Daily Reviews Summary 08/14/11

ASUS is a company known for developing innovative features on many of their product lineups, and graphics cards are no exception. With a behemoth custom heatsink, outrageous lighting effects, overclocking on the fly, and completely new tweaking software, the ASUS GTX 580 Matrix Platinum is a massive card in more ways than we typically see. It's huge, it's badass, and it looks awfully impressive. Let's take a closer look at the ASUS GTX 580 Matrix Platinum and see if it can deliver the goods.

Let's take a look at the Acer Aspire 5750 laptop, which has a 15.6-inch screen and can come with the Core i3-2310M, Core i5-2410M, or Core i7-2630QM CPU. It has 2 GB to 6 GB of RAM, a hard disk from 320 GB to 640 GB, and one USB 3.0 port. The model we analyzed was the 5750-6606, with a Core i3-2310 CPU, 3 GB RAM and a 640 GB hard disk. Check it out!

ZOTAC now have 5 variations of NVIDIA's finest GPU giving you the choice of reference, overclocked, custom air-cooled, water cooled or a combination of the two so everyone, regardless of requirements is catered for. The AMP! Editions of ZOTAC graphics cards feature maximum possible overclocks yet still retain air cooling. The only options further up the hierarchy are Infinity Editions but for this you will need water-cooling. The AMP2! Edition GTX580's we have on test today feature a triple slot design giving the maximum possible performance from an air cooled solution.

Today we are evaluating the newest version of CacheCade, a storage caching system developed by LSI for use with their MegaRAID controllers. This system aims to create the perfect fusion between HDD capacity and SSD speed, accelerating new or existing storage subsystems that are already in place.

A previous CacheCade v1.0 review of the software illustrated some of the extreme performance gains that are to be had with the selective intelligent caching of data in storage subsystems.

The latest enterprise class UltraStar 7K3000 3TB SATA 3 HDD by Hitachi GST may not be worlds apart in terms of raw performance when compared to its smaller brother the DeskStar 7K3000 3TB SATA 3 HDD but that's just about the only thing that these two drives have in common.