A rather important court ruling, in terms of cloud based music, has been handed down which opens the door for many providers to offer such a service. Basically the ruling makes legal the model of Continue reading “Court clears cloud music providers to expand features”.
Everyone knows the GT badge on a product means it’s the high performance version. The Corsair Force 3 GT drives are no exception. Corsair even added a red paint job to add to the sporty theme. Will the GT take the checkered flag or will it get lapped? Have a look at our review and find out how it performs against other SandForce SF-2281 driven drives!
Kingston’s HyperX brand is synonymous with high performance which is why they’ve placed that badge prominently on their newest SSD. So when we received their newest and first HyperX SSD, we were very curious to see how it stacked up against other SandForce SF-2281 drives. How will they set their drive apart from the growing SandForce powered SSD crowd? Read on to see.
Patriot has ramped up their SSD product lines with their WildFire and Pyro lines that each sport the SandForce SF-2281 controllers. We haven’t had a chance to get our hands on the Wildfire but the Pyro has arrived for our evaluation. Specifications of 550MB/s max reads and 515MB/s max writes for the Pyro seem to put it right in line with its competitors but will that hold true across the full spectrum of benchmarks?
Even though Microsoft has been urging users to upgrade their browsers in addition to dropping official support, there are still a lot of users stubbornly holding on to the dinosaur that is Internet Explorer 6. Continue reading “Internet Explorer 6 users have low IQs, study says”.
Al-Qaida, one of the most reviled groups in the world because of their relentless terror attacks has been a victim of cyber terrorism. Yep, they were hacked so completely that they do “not have a Continue reading “Hacker attack cripples al-Qaida Web communications”.
OCZ gave everyone a hint of things to come at Computex 2011 with a sneak peak of the third generation of the RevoDrive. We’ve been impressed with our previous encounters with this SSD line and this time is no different as we give the RevoDrive 3 X2 480GB PCI-E SSD a test drive. Is it fast? Well, how does 1500MB/s reads grab you? Oh yeah, there’s TRIM support too!
We recently had a look at the 120 GB version of the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G and found it to be a very capable drive that competed with the top drives in its class. Now we’ve got our hands on the 240 GB version and did our usual tests to determine the overall performance. You might be surprised at the results we received – we were. Have a look at the article to see what we are talking about.
OCZ busts out the big guns with the Max IOPS editions of the Vertex 3 SSDs. From the outside, they pretty much the same as the other Vertex 3 drives save for the “Max IOPS” verbiage on the front sticker. The real difference lies beneath the exterior shell with some hardware changes that have a significant impact on performance. Just how much we’ll bear out in the testing but let’s just say that it does not disappoint.
OCZ continues to release updates of their various SSD lines and the continue right along with the third generation of their Agility line. Housing the SandForce SF-2200 controller and listing read/write specifications that are only 5% off the Vertex 3 specifications, will the small differences in hardware make a big performance difference? We’ll take a look to see how it plays out in the benchmarks and real world tests.
Some may be scratching their head saying, “What is AIDA64”? Lavalys EVEREST ring a bell? The lightbulk goes on. Yes, the successor to the popular utility software EVEREST has released a new version with improvements Continue reading “AIDA64 v1.80 Unveiled by FinalWire”.
For those of you who thikn you’ve got your GTX580 clocked to the max, you might want to re-think it. With a smokin’ core frequency of 1665MHz, the MSI GTX580 Lightning card sets a world Continue reading “N580GTX Lightning Breaks Single-card/core World Record”.
Everyone has been eagerly anticipating AMDs new processor offerings and not much official has come out about their mobile Llano parts until now. AMD Italy has posted a grid of processors and specs that leaves Continue reading “AMD Llano Mobile Processor Specs Leaked”.
For those of you with 3D capable hardware, NVIDIA has announced today that the much anticipated Duke Nukem Forever will be supported by NVIDIA 3D Vision technology. In addition, NVIDIA has paired with EVGA to Continue reading “Duke Nukem Forever to Feature NVIDIA 3D Vision Support”.
Back in February, we had our first look at the OCZ Vertex 3 drive featuring the newest rendition of the SandForce SF-2200 controllers. While only a beta drive, it put up some impressive numbers as well as being one of the few SATA 6Gbps consumer drives released this year. Instead of the 240 GB version, this time around OCZ sent us over a 120 GB drive and there’s definitely a difference in performance between the two. Have a look at the article to get the details.
