Here the second articles roundup of today: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H Motherboard Review, OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SSD Review, Lenovo T410s Review, In-Win Ironclad ATX Full Tower PC Case Review, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M, Fastest Notebook GPU Yet, Steelseries Kinzu Review, ROCCAT Apuri Active USB Hub with Mouse Bungee Review, My Passport Studio Review, MSI R5870 Lightning Review, SmartSwipe Secure Credit Card Reader Review, and Droid Incredible Cell Phone Review



Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H Motherboard Review
iXBT Labs posted a review on the Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H Motherboard

GA-890GPA-UD3H is a decent motherboard, but, frankly speaking, Gigabyte has somewhat spoilt us by previous bestsellers based on AMD integrated chipsets. Anyway, the motherboard will surely be in demand. At least because of its excellent overclocking potential and the convenient layout of graphics slots.

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OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SSD Review
Elite Bastards posted OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SSD review

The secret of these high theoretical numbers is, of course, hidden away within the drive itself - More specifically, within the drive's controller. OCZ's Vertex 2 series of drives all boast SandForce's SF-1200 controller at its heart, a controller which has made waves on account of its impressive performance. This is achieved via a number of methods - On the one hand, SandForce's DuraWrite technology looks to optimise the read-write cycle thrust upon MLC flash cells with compression algorithms while also employing hardware encryption of data written to the drive (albeit with a blank password on devices such as this one). This compression is, according to SandForce, highly effective at reducing the number of writes to a drive, compressing large application installs by over 50% according to their figures - Although this isn't reducing the amount of data stored on the drive, it does mean that the drive controller has to write data less frequently to the SSD's flash memory, increasing both performance and the drive's longevity.

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Lenovo T410s Review
Business Computing World published a review of the Lenovo T410s

Many companies look for brand as much as for features when selecting their laptops. They want a brand and a laptop design that says 'We are a no-nonsense organisation which chooses only the best for our staff. We buy the right tools for the job and they enable us to work well for you. Lenovo plays to this market well and its laptops are often well specified with a no-nonsense physical design. At the higher end of the Lenovo range, laptops such as the T410s are equipped with go-faster features and management utilities. But that doesn't stop the T410s having an innovation or two up its sleeve, too.

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In-Win Ironclad ATX Full Tower PC Case Review
Legit Reviews posted a review on the In-Win Ironclad ATX Full Tower PC Case

All in all, I like the Ironclad. It’s spacious, chock full of features, does push a lot of air, and has a very enticing price point. I think In-Win is doing a great thing offering this case alongside their Maelstrom case. Both cases are extremely similar in design with a few differences. Most of all, the customer gets to have a choice of which full tower they want. While I’d definitely have no problem recommending this case for anyone, issues with certain components may be a turn off for some users. The most obvious is...

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M, Fastest Notebook GPU Yet
HotHardware.com posted a review on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

In March of this year, NVIDIA launched their GeForce GTX 480, aka Fermi desktop graphics card and though this new killer GPU is both big and hot, there was little question it offered record-breaking performance. Almost shockingly, only a calendar quarter later, they're now ready with that card's notebook-targeted variant, the GeForce GTX 480M. We have one of the very first notebooks to hit the market in-house with the new GeForce GTX 480M under its hood. Fittingly, NVIDIA turned to Clevo to ODM a machine that would house their new mobile gaming frame-rate crusher and it took residence in the Clevo D900F quite comfortably...

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Steelseries Kinzu Review
XSReviews has written a review of the Steelseries Kinzu gamer mouse.

Continuing our current trend of gaming mice reviews today we have the Steelseries Kinzu. It's a lightweight, small, ambidextrous mouse with a high sensitivity rating. This isn't the first one we've reviewed for this company, but it is the first budget optical of theirs that we've taken a look at. Let's see how it does.

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ROCCAT Apuri Active USB Hub with Mouse Bungee Review
Madshrimps posted ROCCAT Apuri Active USB Hub with Mouse Bungee Review

The need of USB hubs on the market is rising, because we are using more and more USB hardware devices like USB flash drives, USB external sound cards, printers, 5.1 headphones and the list could continue. ROCCAT have developed a very nice looking USB hub with an integrated mouse bungee, that holds the mouse cable for you and this way it will not get in your way when you game.

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My Passport Studio Review
t-break posted a review on My Passport Studio

My Passport Studio ultra-portable hard drive with customizable e-label is the high performance drive packed with features for Mac users on the go.

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MSI R5870 Lightning Review
KitGuru.net posted a review on the MSI R5870 Lightning

Today we get the chance to analyse a product with some jaw dropping specifications, the MSI R5870 Lightning. This card has a custom PCB design and incorporates the worlds first 15 phase PWM design to offer higher levels of overclocking and stability. This is why they cranked it to 900mhz on the core (+50mhz on reference design) and 1200mhz on the memory (4.8GBps effective).

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SmartSwipe Secure Credit Card Reader Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the SmartSwipe Secure Credit Card Reader

For all of the advances in online shopping and web security, theres still the possibility that someone could steal your payment card information. While many ways to get this information rely on user misjudgement, a.k.a. phishing, there are still some technical problems which could be better handled. The Smart Swipe is a USB magnetic card reader which works with some software in Internet Explorer to address the most glaring of technical errorscross-site scriptingand prevent the user from entering payment information at all when something about the sites security is amiss. ThinkComputers checks out this device, and finds that its nifty, but limited. Read on for the review.

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Droid Incredible Cell Phone Review
Hardware Secrets posted Droid Incredible Cell Phone Review

By now we've seen other HTC phones, other Verizon phones, and other Android operating system phones, but the Droid Incredible seems, at least at first glance, to have a personality all its own. We set out to see if the lives up to its name and if it is just a geeky tool or a phone for the masses.

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