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be quiet! recently impressed us with their mid range Straightpower series of power supplies. The Dark Power Pro represents their high end power supply units boasting four main features.
Top efficiency, thermal control, service plus and high connectivity. Cable management comes as standard along with an enhanced cooling after system off technology to protect hardware from overheating.
Let's find out how this unit performs under some extreme tests. |
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If you caught our review of the Razor Copperhead mouse, you'll know we were suitably impressed with this wee beastie. Of course having the best mouse in the world means nothing without a decent mousing surface to use it on. Enter the Razor Mantis next generation precision gaming surface. A premium cloth mouse mat with Fibertek surface to allow precise targetting and tracking. In other words, it's a kick ass surface for your Razor mouse.
Head down to the labs for some mouse mat torturing. |
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Seven hundred watts of tough power, 14cm fan, modularized cable management and 85% efficiency. Are you in love yet. Thermaltakes Toughpower power supply is a serious piece of kit ready for SLI, Crossfire, dual core and just about anything else you'd care to throw at it.
Find out how tough this unit is when we throw it into a 3.8Ghz monsta.
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Foxconn are set to capture the hearts of high end users with this deluxe AM2 offering based on the nForce 590 SLI chipset. Boasting excellent packaging and plenty of features, Foxconn have shed their cheap and cheerful
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When is a mouse not a mouse? When it's a Razer Copperhead. Advanced technology, sleek lines and sexy lights make this a potent package for any would be gamer. Can this mouse turn any lame shot into a l33ter killing machine? Read on as we put the Copperhead to the test. |
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The GA-965P-DQ6 ranks at the top of Gigabyte's offerings to Core 2 Duo users seeking to push their chips to the limit. Like it's little brother, the Gigabyte
GA-965P-DS3 which we reviewed earlier, this board also features an all solid capacitor design. Based on the 965P chipset, the DQ6 doesn't support crossfire, however there's little doubt that it should overclock to high levels. Thoroughly impressed by the entry level DS3 which achieved an impressive 450 MHz FSB, we had high expectations for this board. Read on to see just how the Gigabyte GA-965P DQ6 faired when we pushed it to its limit.
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700 watts is practically run of the mill these days for enthusiasts with mega power supply urges. Be Quiet! shows you can have juice without the noise in this top spec power plant. With connections galore, mirror finish and plenty of amps, this could be just the ticket to beat those rail blues. |
If Kentsfield didn't impress you, we managed to get our hands on something that will. Dubbed Clovertown, Intel's new addition to it's Server CPU lineup will be marketed as a Xeon. Featurng 4 physical cores and based on the Core 2 architecture, you'd probably be thinking what differentiates this from (boring?) old Kentsfield. Well for starts, it utilises the LGA 771 socket rather than the well known LGA 775 socket, so you can't give it a home in your gaming rig. OK, we admit that that's not the most interesting feature, so we'll tell you - Whilst Kentsfield CPUs will run in more or less all Core 2 Duo supporting motherboards, you can couple two Clovertown processors and create an incredible octal-core monster!!
Armed with two 2.66 GHz engineering samples, a SUPERMICRO X7DA8-O dual CPU motherboard and 2 Gigs of RAM, we enlisted the help of our favourite UC babe, Holly, and set out building our octal-core behemoth before running a series of benchmarks on it.
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Our quest for the best performing LGA 775 heatsink continues, and it looks like we have a winner. Let's take a look at the Arctic Cooling Freeaer 7 Pro. Can a heatsink costing only £13 be any good for cooling the latest Intel Core2 Duo processors?
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Although summer's been long gone, better cooling for your CPU and lower noise for your ears never hurt. Today, we're taking a look at the Thermaltake Mini Typhoon. |
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