Cooling System Roundup – Front Runners (Part 2) |
| Hydro H100i Extreme Performance used to be the Corsair top product until this company launched the H110 model with 140 mm fans and the 280x140 mm radiator, so H110i is the second best model in the hierarchical system of Corsair liquid cooling products. |
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| Compact Liquid Cooling System Roundup – Front Runners (Part 1) |
| Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance works with the Asetek 570LC platform but has a different type of water block and pump. However, its general design is basically similar to the systems that were discussed before. It consists of a radiator, two fans and a water block with pump, all connected to the tubes: |
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| Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB Graphics Card Review (Part 6) |
| The Titan is 34-47% ahead at 1920x1080 and 39-55% at 2560x1440 resolution on average over the trials. We can see that it has more advantages when set to the highest picture quality, especially when turn eliminate full-screen aliasing. The 384-bit wide memory demonstrates its value here. |
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| Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB Graphics Card Review (Part 5) |
| With full-screen anti-aliasing mode turned off, the GeForce GTX Titan provides slightly better results than the GTX 680 and almost won the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, the product usually gives excellent results in this game. The Titan shows its strength as soon as we allow 4x MSAA features. Its advantage is up to 31 to 46%. |
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| Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB Graphics Card Review (Part 4) |
| The new card had a very fast opening in our tests. While the GeForce GTX 680 is equivalent to the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, Nvidia’s leading graphics cards with single GPU was 30% faster than other products. On the other hand, the GeForce GTX Titan cannot fight well with the GeForce GTX 680: the 5% gap although the Titan has been overclocked. |
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| Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB Graphics Card Review (Part 3) |
| We measure the energy consumption during our test equipment with different graphics cards using the multifunctional Zalman ZM-MFC3, which can report the power consumption of a computer (without monitor). There are two test modes: 2D (text editing in Microsoft Word or web surfing) and 3D. |
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| Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB Graphics Card Review (Part 2) |
| Nvidia has made efforts to improve the cooling system for a top graphics card so by considering the increased final width of the GPU to the heatsink. There are 3 major improvements mentioned by Nvidia: a steam chamber, a heatsink with aluminum with a large number of foil radiators and an adjusted fan system. |
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| Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB Graphics Card Review (Part 1) |
| The Nvidia GeForce GTX 680, based on the design of Kepler released a year ago, is a product…, although the latest products have recently developed more and more slowly. Many of us expect AMD and Nvidia to make new processors and technologies in the spring of 2013 but that did not happen. |
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| Zalman CNPS9900DF Cooling Device Review (Part 3) |
| Zalman CNPS9900DF looks modest compared with Thermalright Spirit 140, which which costs only half as much. At maximum fan speed, TRU Spirit 140 is 3oC ahead, but most importantly, Zalman CNPS9900DF was just 1oC ahead of Thermalright cooler, even if the fan speed of the latter was reduced to 810 RPM. |
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| Zalman CNPS9900DF Cooling Device Review (Part 1) |
| We would conduct a review about a very good-looking and stylish cooling device from Zalman. Without a doubt, it will contribute to the spirit of our holiday, but whether it is appropriate for an overclocked processor? |
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| Thermalright Archon SB-E Cooler Review (Part 3) |
| When we tried to overclock the CPU when cooling it with Thermalright Archon SB-E in the following configuration (with a 150mm fan), we found that the CPU is able to work at 4,500 MHz and at a voltage of 1,435 volts. The CPU's highest temperature is 81oC. That's good, but it's not an outstanding result. |
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| Thermalright Archon SB-E Cooler Review (Part 2) |
| Despite the reference in the name of the product, Archon SB-E can be installed not only in the Intel LGA2011 CPU, but also in any other modern platform. It is also compatible with Intel LGA775 and AMD Socket 939 platform. We described the installation procedure during which you can use a universal fastener with steel pressure and back plates in our review of the Thermalright Archon SB-E . |
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| Thermalright Archon SB-E Cooler Review (Part 1) |
| In an effort to innovate the legendary Archon cooler even more, Thermalright has launched a number of small modifications to their cooler, provided a new fan and slightly changed the retention mechanism. Let's check out how good that innovation is. |
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| Zalman FX100-Cube Fanless Cooler |
| Those interested in passive, silent cooling are used to using hardware that's a little underpowered compared to the top-end equipment that's available, as the more powerful something gets, the more heat it tends to produce, and the more it needs some noisy air or liquid movement to shift its heat. |
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| Devolo dLAN LiveCam Starter Kit |
| The snag with most security cameras is that you need a source of power, and you also need a means to access them across a network. You can use PoE (Power Over Ethernet), but that still means running network cables through the fabric of your home or office. |
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| Zalman FX100-Cube Fanless Cooler |
| Those interested in passive, silent cooling are used to using hardware that's a little underpowered compared to the top-end equipment that's available, as the more powerful something gets, the more heat it tends to produce, and the more it needs some noisy air or liquid movement to shift its heat. |
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| Scythe Katana 4 And Thermalright TRUE Spirit 90 (Part 3) |
| It is proven that Scythe Katana 4 and Thermalright TRUE Spirit 90 indeed have high performance, keeping our 6-core overclocked stable with the clocking rate up to 4250 MHz. Therefore, each of them is potentially suitable not only for normal PC desktops but also for overclocking configuration, unless you plan to set some overclocking records. |
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| Scythe Katana 4 And Thermalright TRUE Spirit 90 (Part 2) |
| Small and informative is the characteristics of Thermalright TRUE Spirit 90’s box. Besides the product and manufacturer’s name, you will also find its specifications on one of the box’s side, which is not typical for Thermalright’s packages. |
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| Synology Diskstation DS412+ - Speedy Four-Bay Nas |
| Hard drives are now down to pre-Thailand flood prices, with higher capacity options than ever before. And if you’ve been maxing out your new fiber Internet connection, you’re going to need somewhere to store all the stuff you’ve downloaded. |
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| Swiftech H220 Liquid Cooling System Review (Part 3) |
| Its two fans work at the maximum speed of 2,670 RPM, the Corsair still lags 2°C behind the Swiftech which runs its default Helix 120 fans at 1750 RPM. And if we compare them at the same fan speed, the Corsair looks even worse: Swiftech is better 7 at 1,200 RPM, 6 at 1,000 RPM and 7 at 800 RPM. That’s a large distance. |
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| Swiftech H220 Liquid Cooling System Review (Part 2) |
| The Swiftech H220 is compatible with all modern AMD platforms and Intel as well as LGA775. A detailed user manual is included in the kit. You can download its electronic version in PDF from company’s official website. |
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| Swiftech H220 Liquid Cooling System Review (Part 1) |
| Swiftech should be given credit for quickly completing any of its products, from radiators, pumps, water blocks to fittings and controllers. The company is now introducing innovations, on a regular basis and to the envy of other brands. |
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| Summarize Small Liquid Cooling System (Part 5) |
| The 2 Corsair products have improved their position. The fan makes them much more efficient. Hydro H60 High Performance is only 1 or 2°C worse than the leader at maximum 1,600 RPM as well as lower speed. Hydro H55 Quiet seems even better with 2 fans. |
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| Summarize Small Liquid Cooling System (Part 4) |
| For the priority test and summary graph, we overclock a 6-core microprocessor with the overclocking frequency set at 125 MHz, 35x multiplier and “Load-Line Calibration” enabled to 4,375 GHz. The nominal Vcore of the processor is increased to 1,385V in the BIOS motherboard. |
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| Summarize Small Liquid Cooling System (Part 3) |
| In contrast to Corsair and Thermaltake, Zalman is a new brand on the market of compact liquid-cooling system. You can remember the renowned Zalman Reserator line, but it’s no longer includes the small and reasonable-pricing products. Zalman thought that it would be essential to provide such products. |
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| Summarize Small Liquid Cooling System (Part 2) |
| Unfortunately, this is the only difference that we can show. Little technical information indicates that not only pump but also lock are not distinctive about outside design of Corsair Hydro H55 Quiet. Power consumption of pump is 1.96 according to our measuring. This is the most saving pump in this test. |
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| Summarize Small Liquid Cooling System (Part 1) |
| Cooling system with common liquid circle is trying to knock supper-cooling part by air down once again. However, at this time, we have decided to collect them in huge recapitulative chains. We will discuss 5 products from Corsair, Thermaltake and Zalman. |
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| Asustor AS-604T 4-Bay NAS Review (Part 3) |
| Using fault-tolerant arrays doesn’t produce a performance hit, which indicates that the NAS’s processor is fast enough to cope with the increased load. The software implementation of the striped array may not provide any performance benefits as we can see in the diagram but we’ve only seen this with x86 devices and this behavior may be peculiar to this hardware platform. |
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| Asustor AS-604T 4-Bay NAS Review (Part 2) |
| The NAS devices are different with other desktop PCs in their functionality. Even though they are not as versatile, they are more than just file storage devices. Considering that firmware doesn’t vary much between different NASes from the same manufacturer, we will discuss the extra services in an upcoming review. |
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| Asustor AS-604T 4-Bay NAS Review (Part 1) |
| A new brand emerged in the network storage market at the end of 2012. It is ASUSTOR and it launched its products based on the x86-platform. Such NAS devices are known for their capability of delivering high performance, and of course at a high price too, so ASUSTOR plans to compete with famous brands such as QNAP, Synology and Netgear in the top-end market segment. |
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| AMD A10-5800K - Taking Has To Newer Heights |
| In October last year, AMD officially launched its new desktop A-Series APUs, top billed by the flagship A10-5800K Black Edition APU. The new APU makes use of Socket FM2, which is not compatible with Socket FM1 motherboards. Hence, potential buyers of the A10-5800K will have to buy a new board as well. |
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