Daily Reviews Summary 10/16/09

I want you to imagine for a moment that your laptop or desktop has just crashed. Every personal document, every e-mail, every file and photo is gone. All of the data on the hard drive is gone. . . What do you do? Attempt to recover the data by yourself? Use an expensive data recovery service? Try to recover what you can from older copies on thumbdrives or on CD or DVD that may be months old or older? Keep in mind that much of who we are in these modern times exists in a digital format. So I ask the question "When does your data become important?

The Intel G41 Express Chipset is still alive and doing well for Intel LGA775 users that are looking for a value priced platform with integrated graphics. The DFI LanParty Blood-Iron G41-T33 motherboard is a micro-ATX motherboard based off that just so happens to be running G41 chipset. Read on to see what this sub-$65 motherboard can accomplish!

When I received today's review item, a Dynatron G950 Genius cooler, I didn't intend to leave it in my machine. My first impressions were that it was huge, a little overbearing, and I was happy enough with my Alpine 64 Pro cooler that was installed in this particular tower.

Gladiator 600 is an inexpensive case from Cooler Master, costing only USD 50 in the US. Is it a good choice? Let's see.

SilverStone Element ST75EF 750 W is simply a Seventeam ST-750P-AF with a different cable configuration and a different name. Since we have already reviewed ST-750P-AF, we will be able to tell if these two units are completely identical or if there are small differences between them. It is important to know that models from SilverStone Element series can be manufactured by two distinct companies: models up to 600 W are manufactured by Enhance Electronics, while models starting at 650 W are manufactured by Seventeam. SilverStone uses a lot of different manufacturers for their power supplies. Besides Enhance and Seventeam, units from their Decathlon series are manufactured by Impervio and units from their Strider series are manufactured by FSP. Phew!