Today we have new 6 reviews: Danger Den NVIDIA GeForce GTX480 All Copper Water Block Review, Zalman VF950 LED & Zalman VF770 Review, Mushkin Callisto 60GB SSD w/ Sandforce SF-1200 Review, Tom Clancys Splinter Cell Conviction Xbox 360 Review, Zaward 140mm ZG2-140A Golf Fan GII Review, and Kingston HyperX LoVo 4GB 1866MHz DDR3 Ram Kit Review



Danger Den NVIDIA GeForce GTX480 All Copper Water Block Review
Legit Reviews posted a review on the Danger Den NVIDIA GeForce GTX480 All Copper Water Block

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 graphics card from NVIDIA is known to run notoriously hot. Today we look at one way to tame the heat as we water cooler our GeForce GTX 480 with the Danger Den DD-GTX480 all copper version water block. We install the DD-GTX480 on our EVGA GTX480 and find out how much it can lower the temperatures and how much it can help overclocking as we push our card beyond what it could do on air cooling!

Danger Den’s DD-GTX480 all copper water block is one very nice addition to my EVGA GeForce GTX480 video card. Not only did it help cool the card better, but it also managed to eliminate the noise from the horridly loud stock fan. That in and of itself warrants the $135 price tag the all copper version we tested today carries. When it came to performance by water cooling the GeForce GTX 480 we were able to drop stock load temps from 92C to 49C, which is a drop of 47%. Reducing your temperatures by nearly half is amazing and anyone that is thinking about getting a GeForce GTX 480 should consider water cooling as an option as it really is nice. You get lower noise levels, possibly increase the longevity of the video card and are able to overclock it farther than you could on air for even better performance. Danger Den has done a great job on these blocks and you can tell from the second you pick the water block up that it you made a solid investment...

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Zalman VF950 LED & Zalman VF770 Review
R&B Mods posted a review on the Zalman VF950 LED & Zalman VF770 GPU colors

Many times there comes situations when you want to overclock your graphics cards or the your old faithful cooler gets broken. Usually the only way to solve this is to buy a new third hand cooler. This time we will take a look at two mainstream GPU coolers from Zalman and compare them against Arctic Cooling Accelero L2 cooler which is priced around the same range as the Zalmans. Let's have a look how the Zalmans perform against the Arctic Cooling.

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Mushkin Callisto 60GB SSD w/ Sandforce SF-1200 Review
Legit Reviews posted a review on the Mushkin Callisto 60GB SSD w/ Sandforce SF-1200

The Mushkin Callisto SSDs offer read speeds of up to 285MB/s and write speeds of up to an impressive 275MB/s thanks to the use of the Sandforce SF-1200 controller and Intel MLC NAND Flash. This makes the Callisto SSD one of the fastest on the market and we take a look at the 60GB Callisto series SSD with part number MKNSSDCL60GB. Read on to see how it does compared to ten other hard drives and solid-state drives!

The Mushkin Callisto 60GB SSD proved to be a great drive and it is the first Sandforce SF-1200 drive with mass production firmware with 13% over-provisioning that I have had the pleasure to benchmark and use. I found the performance of the Mushkin Callisto with firmware version 3.0.9 was not the same same as OCZ’s exclusive SF-1200 firmware used on the Vertex 2 series. This is because the Sandforce Mass Production (MP) firmware limits small file random write performance on all SF-1200 drives except for the Vertex 2 in accordance with SandForce’s agreement with OCZ. This is why reading reviews is critical before buying an SSD...

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Tom Clancys Splinter Cell Conviction Xbox 360 Review
TweakTown posted a review on Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction for the Xbox 360

It’s been a while. After the success of Double Agent, Ubisoft felt it was time for Sam to have a makeover. When it was initially shown, Conviction was more along the lines of an open world where Sam has to fend for himself. After a mixed reaction, Ubisoft trashed the project and decided to start again. However, Conviction is not your typical Fisher game; instead, it’s an action romp where the focus on stealth takes a backdoor to brutality and violence.

It’s been a while. After the success of Double Agent, Ubisoft felt it was time for Sam to have a makeover. When it was initially shown, Conviction was more along the lines of an open world where Sam has to fend for himself. After a mixed reaction, Ubisoft trashed the project and decided to start again. However, Conviction is not your typical Fisher game; instead, it’s an action romp where the focus on stealth takes a backdoor to brutality and violence.

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Zaward 140mm ZG2-140A Golf Fan GII Review
DragonSteelMods posted a review on the Zaward 140mm ZG2-140A Golf Fan GII

Today I've got an exciting review for you, well not really, it's a fan, how exciting can that be right? It does have an interesting design though, the blades are dimpled like a golf ball and supposedly reduce noise levels by up to 15%, while still running at the same speed and providing the same amount of air flow as other fans. The fan is a 140mm fan from Zaward called the Golf GII, so read on to check it out.

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Kingston HyperX LoVo 4GB 1866MHz DDR3 Ram Kit Review
Bona Fide Reviews takes a look at the Kingston HyperX LoVo 4GB 1866MHz DDR3 Ram Kit

Up on the review block today I’ve got the new HyperX DDR3 ram from Kingston called LoVo. The LoVo names mean low voltage, or lower than we’re already accustomed to for those of us using the Corei5/Corei7 setups. This ram will run at 1866Mhz but it will do this running at only 1.25v, but it’s timings are a bit looser than other kits of the same speed. In my testing though I put the LoVo kit up against another ‘regular’ kit of HyperX that runs tighter timings and found that even though the timings of the LoVo kit were looser the performance was virtually the same.

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