NorthQ FlexQ Combo Cooler Review
DriverHeaven posted a review on the NorthQ FlexQ Combo Cooler

Today we will have a look at a rather strange cooler from NorthQ, the FlexQ Combo cooler. What makes the FlexQ Combo unique is that it can be installed not only on most processors as a low profile cooler, but on several GFX cards as well. But given its small size, can it perform well enough to be a competitive product?

NorthQ FlexQ Combo Cooler Review

Sony Ericsson W980 Walkman Phone Review
ITreviewed has reviewed the Sony Ericsson W980 Walkman Phone

On paper the W980 Walkman Phone ticks most boxes and is a fantastic piece of gadgetry: it is beautifully finished with cool lights that flash all over the place, offers stylish touch-sensitive buttons, and even has a full 8GB of onboard memory. But it's only when you use the phone for a few days that its unintuitiveness becomes apparent. Most annoying are the tiny call start and end buttons, along with the even smaller menu, shortcut and cancel buttons. You're never entirely sure which button to press when navigating menus either, and navigating the contacts menu isn't as quick as you'd expect. Usability issues aside, those after a phone that doubles as an excellent quality music player with more than enough storage space and a sufficiently well-designed media manager should consider the W980. If your priority is a phone - in particular voice, messaging and contacts management - you may soon become frustrated with the W980.

Sony Ericsson W980 Walkman Phone Review



Cooler Master UCP Ultimate 900W PSU Review
bit-tech published a review of Cooler Master's UCP Ultimate 900W PSU

This would make a fantastic PSU for Folders: it's exceptional efficiency at very high loads, which means that it will save you the maximum amount of money while you help to find cures for diseases. At a nominal 20 percent load the rest of us will be using for most of the time, it's no more efficient than any other PSU and without spending all day at load to recoup the cost difference through power efficiency benefits, you'll need to use the UCP 900W for several years to make up the extra money you'll spend on it.

While the graphs above might be very nice for a direct comparative, and paint the Cooler Master UCP 900W as a bloody awesome and very well engineered PSU (which it clearly is), the price premium simply outweighs the benefits of 80 Plus Silver certification. As a result, the UCP 900W doesn't do enough to justify the asking price, but if you are looking for one of the best PSUs on the market today, regardless of cost, it is definitely right up there.

Cooler Master UCP Ultimate 900W PSU Review

Asus P6T Deluxe OC Edition Review
OCC has published a new review on the Asus P6T Deluxe OC Edition

The P6T Deluxe OC Palm Edition has earned its overclocking wings. This is something it does quite well with a minimum amount of tweaking so even the novice can push the realistic limits on performance with a little patience. Leaning hard on the P6T I was able to get to a baseclock frequency of 210 that proved to be stable with only some Super Pi testing. In the end, a baseclock of 203 with a clock multiplier of 19 delivered a prime stable 3.87GHz on the CPU with 811MHz on the Qimonda memory with Turbo Mode disabled. The P6T performed better than the DX58SO in quite a few benchmarks but traded those wins for losses in about the same number of tests. What does that tell you? Both boards are great performers at stock speeds. Where the Asus separated itself from the Intel offering was on the overclocking front. This really was the expected result. The Intel offering was able to gain about the same overclock but did so with a much lower baseclock frequency that results in less memory bandwidth and performance in real tasks and games. When the limits are pushed, the Asus P6T was able to recover from every failed overclocking attempt I tried with a simple shut down and reboot.

Asus P6T Deluxe OC Edition Review

Foxconn A7DA-S Motherboard Review
iXBT Labs posted a review on the Foxconn A7DA-S Motherboard

This motherboard produces a strong positive impression both in terms of functionality and technical level. In fact, Foxconn hasn't had any problems with product quality for a long time already. But BIOS versions and some minor features often indicated that the company used to be manufacturing third-party designs for other brands. Now we can say that it's a very interesting motherboard. If there's enough of these boards in stock and its price is at least similar as that of competing products, it will certainly become very popular.

Foxconn A7DA-S Motherboard Review

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS5 Energy Saver Motherboard Review
Futurelooks checked out the GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS5 Energy Saver Motherboard

Everyone is going green these days, and they are trying to find more and more products that are as green as they want to be. One way people go about is to try to reduce their electricity usage, which has lead to a whole host of power sipping products being inserted into nearly every technology company’s product line. Computers are definitely not exempt from this, and companies like GIGABYTE are hoping that they can provide high performance motherboards that are also the foundation of a greener personal computer.

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS5 Energy Saver Motherboard Review

Future Sonics Atrio In-ears Review
techPowerUp posted a review on the Future Sonics Atrio In-ears

Future Sonics is a brand that produces some very unique in-ears. In this review we will be taking a look at their universal fit in-ears dubbed Atrio. Future Sonics emphasizes their strong bass performance - of course we put this to the test amongst other things in the review.

Future Sonics Atrio In-ears Review

HP Compaq 6735s Review
InsideHW.com has posted article about HP Compaq 6735s notebook

If you look for familiar brand name when searching for your new notebook then HP will place itself on top of that list. If you don't have large budget then you will most certainly look for models from "S" class and most probably it will be based on AMD platform. Notebook that satisfies all those characteristics came to our test lab and we are presenting to you: HP Compaq 6735s.

HP Compaq 6735s Review

Asus P5Q3 Review
OCC has published a new review on the Asus P5Q3

Overclocking the P5Q3 could not be any easier. I raised the memory voltage to 1.7V and left all other voltages on AUTO. Rasing the front side bus speed in 10MHz steps landed me at a stable 450, which is the same speed I was able to reach with the P5Q Pro. Memory was set to 1350MHz @ 6-6-5-16 2T. As mentioned earlier, there is no Command Rate setting so it defaulted to 2T. I attempted to reach a higher overclock by manually entering voltages but found that leaving them in AUTO yielded similar results. Dual core overclocking should be just as painless.

Asus P5Q3 Review

Samsung LN52A850 52" 120Hz, 1080P LCD TV Review
Hardware Canucks posted a review of the Samsung LN52A850 52" 120Hz, 1080P LCD TV.

Even though at this point I have only had the Samsung LN52A850 in my possession for a short amount of time, I have really come to appreciate almost everything it has to offer. Even without having the time to properly calibrate the picture to my liking, it was able to produce absolutely eye-watering images of such stunning clarity that I am now more anxious than ever to actually sit down for a few hours and tweak it to my heart's content. Its design has been a hit with everyone who comes to my apartment and I happen to love the touch of red instead of a depressingly black bezel.

Samsung LN52A850 52" 120Hz, 1080P LCD TV Review

Sapphire 770 PURE CrossFireX Review
t-break posted a review on the Sapphire 770 PURE CrossFireX video card

The Sapphire 770 is built on an all black PCB with decent passive cooling heatsinks on the northbridge and southbridge chips and on the MOSFETs which should help keep things cool when overclocking and help achieve better speeds.

Sapphire 770 PURE CrossFireX Review

ASUS Radeon HD 4830 Video Card EAH4830 Review
Benchmark Reviews posted a review on the ASUS Radeon HD 4830 Video Card EAH4830 video card

After a rather disappointing HD 3000 series, ATI took the world by surprise with the HD 4000 generation of graphics cards. Since the launch of the HD 4000 series back in June, ATI has reclaimed its presence in the market and has been steadily eating away at Nvida's marketshare. Benchmark Reviews has had the opportunity to review several cards from the HD 4800 series lineup and today we look at one of the newest additions to the family: the Radeon HD 4830. This particular model, the EAH4830, comes to us from Asus and sports a custom cooler design and factory overclocked memory. We'll put it through its paces and find out how it compares to its two closest siblings; the HD 4670 and the HD 4850.

ASUS Radeon HD 4830 Video Card EAH4830 Review

Samsung PN50A650 650 Series 50 Inch 1080P Plasma TV Review
Tweaknews.net posted a review on the Samsung PN50A650 650 Series 50 Inch 1080P Plasma TV

To sum this TV up, the picture quality for a mid-range TV is amazing, the connection choices can be compared to a HD buffet and the icing on the 1080p cake is that this is a great looking TV that looks a lot more expensive than its price tag.

Samsung PN50A650 650 Series 50 Inch 1080P Plasma TV Review

No-name brand PSUs vs Known Brand
Madshrimps compared no-name brand PSUs against known brands

We were invited to visit Cooler Master's brand new power supply testing setup, a very high end installation build to deliver up to 1200W and higher load to any PSU hooked up to the system. We bought some cheap PSU units from local Belgium stores to see how they would measure up when stressed to their rated wattage... read on to find out about the carnage.

No-name brand PSUs vs Known Brand

Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB (GV-R485MC-1GH) Review
bit-tech published a review of the Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB (GV-R485MC-1GH) graphics card

There are some clear benefits to the additional 512MB of graphics memory present on Gigabyte's Radeon HD 4850 1GB graphics card in some titles, but they're not there in others. Over time, the industry trend is definitely moving towards more graphics memory - that trend has existed for years now and it's not going to change any time soon - but the improvements on the Radeon HD 4850 1GB aren't quite as profound as they are on the Radeon HD 4870 1GB.

That is something to do with the resolutions that the Radeon HD 4850, in general, delivers an optimal gaming experience - they're not as high as they are with the Radeon HD 4870 and so the gains aren't quite as obvious. Without a doubt, they are still there though and the decision to opt for a 1GB Radeon HD 4850 over a much cheaper 512MB variant.

The premium works out to be approximately £30 or 25 percent, which is quite considerable in our opinion when you see that the difference between the Radeon HD 4870 512MB and 1GB variants is only 10 percent. And we're not even referring to Gigabyte's GV-R485MC-1GH Radeon HD 4850 1GB here either, as the passive cooling solution naturally pushes the price up a little - it'd be unfair to make that comparison because we believe the passive cooler does add some genuine value here.

Overall then, Gigabyte's GV-R485MC-1GH is a decent enough card backed with a good warranty that's ideally suited for those who are on a quest for absolute silence. However, we don't recommend the Radeon HD 4850 1GB for the wider market at the moment because the price increase doesn't reflect decent enough performance improvements in more than a few select titles at some rather extreme settings - that's not a fault of Gigabyte's, it's merely because of the general price difference between 512MB and 1GB variants of the Radeon HD 4850.

Should you choose to purchase the GV-R485MC-1GH though, there is one recommendation we need to make: you'll need to employ at least some airflow inside your chassis because the heat needs to be moved somewhere in the long run even though Gigabyte's Multi-Core cooler is better than a lot of passive coolers we've seen over the years.

Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB (GV-R485MC-1GH) Review