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Zotac 9500GT 6th Oct - Graphics cards
Although ATI seem to have taken the throne for high performance graphics cards, there’s still a vast demand for mid-range cards. This demand is in favour of nVidia, who offer some great mid-rangers for low prices. One ...
XSpice Croon 750w 3rd Oct - Power supply units
There are certain products in the PC hardware world that are completely dominated by big brand names like graphics cards and of course, CPUs. On the other hand, there are others that are more open and you often see ...
NZXT Sentry LX 1st Oct
Here at XSR we’ve reviewed a lot of fans and talked endlessly about the importance of cooling and ...
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Foxconn Digitalife ELA P45 25th Sep
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M Festival and i34 22nd Aug - Events
The UK isn’t known for massive industry events such as CeBit, but we do hold some fairly large LAN Parties and some small scale events such as the M Festival. This year, the M Festival and the 34th I-Series of LAN ...
Why PC Gaming Will Always Be 13th Aug - Gaming
Although console gaming has undoubtedly grown in size over the last decade, especially with the growth of casual gaming, and the introduction of the much more family friendly Wii console, PCs have remained a constantly ...
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Although ATI seem to have taken the throne for high performance graphics cards, there’s still a vast demand for mid-range cards. This demand is in favour of nVidia, who offer some great mid-rangers for low prices. One card which comes with a low price tag and fairly good specs is the 9500GT. Today we have Zotac’s version of this card, let’s give it a whirl.
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Plenty of GPU reviews today, though it's a bit biased in the favour of ATI, not a single nVidia card is present. Even the lone motherboard review is based on an AMD chipset. Jeez.
CPU COOLERS
- Thermaltake PW 850I Pro Water by TweakNews @ 12:04 GMT
CASES
- Apevia X-Sniper G-Type Mid-tower by Altgamer @ 12:07 GMT
GRAPHICS CARDS
- Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD4870 512MB by Big Bruin @ 11:54 GMT
- AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB by Bit-tech @ 11:55 GMT
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 TOXIC 512MB by EliteBastards @ 12:01 GMT
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 by TweakTown @ 12:05 GMT
MOTHERBOARDS
- Sapphire Pure PC-AM2RX780 by Overclockers Club @ 12:02 GMT
OTHER PRODUCTS
- Sans Digital MobileSTOR MS2UT+B Dual Bay by Think Computers @ 12:03 GMT
- Mitsubishi LaserVue 65" HDTV by The TechLounge @ 12:03 GMT
- Audioengine AW1 Wireless by Techgage @ 12:05 GMT
- Acer eMachines E510 by InsideHW @ 12:06 GMT
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Kingston and Intel have shaken hands and decided to work together to market their SSDs. The SSDs from Intel have been rated at read speeds of 240MB per second and write speeds of up to 170MB per second.The SSD market is still maturing, but with many standard HDDs only kicking out around 50MB per second read speeds, perhaps new SSDs like these could start to turn the tide.
Read more: Kingson and Intel team up [more available]
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Two names already announced were Foxconn and Club3D. However, Fudzilla have managed to find out who the rest will be: ECS, Biostar and Albatron. The last 3 on that list are more motherboard manufacturers than GPU ones, but that hasn't stopped them feeling a bit sore at the snub. However, nVidia claims this was necessary in order to protect the top 3rd party GPU sellers during the "tough times" currently.
Read more: nVidia Cuts Partners Revealed [more available]
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The Sequel to Rare's hit "gardening" title, Viva Pinata - Trouble in Paradise, has hit Xbox Live in Demo form. The new game features are co-operative play, mini games and XBL support. In a quote from XBL spokesperson, Major Nelson:
The Pinata Central database has been ruined by Professor Pester and his band of Ruffians. It's your job to restore the data by collecting, customizing, & caring for over 100 different pinata species in Viva Pinata: Trouble In Paradise."
Read more: Viva Pinata Demo on XBL [more available]
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Information has come out, that raising the memory voltage over 1.65v can actually damage the Nehalem CPU on an x58 platform. This is of course, slightly above the standard 1.5v that DDR3 memory runs out. However, due to Intel CPUs overclocking by relatively large amounts over the last few years, memory has been scaled accordingly with plenty of OC RAM kits being available, with up to 2.1v. This then presents a problem for the overclocking crowd, will Nehalem be overclockable.
Read more: High DIMM Voltage could Damage Nehalem [more available]
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There are certain products in the PC hardware world that are completely dominated by big brand names like graphics cards and of course, CPUs. On the other hand, there are others that are more open and you often see little known companies popping up. One of these was kind enough to send me one of their power supplies was XSpice. The one they sent through is the Croon, and it's got a large 750w capacity. Let's see how it holds up.
Read whole review: XSpice Croon 750w
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Few interesting products being reviewed today with a nice wide variety of different bits and bobs being looked into. However, the biggest and baddest review of today is MetKus look at 6 different memory modules in a big DDR3 roundup.
CPU COOLERS
- Zalman CNPS 9300AT by Overclockers Club @ 12:45 GMT
- Cooler Master V8 by Overclockers Club @ 12:49 GMT
CASES
- Cooler Master HAF 932 by Overclockers Club @ 12:48 GMT
GRAPHICS CARDS
- nVidia 9800GT SLI by TBreak @ 12:45 GMT
- HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 TurboX by Bit-tech @ 12:46 GMT
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic 512MB by Think Computers @ 12:48 GMT
MOTHERBOARDS
- J&W X48D2-EXTREME by TweakTown @ 12:50 GMT
OTHER PRODUCTS
- Jazz Elite HDV-188 5MP by Big Bruin @ 12:44 GMT
POWER SUPPLY UNITS
- OCZ's EliteXStreme 800W by Bit-tech @ 12:44 GMT
- Tuniq Ensemble 1200 by Techwarelabs @ 12:54 GMT
RAM
- 6-way DDR3 Memory Roundup by Metku @ 12:52 GMT
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China has been found to have been censoring politically sensitive conversations over the instant messaging service through the internet communications tool, Skype. The company has always been aware that China was censoring certain words and phrases, but they are concerned that this information has been discovered, and therefore by not safeguarding this information, the Chinese government has helped break Skype's data protection scheme.
Read more: China Invading Skype Privacy [more available]
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An insurance company over in the US - Allstate - has said that they will be conducting trials of gamers, and non gamers to see if playing games in old age can reduce the decline in reaction time of elderly drivers. Older drivers are well known to be more likely to crash after 60 years old, and with previous research showing that gaming can improve reaction times of people who suffered from stroke, perhaps it can do the same for the elderly.
Read more: Insurance Company to Give Discounts to Gamers [more available]
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