Here the second reviews roundup of today featuring the following 10 reviews: HIS 5870 Turbo X Crossfire Review, Noctua NH-C12P SE14 Heatsink Review, The Ultimate Graphics Cards Round-up: Spring 2010, Akasa Venom cooler Review, Saitek Cyborg V.7 Keyboard Review, GlacialTech Igloo 5760 Heatsink Review, XFX RADEON HD 5830 1GB GDDR5 Video Card Review, Corsair Flash Survivor GTR 32GB USB Flash Drive review, Elgato EyeTV Hybrid TV Tuner Review, and CiragoTV Platinum CMC2000 1.5TB Network Multimedia Player Review



HIS 5870 Turbo X Crossfire Review
Overclock3D have just published a new article titled: HIS 5870 Turbo X Crossfire

If there is one thing we like more than a 5870, it's two of them. HIS obliged with their Turbo X cards. How well did they perform?

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Noctua NH-C12P SE14 Heatsink Review
Viperlair posted a review on the Noctua NH-C12P SE14 Heatsink

One thing to keep in mind about the Noctua NH-C12P SE14 is that while it's designed to offer you high end cooling (which it does) it's also designed for extra compatibility with a wide range of enclosures. I think Noctua have done well with it. The NH-C12P is not in of itself a new heatsink, but the SE14 version adds Noctua's excellent 140mm fan which provides very quiet performance indeed. The fan features Noctua's Vortex Control Notches which seem to work well in keeping the noise levels down and CFM moved high. All in all it makes for a great combination. Compared to some other proper tower based setups it does trail a little behind, but it's not by much and if you don't have the room for a tower, you will probably find that despite it's size the NH-C12P SE14 will fit.

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The Ultimate Graphics Cards Round-up: Spring 2010
InsideHW compared all graphics cards that can be found on most markets

When the current state of the graphics card market is compared to the situation of four or five years ago, one might think that it’s much simpler to buy a graphics card nowadays. Indeed, the numerous LE and SE models are long gone and there is no covert memory bus halving, when users ended up with performance far inferior to those in reviews. You may stumble upon a few models containing DDR2 memory, instead of the referent models’ GDDR3, but these are usually end-of-life products at the rock bottom of the current product gamma, so buyers actually do end up with the performance they paid for these days. Still, the unequal speed of new chip development in the two competitor companies, followed by strong economic impacts last year and a no-holds-barred battle for market dominance, caused the existence of a higher-than-needed number of similarly priced models present on the market at the moment, so customers may be in doubt as to which card will give them the best performance in a given price range. That’s why we decided to make a test of all models from the current generation available at the market…

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Akasa Venom cooler Review
Hardwareoverclock.com has reviewed the Akasa VENOM cpu cooler

Akasa has released 3 new allround tower cooler for Intel and AMD processors. One of them is the Venom cooler, made for silent and modding systems. We have tested the Venom on a core i7 860. More about the performance and handling you can find in the article.

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Saitek Cyborg V.7 Keyboard Review
Hi Tech Legion posted a review on the Saitek Cyborg V.7 Keyboard

The Saitek Cyborg V.7 keyboard is a quality example of everything a gamer needs. Keeping this in mind, the Saitek Cyborg keyboard brings many great ideas together. Being a gamer you tend to notice the wear and tear we put our devices through. Saitek solves for this by including metal plated key caps in the high traffic areas: WASD, arrow keys and the spacebar.

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GlacialTech Igloo 5760 Heatsink Review
TechwareLabs has a review of the GlacialTech Igloo 5760 Heatsink

CPU coolers are one segment of the DIY PC market where you're spoiled for choice. There are a hundred different companies marketing a thousand different coolers, all of them claiming to be the best solution for your needs. Today we'll take a look at the Igloo 5760, a multi-platform cooler from Glacialtech designed for the budget user who needs a bit more oomph than the stock AMD or Intel units can provide.

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XFX RADEON HD 5830 1GB GDDR5 Video Card Review
Madshrimps posted XFX RADEON HD 5830 1GB GDDR5 Video Card Review

The RADEON HD 5830 comes to fill in the gap between the best-buy 5770 and the 5850; it features dual 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors and has about the same performance as the 4890 in DirectX 10 games. The XFX model comes with a custom made heatsink that sports 5 heatpipes, meant to cool the card better than the stock solution.

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Corsair Flash Survivor GTR 32GB USB Flash Drive review
KitGuru.net posted a review on the Corsair Survivor GTR 32GB USB Drive

Almost everyone today has a Flash drive sitting on their computer desk, after all they are invaluable for moving data between work and home or to pass files between friends. Another important use for USB drives is to back up sensitive and important data, which leads me nicely into the product we have for review today – The Corsair Flash Survivor GTR 32GB USB Flash Drive.

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Elgato EyeTV Hybrid TV Tuner Review
Maximum CPU has posted its review of the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid TV Tuner

TV tuners tend to be hit or miss. Sometimes a card or USB add-on works as advertised, smoothly and elegantly. Other times the experience is clunky, full of lag, and riddled with poor software. Elgato’s offerings are generally considered solid solutions for audio/video capture and computer-based program recording and playback.

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CiragoTV Platinum CMC2000 1.5TB Network Multimedia Player Review
iGadget Life posted a review on the CiragoTV Platinum CMC2000 1.5TB Network Multimedia Player

Up on the review block today is Cirago’s TV Platinum CMC2000 1.5TB Network Multimedia Center. I personally have not yet had the opportunity to review anything like this for the site, so this was an exciting product to receive. The box boasts that it contains a 1.5TB hard drive for storage of recorded video and pictures, can record live TV, stream media, play internet radio, access files over your network via built-in NAS and look at all types of pictures. That’s a lot of stuff, so let’s take a look.

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