Antec cases made a good impression on me. Antec’s P280 reminded me of the good times I had working with Corsair 600T. Now the reason I am saying is because 600T- for a mid tower case- is insanely roomy- almost enough to comfortably convince you can mount an E-ATX form factor. That’s how mid tower [...]

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Rugged drives are always appreciated by a lot of people for the obvious reason that they provide better casing and protecting the drive. ADATA sent a DashDrive Durable HD710 500GB, a rugged drive that is shockproof and waterproof. Shockproof external drives are appreciated. Waterproof- well- what are the odds of you dropping your drive on [...]

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Zalman was the first manufacturer to launch a 5.1 surround sound headphone many years ago. It didn’t sound very good and it went out of the market rather quickly. However many other manufacturers decided to launch their own versions of a 5.1 headphones and today there are plenty of big name computer accessory manufacturers like [...]

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ADATA makes storage and memory drives too: SSDs, flash storage, memory kits and portable storage devices. So its going to start off with ADATA HV610, a USB 3.0 drive with a 500GB storage capacity. A disclaimer however, this drive was used for approx. 200 hours according to CDI’s S.M.A.R.T readout. Its used and has some [...]

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Why a Velociraptor when SSDs are around? Lets not forget that we don’t have a mass storage+ affordable SSDs yet. But judging by the prices of even the mainstream and low- cost/storage hard drives that have still not returned to what they used to be even before Thailand floods, story most likely would still be [...]

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A motherboard, being the backbone of any desktop system, should be as good as other components you’re investing on. Its not limited to VRMs, Power Phase, Passive Cooling- but also cramming all the features in a particular form factor keeping the mainstream users in Mind. Asus M5A99FX Pro P 2.0 is a motherboard with 990FX+ [...]

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A drive no heavier than 12g and no bigger than 70x 21x 8.1mm, Transcend sent they JetFlash 780 16GB USB 3.0 for evaluation. Now that USB 3.0 pretty much have taken over, 16-32gigs would easily become a new norm. The last review for flash drive which was done is with Corsair Stealth Survivor 16GB- which [...]

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Toshiba is also into Storage H/W: From cloud storage to hybrid drives (like Seagate’s Momentus XT), consumer level drives, SSDs and 2.5" SAS drives. This is the first Toshiba drive I am evaluating. DT01ACA desktop series drives was launched internationally back in August 8, 2012- the same day and place when WD made an agreement [...]

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Just when the OEM fans are simply not enough, What are you going to do? Premium fans have been around for a very long time- anything between premium/exclusive bearings to using wing designs and even certain features and accessories such a vibration dampening and all the good stuff. So I’ll be doing a comparison between [...]

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The Coolermaster Storm Sirus S may sound familiar already. That is because the Sirus S is based on their already existing Storm 5.1 gaming headset. In case anyone is interested in reading the earlier Sirus Storm review may click here Coming back to the newer Storm S, the differences between this and the older Storm [...]

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