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AVM FRITZ!Box 7490 AC1300 Gigabit Modem Router Review
be quiet! Dark Rock TF CPU Cooler Review
Best $70 CPU for Gaming: Athlon X4 860K vs. Pentium G3258
Corsair RMi Series 1000 W
Corsair RMi750 Watt & RMi1000 Watt Review
How to fix touchpad problems in Windows 8/10
OS showdown: OS X 10.11 El Capitan vs Windows 10
Price of SSDs "in a free fall" says report
Seagate Laptop SSHD ST500LM000 500GB Hybrid Hard Drive Review
TUF Tested - Enthusiast Ready - ASUS X99 Sabertooth
XFX R9 290 Double Dissipation, (R9-290A-EDFD)

AVM FRITZ!Box 7490 AC1300 Gigabit Modem Router Review

The world may be filled with all types of people from casual everyday consumers, gamers and overclockers and up to enthusiasts, professionals and enterprise users all of which have different priorities but if i had to think of something common that every single person out there wants to have (when it comes to computers that is) that would probably be the fastest possible internet connection. Now it goes without saying that most casual users who just like to surf the internet can do so with very basic speeds (once upon a time we all did that and even more with just 14.4 Kbit/s dial-up modems) but anything extra like downloading media content, preloading new game titles, playing demanding MMO games and/or even sharing your work with several colleagues all around the globe simultaneously (successfully that is) requires a lot more juice from your internet connection. The secret however behind a fast internet connection is not only the type you have installed and paying for but also the equipment you're using with it and this is where manufacturers like AVM come in with their state of the art modem/routers like the FRITZ!Box 7490.

AVM offers a wide range of products for high-speed broadband connectivity and smart home networking. With the FRITZ! product family, AVM is a leading manufacturer of broadband devices for ADSL, cable, and LTE as well as Smart Home products for wireless LAN, DECT, and Powerline in Germany and Europe. The FRITZ!Box is the best known brand for wireless routers in Germany. In 2014 the communications specialist had 500 employees and generated a turnover of 340 million euros. Founded in Berlin in 1986, from the outset the company has focused on developing its own secure, innovative products for broadband connections. FRITZ! stands for fast Internet, the networked home and convenient telephony. Millions of satisfied customers and hundreds of award-winning products confirm AVM’s commitment to high-quality FRITZ! products and first-class customer service.

AVM's top of the line FRITZ!Box 7490 combines many functions in one unit since not only is it both a router and a VDSL/ADSL2+ modem (this is not something we haven't seen many times in the past but the 7490 is compatible with both Annex A/B and analogue/IDSN lines out of the box) but it's also a repeater, DECT phone base station for up to 6 handsets (4 for the international version which we have here with us), incoming/outgoing call handler (also allows you to access your landline from your smartphone by using the FRITZ!AppFon android/iOS app), answering machine (5 available ones), fax machine (includes email forwarding), NAS server (has 512MB of internal memory) and a media server (SMB/FTP/UPNP AV). The FRITZ!Box 7490 broadcasts two concurrent wireless signals (1300Mbit 802.11ac & 450Mbit 802.11n), supports VDSL lines up to 100Mbit (full vectoring), is compatible with 17a and 30a VDSL2 profiles and has a total of 4 gigabit Ethernet ports and two USB 3.0 ports (side and rear). The FRITZ!Box 7490 sure looks perfect on paper but what about real use?

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be quiet! Dark Rock TF CPU Cooler Review

be quiet! is a business that absolutely lives up to its name and word: Silent premium quality made by the quietness experts. They create some of the best performing and quietest air coolers on the market, along with a few other products that do very well. They’re not only built well and perform great, but they are also visually appealing. A couple weeks ago we got a chance to take a look at the Shadow Rock LP cooler, designed to fit in a low profile chassis, and today we’re going to look at the recently released Dark Rock TF.

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Best $70 CPU for Gaming: Athlon X4 860K vs. Pentium G3258

Our most affordable build in our recent PC buying guide update caught the attention of many readers. At around $500, it's ideal for every day computing with some lightweight gaming. If you're adding a dedicated GPU, however, it makes sense to swap our APU pick for a cheaper CPU, with the saving going towards graphics. We paired two $70 CPUs with the GTX 960 and R9 285 in 20 of the most popular AAA titles, to find out which one is best for gamers on a budget.

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Corsair RMi Series 1000 W

Corsair introduced the RMi series at Computex 2015, and it offers some major upgrades compared to the previous RM line. Today, we will evaluate the strongest RMi unit with 1 kW capacity in order to figure out how it does against its predecessor and all other competing offers in its category.

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Corsair RMi750 Watt & RMi1000 Watt Review

Today we analyse the new RMi 750 Watt and RMi 1000 Watt power supplies from Corsair

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How to fix touchpad problems in Windows 8/10

Your favorite topic. More touchpad adventures! Tibe be a tutorial explaining how to fix tap-related problems with touchpad in Windows 8 and Windows 10 Technical Preview, covering both registry hacks for generic drivers and official Synaptics drivers and utilities. Enjoyski.

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OS showdown: OS X 10.11 El Capitan vs Windows 10

Apple showed off its latest computer operating system, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, at WWDC and as predicted it was an iterative upgrade, based around improving the core features of OS X and providing a better experience to users. Just like iOS 9, El Capitan takes the essentials of OS X – Safari, desktop management, Spotlight – and makes them better, tweaking the interface or reworking it slightly. Microsoft's Windows 10 is coming at the end of next month and brings with it a whole new set of features, many of them iterations on Windows 8.1. Both new operating systems will be available for free to those who have already got OS X 10.10 or Windows 8 (both have support that extends even further back from this) and the general theme of improvement runs through both. In this article, we are going to gauge how El Capitan's new features stack up against Windows 10. Pin tabs in SafariApple's WWDC keynote spent a fair amount of time talking about improvements to Safari. While many users have switched over to Chrome, the Mac client is traditionally a battery killer and the redesign that OS X 10.10 Yosemite introduced won back support. One of the key features that Apple introduced with El Capitan is the ability to pin tabs, making for quick and easy access. The bookmark system of the current incarnation of Safari (version 8) is a little lacklustre and so it's good to see Apple is thinking this through. Windows 10 introduces a much needed change, ousting Internet Explorer and replacing it with Microsoft Edge, a new and fresh browser that attempts to shake off the reputation of IE. We know relatively little about Edge as it is still in the development stage but it doesn't seem to have any way to pin a tab.

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Price of SSDs "in a free fall" says report

Deployment of 3D NAND is expected to help SSDs surpass HDDs in capacity next year.

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Seagate Laptop SSHD ST500LM000 500GB Hybrid Hard Drive Review

Sometimes, combining two ideas together create an absolutely ingenious solution. Other times, you end up with something so pointless, it gets you simply nowhere. The camera phone is a prime example of an ingenious solution. As the saying goes, "The best camera you have is the one you have with you." With the popularity explosion of the mobile phone in the last two decades or so, integrating a camera onto it revolutionized the world in more than one way. On the other hand, I can name some pretty pointless inventions in the past, at least in my personal opinion. One example is the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid. The Cadillac Escalade Hybrid was an epic massive, ultra-heavy, full sized SUV that was neither economical nor efficient. Why would anyone buy a behemoth V8 seven passenger "hybrid", for a price premium of roughly a compact car over a regular Escalade that still consumes a ton of gas, is absolutely beyond me. If you really wanted to save fuel, you can buy a regular Escalade and a lightly used Prius for the same price. Indeed, the Escalade Hybrid was discontinued only after one generation. Today, we will look at another product that combines two ideas into one. The Seagate Laptop SSHD ST500LM000 500GB is a hybrid drive that aims to amalgamate the speed of an SSD with the capacity of an HDD for a price that falls in between. Will it be successful it taking the best of both worlds, or will it achieve neither in the end? Read on to find out!

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TUF Tested - Enthusiast Ready - ASUS X99 Sabertooth

I’ve been asked multiple times for the reason why I no longer compare motherboards. My answer is simple, tier one motherboards are no longer so far apart that it is necessary. In the last 3 years performance wise the difference is so minor unless you run statistical benchmarks that break things down to the Nano-second you will never notice a difference. What does that leave? Peripheral support, type of power delivery, capacitors etc.. Beyond that is UEFI, software and user experience. Honestly I after going back and reading some older articles, how many times can I say the same thing? Sure if this is the first time you are reading a motherboard review it may be the first time you are seeing things but what about the ones who have read many? Honestly the way things have been going I don’t even feel that there are many anymore who are reading much and that is based on statistics I have gathered over the last 7.5 years since launching HiTech Legion. Although unique visits have increased page views have decreased by more than half.

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XFX R9 290 Double Dissipation, (R9-290A-EDFD)

The XFX R9 290 gets it’s power from one 8 pin and one 6 pin PCI-E with a maximum power draw of 275w and hosts a bevy of display connection options. Among the connection options offered by the XFX R9 290 DD are 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort. At launch the monster card retailed for $399 and can be found for $279.99 (at times with a 20 dollar rebate making it $259.99) which puts it in competitive range with the GTX 960 price wise.

While the GTX 960 has been all the rage in the news its narrow 128 bit bus has been an impediment in acceptance with GPU enthusiasts. Well if the narrow 128 bit bus put’s you off the XFX R9 290 DD might be a good choice for you. The full 4GB of GDDR5 with a 512-bit bus on the XFX R9 290 DD doesn’t hurt our feelings at all. Games are starting to demand a full 4 GB of memory and the XFX R9 290 DD offers that at an affordable enthusiast friendly price of $279.99.

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