| Tuesday Hardware RoundUp Edition 13 |
 "ECS has come up with an awesome motherboard packed with lots of extras. ATI’s newest chipset shows that they are headed in the right direction and that performance does not have to be heavy on the wallet. ECS’s reputation for providing decent products at a decent price has just been bumped up a notch to provided great products to enthusiast builders at a great price." DIRECT URL: http://www.3dgameman.com OCZ Technology Mega-Kart 8GB USB Flash Drive "The OCZ Mega-Kart features 8GB of storage, a high speed USB 2.0 connection, and a unique design giving it the shape and size comparable to a thin stack of credit cards. This flash drive isn't like the one that might be in your pocket or on your key chain right now. Although it may be wider and longer, its extremely thin profile makes it easy to store all your photos, music, and files right in your wallet." DIRECT URL: http://www.bigbruin.com Thermaltake Silent Water All-in-One Liquid CPU Cooling System Review @ Tweaknews.net "The Silent Water all in one liquid cooling system from Thermaltake is an interesting product in some respects. The small size and mounting options make it compatible with many cases without modification. It offers the novice watercooler a complete, easily installed solution that has fairly wide compatibility at a very reasonable cost." DIRECT URL: http://www.tweaknews.net nVidia nForce 680i SLI Chipset - Core 2 Enthusiasts Dream? "When nVidia announced its first 500 series chipset for the Intel platform, the market was looking forward to a chipset that could perform, after seeing how well the AMD variants worked. We were all expecting to get our Core 2’s blazing on the 500 series for Intel; unfortunately, nVidia dropped the ball here. While a new MCP was introduced, the Northbridge or SPP as its known from nVidia was the same C19 chip that was used on the nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition, the same woeful memory controller and overclocks followed yet still remained fairly popular due to SLI support. Learning from this mistake, nVidia took its 500 series for Intel and threw them down the toilet and started to work on the 600 series, which would be the first new chipset for Intel platforms using completely new and improved silicon." DIRECT URL: http://www.tweaktown.com Preview of Bluetooth at CES 2007 "It's no wonder Bluetooth technology will have an outstanding presence at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Association recognizes this feat. That's why so many Bluetooth products made the list of Award Honorees at CES 2007, crossing over into double categories." DIRECT URL: http://www.bluetomorrow.com Corsair HX620W Modular Power Supply Review @ PCSTATS.com "Corsair is the king of enthusiast grade memory, and now the company is setting its' sights on another important and often unacknowledged component of a modern high end PC - the power supply. The Corsair HX620W power supply is the companies first ever, and this unit certainly has many good things going for it. First off the Corsair HX620W power supply has received nVIDIA SLI and ATi CrossFire certification, so you know it's not a piece of junk. The 620W wattage rating is a sustained value, not peak. Lastly, it comes in a very pretty modular cable design." REVIEW URL: http://www.pcstats.com Akasa AK-960E Socket 775 Heatsink Reviewed on FrostyTech @ Frostytech.com "The Akasa AK-960E heatsink is designed for socket 775 Intel Pentium 4/D and Core 2 Duo processors. As with most heatsinks that are vying to push the stock thermal solution out of the PC, the AK-960E comes equipped with a Pulse Width Modulation controlled fan that can scale between 500-3000RPM. In other words, when your PC is running on idle, the fan will slow down to reduce noise. When the processor is knee deep in a stream of number crunching, the fan spins up to meet the heat. This approach is soon to be the standard for all heatsinks, whether they be for CPU, GPU or chipset thermal solutions." REVIEW URL: http://www.frostytech.com NZXT Adamas Premium Aluminum Chassis "Gamers are always looking for new and exciting products to make their rig customized to their liking. NZXT has sent over the Adamas Premium Aluminum Chassis, but it does not seem like the typical NZXT case. It looks nothing like the flashy Apollo they sent us back in August, and it has a more refined appearance which I prefer." REVIEW URL: http://www.bigbruin.com Cooler Master Eclipse CPU Cooler @ ThinkComputers.org “So many CPU coolers are the same in design. It is hard to create a good performing CPU cooler whose design sets itself apart from the rest. Well today we will be looking at the Cooler Master Eclipse CPU cooler and its design is something that I have never seen before. We will see if its design hinders its performance against other AM2 CPU coolers that we have previously tested. So let's check it out!” REVIEW URL: http://www.thinkcomputers.org RAID Technology Part 2: RAID Levels "RAID 5 may be a higher level than RAID 1, but that does not mean that RAID 5 is superior to RAID 1 in every way. A RAID level is just a technique being used and does not correspond to any hierarchy. When looking at a RAID controller, it is important to understand what the benefits are to each RAID level as most controllers only support a subset of levels. Originally, only RAID 1 through RAID 5 were defined but since the 1988 Berkeley paper was written, other levels have been added." DIRECT URL: http://www.aselabs.com
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