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CPU cooler design (for air coolers, anyway) boils down to a few simple truths: while things like heat pipe technology and base finish are important, the determining factors in a heat sink’s performance are its size and its airflow. Size is critical because the more metal a CPU cooler contains, the more mass there is to absorb heat. Airflow is …

This is a hard shell case composed of a polycarbonate exterior and padded interior micro-fleece. To protect all surfaces of ones precious iPad, iChair includes a screen shield as well. What differentiates the iChair iPad Case from its competitors is the addition of a built in stand and keyboard tab found on the back of the case. Full story at …

A few months ago someone mentioned that setting up additional RAID configurations was not possible with an OCZ REVO drive installed.  It brought forward an interesting idea that we finally have had a chance to play with as we like to retain SSDs in order to include them in future testing.  This article displays the Gigabyte P67A-UD7 motherboard running 3 …

Today for review Im back with the final of three wireless keyboards from our friends at Koribo.  This one is called the Vivar and it features a trackball as the mouse along with thirteen multi-media keys, scroll wheel and two sets of mouse buttons to round it all off. It has a nice soft rubberized surface to make sure you …

Thanks to a new design, increased aluminum surface, eight 6mm heatpipes and a 140mm Slip Stream fan the Mine 2 by Scythe is a worthy successor to their original Mine award winning CPU Cooler. Full story at Real World Labs.

Less than one year ago SandForce gained control of the consumer solid state drive market with their SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor. This technology replaced the previous generation of Barefoot SSDs designed around South Korean-based Indilinx, Inc. While popular themselves, Indilinx Barefoot MLC SSDs lacked proper NAND management and performance dramatically degraded over time. SandForce DuraClass technology paired to TRIM support …

The GIGABYTE P67A-UD7 sports a new black and gold color theme. The GIGABYTE P67A-UD7 is not just new in terms of looks, but also sports all the latest innovations from GIGABYTEs laboratories, including 24-phase power design, Driver MOSFETs and Dynamic Energy Saver 2 technology. The GIGABYTE P67A-UD7 motherboard not just adds USB 3.0 and SATA 3 6Gbps functionality; it is …

Antec’s first foray into the watercooling arena is a very nice product.   Given that the Kuhler H2O 620 is another rebranded Asetek unit, I was  pleasantly surprised to find that the performance came very close to the  Corsair H70 unit with its big radiator and dual fans. Full story at Tweaknews.

Today we are going to look at ROCCATs latest gaming mouse, the Kova[+] which, as its name suggests, is an updated version of their popular Kova mouse.  The number of upgrades isnt huge as ROCCAT havent set out to change the mouse completely, just to improve certain aspects of the original mouse. Full story at KitGuru.

CRYSTAL DISKMARK VER. 3.0.1 X64 (Random Data) This is the basic Crystal test where many go wrong in testing SandForce controlled SSDs.  For the Vertex 3, OCZ lists the maximum write speed to be 525MB/s whereas it is shown here as 292MB/s.  The reader should understand that this result has absolutely no bearing on end performance and is just an …

CRYSTAL DISKINFO VER 3.10.0 ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER.2.46 As we can see with ATTO results of 552MB/s read and 500MB/s write for high sequential disk transfer performance, specifications are pretty much bang on the money.  ATTO is the best program for testing if one is trying to confirm that their new SSD is in line with manufacturers specifications. CRYSTAL DISKMARK …

PCMARK VANTAGE x64 HDD SUITE The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience.  There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of …

CONCLUSIONS Our opening line in this article was a definition of Goliath as being of colossal power or achievement and, as fitting as it is for this drive with respect to power, the exact same thing can be said of SandForce, a company that wasn’t even known two years ago. To both OCZ and SandForce, this release of the client …

This is The SSD Review Test Bench and a quick click on the photo will bring it up full size for closer inspection. TEST PROTOCOL Our main goal in testing is to ensure that all test results are as accurate  as they can be and no anomalies slip through.  We conduct all tests three times and, if necessary, we may …

BENCHMARKS Here are a few benchmarks from the OCZ Vertex 3 we reviewed this morning, containing the SF-2281 Processor.  These benchmarks are of a prototype and unreleased drive where there is a great deal more fine tuning to be done before release. Personally, I don’t believe the high sequential read and write access is nearly as surprising as the 4kb …