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Hardware Reviews - 9-3-2010

Friday, 03 September 2010 15:28 Posted By Tony Walker

Motherboards
ECS Elitegroup P55H-AK mainboard @ Hardwareoverclock
Asrock P55 Extreme4 Motherboard Review @ Techspot
ECS A890GXM-A AMD 890GX Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews
Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 @ LanOC Reviews
ASUS AT3IONT-I Deluxe Mini-ITX Motherboard Review @ Bigbruin
Jetway NC98-525-LF mITX Motherboard review @ APH Networks

Video Cards and other relatived devices
WD TV Live Plus Media Player @ Techgage
MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK gets tested @ Guru3D
PNY GeForce GTX 460 OC XLR8 Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews
MSI GTX 460 HAWK 1 GB @ techPowerUp
MSI N460GTX HAWK @ HT4U

Input Devices and Pads
Logitech G700 Wireless Gaming Mouse Review @ HardwareHeaven

Power Supplies
Choiix Power Fort Backup Battery Review @ Ninjalane

Storage and Enclosures
OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD @ Phoronix
Iomega eGo USB 3.0 Review @ Digital Trends
ICY DOCK MB991IK-B 2.5-inch SATA Bay Enclosure Review @ ThinkComputers
Patriot Gauntlet PCGT25S USB 3.0 2.5" Enclosure Review @ OCIA

Cases
Lian Li Pitstop PC-T60 Open Air Test Bench Review @ Legit Reviews
Thermaltake Level 10 Full-Tower Case Review @ KitGuru
SilverStone Precision PS05B @ PureOverclock
Cooler Master Elite 430 System Enclosure reviewed @ Metku

Cooling
Cooler Master V6 GT CPU Cooler @ Techgage
Scythe Ninja 3 CPU cooler gets tested @ Guru3D
Prolimatech Super Mega @ PureOverclock
SilenX EFZ-120HA4 Heatsink Review @ Frostytech
Thermaltake Jing CPU Cooler Review @ Real World Labs

Sound Cards and other related devices
Genius HS-03U USB Gaming Headset @ Benchmark Reviews

Editorials, How-Tos and Modding
Revoltec Backlight: LED-Sets for ambient lightning @ TweakPC

Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle

Thursday, 02 September 2010 10:24 Posted By Clinton

A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret.

Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice.

Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical "cloud forest".

What happened in the interim is the amazing story of how the architect of evolution, Kew Gardens and the Royal Navy conspired to build a fully functioning, but totally artificial ecosystem.

Thomas Edison's plot to hijack the movie industry

Thursday, 02 September 2010 10:19 Posted By Clinton

It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the motion picture industry.

"With his beetle brows, long wispy hair, and beatific look, Edison might have seemed the addled inventor," writes the historian Neil Gabler, "but he was a shrewd businessman and a fearsome adversary who was never loath to take credit for any invention, whether he was responsible or not."

Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband finally shot down

Thursday, 02 September 2010 10:18 Posted By Clinton

For four years the Federal Communications Commission tossed the idea around like a beach ball: a coast-to-coast free wireless service across the low end of the 2GHz "AWS-3" band. The service would pay for itself via advertisements and by selling commercial access to various portions of the license area. The company that proposed the plan, M2Z Networks, would commit to building out the project in a decade, and pay five percent of its annual revenue to the United States Treasury.

Thermaltake Mobile Fan 12

Thursday, 02 September 2010 04:26 Posted By Tony Walker

The Thermaltake Mobile Fan 12 is a small external fan that one would use to cool themselves or any type of electronic device that you may be working one. Chances are you would probably like to use to help cool that overheating laptop you work with on a daily basis.

US undergrads crash NASA satellite into Arctic

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:38 Posted By Clinton

Undergraduate students in America managed to get control of the manoeuvring thrusters of an orbiting 2000-lb NASA satellite at the weekend, sending it plummeting into the Earth's atmosphere to rain burning fragments across the chilly seas north of Norway and Russia.

Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Wireless Controller

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:36 Posted By Clinton

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a new wireless Xbox 360 controller, which features a new D-pad that transforms from a plus to a disc.

Computer World: Eight great virtual appliances for VMware, free for the downloading

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:34 Posted By Clinton

Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took the IT world by storm: They make deployment a snap -- even instantaneous -- while at the same time reducing costs. It's a formula that made hardware-based appliances immensely popular for network security, backup, storage networking, file services, email, and many other single-focus solutions.

Computer World: 6 useful Wi-Fi tools for Windows

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:32 Posted By Clinton

We live in a mobile world; if you have a laptop (and who doesn't?), that means constantly connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi. You most likely use Wi-Fi not just when you're on the road at cafés, airports or hotels, but to connect to your home network too. You might even connect to a wireless network at the office.