Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Trinity of Fans - Galaxy GeForce GTX 285 OC with AC Edition
Reported by: M. Page      At: 4:03 PM	Source: hardwarezone
NVIDIA's GTX 200 class cards require some serious gear to keep them cool. Galaxy has gone the whole nine yards and has stacked a large triple-fan cooler from Artic Cooling on top of their GeForce GTX 285 card to ensure it is undoubtedly the coolest of its class. We find out if it really works or if it's all bling.
Rocketfish 550 W Power Supply Review
Reported by: M. Page      At: 4:02 PM	Source: hardwaresecrets
"The electronics store chain Best Buy has several house brands and two of them are used for computer components: Dynex and Rocketfish. We have already reviewed Dynex 400 W power supply and Rocketfish 700 W power supply. While the models we reviewed a while ago were manufactured by Huntkey, Best Buy decided to hire a different company for their 550 W model: CWT. They also replaced Huntkey as the manufacturer for their 700 W model, so the 700 W model you find now on stores today (labeled "RF-700WPS2") is manufactured by CWT, not by Huntkey anymore. Let's see if this new 550 W power supply survives our tests."
memory overclock on Core i7 platform
Reported by: M. Page      At: 4:01 PM	Source: madshrimps
"In today's short article, we'll have a look at the effect of just one memory timing, the Back-to-Back Cas Delay timing, which seems to be one of the more important timings both performance and stability-wise. If you're looking for a solution for your high-frequency capable memory kit, performance increase with low-frequency memory or stabilizing high BCLK/high memory ... this is something for you."
explored SSD performance
Reported by: M. Page      At: 4:00 PM	Source: techreport
Our last SSD round-up caused quite a stir for using an older test system with Windows XP. We've now explored SSD performance on more current hardware with Vista x64 SP2, and you might be surprised by the results.