A directory of hardware reviews : Motherboards, CPU Coolers, Processors, Benchmarks

hexus reviewed the OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD SATA III SSDVTX3-25SAT3-240G

The benchmark performance of this Solid State Disk is very high. The speed of the Vertex SSD has been increased over 90% when compared to the previous generation, beating the competition by far. Sequential read and write speeds come close to the MAX bandwidth for SATA III, the Vertex 3 is an excellent all-round SSD drive. ....More

tweaknews reviewed the HIS HD 6850 IceQ X Turbo 1GB GDDR5 H685QNT1GD

The reviewer did not find a single problem with this graphics card. It looks great, performs fantastic, overclocks well and it's a value for money. The power draw was 135 watts during maximum load and 20 watts at idle. ....More

storagereview reviewed the Lenovo ThinkPad T520

In terms of storage, the ThinkPad T520 is configurable with either an HDD or SSD as the primary drive. The mSATA port provides a third storage option, and is bootable with a special SSD like the Intel SSD 310, replacing the WWAN module. ....More

AMD Radeon HD 6790 news by fudzilla

HD 6790 is a great overclocker
HD 6790 is based on the Barts GPU, the same one that is used forn the HD 6800 series, even the PCB is similar to the one used for the Radeon HD 6870 cards. There's a max TDP of 150W and disabled shaders might even be unlockable. ....More

AMD Radeon HD 6790 news by nordichardware

AMD has decided to postpone the launch of the new mid-range card Radeon HD 6790.
Exactly why the launch has been moved up to April 5th is uncertain, but most likely AMD wanted to give partners time to finalize their own cards. At the same time we hear good news about the power consumption and the first pictures. ....More

Intel Desktop Chipset Roadmap news by vr-zone

According to a Chinese site the Intel roadmap for desktop CPUs will be published soon, the X79 chipset will be the successor to the three year old then X58 chipset in Q4 2011. The new cpu will be called the "Sandy Bridge E" series and will be seen with 2011 land grids, therefore compatible with X79 motherboards of socket LGA2011, again another mainboard in the confusing Intel line. ....More

anandtech reviewed the ASUS U41JF

ASUS continues to put out one of the most well-rounded packages with their U-series, and the latest two additions address the one area of performance where previous models fell short. Now, you can at least play every current game at 30+ Frames Per Second, even Crysis 2 will run, though you'll have to set everything to low. ....More

Alienware M14x news by Dell

This notebook it should come with a 14 inch display, the CPU range will begin with an Intel Core i3-2310M up to the quad core i7-2820QM, furthermore this laptop is equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce 555M graphics card, or if you want an AMD video card you'll also be able to choose between the Radeon HD 6370M or 6770M. The display has a resolution of 1920x1080 or 1366x768 pixels. ....More

3 Terabyte Unlock Utility by Gigabyte

Motherboard manufacturer GIGABYTE announced the availability of the 3TB+ Unlock Utility that allows mainboards without an EFI BIOS to recognize and use unallocated space on new 3TB and larger hard disc drives. ....More

Ati Radeon HD 6790 news by Sapphire

This video card with 1 Gigabyte of GDDR5 memory is based on the 40nm Barts GPU Core and and thius version should get 800 stream processors, the GPU core is clocked @ 840MHz and the RAM is clocked @ 4.2GHz effectively. The GPU cooler this card is equipped with is identical to the SAPPHIRE HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE card and the temperature levels will probably be acceptable. ....More

3-29-2011

Intel Atom Z670 news by Intel

It shouldn't take long until the first tablets and netbooks based on the new Intel Atom Z670 will be manufactured.

Fujitsu and ECS have announced pads busing the Intel Atom Z670 chip, the Fujitsu STYLISTIC Q550 and the ECS ElitePad V07-I, also Samsung and MSI will release Oak Trail-equipped tablet PCs. Samsung's PC 7 Series should be availabel soon for $699. The MSI WindPad 100W is expected to be launched next month.

There's no information on the Z670 from Intel yet, from non-official sources it is said that the processor has only one CPU core and is clocked at 1.5 GHz, has a TDP of app. 3-5 watts and it includes HyperThreading. This Oak Trail platform is meant for very low-power devices. The CPU core has 512 KB L2 cache, like other Atom microprocessors, the lithography will be 45nm. ....More

Apple iPad 3 news by gizchina

New to the iPad 3 3D are the OS iOS 5 and it can be considered a TRUE Post-PC device. There's a Built in HDMI out and next to that you'll get a Retina Display that will upgrade the tablet's current pixel density from 132ppi to 326ppi. ....More

Intel Solid-State Drive 320 Series news by expressview

The new Intel 320 series SSD Drives will launch on March 28th 2011.

The SSDs packs 25nm MLC NAND memory chips and delivers a read speed of up to 250MB/s and a write speed of 170MB/s, because of the SATA3 6 Gbps interface. This new series is a G3 (Generation 3) SSD type, the reviewers will show you the 80GB model. ....More

Apple Mac OS X news by Apple

v10.6.7 Update

This Update is recommended for all computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general OS fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac(book). ....More

News video on NVIDIA: Best Graphics Card ever built

Nvidia's Best Graphics Card ever built.

A teaser video of the next generation 'Top Secret' GeForce GPU from NVIDIA, to be introduced on march 24 2011. ....More

3-18-2011

tweaktown reviewed the Sapphire HD6990 4G GDDR5 PCI-E

AUSUM mode helps take this video card to a higher level, which is exactly what AMD wanted to do with the Dual BIOS switch. Outside of the extra performance, the heat also goes up to another level, as does the power consumption. The heat tipped almost 90 degrees Celsius. The good news is that the noise levels are the same because the fan speed doesn't go up. ....More

3-17-2011

hitechlegion reviewed the ASUS ENGTX550 Ti DirectCU TOP-DI-1GD5

This card shows a very nice improvement when compared to the GTS450, overclocked GTS450, and the stock GTX 550Ti. The 550 Ti is a well rounded video card, the DirectCU cooler and super alloy power make it very stable. Tweaker software is bundled with this excellent graphics card, that delivers value for money. ....More

3-15-2011

techgage reviewed the Sapphire FleX HD 6870 1GB GDDR5

This graphics card is a non-reference card that will bring you more than a high quality heatsink or a factory overclock, this card brings something no other HD 6870 does... a built-in DisplayPort converter. Eyefinity aside, this card delivered the performance the reviewers expected to see from such a card. ....More

3-14-2011

overclockersclub reviewed the Sapphire HD6990 4G GDDR5 PCI-E

This video card just cleans up and delivers FPS numbers that can't be matched by any single video card currently on the market. OCed it even moves one step further up the performance ladder, this card is a real winner for AMD. ....More

3-10-2011

legitreviews reviewed the Intel Solid-State Drive 510 Series 250GB

The max write speeds are considerably lower than the SandForce disks, the random writes where they were consistently lower than the SandForce drives. The RAID 0 performance was just awesome but out of reach financially for many consumers. Intel made a SATA3 drive that fares very well against the latest SandForce drives. While we can't say it leads its class, it's definitely going to cause others to look nervously over their proverbial shoulder. ....More

3-10-2011

xbitlabs reviewed the AMD E Series E-350

The AMD Brazos seems to be the best option available for tiny and power-efficient stationary and mobile computers. AMD took a long time to develop its energy-efficient microarchitecture and postponed it a number of times. As a result, the company is late to the nettop and netbook boom but finally has a really competitive solution. Without a doubt, the Brazos platform is superior to other available platforms of this class. It is a kind of a new Athlon XP among energy-efficient processors. AMD has proved its engineering ability with this release, which looks like a promising symptom after all the recent failures. ....More

legitreviews reviewed the Plextor PX-M2 Series PX-128M2S

Looking at the read and write specs of 420 MB/s and 210 MB/s, it's clear that the performance is less than the the Vertex 3 drives with the new SandForce controllers. However, the maximum specs can be misleading since the SandForce controllers use data compression to accellerate performance which leads to differences depending on the data being transferred. ....More

storagereview reviewed the OWC 240GB Mercury Aura Pro Express

OWC claims a 22% performance improvement with the Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD over the stock Toshiba-controlled SSD in the MacBook Air (Late 2010). The drive was fast through the synthetic benchmarks, and a lot faster in the real world benchmarks. To be short a performance gain of 40-70%. That's due in large part to greater random read and write performance of the SandForce controller. The other upside is MacBook Air owners can now have a higher capacity SSD too, on the high side, 360GB vs Apple's offering of only 256GB. ....More

hothardware reviewed the Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition

The new Core i7-990X hexacore is app. 3% across the board. This cpu is what it is, a little bit faster than Intel's 980x desktop chip. It's unlocked and clocked at 3.45GHz stock speed with a Turbo Boost top-end speed of 3.73GHz. Intel claims its their fastest desktop chip. ....More