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Antec Notebook Cooler 200
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Benchmark reviews take a look at the Antec Notebook Cooler 200, a base to place your laptop on when working at a desk which also cools:
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Convection is when moving air transfers heat to or from a surface. This is the method used by most laptop coolers to keep your CPU, GPU and other critical components from overheating. There are three major factors to effective cooling (or heating), namely temperature difference, surface area, and air flow. Any differences in these factors will lead to differences in performance, even for the same cooler. The Benchmark Reviews team tries hard to provide you with fair and repeatable testing. The Antec Notebook Cooler 200 uses all three factors to achieve effective cooling with minimal power. Our tests show which of those factors makes the biggest difference. We also consider ergonomics, looks and quality.
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Radeon HD5970
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Bjorn 3D have an article on the new ATI/AMD Radeon HD5970 graphics card, and it's worth a read:
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While we still are waiting for NVIDIA:s first DirectX 11-capable cards and probably will have to wait a few months into 2010 for them, AMD is getting busy releasing a steady stream of new cards to the consumers. When the HD5870 and the HD5850 was released AMDS spelled out their strategy and promised to follow up the cards first with the HD5770/HD5750 and then with the 'Hemlock' card, the rumored HD5870X2. So far AMD has kept their promises and it is indeed the 'Hemlock' that we are looking at today although the name has been changed to HD5970.
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HP DreamScreen 100
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Digital Trends review the new HP DreamScreen 100 digital photo frame, ideal for displaying your family photos or holiday snaps:
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In many ways, the HP DreamScreen 100 is the digital photo frame you've always wanted-mostly because it doesn't just show photos. Instead of staring at your friends and family all day, this mini computer makes your life seem a lot more exciting, with the ability to stream music and pictures, as well as tap into Facebook and Pandora features. However, it does have a few telling flaws worth knowing about as well. Read on to get to know more about it.
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NZXT LEXA S Crafted Series PC Chassis
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Bona Fide Reviews take a look at the NZXT LEXA S Crafted Series, a decent PC case that scores 4/5.
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The included fan controller works very well. I have it hooked up so that I can control the front and side fan with one knob and the top and rear exhaust with the other knob. Intake and exhaust can be easily controlled now with just the twist of the knob. There’s enough fans already in the case to keep things nice and cool, even at low speeds the temperature inside are cool. On low speed the fans are virtually silent but when you turn them up to full speed they are audible and for me personally a bit too loud. For a basic system you won’t need to turn the fan up to high as they do a decent job at providing good airflow even on low speeds.
There’s plenty of room inside of the Lexa S for most any system, you should be able to get large sized video cards in there without a problem.
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StarTech Dual-SATA HDD Docking Station Review
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Benchmark Reviews have a review of the StarTech Dual-SATA HDD Docking Station, a handy tool for technicians and system builders:
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Benchmark Reviews has put a plethora of storage enclosures and systems through their paces and all of the predecessors fell neatly into readily recognizable categories. The StarTech SATADOCK22UE is a horse of a slightly different color offering features that bridge the existing product categories it's neither a case nor storage array, but has the capacity to allow access to single data drives as well as two drives independently or as a RAID array. It's a niche product with stealth appeal for main stream users who think outside the box. The SataDock product line comes in 4 flavors: single drive USB only desktop bay (SATADOCKU2E), single drive USB & eSATA desktop bay (SATADOCKU2), 5.25" Bay Dual Drive eSATA (SATADOCK525) and the top of the line dual drive, dual eSATA desktop dock SATADOCK22UE which we will be reviewing. While no doubt the intended audience for the SataDock product line is mainly corporate or professional P! C repair and maintenance organizations, this small wonder has the potential to simplify the lives of a much broader audience if they can related to it's less obvious uses.
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ECS P55H-A Motherboard
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Motherboards.org have a review of the ECS P55H-A Motherboard, but it lacks a little when it comes to overclocking:
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This board performs great, with performance in the same class as other motherboards in this chipset. Overclocking was a bit of a mixed bag as the 750 CPU was able to overclock to 4GHz without issue but the voltage options did not allow me to see what the new voltage would be. From a features point of view the board is a standard P55 board but for $100 on Newegg after mail-in rebate this is an acceptable compromise as many other boards are much more expensive. The layout of the 8-pin power connector and IDE are interesting with only the 8-pin power connector in a great position for the bottom mounted PSU but not so great for the top mounted PSU.
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NZXT Lexa S Crafted Series Black Steel Mid Tower Chassis
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Think Computers take a look at the Lexa S case from NZXT, a black steel mid tower:
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I’m sure we’ve all seen cases with black exteriors, but have you seen cases with a completely black interior and a black tinted window? The NZXT Lexa S Crafted Series Black Steel Mid Tower Chassis gives you all of this and more! It includes four fans, two of which can be controlled by the built-in fan controller, 11 drive bays and some handy features everyone would enjoy. Read on further to see what else this case has to offer.
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Corsair H50 Hydro Series Liquid/Water CPU Cooling System
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TweakNews take a look at the Corsair H50 Hydro Series Liquid/Water CPU Cooling System:
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Liquid cooling is now mainstream. Well…almost. Once the realm of technoalchemists with mad fabrication skills, liquid cooling systems are available now in turnkey kits that require very little in the way of expertise or know-how to install. More and more of these kits are showing up, and Corsair is the latest company to jump on the train.
Better known for their memory products, Corsair is branching out into other facets of the PC aftermarket. Their power supply products have gotten rave reviews and I've been curious about their cooling products. As luck would have it, they've sent an example of their Hydro Series H50 liquid cooler for evaluation and I'm excited to see how it compares to the competition, both liquid and air.
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