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There’s a surprising amount of connectivity coming from the tuner, thanks to the provided cabling. The aerial, while a good design, is of little use in areas where the signal isn’t strong. The USB cable, which isn’t something usually worth writing home about, does allow you to plug in the tuner without risking catching it on anything and snapping the connector off – helping to protect that £130 investment.

Jump over to Hexus for the full look.

Our Sandra bench scores confirm the HDTach results, along with that it also shows the write speed which also blows the Kingston drive out of the water. OCZ claims up to 23MB/s read and up to 17MB/s write for this 2GB unit and by the looks of the results certainly meets those numbers. The 512MB and 1GB modules are listed with even faster read/write speeds as they are smaller modules.

You can check out the review at 3D Xtreme, and check out our review for comparison.

Published on October 3, 2005

It is hard for me to find a negative with this memory. Its ran very well at its rated speed, overclocked extremely well, looks great, and is priced in line with other modules in its class.

Check out the full review at Legit Reviews.

The picture is analysed 60 times per second and the brightness value for every LED in the array is dynamically adjusted from zero light (0 cd/m²) right up to 4,000 cd/m², and everything in between. BrightSide call this technology Individually Modulated LED, or IMLED. This is the foundation of BrightSide’s core Intellectual Property. A full 8-bits of the display are dedicated to this luminance channel which, when combined with the 8-bits of information going to the LCD panel, gives a display capable of receiving and displaying 16-bits per colour channel.

This is looking very impressive. I am thinking that something like this would have to give you a headache after a while. If you are outdoors and the sun is bright, it could easily give you a headache after a while. Either way, this is interesting technology and will be cool to see in production. Check out the very in-depth look over at Bit-Tech.

Case fans aren’t anything to get excited over, but what sets this fan apart from other case fans is obvious just by looking at it. The fan blades are dimpled like a golf ball! Sharkoon claims this dimpling effect “helps to reduce air resistance and turbulence, resulting in particularly quiet operation while maximizing airflow volume”. Will this increase the airflow and ultimately decrease the case temperature?

Head on over to the full review at Big Bruin!

The staggering selection of cars gave us a huge selection, with cars to suit every taste. While the lack of storyline and disappointing in-game soundtrack detracted from the overall experience, it was still worthwhile for the Gameplay itself. I’d have no problem recommending this title to those who love the Street Racing…..

When you hear the name Victronix, you think of Swiss Army Knives, after all that is who makes the Original Swiss Army Knife. Did you know that Victronix also has a subsidiary called Swissbit that makes computer memory and memory related products? Today I have the first of two reviews involving Victronix/Swissbit products. Today I will be reviewing the Minitwist, a new tiny USB drive, which has quite a few features actually. Most USB drives are just that, you put data on them and go, they arrive to you normally empty, and you have to put software on them, not the Minitwist. You’re going to have to keep reading to see what cool software comes with it!

Check out the full review at Think Computers!

Are you one of those people with a split personality? You are half way in between being an overclocker and a case modder. You have a clear side panel case and want to show off some of your hardware that you worked so hard to get. But you also want enough power to push that new AMD Fx57 to the max. We have a new product from MGE that may help to cure your needs. The Vortex 600 power supply comes with two windows and bright red lighting. It has enough power to provide anyone with the ability to get that FX57 to over 3000+ megahertz.

Check out the full look over at Pro-Clockers.

As noted in the performance section, there wasn’t a single time I
noticed a ghost or streak in well over 20 hours of gaming and about 5
full length movies that I managed to watch on this monitor. I honestly
can’t ask for anything else from a monitor than what the 940B offered.
Not once did my eyes ever fatigue even after long 24 hour sessions in
front of the screen reading text and the adjustments you can make to the
screen just never seems to end.

Head on over to Overclockers Online for the review!

Last week Puppy Linux v1.0.5 was released, which contained a
wealth of changes while continuing to be minimal in size. Today another
minimalist distribution came out with a new release and it’s the
Slackware-based pocketlinux v1.3, which finally incorporates KDE v3.4.2,
among many other improvements. This bantam release also appends French
language support as well as improvements to fbpanel and the standard
development packages.

Check out the full look at this mini-Linux over at Phoronix.

Must admit that although we have been putting Silent Hunter III game through its paces we feel we have a lot more to learn which is great for our way of thinking as this Silent Hunter III computer game looks like it will provide entertainment for a long time as you learn…..

The move to using 2GB is getting increasingly popular. Corsair just announced their new XMS 2GB Pro kit that is rated at a speed of
PC4400. That’s certainly very promising in terms of overclocking.

Head on over to InsaneTek for the full review!

Abit’s latest flagship motherboard for AMD enthusiasts proves to be a great gaming motherboard. It has all the bells and whistles
of the Fatal1ty line. There are certain problems to note though.

Check out the full review at InsaneTek.

This review will be taking a look at Anthology Solutions’ Yellow Machine P400T Terabyte Storage Appliance. That’s right, a terabyte storage appliance. This may seem like a lot for the consumer or even SOHO level user, but if the data storage industry has shown us anything, its that you cannot have too much reliable storage space. Does the average user need a terabyte or more of storage? Probably not, but once you factor in use by a business or a power user who needs data available on multiple systems at once or is doing something very storage intensive, like editing video, a solution like this one starts making a great deal of sense. It houses up to four 3.5″ hard drives but is much more than just an enclosure, it has an extensive feature set which enables it to do things that would normally be done on a data server, not just a storage device.

Wow, here’s an idea if you need a great amount of storage, although a little pricy. Check it out at XYZ Computing.

ATI held a nice press event at Ibiza this weekend, where they showed off their new R5xx series to the press. We weren’t there, but we brought you some nice slides from the presentation for your prerelease viewing experience.

techPowerUp is really on a roll with these slides. Looks good to me, and I still can’t wait to see these in action. Check them out here.

Thumb Drives are not usually the most exciting products on the market. It’s no doubt though, that they can be extremely useful when backing data up.. especially at a high speed. We are taking a look at the new OCZ Rally drive, which promises to leave the competitors in the dust.

Taking a break from our usual computer-oriented articles, we
have a few products with us today that are designed for assisting in the
cable management process for more than just a simple desk but is able to
adequately cover a working environment, or for our purposes some LAN
party wire management. The items of focus are the Cable Organizer Cable
Management Kit, Dropover-Lite, and Flexiduct Cord Protectors.

This is something I know I need to work on! Check it out at Phoronix.

Till today, notebook users have to content with a single hard disk and often a small one at that. Hard disk sizes of 40GB and 60GB are not only unheard of but actually in common use!

Today, we are going to take a look at the new Seagate 100GB Momentus 7200.1 PATA notebook hard disk, which not only comes with 100GB of storage space but also 8MB of cache!

Check out the full review at Rojak Pot!

In Far Cry, we were pleased to see that the HDR bug on a single 7800 GT was fixed – we didn’t experience the problem that we had when we reviewed the BFG Tech and XFX 7800 GT’s anymore. The performance at 1600×1200 2xAA 8xAF did drop slightly, however. The ever-important minimum frame rate dropped to 27 frames per second from 30 frames per second. It is worth noting that we did see a slight improvement in average frame rate at these settings though.

Check out the full review at Bit-Tech.

As technology continues to grow and expand into new territories, organizations find it necessary to stay ahead of their competitors by creating new, very innovative keyboard solutions. Today I get to look at one of the keyboards from OKION. OKION offers an array of devices for the PC. I have the opportunity to look at one their many keyboards, the Handioâ„¢ Internet/Multimedia Compact Keyboard USB+PS/2. Lets see how this product handles the paces of everyday use.

Head over to ExtensiveMods for the full review!