Here the first roundup of today's review: Thermaltake Armor A90 PC Case Review, Grace Digital Eco Extreme Rugged All Terrain Speaker Case Review, iStar BPU-2535V2 Dual 2.5 to 3.5-Inch Enclosure Review, XFX HD 5450 Review, Zaward Vapor 120 CPU Cooler Review, Logitech Performance Mouse MX Review, Gainward GTX470 Golden Sample GOOD Review, and eVGA GeForce GTX 465 SC



Thermaltake Armor A90 PC Case Review
DragonSteelMods posted a review on the Thermaltake Armor A90 PC Case

Today for review I've got the new Thermaltake Armor A90 gaming chassis. It's a great case overall, and the price isn't too bad either coming in at under $100. It's got plenty of room for larger video cards and a lot of hard drives. The A90 comes with three fans pre-installed, one of the them is a nice large 200mm fan that's located on the top of the case. The case is well made and it's fairly quiet and it does a decent job at keeping your system cool. So read on to check out the newest addition to the Armor series of cases from Thermaltake..

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Grace Digital Eco Extreme Rugged All Terrain Speaker Case Review
iGadget Life takes a look at the Grace Digital Eco Extreme Rugged All Terrain Speaker Case

Our MP3 players and phones are rather expensive and most all have a great big flaw, they’re rather fragile. If you’re the outdoorsy type then this fragility doesn’t exactly work with your lifestyle, you’ll need some heavy duty protection for your electronics and what I have for review today might work well for you and your rugged lifestyle. Today for review I have the Grace Digital Eco Extreme Rugged All terrain Speaker Case. This case is big, but it’s rugged and waterproof, it even includes a pressure relief valve if you’re hiking up in the mountains in high altitudes. Inside the case you’ll find a single audio cable along with a battery compartment and a padded section for your phone or MP3 player to sit comfortably in. On the outside is the the speaker and combination power and volume knob along with lots of rubber padding around the slides of the case, a metal carabineer, and a couple heavy duty locking clamps to secure the case closed and keeps out the elements. So read on to learn more about the Eco Extreme from Grace Digital..

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iStar BPU-2535V2 Dual 2.5 to 3.5-Inch Enclosure Review
OCModShop posted a review on the iStar BPU-2535V2 Dual 2.5 to 3.5-inch Enclosure

Some computer enthusiasts have toyed with the idea of using laptop hard drives in their desktop PC. Because of their lower noise and heat, they are perfect for small builds, home theater PCs (HTPCs), or any other computer appliance where silence is golden. I've even known people who set up 2.5" hard drives in a RAID array so they perform faster than a traditional hard drive, yet are practically silent. You may even have just a buttload of laptop hard drives laying around and want to get some use out of them.

Regardless of your reasons, placing a 2.5-inch hard drive into a desktop PC requires some special mounting hardware and interface adapters What if there was some hard drive enclosure that allowed you to not only easily use laptop drives in your rig, but allowed for hot-swapping as well? Well iStar USA has you covered with their BPU-2535V2 2.5-inch to 3.5-inch hard drive enclosure.

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XFX HD 5450 Review
OCC has published a review on the XFX HD 5450

Even with all that the XFX HD 5450 offers for the mainstream user, it is perhaps the HTPC crowd that will benefit the most. Not only does the card have a low-profile design, a low power requirement and brackets that will allow it to easily fit into any SFF case, but it also has technologies for improving HD playback. This is thanks to Avivo and Accelerated Video Transcoding, both of which enhance HD content though the graphics card, reducing the strain on the system.

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Zaward Vapor 120 CPU Cooler Review
PureOverclock has published a review of the Zaward Vapor 120 CPU cooler.

Zaward might not be a household name, but you may have seen their golfball-design fans at some point. More interestingly, Zaward has used that very innovative approach to their latest flagship CPU cooler, the Vapor 120. It looks rather unassuming, save for the fan, and the price seems pretty good at about $50. But what's really interesting is the performance numbers this cooler managed to put up. To put it mildly, we were shocked. Read on to find out why.

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Logitech Performance Mouse MX Review
Maximum CPU has posted its review of the Logitech Performance Mouse MX

The perfect mouse is an elusive creature for anyone who spends time in front of the computer. As a web designer I need a good multi-function mouse that has lots of programmable and convenient buttons. Hence my quest for a better mouse has led me to the Logitech Performance Mouse MX, and it was worthy of notice. I have found that when Logitech wants to do something well, they really pull it off, and the Performance Mouse MX is no exception. Featuring their new DARKFIELD laser technology, the unifying receiver, 7 programmable buttons, hyperfast scrolling, sculpted shape as well as a few other surprises along the way, this mouse is definitely worth a second look.

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Gainward GTX470 Golden Sample GOOD Review
Metku took a closer look at the Gainward GTX470 Golden Sample GOOD

Now that both ATI and Nvidia have had their new top of the range models on the markets for a while, it's time to wait and see what kind of version the card manufacturers come up with. This time we give a look at a new contestant from the green camp - please welcome the Gainward GTX 470 Golden Sample - GOOD.

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eVGA GeForce GTX 465 SC gets tested
The Guru of 3D posted a review on the eVGA GeForce GTX 465 SC video card

eVGA will be putting a lot of GeForce GTX 465 SKUs on the market based in several gradations. We'll have a look in particular at the GeForce GTX 465 SC model, with SC short for Super Clocked.

NVIDIA managed to put a product out on the market, that does not run very hot and is not at all noisy. A Fermi product that should be more affordable yet has less active shader processors at it's disposal and the memory configuration is now brought down towards 1024 MB (gDDR5/256-bit). This all means that several other shader clusters inside that GPU have been disabled, on a card that looks like the Siamese twin of the GeForce GTX 470. Let's go check it out.

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