Here the first roundup of today's hardware reviews: EVGA P55 FTW Review, OCZ Vertex 2 E Series 120GB Solid State Drive Review, Gigabyte KM7600 keyboard mouse review, Antec Sonata Elite Mid Tower Case Review, Seagate Momentus-XT Solid State Hybrid Drive Review, Seagate Momentus XT 500GB ST95005620AS Review, PowerColor Radeon 5550 512MB DDR3 Review, NZXT Premium Cables Review, Thermaltake ToughPower XT 775 Review, and Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB Review



EVGA P55 FTW Review
Hardwareoverclock.com has reviewed the EVGA P55 FTW mainboard

The P55 FTW has released 7 month ago. Many bios versions has been published since the release date. Many settings have been improved and optimized. Now we have reviewed the Board with a Core i5 650 and take a look at the new settings and Overclocking performance.

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OCZ Vertex 2 E Series 120GB Solid State Drive Review
TweakTown posted a review on the OCZ Vertex 2 E Series 120GB Solid State Drive

With one of the largest introduction images I have posted in an article to date comes one of the biggest pricing reductions for the SSD market ever. Just a few days ago we told you that MyDigitalDiscount.com was selling the OCZ Vertex 2 100GB for 379.00 USD, a full 30 Dollars less than Newegg for this class leading next generation SandForce drive. Today OCZ is releasing their new updated 120GB Vertex 2, the Vertex 2 E (for Extended). At the same time, MyDigitalDiscount.com is offering breakthrough pricing on the new extended models, pricing them even lower than the original Vertex 2 drives for a limited time.

We worked with My Digital Discount and OCZ Technology to bring you the first review of the OCZ Vertex 2 E 120GB SandForce SSD. Over the last couple of days press releases have been hitting the tech news wire detailing the new extended capacity drives that are now being offered. Physically the drives are not changing as the same amount of flash on each drive will remain the same. The only real changes between a 100 and 120GB drive is the amount of flash kept in reserve, now 13% instead of 28%. Most other controllers up till now have used between 7 and 10% spare area, so the SandForce SF-1200 in extended capacity trim is still on the high side.

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Gigabyte KM7600 keyboard mouse review
The Guru of 3D posted a review on the Gigabyte KM7600 keyboard mouse combo

Meet the KM7600, 2.4GHz Wireless Deluxe Combo with Keyboard and mouse. A combo that Logitech can learn a thing or two about especially when it comes to pricing. The keyboard has many hot keys for access to multimedia and Internet browsing controls, comes in an ergonomic industrial design. Users can control individual working station easier and faster with powerful multimedia designed keyboard and DPI adjustable mouse.

Keeping it all connected is a 2.4GHz Wireless Nano Receiver, with Nano referring to small we assume. The KM7600 supports 10-meter transmission with using life time up to four months.

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Antec Sonata Elite Mid Tower Case Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the Antec Sonata Elite Mid Tower Case

Antec may be known for their gaming cases, but what about for those people that dont like all of the fans, LEDs and like a nice and quiet case? Well Antec has a case for you! Today we have the chance to review the Antec Sonata Elite Mid Tower Case today. Its a structurally solid and quiet case, with just enough cooling for the average computer. Read on further to see what else this case provides.

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Seagate Momentus-XT Solid State Hybrid Drive Review
Benchmark Reviews posted a review on the Seagate Momentus-XT Solid State Hybrid Drive

The Hard Disk Drive (HDD) has enjoyed a long service life in the computer industry, and only recently has the Solid State Drive (SSD) threatened to replace it. While the HDD offers higher capacity at a better price, SSDs offer tremendous speeds and operational performance. Finally, Seagate has achieved the optimal blend of each, and presents the Solid State-Hybrid Hard Drive. Seagate's Momentus-XT hybrid uses a 7200-RPM hard drive fused with 4GB SLC NAND flash to deliver SSD speeds and HDD storage capacity. Seagate's Adaptive Memory technology uses an algorithm to monitor user data access transactions, which caches qualified data onto the SSD. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the Seagate Momentus-XT Solid State Hybrid Drive against several of the fastest notebook storage devices available.

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Seagate Momentus XT 500GB ST95005620AS Review
OCC has published a review on the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB ST95005620AS

I was fortunate enough to actually start testing the Hybrid back in the alpha stages of its design and I quickly came to realize the potential it had. In fact, I received the Momentus XT alpha drive before ever touching an SSD for review and I must admit, I prefer the capacity and snappiness of the Momentus XT drive to any of the SSD's that I own. Now that I have two of them in a RAID setup, I would not spend the extra money on another SSD. As long as I can have the speed and capacity of the Momentus XT, I'll pick one over an SSD every time.

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PowerColor Radeon 5550 512MB DDR3 Review
PureOverclock posted a review of the PowerColor Radeon 5550 512MB DDR3 graphics card

The PowerColor Radeon 5550 is a very small, low-power budget graphics card, marketed in the $70 range to consumers who are primarily interested in home media and HTPC usage. The card is certainly more capable than the entry-level 5450 in terms of horsepower, but the price tag on the 5550 isn't far off from the PowerColor 5670, a budget gaming card that impressed us with its excellent balance of performance and value. Let's take a look at the PowerColor Radeon 5550 DDR3 and see how it fares.

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NZXT Premium Cables Review
Hi Tech Legion posted a review on the NZXT Premium Cables

NZXT Premium Individually Sleeved Cables can be the final 'finishing touch' to your new build. NZXT Premium cables are high quality, black sleeved cables with high quality black ends, that can get your power to where you need it, without sacrificing on appearance, quality or cable routing.

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Thermaltake ToughPower XT 775 Review
KitGuru.net posted a review on the Thermaltake ToughPower XT 775w power supply

Thermaltake have a solid reputation for building capable and efficient power supplies and today we are looking at one of the four new units in their latest Toughpower XT Series – the 775. These range in output capacity from the entry level 575W to the high end 875W and they are supplied with modular cables.

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Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB Review
Techgage.com posted a review of Western Digital's latest VelociRaptor hard drive.

Solid-state may be the future of our storage, but for now, the prices for the latest SSD's (even value models) is still far too high on the $/GB scale. For those looking for mass storage and still-great speeds, mechanical storage is still on top, and WD's latest VelociRaptor's, which utilize SATA 3.0, sit comfortably above all the rest.

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