ASRock P55 Extreme Review
ocaholic posted a review on the ASRock P55 Extreme

With the P55 Extreme ASRock presents its flagship regarding Intels new P55 chipset to a very small price. Besides six SATA ports this motherboard also comes with three PCI-Express slots. Even overclocking should be fun the P55 Extreme even though ASRock provided the board only with an eight phase power design.

ASRock P55 Extreme Review

ASUS WL-520gU Home Gateway Wireless Router Review
TechwareLabs has published a review of the ASUS WL-520gU Home Gateway Wireless Router

ASUS has been establishing themselves as a top tier brand in the past few years, building on their already solid reputation for quality motherboards and graphics cards with an increasingly large line of computer peripherals and even complete systems. Today we'll be looking at the WL-520gU, a low-cost home gateway router offering 802.11g wireless, 10/100baseT Ethernet, and a fair number of promises about performance. With the home networking market already dominated by Linksys, Netgear, and D-Link, ASUS is going to have a rough time establishing a foothold. Take a look with us, and see if the 520gU is up to the challenge.

ASUS WL-520gU Home Gateway Wireless Router Review



Adobe Flash 10.1 Ushers In GPU Accelerated Flash
Legit Review takes a look at the performance of Adobe Flash 10.1

With Flash 9, Adobe introduced streaming high definition video playback to its Flash empire, just so long as users' systems had the power to play it. After many demands for better performance on low-power computers, like HTPCs and netbooks, Adobe aims to please with their impending release of Flash 10.1. In this article, we put Adobe's claims of higher performance to the test with video and gaming benchmarks.

It's easy to see in the chart above what an incredible difference Flash 10.1 makes! With Flash 10.0, SD played smoothly, while 720P lost a barely noticeable number of frames and 1080P played terribly, bogging down the entire computer so much that Internet Explorer locked up and the process had to be killed in Task Manager. Firefox had a similar locking result, though it did eventually respond on its own. A credit to Google's Chrome sandboxing approach, closing out the browser was immediate even if the video playback was the worst...

Adobe Flash 10.1 Ushers In GPU Accelerated Flash

ATI Radeon HD 5970 Review
InsideHW.com has reviewed ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card

After the launch of first DirectX 11 graphics cards, ATI secured its market position and next logical step is: filling of gaps in product lineup. ATI starter new series with models that belong to higher mid-range (HD 5770 and HD 5750) and according to announcements during launch of HD 5870 model, next model that will be introduced should be ATI’s DirectX 11 top graphics card. Since ATI’s roadmap is developing nicely in past few months, we got a chance to test newest addition to Radeon family: HD 5970 – fastest graphics card that money can buy at this moment…

ATI Radeon HD 5970 Review

Asus Ion-Powered Eee PC 1201N Review
HotHardware.com posted a review on the Asus Ion-Powered Eee PC 1201N

The proliferation of NVIDIA's Ion GPU has been a long time coming. We've been talking about its merits for the better part of this year, but only recently has it been able to find its way into more than a handful of mainstream, shipping netbooks. We recently had a look at HP's Mini 311 with Windows 7 Home Premium, and while the Ion definitely enabled smooth HD playback where it was previously impossible with a paltry 1.6GHz Atom N270 and Intel IGP, the CPU bottleneck held back the entire system. Today, however, we're taking a look at a much more powerful system. Asus has come a long way since the launch of its original Eee PC. 7" and 8" netbooks are no longer the norm, and the availability of 12" netbooks is on the rise. The newest member of the stylish Seashell lineup is the Eee PC 1201N, which easily bests any other netbook we've tested in terms of specifications. It's also one of the larger netbooks out, blurring the line between the netbooks of old and the ultraportables of today. Featuring a 12.1" HD display, dual-core Atom 330 CPU, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium, an HDMI output and NVIDIA's Ion GPU technology, there's not much to dislike about the newest Eee PC based on its build sheet...

Asus Ion-Powered Eee PC 1201N Review

ATI RADEON HD 5970 Graphics Card Review
iXBT Labs posted a review on the ATI RADEON HD 5970 Graphics Card

Today we shall examine the dual-GPU card of the new generation based on two RADEON HD 5870 (Cypress) GPUs. The new solution differs by having core and memory clock rates reduced down to the ones of HD 5850 while the cores themselves are full-fledged.

ATI RADEON HD 5970 Graphics Card Review

Evercool HPK-10025EA CPU Cooler Review
Hardware Secrets posted a review on the Evercool HPK-10025EA CPU Cooler

Today we are going to test another low profile CPU cooler: Evercool HPK-10025EA, which has an horizontal heatsink, 100-mm fan and four copper heatpipes. Check its performance out in this review!

Evercool HPK-10025EA CPU Cooler Review

Zalman ZM600-RS Power Supply Review
Hardware Secrets posted Zalman ZM600-RS Power Supply Review

Zalman has recently released a power supply series based on a resonant switching (RS) design, aptly named RS series. Let's see if the 600 W model from this series is a good buy.

Zalman ZM600-RS Power Supply Review

Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB SSD Review
Hardware Canucks posted a review of the new Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB SSD.

It seems like everywhere we look, SSDs are increasing in capacity while very little downwards movement has been made when it comes to pricing. Kingston on the other hand is now offering their new Intel-based SSDNow V-Series 40GB units at a bargain price for people who are looking to add some performance to their systems. Let's see how this drive performs.

Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB SSD Review

Gainward GeForce GT 240 Video Card Review
PCShopTalk posted a review on the Gainward GeForce GT 240 Video Card

The GeForce GT 240 video card from Gainward that I have tested in this review does have one of the latest Nvidia GPUs on 40nm, offers performance similar to the 9600GT video card, but does not have a power connector, thanks to the lower power consumption.

Gainward GeForce GT 240 Video Card Review

SilverStone Grandia GD03 Review
PureOverclock has published a review of the SilverStone Grandia GD03 HTPC case.

There is an increasingly wider selection of HTPC cases on the market that offer many choices to satisfy the difference needs and preferences out there. with SilverStone's newest HTPC chassis, the Grandia Series GD03, being one of many. We've seen some very impressive cases from SilverStone, but we know that the HTPC cases are a different breed, so it will be interesting to see if they can continue their success on this front.

SilverStone Grandia GD03 Review

G.Skill RipJaws DDR3 Kit F3-12800CL7D-4GBRM Review
Benchmark Reviews posted a review on the G.Skill RipJaws DDR3 Kit F3-12800CL7D-4GBRM

If you're in the market for some DDR3 memory these days, you will see a lot of sets being advertised as "Optimized for use in Intel i5 and i7 systems". There's a lot of confusion in the marketplace about whether these products are suitable for use in other applications. The truth is that most all of them can be used in any system that uses DDR3 memory, as long as the BIOS on the motherboard can supply the correct voltage, usually around 1.6V for most sets. In this article Benchmark Reviews will examine how a dual-channel kit of 1600MHz CL7 RIPJAWS modules from premier maker G.Skill performs on an AMD 790FX platform.

G.Skill RipJaws DDR3 Kit F3-12800CL7D-4GBRM Review