Here the second roundup of today's hardware reviews: Asus EAH5750 Formula 1GB Review, Samsung Station STORY USB 3.0 Hard Drive Review, Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Professional Soundcard & MKII Headset Review, HP All-in-One 200 Review, G.Skill Phoenix 100GB SandForce SF-1200 Solid State Drive Review, Kingston HyperX 4GB 1866MHz Low Voltage Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit Review, Roccat Kave 5.1 Headset Review, Samsung SyncMaster LCD PX2370 Review, and Startech S25SLOTR 2.5" Removable Hard Drive Rack Review



Asus EAH5750 Formula 1GB Review
KitGuru posted a review on the Asus EAH5750 Formula 1GB

Not many people would argue that the AMD 5xxx series has been an incredible success … fantastic performance, wicked DX11 capabilities while still managing to remain competitively priced. In the latest of our articles to focus on graphics cards with proprietary cooling systems we look at a product called the Formula HD5750. Yep, if you look closer you will see that the cooler is shaped to resemble a Formula race car.

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Samsung Station STORY USB 3.0 Hard Drive Review
Everything USB posted a review on the Samsung Station STORY USB 3.0 Hard Drive 2TB

Wait! I know what you're thinking from the photo, that this is yet another 3.5" hard drive fitted in some boxy enclosure. Well, to that extent you'd be right, but what of the bundled real-time backup system, low drive acoustics and trouble-free SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connection? Do I have you attention now? Good. Walk with me in my in-depth review as I explore everything the Samsung STORY Station 3.0 external hard drive has to offer, after the jump.

The Verdict:
Samsung's first foray into USB 3.0 hard drives is fast, quiet and stable - just the way I like it. The bundled backup utility with its real-time monitoring and unlimited file revisioning only serves to sweeten the deal.

The Good:
+ Average read/write speeds above 85MB/s
+ Backwards compatible with USB 2.0
+ Passive cooling; eco drive saves energy and runs silent
+ Down-firing LED with adjustable intensity
+ Drive stays off when it's told to
+ Easy to use backup software included
+ Backups can be set as scheduled or real-time with file revisioning
+ Backups optionally can compress/encrypt data

The Bad:
- Security software is incompatible with Windows 7 x64
- Not as fast as a 7,200 RPM drive might be
- LED angrily flashes during data transfer
- Sleep timeout isn't adjustable
- No Mac software is included

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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Professional Soundcard & MKII Headset Review
Vortez.co.uk posted a review on the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Professional Soundcard & MKII Headset

Vision has always been an important factor in our lives. Without it we don't imagine. Film, television and computers have become paramount in raising our awareness of the visual sense. So much so that it seems sound has taken a backseat.

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HP All-in-One 200 Review
TechReviewSource.com takes a look at the HP All-in-One 200

This all-in-one desktop PC from Hewlett-Packard offers a vibrant 21.5-inch LCD, a 500GB hard drive, and a massive 4GB of RAM, which is a lot for an all-in-one. There's also a few multimedia features bundled with solid performance that make this model one to look at and envy, but it's no without its flaws.

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G.Skill Phoenix 100GB SandForce SF-1200 Solid State Drive Review
TweakTown posted a review on the G.Skill Phoenix 100GB SandForce SF-1200 Solid State Drive

When the G.Skill Phoenix 100GB drive arrived I was a bit surprised by the timing since the Falcon and Falcon II were some of the first Indilinx and Indilinx ECO drives we tested and found for sale. As always, I wanted to take a look at the new drive, but in the back of my mind I was thinking that the Phoenix would be just another run of the mill, Team SandForce product. To back that up I took a look at G.Skill’s product page and sure enough, nothing special was listed and the specs sheet gave us the same impression.

Even when the drive arrived it had Team SandForce written all over it. That determination was actually not from what was printed on the package, but the lack of any special mentions that clearly stated that the Phoenix was different. The package and the website were wrong and I didn’t pick up on it until the PCB was removed.

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Kingston HyperX 4GB 1866MHz Low Voltage Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit Review
Futurelooks checked out the Kingston HyperX 4GB 1866MHz Low Voltage Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit

It use to only be companies that ran server farms or other high performance computing operations looking for ways to save money on the power bill. With such large scale operations, every watt makes a big difference to the yearly power bill. Nowadays, even every day computer users are looking for ways to cut back on their power consumption. Today, we'll be checking out some memory from Kingston Technology that does just that.

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Roccat Kave 5.1 Headset Review
Overclock3D have just published a new article titled: Roccat Kave 5.1 Headset Review

We've liked a lot of Roccat stuff recently, how does their surround sound headset, the Kave, fair?

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Samsung SyncMaster LCD PX2370 Review
T-Break posted a review on the Samsung SyncMaster LCD PX2370 display

Samsung recently introduced a new “premium” LED display into the market, a beauty of a thing called the SyncMaster PX2370. The LED-backlight display features Premium Touch of Color (ToC) design and is just 18mm thick. The display sports 1920—1080p resolution at 16:9 aspect ratio (a move from the 16:10 norm), plethora proprietary magic features, 5,000,000:1 Mega contrast ratio, 1000:1 static contrast ratio, and 2ms response time.

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Startech S25SLOTR 2.5" Removable Hard Drive Rack Review
KitGuru.net posted a review on the Startech 2.5 inch Removable Hard Drive Rack

Hands up if you have a few spare 2.5 inch laptop drives sitting in a drawer gathering dust? I would say quite a few reading this have their grubby mitts in the air already … this article will be of particular interest to you all.

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