Daily Reviews Summary 08/30/09

With digital photo frames becoming more and more prevalent, the features they offer are starting to become more varied. The ID800WT from Sungale is unique in that it not only displays photos, but also has integrated Wi-Fi, among other features.

This is a product from one of the godfathers of PC hardware manufacture. Mushkin are a legend in the high performance memory business. Here we have something that i hope will be rather special as they are entering the VGA market with a bang! Here we have the new single PCB 'UltimateFX GeForce GTX 295'... one of the very fastest graphics cards on the market right now.

Personal storage is all the rage with home computer users nowadays with users looking to save and backup their digital photos, movies, personal and private data easily and safely. Next to using a simple USB flash drive, a USB hard drive dock, utilizing a full sized hard drive, is the simplest method to backup a tremendous amount of data, depending entirely on the size of the hard drive you choose to plug into it. Kingwin is no stranger to this market and has already done quite well with it's original EZ-Dock hard drive docking system we've reviewed. Today they are back with the EZ-Dock 2 and they've given us the honor of checking it out for you guys. Come along as we dive deeper into this product.

In the past, we have written three separate articles on five different Noctua products: The Noctua NF-S12-800, NF-S12-1200, NF-R8 review, the Noctua NF-P12 review, and the Noctua NH-U12P review. Now, let's name one Noctua article that I wrote in the past with at least one product that didn't receive a prestigious APH Networks award. The answers: Nope, nope, and... nope. What made us love their products so much? Noctua, an Austrian company that specializes in quiet computing thermal solutions, certainly won't win any beauty contests for the fans and heatsinks they make, nor do they sell the most extreme out-of-this-world cooling solutions. But, what they do make are practical and realistic products that are thoroughly engineered to achieve the best real world performance, while maintaining an extremely low level of perceived noise. They are quality, refined products to achieve its primary purpose reliably throughout its life. And while they are certainly not the lowest priced, they offer excellent performance-to-value ratio for your hard earned cash. Plus, looks in this regard aren't even a huge issue in my opinion. As a quiet PC enthusiast, I exclusively used Noctua fans in the past, and still do, for these very reasons. Upon the release of their latest NF-S12B FLX and NF-S12B ULN case fans to replace the NF-S12-1200 and NF-S12-800, what kind of improvements has Noctua made to their legendary products? I picked up both of them and conducted our usual array of synthetic tests, as well as slapping them into our test setup for real world performance measurements. As excited as you are, let's find out how it all went!

Benchmark resuts of new Intel Core i7 870 (Lynnfield) CPU did appear a month ago along with some announcements about new CPUs (Core i7 870, Core i7 860 and Core i5 750) and new chipset (P55). We managed to get our hand on fully functional configuration based on Intel Core i7 870 CPU paired with Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 motherboard…