Corel Painter 11 reviewed
ITreviewed posted a review on Corel Painter 11

Painter 11 is the newest edition of Corel's fantastic painting and illustration software. With more than 40 new and enhanced features, Painter 11 (264) provides one of the most approachable painting tools available. Painter is actually a raster-based digital art application that simulates as accurately as possible the appearance and behaviour of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative tool, but it's also great fun for aspiring artists getting involved in digital art. Painter 11 is not revolutionary, but a well-tuned update, yet is still an invaluable artist's tool. Its target market obviously means it won't appeal to everyone, especially as it can't compete with photo editing package such as Paint Shop Pro Photo or Photoshop, but it is brilliant for graphic artists, illustrators and fine artists. The only possible downside is that a digital tablet all but a prerequisite, which means further expense to an already relatively expensive application.

Corel Painter 11 reviewed

Mionix Alioth 400 Review
XSReviewsy has reviewed the Mionix Alioth 400 mouse mat

Mouse mats aren't considered to be the most exciting of review products, as their usually fairly mundane, and with the rather opinionated testing methods, it's not something every reviewer looks forward to. However, now and again one comes along that really catches your eye, like today. Powerdrive Computers have sent over a new mat from a company called Mionix. This is their Alioth 400. Let's see if it performs as well as it looks.

Mionix Alioth 400 Review



Safari 4 Beta - First Look
TestFreaks posted a preview on Safari 4

Like every other tech site, we were blind sided by yesterday's unannounced release of Safari 4 Beta. The latest version of Apple web browser comes in both OS X and Windows flavors and features a redesigned user interface, next generation standards support, the implementation of Cover Flow, history view and much more.

Safari 4 Beta - First Look

Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds Dual-Screen Mobile Workstation Review
HotHardware.com posted a review on the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds Dual-Screen Mobile Workstation

The Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds is a rather unique product, targeted squarely at mobile professionals who require the power, features, and performance of workstation-class machine on the go. We previously evaluated the standard ThinkPad W700 and praised the system for its performance and stand-out integrated features, like a Wacom Digitizer Tablet and X-Rite Color Calibrator. The ThinkPad W700ds takes all of the features offered by the W700 and ads a secondary, slide-out display, which increases monitor real-estate by 39%.

The machine we received for evaluation was outfitted with 4GB of RAM, a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300, an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M 1GB GPU, and dual Hitachi hard drives running in RAID 0 configuration. Its sale price? $6,209.00 as configured. ThinkPad W700ds pricing ranges from just over $4000 though, to approximately $8000 for a fully loaded configuration.

Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds Dual-Screen Mobile Workstation Review

Titan Fenrir Review
InsideHW.com has reviewed Titan Fenrir CPU cooler

To our slightly older readers brand Titan is well known for their cooling solutions. Titan coolers were always aiming at low-budget user group although there are some "serious" products in their portfolio. Titan products were always named with female names and had mythical beings on their product packages. This time in our test lab arrived Titan CPU cooler that supports Intel LGA 775/1366 and AMD K8/AM2/AM3 sockets and it is named upon mythical wolf - Fenrir.

Titan Fenrir Review

Patriot Viper 6GB DDR3-1600 Review
PureOverclock has posted a review of the Patriot Viper 6GB DDR3-1600 tri-channel memory modules

Today we're looking at a set Patriot Viper 6GB tri-channel DDR3-1600 modules, sticks that look great in blue. But what about performance? To answer that, we'll pit these modules heads-up against some OCZ sticks that recently impressed us, to provide some straight-up answers that should help clarify some questions you may have.

Patriot Viper 6GB DDR3-1600 Review

Cooler Master Storm Sniper Review
Overclockers Online posted a review on the Cooler Master Storm Sniper

After my tour of duty with the CM Storm Sniper case, I've come away with a positive experience overall. From top to bottom the Sniper packs in some useful features such as the built in fan controller and StormGuard peripheral retention system. The Storm shows that Cooler Master is listening to gamers and enthusiasts by including features from past cases that work and giving us new features that work.

Cooler Master Storm Sniper Review

OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator Review
TweakTown posted a review on the OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator

OCZ is a company that has joined the gaming peripherals bandwagon only in recent times, launching a slew of products such as the OCZ Dominatrix Mouse. Now they have decided that anybody can release a mouse and keyboard and instead their top engineers have come up with a completely revolutionary input device - the Neural impulse Actuator (or NIA for short).

By harnessing the power of your facial muscles, you can substitute keyboard and joystick controls in-game and free up your left hand for other key combinations.

OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator Review

Patriot Viper 6GB 1600MHz DDR3 Memory Kit Review
Benchmark Reviews posted a review on the Patriot Viper 6GB 1600MHz DDR3 Memory Kit

When most shoppers compare system memory kits, they often look for the highest speeds for the best price. Everyone is different, but overclockers and performance enthusiasts generally aim for the best combination of low-latency high-speed RAM they can get find. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the performance of a top-speed triple-channel product for the Intel Core i7 platform. The Patriot Viper 6GB 1600MHz DDR3 memory kit PVT36G1600ELK will be compared against several other products and benchmarked for bandwidth and gaming performance. Are the higher speeds worth the money, or can this memory kit overclock to their level? By the end of this article, you'll have your answer.

Patriot Viper 6GB 1600MHz DDR3 Memory Kit Review

Walton Chaintech Apogee GT 3x2GB DDR3 1866 Review
OCC has published a new review of the Walton Chaintech Apogee GT 3x2GB DDR3 1866

The Apogee GT 3x2GB DDR3 1866MHz kit is awesome. Its stock settings are 1866MHz at 8-8-8-24 timings. These are tight timings for such a speed. The design of the sticks is awesome. The fins at the top of each stick as well as the flashy pink stripes create a nice look. Furthermore, these fins definitely help keep the modules cool. During testing, even at overclocked frequencies and at 1.80V, the kit's temperatures were well below the safe limit. Speaking of overclocking, I achieved 1980MHz on the memory, at main timings of 9-8-8-24. I was hoping for the 2000MHz step. I came so close!

Walton Chaintech Apogee GT 3x2GB DDR3 1866 Review

Patriot Warp v2 Series 128GB SSD Review
The Guru of 3D posted a review on the Patriot Warp v2 Series 128GB SSD

We test the Patriot Warp v.2 Series 128GB SSD. We like the SSD development for sure. Fast performance and no noise is just fantastic. If you are a gamer, you just might settle for a nice HDD as boot drive and install your games at a SSD device, you'll seriously increase level and game load times very much.

This is where we land at the premises of Patriot memory. Not too long ago they released an SSD series of drives. They branded it as the WARP series. It comes with an advertised read performance of 175 MB/sec and a 100 MB/sec write speed, how on this earth could we not like that ? You can check out the full review right here.

Patriot Warp v2 Series 128GB SSD Review

ASUS M3A78-T AMD 790GX Socket AM2+ Motherboard Review
PC Stats posted a review on the ASUS M3A78-T AMD 790GX Socket AM2+ Motherboard

The ASUS M3A78-T motherboard features AMD's latest Integrated Graphics Processor, the Radeon HD 3300. The interesting point about this IGP is that it has 128MB of additional DDR3 Sideport memory just for itself. In previous reviews of 790GX motherboards we've seen that this is one of the fastest integrated graphics processors on the market, mainly because it's more like an integrated videocard than standard IGPs which are not equipped with dedicated RAM. The AMD 790GX chipset is essentially a cherry-picked Radeon HD 3200 IGP, overclocked from 500MHz to a 700MHz core clock.

ASUS M3A78-T AMD 790GX Socket AM2+ Motherboard Review