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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

- Sony Bravia KDL-46EX720 Review
- ASUS Rampage III Formula Intel X58 Motherboard Review
- Plantronics Gamecom 777 Gaming Headset Review
- ASUS Sabertooth P67 - B3 Revision Motherboard Review
- Cubitek Mini Tank Review
- OCZ ZX Series 1250 W Review
- Genius Pen Mouse Review
- OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Review
- Asus P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard (B3) Review (QuadFireX @ 4.8ghz)
- Asus DirectCU NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Card Round-Up
- MSI R6970 Lightning Review
- Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus Network Storage Server Review
- ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional Motherboard Review
- Gigabyte G1.Sniper X58 Review
- Cubitek Magic Cube 8HDD Review
- Thermaltake Level 10 GT Full Tower Gaming Chassis Review
- Crucial m4 Solid State Drive Tests
- Logitech Performance Mouse MX Review
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 Review
- OCZ Vertex 2 160GB 25nm SSD Review



Sony Bravia KDL-46EX720 Review
TechReviewSource.com posted a review on the Sony Bravia KDL-46EX720

Typically, 3D capability tends to make HDTVs more expensive. Web apps can also jack up prices. And LED backlighting usually pushes prices up even more. That's why Sony's KDL-46EX720 is such a refreshing surprise. One of Sony's first 2011 models available, this 46-inch set combines 3D, a ton of Web apps, LED backlighting that gives it a thin frame and eco-friendly energy-consumption stats.
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ASUS Rampage III Formula Intel X58 Motherboard Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the ASUS Rampage III Formula Intel X58 Motherboard

ASUS’s top tier line of products is the Republic of Gamers line of products otherwise known as ROG. If you are purchasing an ROG product you know you are getting the best of the best and something that is going to last you a long time. With any line it is broken up into segments, Extreme being the highest, Formula being in the middle and Gene at the lower end. Today we will be taking a look at the Rampage III Formula board and from the name we know it sits in the middle. This is an Intel X58 board that has many of the features of its more expensive brother the Rampage III Extreme for a more reasonable price. Let’s take a look and see if this board is perfect for your next build!
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Plantronics Gamecom 777 Gaming Headset Review
eTeknix.com posted a review on the Plantronics Gamecom 777 Gaming Headset

There is nothing quite like playing music loud on some nice powerful speakers with a thumping bass. Some days however you might just want to give your neighbours a break. Headphones have been around for a long time and for most of this time were nothing special. As things advanced communications via the computer became more common and as such people needed microphones. Soon afterwards we saw headsets which perform better than using speakers and a boom microphone sat on the desk – for hopefully obvious reasons. With a decent headset your friend on Skype will be able to hear every word however loud the music that you are playing into the headset is.
Headsets have of course advanced quite a lot past the simple model and now they have taken a turn towards the gaming market. This is mainly due to the huge increase of people playing multiplayer games over the internet and wanting to be able to talk to their team mates to coordinate attacks and such like.
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ASUS Sabertooth P67 - B3 Revision Motherboard Review
HardwareHeaven.com posted ASUS Sabertooth P67 - B3 Revision Motherboard Review

Today we have another of ASUS' models on our test bench, the B3 revision Sabertooth P67 and will be putting it through a selection of synthetic and real world tests to establish how it compares to the competition.
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Cubitek Mini Tank Review
XSReviews has a new review of the Cubitek Tank Mini-ITX chassis.

Cubitek are a reasonably new kid on the block, but they're making waves and not in the typical segments of the case market. Today is such an example, their mini-ITX chassis, the Mini Tank. Its got a distinctive look and an interesting internal construction.
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OCZ ZX Series 1250 W Review
techPowerUp posted a review on the OCZ ZX Series 1250 W PSU

OCZ recently released a new line of hi-end PSUs in order to keep up the pace with the competition, since the Z series counts many years in production. The new ZX series consists of three 80Plus Gold and fully modular PSUs that feature a single +12V rail and boast that they are designed with maximum performance in mind. The ZX 1250 will be the test subject of today’s review.
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Genius Pen Mouse Review
Hardware Secrets posted a review on the Genius Pen Mouse

Although the computer mouse was revolutionary when it was introduced back in the 1960s, there are times when it simply cannot perform today's computer tasks. Drawing tablets and pens have been the answer for detailed computer work, but they are expensive. So when the folks at Genius sent us an inexpensive Pen Mouse that doesn't require a tablet, we were happy to take a look.   
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OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Review
Kitguru posted OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Review

OCZ have been at the forefront of Solid State drive development for a very long time now, the original Vertex and the Vertex 2 were both class leading SATA 3Gbps drives. We will be honest when we say that we have high hopes for the 6Gbps successor, today’s review product, the Vertex 3.
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Asus P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard (B3) Review (QuadFireX @ 4.8ghz)
KitGuru posted Asus P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard (B3) Review (QuadFireX @ 4.8ghz)

For the mainstream gaming enthusiast audience, today’s review product is both feature packed and attractively priced. The Asus P8P67 Deluxe is a 16+2 phase DIGI+ VRM design which fully supports Intel’s VRD12 specifications. There are three PCI Express x16 slots and a PLX PEX8608 chip to add 8 additional PCI Express lanes so bandwidth isn’t impacted when USB 3 and SATA 6 GBps devices are used in Crossfire or SLI configurations.

KitGuru has been using the latest B3 revision now for many weeks within a real world test bench and today we present our analysis.
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Asus DirectCU NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Card Round-Up
HotHardware.com posted their Asus DirectCU NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Card Round-Up

Today, we're looking at five DirectCU graphics cards from Asus: the GTX 580, GTX 570, HD 6970, HD 6950, and HD 6870. They span the high-end and mid-range spectrum within the GPU market, with representatives from both NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon product lines. Of course, all come factory overclocked while sporting massive coolers with redesigned PCBs and enhanced components. If you're into enthusiast level hardware, especially graphics cards, you don't want to miss this article...
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MSI R6970 Lightning Review
Vortez posted a review on the MSI R6970 Lightning graphics card

MSI have gone several steps further with their Lightning series and brings new meaning to the word innovation. To start, MSI have improved on their Twin Frozr concept and created the third rendition in the form of the aptly named Twin Frozr III cooler. Furthermore, they have taken AMD's flagship Cayman GPU and teamed it with an unrivalled power circuitry using only the best selection of components to produce the fastest clocked version of the card on the market today.
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Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus Network Storage Server Review
Legit Reviews takes a look at the Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus Network Storage Server

Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus is a Prosumer NAS with a wide array of features that position itself well to compete with other entries in the NAS Field. Featuring a Dual Core Intel Storage Processor, DLNA Certifications allowing streaming to all your favorite devices, the ReadyNAS could be a very popular NAS. Read the full article to see if it lives up to its potential.

The $454 Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus NAS is an easy to use, versatile NAS would be great for the every day user. With a magnitude of streaming capabilities, and intuitive Web GUI, this NAS would be perfect for even the most uneducated NAS user...
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ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional Motherboard Review
Madshrimps posted a review on the ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional Motherboard

The P67 Professional Motherboard from ASRock is the Fatal1ty branded product from the series and comes with a lot of features like Digital PWM, XFast USB Technology, V16+2 CPU Power Phases, no less than 6 USB 3.0 ports and 6 SATA3, C.C.O., THX TruStudio Pro, and the unique Fatal1ty Mouse Port, which allows us to set the desired mouse polling rate, up to 1000Hz.
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Gigabyte G1.Sniper X58 Review
The Guru of 3D posted a review on Gigabyte G1.Sniper X58

We review the G.1Sniper motherboard from Gigabytes Killer series. With good looks, excellent performance, great overclockability and then in addition to it all extra's, adding a SATA 6G controller, USB 3.0, but also the BigFoot KillerNIC has been integrated into this motherboard, and Realtek audio ? Heck it's been kicked out.

There's actually a fully fetched Creative Labs X-Fi (20K2) DSP mounted into the motherboard to bring better audio capability into your PC. All in all it's a very impressive motherboard not only features wise, yet also in terms of sheer design.
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Cubitek Magic Cube 8HDD Review
OCC has published a review on the Cubitek Magic Cube 8HDD

Since the case is divided into three unique units I'll go over each one individually. Starting with the 5.25" external drive box we have a small cube which can contain up to two 5.25" or one 5.25" and 3.5" drive. As a whole, all of the cubes are made of aluminum and are all painted black inside and out. Each side of this box is able to be removed via the screws, which allows for a easy installation of your 5.25" devices. The paint scheme and design sort of remind me of a Lian Li-Li in the way the paint looks and the overall simple look of the case.
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Thermaltake Level 10 GT Full Tower Gaming Chassis Review
TweakTown posted a review on the Thermaltake Level 10 GT Full Tower Gaming Chassis

For those of you who lived under a rock last year and completely missed out on the BMW Group Designworks USA inspired Level 10, Let me bring you up to speed real quick. To understand this design, you have to first envision a thick, vertically mounted motherboard tray attached to a wide flat base. Unlike a typical chassis', there wasn't the "boxed" look with this chassis at all. In this design everything was mounted to the motherboard tray for support. In the front you had and optical bay rack that was in a separate compartment than the hard drive, and which each received their own slim covers. The top half of the motherboard used a small cover to go over the CPU cooler and PWM area of the motherboard, while yet another hinged compartment covered the expansion cards. This design is very unique, and was very impressive upon release. The biggest problem with the Level 10 I saw was the devastating price tag!

So what does Thermaltake do? They took all of the response from the Level 10, and went back to the drawing board to workshop some new ideas to bring costs down, but still leave the basic appeal of the original Level 10. What is surprising to me is that on top of trying to keep features that set the bar so high on the Level 10, there are actually some very user friendly improvements to be found in the new release from Thermaltake. So in reality, to some, this chassis will have what the Level 10 lacked, and ends up being, in my opinion, a better layout and thermal design than the original concept could offer.
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Crucial m4 Solid State Drive Tests
Benchmark Reviews posted Crucial m4 Solid State Drive Tests

In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the Crucial m4 solid state drive against several of the fastest consumer storage devices available. Based on the Marvell 88SS9174-BLD2 SSD processor, this SATA 6 Gb/s drive is claimed to provide 415 MB/s reads and 260 MB/s writes with up to 90,000 IOPS. We've tested the Crucial m4 SSD against its older sibling, the Crucial RealSSD C300, to measure comparative performance differences. The 256GB model CT256M4SSD2 Crucial m4 also competes with the latest SandForce and Indilinx-based solid state drives, and our SSD test results show which product leads the consumer storage market.
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Logitech Performance Mouse MX Review
Techgage takes a look at Logitech's Performance Mouse MX desktop mouse.

When Logitech released its Revolution MX nearly five years ago, it delivered a mouse that impressed - and for good reason. It featured a great design that was both comfortable and attractive, and had a very effective hyper scroll wheel. With the Performance MX, a natural progression has been made, and an impressive one at that.
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Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 Review
Neoseeker posted a review on the Sapphire Radeon HD 6670

We've got our first Radeon HD 6670 from one of AMD's add-in-board manufacturer partners, the Sapphire HD 6670 boasting a custom heatsink designed by Arctic Cooling. Despite its tricked out cooling solution, Sapphire's HD 6670 keeps the same low suggested retail price set by AMD. Check out how much value is packed into its value pricing in our latest HD 6670 review.
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OCZ Vertex 2 160GB 25nm SSD Review
APH Networks posted a review on the OCZ Vertex 2 160GB 25nm SSD

We've got our first Radeon HD 6670 from one of AMD's add-in-board manufacturer partners, the Sapphire HD 6670 boasting a custom heatsink designed by Arctic Cooling. Despite its tricked out cooling solution, Sapphire's HD 6670 keeps the same low suggested retail price set by AMD. Check out how much value is packed into its value pricing in our latest HD 6670 review.
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