Daily Reviews Summary 01/26/10

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Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 Pro Heatsink Review
FrostyTech posted Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 Pro Heatsink Review

Take for example the Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 Pro heatsink Frostytech is testing today. It's a dead simple extruded aluminum cooler, good for mainstream Intel socket 775 and 1156 processors with a TDP up to about 90W. The patented Arctic Cooling 95mm suspended fan spins at 500-2000RPM, but from the test results we've seen it's best to keep the PWM fan spinning at full tilt.

Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 Pro Heatsink Review

Silverstone Fortress FT02 System Enclosure Review
Metku.net took a closer look at Silverstonetek's latest System Enclosure - The Fortress FT02.

By the look of things, it's very much the same chassis as the Raven 2 reviewed earlier, but aimed at a bit different target audience.

Silverstone Fortress FT02 System Enclosure Review

Samsung HMX-U10 Pocket Camcorder Review
Futurelooks checks out Samsung's answer to those pocket HD camcorders

The pocket camcorder market is as popular as ever, because people want a simple and easy way to record videos on the go. As this market continues to mature, people are expecting higher resolution videos and additional features without taking away the ease of use. The Samsung HMX-U10 represents the first entry into this arena by Samsung and, on paper, it sounds quite a bit more appealing than many of its direct competitors. Does it deliver? Let's find out.

Samsung HMX-U10 Pocket Camcorder Review

SilverStone Strider Plus 750 W Power Supply Review
Hardware Secrets posted a review on the SilverStone Strider Plus 750 W Power Supply

SilverStone released a new power supply series with full modular cabling system, 80 Plus Silver certification and single +12 V rail, called Strider Plus, with 750 W, 850 W and 1,000 W models. Let's test the 750 W model.

SilverStone Strider Plus 750 W Power Supply Review

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 LGA1366 Motherboard Review
Hardware Canucks posted a review of the new Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 LGA1366 Motherboard.

With the dawn of the USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s age, motherboard manufacturers have been quick to adopt both of these new technologies. Gigabyte in particular has been at the forefront of technology and with their flagship GA-X58A-UD7, they are hot on the heals of the best of the best in terms of high-end features, overclockability, compatibility with the latest I/O standards and also price. How does this new product shape up? We find out.

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 LGA1366 Motherboard Review

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler Review
Hi Tech Legion takes a look at the Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler

The Cooler Master Hyper TX3 is an aftermarket tower cooler that may be in line with what you are looking for. The Hyper TX3 comes equipped with one 92mm fan capable of a wide RPM range, but is set up to take a second fan if you would like to take it to a push/pull configuration, and all the hardware is provided to do it. It is compatible with most of the latest sockets including Core i3 and i5 and AM3. I will be mounting this with bottom to top airflow and benchmarking along with two other tower coolers mounted in the same manner.

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler Review

Titan Skalli TTC-NC05TZ/NPW (RB) CPU Cooler Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the Titan Skalli TTC-NC05TZ/NPW (RB) CPU Cooler

Today, I will be looking at a cooler from a company I previously havent experienced, the Titan Skalli. Titan Technology Ltd. has been around for over 20 years, founded in Taiwan in 1989 under the name Sogic Computer Co, but only recently have they entered the serious enthusiast market. The Skalli is a small-footprint dual heatpipe cooler with a non-standard 100mm fan. Will the Skalli keep my i7 870 nice and cool? Read on to see!

Titan Skalli TTC-NC05TZ/NPW (RB) CPU Cooler Review

Overclocking the Sapphire HD 5670 1GB Video Card
TweakTown overclocked the Sapphire HD 5670 1GB Video Card

There's been word floating around that the HD 5670 is quite the overclocker with it running into no problems achieving the maximum GPU clock of 850MHz that is offered via the Overdrive functionality inside the Catalyst driver suite.

With our Sapphire HD 5670 sitting around and not doing a whole lot, we thought it was time to throw it back into the testbed and see if we could not only max out the overclock of the card via the Overdrive feature, but also see what kind of performance increase we can achieve from doing so.

Overclocking the Sapphire HD 5670 1GB Video Card

Patriot Box Office Review
PureOverclock posted a review of the Patriot Box Office media player

The Box Office is a very simple media player that plays a substantial diversity of media formats and brings them into your Home entertainment area with relative ease. With support for the most popular media formats media players like the Box Office is a very handy device or at least a cheaper alternative compared to building an HTPC.

Patriot Box Office Review

Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W Power Supply Review
OCC has published a review on the Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W Power Supply

The Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W is a great power supply let down only by its failure to meet its claimed 80 Plus Bronze certification following the OCC testing methodology. The efficiency is still very good and the only thing it can influence at the end of the day is the electricity bill. The DC quality is on a par with most power supplies in this class which makes the Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W more than capable of running any dual graphics cards configuration in SLI or Crossfire.

Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W Power Supply Review

Western Digital Live TV Review
t-break posted a review on Western Digital Live TV

WD Live TV is one of the easiest ways of getting your pictures and videos from your hard drive to your big screen.

Western Digital Live TV Review