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A few months ago, we tested seven methods for applying thermal compound in order to determine which was the best. At the time, we concluded that a small dot in the center of the CPU is the best method to apply thermal compound. But this conclusion may be applied only for the hardware we used, and, since we ran our …

Talk about cutting it fine this month. Literally just days before the end of the month, AMD finally release the latest Catalyst driver release. The worst thing is, like me, most people probably don’t really care about it as just a few  days earlier a pre-release 11.10 driver came out which brought with it a focus on Battlefield 3. What …

A few weeks ago we were sent a SATA II MemoRight 115GB SSD for review and as we expected it got nailed in the performance tests when compared against the latest SATA III SandForce SF-2281 powered drives. MemoRight intervened and asked us to review their latest performance oriented SATA III 240GB solid state drive. Full story at Kitguru.

Never before in the history of cinema has one film been so anticipated as the Star Wars prequels, which was the first issue that Phantom Menace had to grapple with.Unfortunately, Lucasfilm did little to hose down the anticipation, signing promotional deals with hundreds of brands including a $2 billion deal with PepsiCo,  ensuring that there wasn’t a person alive who …

Kitguru often focuses on the ultra high end hardware, but today we are building a system around the Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Z68 motherboard, a new product which aims to deliver the best price point possible. At a shade under£85 we wanted to test this new mobo with the award winning Intel 2500K processor. Can we upgrade your older system to a …

Today we are reviewing the Intel D525MW Mini-ITX motherboard, which comes with an on-board Atom D525 CPU. Check it out!” Full story at Hardware Secrets.

Unless you have never exposed yourself to the outside world before, chances are that you have heard of Nero. No, I am not talking about Ahead Software’s Nero Burning ROM, but rather, Roman Emperor Nero from AD 54 to 68. Known for his obsession with fire, historical sources say he could be the one who started the Great Fire of …

Just when you thought there was nothing new when it comes to external hard drives, Seagate has found a new angle with their GoFlex Turbo 750GB USB 3.0 hard drive – something extra special that most folks don’t even consider until it’s too late – disaster recovery protection. It all stems from Seagate’s philosophy that it’s not the hardware that …

With Apple having already released new MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, iPad 2 and OSX Lion this year, 2011. Everyone seems to have forgotten about the much loved iPod Touch! However, various leeks and rumours have popped up over the last few months, and heres what we know so far about the Apple iPod Touch 5 specs. Full story at tech-reviews.

Alienware have a well earned reputation for creating some of the most exotic, ludicrously specified gaming machines and today we look at their M18x laptop which features the latest flagship Intel Core i7 2960XM Extreme Edition processor, Bluray drive, 8GB of 1600mhz DDR3 memory and dual Nvidia GTX560m graphics. Full story at Kitguru.

A few years ago the NHL suffered a lockout which caused the sport to lose an entire season of play and put the playing futures of many players in jeopardy. Much like the NFL and NBA lockouts of 2011, the NHL lockout put the focus firmly on the gaming side of things with the only way able to gain hockey …

Xigmatek are an interesting company who always look to push the performance and design boundaries of every heatsink they produce. One of the first heatsink manufacturers to successfully implement an effective H.D.T. (Heatpipe Direct Touch) design base, they have taken this feat one step further with the use of a D.L.H.D.T or Double Layer Heatpipe Direct Touch design on their …

The OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCI Express SSD contains eight SandForce SF-2281 processors, 128 pieces of NAND flash memory and a Superscale Storage Controller. If ever a MONSTER storage device was created, the R4 definitely answers that call. In fact, a simple review just doesn’t seem appropriate for the OCZ Z-Drive R4 (Z-R4).  Let’s throw it in the ring against FUSION-IO’s …

As much as we had the first scoop (albeit an educated guess) on this story months back, we have to give complete credit to VR-Zone for having the true inside track on all Intel news as they have shown themselves to be the leader in Intel document leaks! VR-Zone has recently learned that the date for the new Intel Series …

OCZ has recently announced their new Synapse  Cache line of SSDs which are a SATA III family of SSDs available in 64 and 128GB. The intent of the Synapse Cache is to appeal to the hard drive crowd that absolutely needs that extra capacity by optimizing caching applications and leverages DataCache software which will be included with the SSD. It …