Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles, including Western Digital Caviar Green (WD20EARX) 2 TB Hard Disk Drive Review, NZXT Source 210 Elite White Mid Tower Case Review, and ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review



Western Digital Caviar Green (WD20EARX) 2 TB Hard Disk Drive Review
TechARP posted a review on the Western Digital Caviar Green (WD20EARX) 2 TB Hard Disk Drive

Western Digital divides their internal hard drives into three distinct families - the WD Caviar Blue for their basic hard drives, the WD Caviar Green for their quieter, cooler hard drives and the WD Caviar Black for their performance-grade hard drives.

According to Western Digital, Caviar Green hard disk drives offer an average power saving of 4-5 watts over their competitors, a feat that they claim is equivalent to reducing CO2 emissions by 13.8 kg per year. Of course, that’s a mere drop in the ocean but if you can help save the environment while you work or play on your computer, why not?

Today, we will look at the improved Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB hard disk drive - the new Western Digital WD20EARX with Advanced Format Technology and SATA 6 Gbps interface. Let’s find out how well this drive performs!

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Roccat Valo Gaming Keyboard Review
Hardware Secrets posted a review on the Roccat Valo Gaming Keyboard

The Roccat Valo keyboard draws attention by the big number of additional keys. It comes with 41 dedicated keys just to record macros with up to 500 (!) keystrokes in a single long sequence. Furthermore, it has illuminated keys and it includes a small microphone to be plugged to the side (for the user who doesn't want to speak through a headset). Those and other features are going to be examined in the course of this review, beginning with the physical description of the keyboard.

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Video Perspective: AVADirect $1000 Gaming System Review
PC Perspective takes a look at the AVADirect $1000 Gaming System

AVADirect is a system builder that has been specializing in gaming PCs since 2003 and is based near Cleveland, Ohio. They offer a wide array of PC options including the most basic and inexpensive machines used for business computing as well as top-level gaming machines with overclocked settings and high-end water cooling configurations.

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Jabra SUPREME Bluetooth Headset Review
Tech-Reviews.co.uk posted a review on the Jabra SUPREME Bluetooth Headset

Priced at £99, the Jabra SUPREME is among the most expensive headsets around at the moment. Being a product designed and developed by Jabra, we shouldn't see any problems at all though. The Jabra SUPREME features active noise cancellation technology and the ability to connect to two devices at the same time as well as a feature called HD Voice, so we should see some impressive results.

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NZXT Fluid Bearing Fans Review
TechwareLabs posted a review on the NZXT Fluid Bearing Fans

Today we'll be looking at the NZXT FX120LB and the FX140LB, case fans that work around a "fluid dynamic bearing" system. Since the bearings in a fan's motor are often the biggest source of noise at low speeds, this new design has the potential to produce a much quieter fan without sacrificing performance.

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Corsair Hydro Series H100 CPU Water Cooling Kit Review
Legit Reviews posted a review on the Corsair Hydro Series H100 CPU Water Cooling Kit

Today we are looking at newest addition to the Corsair Hydro Series, the Hydro Series H100. The Corsair H100 offers the best performance of any liquid cooling kit offered by Corsair since it uses a dual 120mm radiator! Since it is a bit larger than normal kits you will need to use it in PC cases that provide mounting capability for a standard 240mm radiator. Join us as we put the new Hydro Series H100 through the paces on our Intel Core i7 test system.

The Hydro Series H100 is the third cooler to come from the Corsair and CoolIT team up. Like the H80, like the H100, has the new pump/coldplate/fan controller design. The integrated fan controller that not only powers the fans but controls the fans speed based on the coolant temp in the unit. The other new feature is the connection port for the upcoming Corsair Link that will allow for digital monitoring of the H100...

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Coolit Domino A.L.C. CPU Cooler Review
eTeknix.com posted a review on the Coolit Domino A.L.C. CPU Cooler

While we love to bring you the latest reviews of products that have just come to market, sometimes we do need to take a step back and look at products that are already on the market and see why their products are having the success they are.

In this case, we are looking at a product that has been on the market for quite some time, but it is not till quite recently that the competition from Antec and Corsair has re-ignited the Liquid Cooling market. This Coolit Domino, is, if you like, a predecessor to the products we see today and as such we do expect that the newer products will have learnt from any mistakes Coolit may have made, but that's not to say the Coolit might not offer better value for money or even superior performance.

Coolit are a well known company specialising in cooling systems for computers, encompassing CPU Cooling, GPU Cooling and other thermal products and have always tried to market products that differ from the norm, so lets see how the Domino performs in our tests.

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NZXT Source 210 Elite White Mid Tower Case Review
TweakTown posted a review on the NZXT Source 210 Elite White Mid Tower Case

Just last week we took a look at the Tempest 210 which at that time I had remarked about how it resembled a Source 210 that NZXT had already been selling. Well, this time I actually, without really paying attention to the names of each case, have sort of put the cart a little ahead of the horse with this one. After looking at the Tempest 210 and what it had to offer in a very user friendly price range, I now am going to be taking a look at the latest version of the Source 210 NZXT has added to the Classic Series.

For those who just read the Tempest review, most of this will be more of a recap, as the cases are very similar once the varying front bezels are removed. In fact, the main frame of the chassis is exactly the same, but with the latest submission, aesthetics are what makes the key difference in this release.

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ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review
OC Inside posted a review on the ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard

The new ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional AM3+ motherboard is based on the AMD 990FX chipset with SB950 southbridge and offers five PCI Express slots, up to six USB3.0 ports, whereby two of them can be connected with the enclosed USB3.0 front panel/back panel, six SATA3 ports, two eSATA3 ports, two teaming capable Gigabit LAN ports, six analog sound connectors, digital optical SPDIF and coaxial SPDIF sound output.
In this review we examine the features of this motherboard and test how high this new AMD bulldozer motherboard can be overclocked.

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Jou Jye BW-B620JL 620W Power Supply Review
TweakTown posted a review on the Jou Jye BW-B620JL 620W Power Supply

One of the perks of doing reviews on computer parts and peripherals is that you not only get to work with some of the best names in the industry, but also often get to work with companies who haven't yet made a name for themselves in one way or another. Today we are dealing with the latter in that most of our readers aren't going to have heard of Jou Jye Computer before. This is mostly because the company is known more in the OEM world and is slowly starting to push into the consumer world.

The unit that we are taking a look at today is the BW-B620JL power supply. It is a 620W power supply rated for Bronze level efficiency. The unit has a great list of connectors and 100% Japanese capacitor construction, however that isn't what has us intrigued the most. The unit has the ability to be linked directly with other power supplies from the same line and thus increase the total wattage of your system by running dual power supplies with ease...or more.

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