Daily Reviews Summary 04/04/11

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Here today's hardware reviews roundup with 12 new articles:

- Thermaltake eSPORTS Challenger Pro Gaming Keyboard Review
- MSI 890FXA-GD65 AMD 890FX Motherboard Review
- Lian Li Lancool PC-K57 Computer Case Review
- Cooler Master SPAWN mouse review
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX Review
- ASUS Sabertooth P67 Motherboard Review
- Sapphire HD 6950 Flex Edition Review
- Samsung UN55C9000 55" 3D LED HDTV Review
- Mackie MR8 MK2 Reference Monitors Review
- Gigabyte H67N-USB3-B3 Mini-ITX and Intel Core i5-2500T / Core i3-2100 Review
- OCZ ZX 850 Series 850 Watt Power Supply Review
- MSI 890FXA-GD65 AMD 890FX Motherboard Review

Thermaltake eSPORTS Challenger Pro Gaming Keyboard Review
Tech-Reviews.co.uk posted a review on the Thermaltake eSPORTS Challenger Pro Gaming Keyboard

Choosing the right gaming keyboard can be hard sometimes with the vast amount of gaming peripheral companies and manufacturers out there. Today we have a relatively new keyboard from Tt eSPORTS. The Challenger Pro Gaming Keyboard has been designed with hardcore gaming in mind by the gaming obsessed division of Thermaltake. Boasting an on board profile switch, macro keys, smart cable management, a cooling fan device for extreme gamers and more, let's see if the Challenger Pro Gaming Keyboard from Tt eSPORTS is really as good as it sounds.

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MSI 890FXA-GD65 AMD 890FX Motherboard Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the MSI 890FXA-GD65 AMD 890FX Motherboard

Today we get the chance to check out a full featured motherboard without all of the bloat. The MSI 890FXA-GD65 motherboard with AMD’s 890FX chipset offers a whopping 10 USB ports, 2 of which are USB 3.0. It also includes support for SATA 6GB/s and is AM3+ ready, for those looking to buy the processors coming out later this year. This affordable motherboard is easy to overclock with the provided software and will surely give you your money’s worth. Read on further to get the fully detailed review.

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Lian Li Lancool PC-K57 Computer Case Review
Tweaknews posted a review on the Lian Li Lancool PC-K57 Computer Case

Lian Li LanCool's PC-K57 chassis has a lot going for it, and the potential for much more. The bold look and solid construction are quite welcome, but there is a lot more to recommend it. With a roomy interior, solid tool-free features and outstanding cable management, including the innovative cable channel, the PC-K57 was a joy to work in and the dust filters are easily serviced to help the user keep the case in good shape.

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Cooler Master SPAWN mouse review
The Guru of 3D posted a review on the Cooler Master SPAWN mouse

Today we peek at a new offering from Cooler Master, the Spawn mouse that falls into the CM Storm series.

It's a mouse that fits guys like myself really well, big hands thus big mouse, good rubberized grip and not too much fuzz with LEDs and pro-active stuff. It does come fully programmable and the memory inside the mouse to save it in.

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX Review
Neoseeker posted a review on the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX graphics card

Sapphire's Radeon HD 6950 FleX is all about lowering the cost of entry to AMD's Eyefinity multi-display technology by building the enhanced feature right into the card itself, and supports up to three DVI monitors without the need for DisplayPort. It also brings on-board Eyefinity to a gaming level card. Now hit our review to see what performance it brings to the table!

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ASUS Sabertooth P67 Motherboard Review
Hi Tech Legion posted a review on the ASUS Sabertooth P67 Motherboard

This year ASUS introduced the Sabertooth P67 motherboard. The Sabertooth P67 is the next generation in durability and reliability. The Sabertooth P67 has enough features to hit every market of user, from the server computer, to the enthusiast gamer. This P67 motherboard supports the newer Intel 1155 socket CPUs and up to 1866 DDR3 memory. The main specific features to note with the Sabertooth P67 are the TUF thermal armor, TUF thermal radar, TUF components, Digi+ VRM, and E.S.P. The TUF thermal armor is a shunt designed panel that covers all of the critical components.

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Sapphire HD 6950 Flex Edition Review
OCC has published a review on the Sapphire HD 6950 Flex Edition

There are a few utilities available for overclocking graphics cards out on the web that for the most part work with most video cards. Many of the top manufacturers have their own utility and Sapphire is no different with its TRIXX utility. I have used this utility before and it is fairly straight forward to use. Sapphire has equipped the Flex with a Vapor Chamber-based cooling solution that allowed temperatures to hover around the 60 degrees Celsius mark when the fan was spooled up to 100%. This level of cooling let the HD 6950 Cayman core run up to 904MHz, or 104MHz over the baseline setting - this without the ability to increase the voltage on this card. The Hynix GDDR5 memory was able to scale another 255MHz over the as-delivered 1250MHz clock speed.

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Samsung UN55C9000 55" 3D LED HDTV Review
Hardware Canucks posted a review of the Samsung UN55C9000 55" 3D LED HDTV.

In an industry which was pummeled by the recession, there really hasn't been all that much released over the last two years in the ultra high end HDTV market. However, Samsung has introduced one of the most forward thinking TVs currently available: the UN55C9000. At a mere 33mm thick, it boasts a design to die for but can the picture quality live up to the expectations brought about by an initial price of nearly $8000?

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Mackie MR8 MK2 Reference Monitors Review
DreamWare Computers posted a review on the Mackie MR8 MK2 Reference Monitors

Now, a couple years after the initial introduction of the MR series, Mackie has revised it and come out with the MRmk2 series. The MK2 ushers in more than just some small changes over the MR series. The MK2 ushers in Mackie's re-voiced power amplifiers, an entirely new transducer designer and changes to the waveguide, baffle and overall cabinet design. This is quite a list of changes to make on what was already a great and affordable monitor design - let's take a closer look at these changes and put the MR8mk2's up against the original MR8's to see if the changes are worth it!

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Gigabyte H67N-USB3-B3 Mini-ITX and Intel Core i5-2500T / Core i3-2100 Review
HardwareHeaven.com posted Gigabyte H67N-USB3-B3 Mini-ITX and Intel Core i5-2500T / Core i3-2100 Review

Today we have one of the B3 revision motherboards on our test bench, a mini-ITX model from Gigabyte, which packs a whole load of features into a tiny PCB. We'll be putting that model through its paces, along with the low energy 2100/2500T CPUs, in a selection of synthetic and real world tests to find out how they perform with a mini-ITX Fusion system included as a performance baseline.

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OCZ ZX 850 Series 850 Watt Power Supply Review
TweakTown takes a look at the OCZ ZX 850 Series 850 Watt Power Supply

OCZ Technology has expanded rapidly over the last decade. No longer do they simply provide memory products for your computer, but have a vast selection of products to fulfill your computing needs. OCZ has acquired many differing companies in the last several years and have raised the bar in quality computer products. OCZ's purchase of PC Power & Cooling marked the company's dedication in the power supply sector. Most recently, OCZ has released the ZX series of power supplies.

The ZX series of power supplies is aimed at powering gaming and enthusiast systems alike and is available in 850W, 1000W, and 1250W flavors. This range of power supplies offers plenty of power for those seeking to power systems with a single GPU all the way up to a triple GPU system with dual processors. The ZX series of power supplies boast 80Plus Gold certification, fully modular cables, and a single 12V rail. Today we take a look at the ZX 850, the smallest of the three ZX series power supplies.

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MSI 890FXA-GD65 AMD 890FX Motherboard Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the MSI 890FXA-GD65 AMD 890FX Motherboard