Archive for May 2015

Review: Corsair CS850M Power Supply

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 7

The Corsair CS850M is a quiet and very affordable mainstream 850 Watt power supply that is 80-plus certified, that means it's 90% efficient at 50% load. Efficiency matters. The PSU itself is partly modular, for most of you with a side panel window in their chassis a must really as you'll want modular cables. The new PSU also improved on the silence factor. Have a peek at the article.

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EDGE Memory Announces SE847 Value SSD Line

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EDGE announced today the release of a new high-quality, value SSD line. The EDGE SE847 SSD line was designed exclusively for CDW customers, blending value and performance in an efficient, low-power package. Suitable for a wide range of systems, the SE847 provides instant performance enhancements.


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BIOSTAR to Showcase Intel 100 Series Chipset Motherboards

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At Computex that is. Computex, Asia’s largest high-tech event, will run from June 2nd to the 6th this year in Taipei, Taiwan and BIOSTAR will be showcasing upcoming Intel 100 series chipset motherboards, gaming oriented motherboards and VGA cards as well as mini PCs designed for Karaoke and IPC Embedded solutions.


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Corsair CS850M PSU review

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We review the Corsair CS850M 850 Watt 80-plus GOLD certified power supply. This is a silent and more affordable mainstream 850 Watt power supply that is 80-plus certified, that means it's 90% efficient at 50% load. Efficiency matters. The PSU itself is partly modular, for most of you with a side panel window in their chassis a must really as you'll want modular cables. The new PSU also improved on the silence factor. Have a peek at the article.


ASUS 100-Series Motherboards Spotted

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At Benchlife, an Asian website a list appeared of upcoming Asus series 100 motherboards including a Sabertooth Z170 and Maximus VIII Extreme. The series 100 chipset is aimed at Skylake processors due for release later this year.


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Razer Firefly Gaming Mousepad has Customizable Lighting FX

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Razer announced the release of the Razer Firefly, the first hard gaming mouse mat with Razer's Chroma lighting feature. The Chroma feature adds 16.8 million color options and numerous customizable lighting effects to the mouse mat, including reactive, wave and spectrum cycling.


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MSI First Motherboard Brand to be Windows 10 Certified

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And here starts the marketing hype, MSI is proud to announce being world's first motherboard manufacturer to receive official Microsoft Windows 10 WHQL certification. The H81M-P33 motherboard passed Microsoft Windows 10 official certification today. The H81M-P33 is the world's first motherboard to be completely compliant with Microsoft Windows 10. 


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Need For Speed Reboot Announced

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Need for Speed returns in Fall 2015 to PS4, Xbox One and PC in an action driving experience that unites the culture of speed, video after the break.


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Nvidia Confirms Shield Pro-console with 500GB

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An Nvidia employee has confirmed a Pro edition of Nvidia's streaming Shield Console, to be released in May close to Computex. The console will come with Android TV in the Pro as a normal version with Tegra X1-soc.


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EK Supremacy EVO X99 LGA2011v3 Water Block

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The EK-Supremacy EVO X99 water block is optimized for use on Intel socket LGA-2011-3 series processors. EK-Supremacy EVO X99 is the highest performance CPU water block for Intel X99 / LGA-2011-3 platform and comes with pre-assembled, error-preventing mounting mechanism. 


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The Witcher 3 Graphics Benchmark Review Updated

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Just a quick note that our The Witcher III benchmark session is closing to an end. Right now I have added GeForce GTX 980 SLI results, added GeForce GTX 980 FCAT results, added GeForce GTX 980 SLI FCAT results, added AMD Radeon R9 290X FCAT results.  We also added some Hairworks performance numbers and mid-range tweaking Quality modes scaling with a GeForce GXT 770.

Unfortunately AMD has not released a Crossfire fix / compatible driver, so that is still not in the benchmarks. Read the updated review here.


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ZOTAC ZBOX R-Series Mini-PC

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ZOTAC puts the limelight on the brand new R Series, the new member of the ZBOX mini PC family. This is the small form factor solution that is more than a personal PC with its storage solution and functionalities while providing the same power efficiency and space saving features that users expect from ZBOX.


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Streacom F12C Chassis

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Announcing the F12C from Streacom. The F12C is our first case designed to accept all standard ATX hardware, but of course being Streacom, the design is anything but standard. The ultra-minimalist exterior is made from 4mm thick premium grade extruded aluminium panels which are sandblast finished to create this simple but timeless design.


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OCZ Z-Drive 6000 NVMe SSD

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OCZ announced its Z-Drive 6000 SSD Series that combines PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3 and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) technologies with an extensive enterprise feature-set and robust endurance and reliability. The NVMe-compliant Z-Drive 6000 Series is available in multiple configurations supporting a variety of form factors, capacity points, and endurance ratings.


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The Witcher 3 Graphics Performance Review

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In this article we benchmark The Witcher III on the PC  - many graphics cards are being tested and benchmarked. We have a look at DX11 performance with the newest graphics cards and technologies. 


LG Display unveils 0.97 mm thick OLED panel

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And that's 55-inch for ya. South Korean flat panel maker LG Display Co. showcased on Tuesday a detachable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel that sticks to the wall, renewing its pledge to focus on the high-end display as a future growth engine.


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Screenshots from Cancelled Version of Doom 4

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Well, this particular game might be cancelled, but at least we have some screenshots to show you. The new Doom game will be revealed in about a month, and today a number of screenshots from the cancelled version of Doom 4 got revealed.


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Apple Adds 15-inch MacBook Pro and 2000USD iMac

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Apple updated the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display with the new Force Touch trackpad, faster flash storage, longer battery life and faster discrete graphics. Apple also today introduced a new $1,999 configuration of the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display featuring a 14.7 million pixel display, quad-core processors and AMD graphics, and lowered the price of the top-end iMac with Retina 5K display to $2,299.


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Windows 10 upgrade will not be free after one year

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Microsoft is saying is that if you want the free upgrade you need to do it in the first year. After that time you will need to buy the upgrade just like you had to do with every other version of windows. Previous upgrades were around $99 to $129 (depending on version) and I imagine this will continue to be the case.


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