Back at the end of April, I took a look at the NorthQ Siberian Tiger water cooling kit. Today we are taking a look at the Siberian Tiger II water cooling kit, which is the bigger brother due to its use of a 240mm radiator compared to the little brothers 120mm radiator. Will the extra liquid capacity, increased radiator size, and dual 120mm fans give it the edge you're looking for? Well let's jump in and find out.
Not too far back, I got my hands on a new version of Fortron-Source's modular take on their Epsilon design, the Everest 900W. You'll recall that model not scoring all too well. I have a confession to make though - my 900W review sample came with a little brother, the Everest 700W. At lower loads, the Epsilon platform tends to do better, so it was only natural that I review the 700W model at some point. That day is here.
Come on in and see the good, the bad, and especially the mediocre of this new take on the Epsilon 700W design.
Here we are with part two of our Corsair Voyager thumb drive review and
this is where I get to introduce you to the mammoth 64GB Corsair
Voyager thumb drive.
Just over a decade since the original Fallout title
release, Fallout 3 has finally hit the store shelves just in time for Christmas
2008. For many console gamers, the Fallout series will be a new concept as it's
original 2 titles were only available to all the PC gamers out there.
Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by
Bethesda Game Studios (Creators of the hit game: The Elder Scrolls IV:
Oblivion). It is the third major game in the Fallout series, which has also
spawned the spin-offs Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. @ Pc Freaks & Geeks
IN WIN is quite well known throughout the world for
producing a large range of good quality computer cases and power supplies, but
now the Taiwanese company is branching out and trying its hand at some new
products. Its retail brand, called IN WIN Style, has released its first hard
disk drive enclosure, simply called “Na” – it is pronounced “Nar” in English.
In Chinese, the word “Na” means to contain something; rather fitting you
might agree for a hard drive enclosure. Instead of just producing a plain Jane
type enclosure like the hundreds out there already on the market, the folks
over at IN WIN went out and designed a very tasteful product with plenty of
Eastern culture blended into it – and a lot of style! @ TweakTown
While the video card contest is rather trivial,
the CPU battleground points out clear strengths and weaknesses. For the most
part, multi-core support in the game provides a competitive edge for quad core
and tri core processors. Ram as well shows excellent results and showcases one
of benefits of opting to go with the DirectX10 API. Kudos to the Ubisoft
Montreal team for creating a game that not only appeals to a larger number of
gamers, but can also be played by most all of them without hardware limitations. @ Hardware Canucks
The Xilence brand is
not known to many in the U.S., but we have the opportunity to look at the
Xilence Xilent Blade Pro CPU cooler. This is just one of many cooling options
that Xilence has to offer which also includes fans, VGA coolers, other cooling
components and even cases and power supplies. The Xilent Blade Pro offers
multi-socket support for both AMD/Intel CPUs and has a quiet vibration free fan
for the ultimate cooling performance. The black/red design gives is a sleek
style and will give your case a kick of color. Read on further to see how well
it performs. @ ThinkComputers.org
The new Signature Series from Antec is a premium
power supply line, which means that products from this series (so far 650 W and
850 W models were launched) have tighter specs. For example, voltage regulation
is set at 3% instead of 5% (7% instead of 10% for the -12 V output). Between
the lines the manufacturer says this line has a very high efficiency, although
on the specs table they list efficiency as "80% minimum". Signature
650, also known as SG-650, features a half modular cabling system and only one
80-mm fan, which the manufacturer says is quieter than other 80-mm solutions.
Let's see what is really inside this power supply and why it is so much more
expensive than other units. @ Hardware Secrets
Sunnyvale,
Calif.—November 21, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in
innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced
the first of its Intel® Extreme triple channel memory series, qualified
specifically for the Intel® Core™ i7 processor / Intel® X58 Express Chipset.
Optimized for the Core i7’s triple channel mode and featuring Intel XMP
profiles designed specifically to enhance the performance of the X58 Chipset,
these new 3GB and 6GB kits ensure optimal performance via an ideal combination
of low voltage requirements, speed, and instantaneous “out of the box”
overclocking with the specialized profiles.
Unless someone wants to spend considerable money
there are really only two options for gaming enthusiasts, two cards which
provide performance high enough to play the latest games at high detail without
requiring a bank loan, the GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 4870 1Gb. The question
is, which is the fastest now that many driver revisions have passed since
release? @ DriverHeaven
D-Link is normally known for networking equipment likes
switches and routers, in fact, we’ve had the pleasure to review their products
in the past and found them to be of excellent quality. In the last few years,
their reportoire of product has expanded to include products like media
servers, VOIP handsets, Internet cameras, network storage servers and recently,
Digital Photo Frames. Although digital photo frames can seemingly be purchased
anywhere (even at the grocery check out), D-Link thinks they can do it better.
Today, we’ll be looking at D-Link’s DSM-210, a digital photo frame that
combines a 10 inch screen, WiFi and 1GB of onboard memory. @ Futurelooks
We’ve been spending
some quality time with the folks at AMD today in sunny Austin, TX. The
team here has been giving us a run-down on their upcoming Phenom II
processor along with the enthusiast platform they’re calling “Dragon”.
In short, the Dragon platform is a combination of an AMD Phenom II X4
processor, Radeon 4800 Graphics cards and an AMD 7 series chipset based
motherboard. @ HotHardware.com
We've had a far better
experience with this board than we have had with the DS3R - it feels more
stable, more reliable, it looks better and for £100 it's good value too. It's
not the most feature rich P45 on the market - it's missing dual LAN and CrossFire
- but not everyone wants those, and there are lots of different P45s on the
market to cater for every possible whim. It still has a very useful eight SATA,
great audio, a superb BIOS and plenty of PCI and PCI-Express for expansion -
all these are genuinely useful additions and not marketing gimmicks or
"nice idea, probably won't ever use" like Asus' Express Gate.
All in all, the Elixir is a
unique, low power, low profile performance solution but its pitiful 12 to 24
month warranty and inability to overclock that far means the Corsair from Part
One of this round up is a better value product.
The Patriot Viper memory, on the other hand, is certainly great performing and
good looking, but the Viper heat "shields" are not technically as
excellent as other solutions. What's more, the higher rated voltage means it
struggles at the extreme fringes, unless that is, you're really prepared to
throw a lot of cool air and voltage into it which is covered by a lifetime warranty
anyway - the good thing is that although its rated voltage is high, it boots at
up to 1,600MHz with just 1.65V, meaning that it'll be fine in an X58-based
system. @ bit-tech
Picking out a new graphics
card is easier to do now than ever, as there seems to be a model to cover every
single price-range, and not just from one single GPU manufacturer, either.
Today's card is one that represents the ~$125 price spot and is designed as a
step-up from the 9600 GT, with ASUS applying their usual TLC to help add even
more appeal. @ Techgage.com
With the Warrior XXtreme, Wolfking set out to
improve on the already great Warrior game pad by including the ability to chat
and execute commands, something that was missing from its predecessor. The type
of gamer you are will determine whether or not the addition of this modified
QWERTY keyboard is welcome or just in the way. It became obvious early on in my
testing that RPG gamers would be the ones making use of the Warrior XXtreme's
full potential. @ Tweaknews.net
Heat
spreaders on memory modules are nothing new; they first saw use on RAMBUS
memory back around the turn of the century, and quickly caught on in the
enthusiast memory market as a means to help dissipate extra heat brought on
through higher performance. More recently manufacturers have taken to
incorporating heatpipes and additional banks of fins to provide even better
cooling capacity. The Thermaltake RamOrb takes this idea one step further by
adding a fan directly to the heatsink. @ OCIA.net
Some folks have a
burning need for as much storage as they can cram into a full tower case. For
those folks, the standard three internal 3.5" bays is insufficient.
However, even the rare six internal 3.5" bay case is insufficient, as
well. However, cases larger than that can often cost a pretty penny. Instead,
those folks turn to products such as IcyDock's four-in-three multi-bay
backplane module, a four-in-three insert into a case's 5.25" bays which
can contain and power up to four SATA hard drives. ThinkComputers has the
review. @ ThinkComputers.org
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