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Here a roundup of today's reviews:

- Coolermaster USNA 95 laptop/mp3 charger tested in PSU test-lab
- QPAD 5K Gaming Mouse Review
- Lian Li PC-A04 Case Review
- Gskill RipjawsX 4GB 17000 CL9D-4GBXMD Review
- EK Waterblocks full cover block for the Asus Rampage III Extreme Review
- Bitfenix Survivor Core Midi tower case review
- Enermax Modu82+ II 625W PSU review
- Koribo Mini Keyboard Review
- Asus Rampage III Extreme Motherboard Review
- Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 Motherboard Review
- MSI R6870 Hawk Graphics Card Review
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB Vapor-X Video Card Review
- ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard Review
- Corsair HS1A Review
- Silverstone AP141 140mm Fan & FF141B 140mm Fan Filter Review
- ROCCAT Exclusive Preview - 3 new products - Alumic Kulo Isku
- Arctic Sound E361 Earphones Review
- Corsair HS1A Gaming Headset Review



Coolermaster USNA 95 laptop/mp3 charger tested in PSU test-lab
Madshrimps posted a review on the Coolermaster USNA 95 laptop/mp3 charger

Laptops are now more then ever being used for everyday tasks and even some gaming, it does not take a fool to understand that this growing market also brings along a higher desire for aftermarket battery chargers/laptop power adapters. Today we're having a look at Coolermasters latest offering, the USNA 95, and have it tested inside the PSU test-labs in Venlo
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QPAD 5K Gaming Mouse Review
Neoseeker posted a review on the QPAD 5K Gaming Mouse

On the review plate today is an obscure mouse from an equally obscure manufacture. The QPAD 5K boasts a unique shape for ergonomics, and it covers the customization bases with programmable buttons. Hit our review to see if the QPAD is worth its $80USD price tag, especially against fully featured competition costing less
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Lian Li PC-A04 Case Review
Tweaknews posted a review on the Lian Li PC-A04 Case

To sum up, Lian Li's PC-A04 is a real winner in the mATX world. With the ever growing availability of very competent micro ATX and Mini ITX motherboards, the PC-A04 is one of only a handful of cases I'm aware of that can do these high-end boards justice.
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Gskill RipjawsX 4GB 17000 CL9D-4GBXMD Review
Madshrimps posted a review on the Gskill RipjawsX 4GB 17000 CL9D-4GBXMD

Gskill introduced their magical Flare ram kit at the same time as the release of AMD's Hexacore Thuban CPU. By using PSC ICs, better known as powerchips, achieving new ram speed heights on the AMD 890 platform. On the AMD front it has been quite calm lately, though Intel launched their new "ahum" mainstream Sandy Bridge CPU early this year. With a bucketload of available brand new ram dividers on the P67 motherboards, you can squeeze every drop of performance out this platform. When exploring the Sandy architecture we noticed a sweetspot of price/performance around the 1600mhz ram speed mark. Though for the enthousiasts every Mhz counts. Today we test the brand new 4gb 2133Mhz CL9 kit. Quite an interesting kit as it's not the high end CL 7 kit, and thus less pricey. Though could we achieve similar speeds ?
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EK Waterblocks full cover block for the Asus Rampage III Extreme Review
Madshrimps posted a review on the EK Waterblocks full cover block for the Asus Rampage III Extreme

Ever tried to keep your X58 motherboards IOH and ICH temps at a reasonable operating temperatures ? To be honest most of the stock heatsinks really need some help as they are underdimensioned and/or lack an active fan. Temperatures over 65°C are very comon. Many watercooling companies jumped on the wagon to manufacture a all in one cooling solution for all the hot parts of the mainboard. No seperate waterblocks for the IOH and ICH chipset or PWM area. One block that cools down the hottest parts of your favoruite motherboard. EK Waterblocks was so kind to send us their clear nickel plated version for the Asus Rampage 3 Extreme
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Bitfenix Survivor Core Midi tower case review
Madshrimps posted a review on the Bitfenix Survivor Core Midi tower case

Caseking send us another mid-tower sized case to have a look at. Today's star is the Bitfenix Survivor Core case. At first glance it might look a bit dull and simplistic, but the Survivor Core case's looks can deceive. On the inside is where the real fun is at ! In the mood for something different ? Something more spacey looking ? Tired of square or rectangular angled cases ? This one is made for you then...
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Enermax Modu82+ II 625W PSU review
The Guru of 3D posted a review on the Enermax Modu82+ II 625W PSU

Today we'll have a look at one of Enermax's latest power supplies. It is the all new Modu82+II 625 Watt power supply that comes with an 80+ Bronze certification. New in the revised Modu82+ II (and Pro82+ II) series is that they support the new EU regulation ErP Lot 6 for PC systems. This norm regulates the standby consumption of systems, which affects PSU and mainboard. Oh and it's also n 625W PSU that can actually peak towards 690W, this is labeled mid-range by Enermax.
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Koribo Mini Keyboard Review
Tech-Reviews.co.uk published a review of the Koribo Mini Keyboard

The Koribo Mini is a relatively new product from the up and coming peripherals manufacturer, Koribo. This, believe it or not, is Tech-Reviews first review of a wireless keyboard so we were very excited to check out what the Koribo Mini had in store for us. Koribo states on its website that the Mini is the perfect keyboard and mouse that fits right in your hand and it also has an amazing operating range of 10m/30ft, no matter where the receiver is placed. Let's find out whether Koribo's claims are true.
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Asus Rampage III Extreme Motherboard Review
Ninjalane has posted their review of the famed overclocking motherboard from Asus called the Rampage 3 Extreme

We know several overclockers that swear by Asus products and turn their noses up at even considering a different motherboard brand. After having used the Rampage III Extreme for what it was intended we can see where this comes from.A news posting would be appreciated.
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Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 Motherboard Review
The Tech Report posted a review on the Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 motherboard

We take a closer look at a Fusion-equipped Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 Mini-ITX motherboard to see if it delivers on Zacate's potential for small-form-factor desktops and home-theater PCs. While we're at it, we also test the peripheral performance of Fusion's Hudson M1 platform hub.
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MSI R6870 Hawk Graphics Card Review
Benchmark Reviews posted a review on the MSI R6870 Hawk Graphics Card

Graphics cards have been improving at breakneck speeds over the last little while. The Radeon HD 5000 series allowed AMD and ATI to beat NVIDIA to the punch with DirectX-11 capable video cards. NVIDIA quickly responded with the GTX 400 series which started out hot and powerful, but came back to really define the price point with the GTX460 video card. Along came the GTX 500 series and the Radeon HD 6000 series to fill out some positions and give us a new card for the top end of the performance spectrum. By now, we have all heard about where the different cards lie in regards to performance and price. We are at the point now where there is a slight lull in the production of brand new equipment and manufacturers are focusing on putting their own spin on the different flavors to revitalize stuff that has been on the market a while. In early February, MSI took the Radeon HD 6870 design and made it their own in the MSI R6870 Hawk with the Twin Frozr III thermal design and the world's first look into propeller blade cooling technology. Benchmark Reviews is taking an in-depth look at the MSI R6870 Hawk and while testing this factory overclocked video card, we will be examining exactly what makes it unique in a world full of Radeon HD 6000 series cards.
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Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB Vapor-X Video Card Review
TweakTown checked out the Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB Vapor-X Video Card

It's been a bit of an AMD love fest lately when it's come to VGA with a lot of HD 6000 series making their way through the doors. It's not all that uncommon, though, as we tend to see a few months after launch companies start to release their different variations of the models that we begin to know and love.

With the HD 6000 series running a little warmer than people previously had hoped, it seems like the perfect candidate for a new cooler. So what kind of performance do we get from the card and does the cooler bring with it lower temperature, lower noise, or even both? Well, before we find that out, let's check out the package, the card and then the specifications of the card in hand.
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ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard Review
Hi Tech Legion checked out the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard

The ASUS P8P67 Deluxe is a feature loaded mainboard supporting the latest Sandy Bridge processors. The ASUS P8P67 Deluxe motherboard uses a 16+2 phase DIGI+ VRM design and fully supports Intel's VRD12 specifications. There are three PCI Express x16 slots on the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe motherboard as well as a PLX PEX8608 chip onboard adding 8 additional PCI Express lanes so that the bandwidth is not impacted when USB 3.0 and SATA3 6Gbps devices are used while the PCI-E x16 slots are fully populated.
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Corsair HS1A Review
OCC has published a review on the Corsair HS1A

The HS1A is certainly a high quality headset and certainly worthy of a little more money than something from Labtec or even Ozone, but, it's not worth as much money is it is, especially when the HS1 is available for very little more. Even without Dolby Headphone, if the HS1A was priced at $50, I would heartily recommend it, because it is much better than cheaper headsets. However, because it lacks Dolby Headphone and is only $15 cheaper than the HS1, the HS1A just isn't a good value. So, if you want to buy the HS1A, don't: buy the HS1.
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Silverstone AP141 140mm Fan & FF141B 140mm Fan Filter Review
DreamWare Computers posted a review on the Silverstone AP141 140mm Fan & FF141B 140mm Fan Filter

A few months back I had the chance to check out the 120mm Silverstone Air Penetrator fan. The Air Pentrator gave a new spin to the traditional fan design by incorporating a grill on the exhaust side that's designed to better channel the air. Today I have both the AP141 140mm Air Penetrator here on the test test bed, along with Silverstone's FF141B 140mm fan filter that also recently hit the markets.
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ROCCAT Exclusive Preview - 3 new products - Alumic Kulo Isku
Vortez posted a preview on 3 new products from ROCCAT

ROCCAT didn't have a booth at CeBIT 2011 but they were meeting with partners within the business centre. Since we knew they were releasing some new products soon, we thought it would be useful for our readers to see these new products in the flesh and to try and extract some further details to satisfy curiosity. So here we are, 3 new products on the horizon. A gaming mouse pad named Alumic, a stereo gaming headset named Kulo and an illuminated gaming keyboard named Isku. This is exclusive information and first-look photos, so sit back and enjoy!
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Arctic Sound E361 Earphones Review
reviewstash.com takes a look at the Arctic Sound E361 Earphones

In our previous review, we discovered that Arctic Sound, once known as "Arctic Cooling", can produce high-quality, inexpensive products outside of its traditional domain of cooling equipment through our thorough analysis of their Bluetooth headset. Today, however, we place Arctic's E361 "multi-function" and "multi-compatible" earphones under the microscope. Arctic promises that this unit has "superb sound quality" in every dimension. With an integrated microphone, in-line controls, and a huge list of impressive features and specifications the Arctic E361 looks poised to cover a wide array of usage; from portable audio players, cellular phones, and mobile computers. Side stepping Arctic's previous success, let's independently see if the E361 proves to be another worthy addition to Arctic's "refreshed" product line.
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Corsair HS1A Gaming Headset Review
Metku took a closer look at the Corsair's latest gaming headset - the HS1A.

Many of us know Corsair from their high quality memory products and power supplies. Now they have entered the audio product market, so let us take a look at their latest headset for gamers - The HS1A!
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