Karen’s Review Roundup On This Snow Filled Weekend in Ontario – for Feb 12, 2012

Woke up yesterday morning and couldn’t see out the front windows, and this morning everything is white. Finally, a taste of winter.

In a country that expects and needs snow this is a good thing. There are a lot of people and businesses that rely on snow.

And lets face it, snow in February is so much better than snow in April, May, etc.

It’s a good weekend to be a ‘techy’.

HIGHLIGHT REVIEW

A few days ago we looked at the latest Solid State Drive from Intel “ the 520 series, codenamed Cherryville. The drive is built around compute quality 25 nanometer NAND flash memory and offers a claimed maximum sequential read speed of 550 MB/s. 

 

Intel 520 Series 240GB (Raid 0 update) SSD Review @ Kitguru

SSDS

• OCZ Synapse Cache 64GB @ ocaholic
• OCZ Technology Octane 512GB Solid State Drive with 1.13 Performance Firmware @ TweakTown

CHASSIS

• CM Storm Trooper @ Allround-PC
• Cooler Master COSMOS 2 Review @ Vortez
• Thermaltake Overseer RX-I Full Tower PC Case @ TestFreaks
• Xigmatek MidGard II Case Review @ Kitguru
• NZXT Switch 810 Full Tower Chassis @ BCCHardware

COOLERS

• Corsair Vengeance M90 Review @ XSReviews
• SilenX EFZ-120HA5 CPU Cooler @ Bjorn3D

GAMING

• AVerMedia Game Capture HD for PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii @ Futurelooks
• Core i7-3960X and Core i7-3930K Radeon HD 7970 Gaming-Performance-Difference @ ocaholic

GRAPHICS

• Zotac GTX 580 AMP2 3GB Edition Review @ HardwareLOOK
• Nouveau Project Reverse-Engineered NVIDIA OpenCL Driver @ Phoronix

MEMORY

• G.Skill Ripjaws-Z 16GB @ Techni3D

MOTHERBOARDS

• Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 Intel LGA1155 Motherboard Review @ Ocinside
• MSI Big Bang Xpower II X79 @ ocaholic
• 13 Socket 2011 Boards – MSI Big Bang Xpower II @ ocaholic
• Biostar TPower X79 @ Bjorn3D

OTHERS

• Synology DS411J NAS Review @ Technoyard
• GreenSmart Markhor Laptop Sleeve @ Techreaction
• NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 featuring the ASUS VG278H Screen @ HardwareHeaven
• Windows 8 confirmed for February 29th (Beta Queue) @ Kitguru
• ASUS VG278H LCD Monitor 3D Vision-2 Kit @ Benchmark Reviews
• HDD Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods @ Techspot
• Western Digital WD TV Live Media Player Review @ Bigbruin
• Basic Casemodding Listener Mailbag Interview with a Top Overclocker @ Ninjalane
• NewerTech NuPower Battery for all MacBook Pro 17″ non-Unibody @ TestFreaks
• Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus Computer Case Review @ APH Networks

PERIPHERALS

• Synology DiskStation DS212 2-Bay NAS Server Review @ Bigbruin

POWER SUPPLY UNIT

• Thortech Thunderbolt 1000W PSU @ technic3D