| AMD A10-6800K Review – Richland-Based Desktop APU (Part 2) |
| A product range such as the Richland notice was able to pass through unnoticed in the past. The increased clock speed will only lead to the quiet appearance of new products on the price table with slightly higher product numbers. But AMD wants to make some noise and the game with its products names. |
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| AMD A10-6800K Review – Richland-Based Desktop APU (Part 1) |
| AMD decided to renew their FM2 socket platform and released a new generation of mixture processor for it based on Richland design. This is exactly a version that wins the “Elite Performance APU Platform” title in the mobile segment. |
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| Asus P8Z77-V LK Mainboard - One Of The Simplest Designs From Asus (Part 6) |
| In the idle mode we boot up the system and wait until it stops accessing to the hard disk. The power consumption in the case of single-threaded CPU load is measured while running the Pi-digits performance test, and in the case of multi-threaded load – while running the Fritz Chess Benchmark test. |
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| Asus P8Z77-V LK Mainboard - One Of The Simplest Designs From Asus (Part 3) |
| By default, the "EZ Mode" is enabled in the BIOS. It performs the principal function is to provide information, because there are not almost any configurable parameters there. You are likely to check the basic system settings, a number of monitoring data, choose an energy saving or performance modes and establish the order of boot-up devices by simply dragging and dropping them to cursor. |
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| Asus P8Z77-V LK Mainboard - One Of The Simplest Designs From Asus (Part 1) |
| This mainboard will fit perfectly for a modern system; it does not stand out for anything new, but also does not have any functional limitations of any system at all. The products are more complex and more expensive, as well as the products that are simpler and more affordable appear, while Asus P8Z77-V LK is a universal mainboard, most optional solution, with the so-called "golden medium". |
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| Asus Rog Matrix 7970 3 GB Graphics Card - The Choice Of Champions (Part 4) |
| We can see the same image in each product in three tests from the newest version of 3DMark. GeForce GTX Titan is expected to be in the lead, next to be two samples Radeon from HIS and ASUS. The latter is only faster than HD 7970 GHz Edition a little, so GPU overclocking speed is to 50 MHz and the graphics memory frequency is to 600 MHz that is not very beneficial. |
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| Asus Rog Matrix 7970 3 GB Graphics Card - The Choice Of Champions (Part 3) |
| ASUS ROG MATRIX 7970 system needs a little more energy than HIS Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition system. The difference is only 20 watts at peak load. GeForce GTX 680 overclocking from ASUS needs less than 10 watts compared to the so HIS baseline configuration whereas the Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan turns out to be economical and consumes only 23 watts more than ASUS ROG Matrix 7970 configuration. |
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| Asus Rog Matrix 7970 3 GB Graphics Card - The Choice Of Champions (Part 2) |
| You may be familiar with ASUS DirectCU II cooling device from our prior reviews. It is installed on the graphics card at the different levels, not only in high-end models. ASUS ROG Matrix 7970 features with its five heat-pipes version, three of which are 8 mm in diameter and two are 6 mm in diameter. The aluminum heat-sink consists two parts and is covered by a metal casing with a fan. |
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| Asus Rog Matrix 7970 3 GB Graphics Card - The Choice Of Champions (Part 1) |
| GPU Tahiti of AMD from Islands Southern family was announced about one and a half year ago, but AMD seems not to rush with this new version. Yes, and on the really, it actually should not, because AMD platform product seems to have competitive with Nvidia foundation partners in all price segment. T |
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| Roccat Isku FX - Multicolour Gaming Keyboard |
| The high end keyboard market tends to be split into two separate categories. In one are the membrane keyboards filled to the brim with features, macro keys and lights, and in the other are mechanical boards that offer unmatchable typing experiences and high build quality but comparatively fewer features. Roccat's $120 Isku FX falls distinctly into the former grouping. |
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| SilverStone Argon AR01 - A Brilliant Budget Cooler |
| The Argon AR01 forms part of a new lineup of CPU coolers from SilverStone. An equally cheap 92mm fan based model is also available, as is a heftier and costlier 120mm based one. The £25 price of the AR01 certainly gets it off to a good start, though. |
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| Dual-channel DDR3 RAM (Part 4) |
| Patriot Viper 3 Intel Extreme Masters is a limited edition version of the memory that comes resplendent in Intel Blue and. yes, there is an actual color called Intel Blue. Did you know the Intel logo uses a proprietary typeface called Neo Sans Intel? You learn a new thing every day in this line of work. |
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| Dual-channel DDR3 RAM (Part 3) |
| Ballistix Elite runs at 1600MHz-2133MHz with up to 1.65V and uses tall heat spreaders to contain the extra power. Ballistix Sport XT is similar to Elite and uses tall heat spreaders, but it runs on 1.5V and tops out at 1866MHz. The regular Ballistix Sport also runs on 1.5V but is slower at 1333MHz-1600MHz, while Ballistix Sport VLP (Very Low Profile) looks impressive, as it manages to run at 1600MHz despite only requiring 1.35\/. |
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| Dual-channel DDR3 RAM (Part 2) |
| If you’re feeling flush with cash, you might spend $298 on 8GB of dual-channel Dominator Platinum with a stunning speed rating of 2800MHz. Dominator delivers other features such as the option to install alternate heat spreaders or to use water cooling or the Corsair Link system, in addition to colossal clock speeds. |
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| Dual-channel DDR3 RAM (Part 1) |
| A-Data sent me the Premier Pro RAM in a plain package which focused my attention on the modules, and I wasn’t won over by the cosmetic appeal of this memory, as it is stunningly dull. |
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| Mionix NAOS 8200 Mouse - A Beanbag For Your Hand |
| After using the slender lines of the Razer Sensei, the flat pancake of a mouse that is the NAOS 8200 took a lot of getting used to. We’ve never seen a mouse so big, and our entire hand comfortably fits on the shaped finger supports. It’s so comfortable for extended periods of use, that we’re considering using this as our day to day mouse. |
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| Black-Edition GELID CPU Cooler - Man In Black (Part 3) |
| Make the fan rotate at higher speed, GELID Black Edition can provide performance as much as Phanteks PH-TC14PЕ at 950 RPM. However, if the speed reduce by 200 RPM, Black Edition will allow CPU temperature to rise by 3oC at most, lower than Phanteks. With lower speed in two 120mm fans of GELID cooler, CPU temperature was higher in our testing time. |
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| Black-Edition GELID CPU Cooler - Man In Black (Part 2) |
| It is good when there is less CPU coolers having limited compatibility with one foundation current, and there are no such coolers in the top segment that Black Edition belongs. However, the latest models can be installed on any morden foundations without any exceptions. Guidelines of installation can be downloaded from official website. We will introduce them quickly by using using our experiment on LGA2011 CPU |
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| Black-Edition GELID CPU Cooler - Man In Black (Part 1) |
| GELID Solutions Limited is a quite small company about product ranges and production volumes, so we+ do not usually see new cooling products of this brand. However, not like cooling systems from other brands, GELID products are really newer than modified version of old products. For example, Black Edition, the latest releases version, is the cooler which has the first double-heatsink strips of GELID. |
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| Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Mainboard - Not So Complicated LGA 115 Mainboard (Part 3) |
| When being launched, at the bottom of the Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H, you will see a startup picture as well as a list of hotkeys. Pressing Del will lead you to the mainboard’s BIOS, F9 to show a window in which displays information of the system (same buttons would make the paths to the same windows if they are pressed in BIOS), and F12 to open a menu to choose which device to be started up. |
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| Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Mainboard - Not So Complicated LGA 115 Mainboard (Part 2) |
| When switching to the “Advanced Mode”, you would switch to the “M.I.T” section too (MB Intelligent Tweaker), which contains every information about overclocking and optimizing the performance. All sub-sections are listed on the main section’s screen and this screen is also functioned of reporting the basic parameter of the system. |
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| OCZ Vertex 3.20 Solid State Drive Review (Part 4) |
| Besides the average benchmark score, we also want to give you the results of the specific usage cases, which will indicate where the OCZ Vertex 3.20 may actually shine. We wish you to take notice that the high data transfer speed is higher than the SATA 3 interface bandwidth in some subtests. |
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| OCZ Vertex 3.20 Solid State Drive Review (Part 3) |
| An SSD controller does not know which memory pages hold user data, and which are considered free by the operating system. It happens this way since in the file system, the process of removing a file is not related to its actual physical removal. Instead, the corresponding memory marked in the file system is available for writing data. |
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| OCZ Vertex 3.20 Solid State Drive Review (Part 2) |
| We use Anvil's Storage Utilities 1.0.51 to measure the speeds of random and sequential write. The synthetic benchmark integrated into this software suite gives an excellent overview of the products by performing a series of speed characteristics of the tested SSD. |
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| OCZ Vertex 3.20 Solid State Drive Review (Part 1) |
| OCZ has decided to reissue their previous hit - Vertex 3 solid state drive. The new SSD revised version employs the same LSI SF-2281 controller, except that different flash memory is made by using more advanced 20 nm manufacturing technology. Have they tried to create another eye-catching version? |
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| EVGA GeForce GTX Titan - Graphics Card |
| The Titan has existed for more than a year in the supercomputer world in the form of the Tesla K20X, which costs around $5,000. It’s Nvidia's Big Kepler GPU, meaning it's the most powerful implementation of the company’s current architecture, and for context it's almost double everything compared to a GTX 680 GPU. |
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| Sharkoon Skiller Gaming Keyboard |
| sharkoon has stepped into the gaming-keyboard ring with its new budget plank called the Skiller, which is loaded with hotkeys and a macro-recording software suite. Those of you not familiar with Sharkoon should know that the company started out making cold-cathode PC lighting a decade ago, and has since expanded its offering with keyboards, mice, and other PC peripherals. |
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| Arctic Cooling Accelero Hybrid GTX 680 |
| Even if you didn't want to overclock but were a hardcore builder, installing liquid coolers made for a fun weekend project. Those days have mostly ended, now that Nvidia has gotten its act together with regards to quiet, well-designed coolers (AMD is getting closer, but isn’t quite there yet for the high-end cards), and modern GPUs overclock quite nicely even with a stock cooler. |
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| Zalman LQ-320 CPU Cooler |
| Zalman has a well-earned reputation for high-quality air coolers. The "flower" design of its older all-copper heatsinks was eye-catching and distinctive, and its large (for the time] fans ran quietly even under load. Lately, though, liquid cooling has been all the rage. |
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