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Sunday September 5th,
2010 -
dean
Weekend Edition
Back after a nice few days at Myrtle
Beach. Nothing from Hurricane Earl of consequence however, my
backup plan of going to a hurricane party at Jimmy Buffett's
Margaritaville was definitely a winner!
Our friends at
Bjorn3D open the
day up with coverage of the
XFX
HD5970 Black Edition and ask if it's the fastest card on the market.
Unfortunately we
cannot say that this card is worth $1200 (price from Newegg.com). Nonetheless,
it isn't that much more expensive than buying two HD5870 Eyefinity6
cards, and it comes with not only a cool LAN bag but also a very limited
edition video card. It is also about the same as the other two special
edition HD5970 cards from ASUS and Sapphire, and in our opinion is a
better value than either of these two cards.
PNY GeForce GTX 460 OC XLR8 Video Card anyone? See Benchmark
Reviews for more.
Our benchmark
tests have concluded that both the 768MB and 1GB version can offer great
gaming performance, along with outstanding overclocking headroom.
Combined into a SLI set, two stock-speed GeForce GTX 460's compete with
the Radeon HD 5870 in terms of frame rate performance. In this article,
Benchmark Reviews takes the highly overclocked PNY 'XLR8 Black Box'
video card (model VCGGTX4601XPB-OC) and compares it against a field of
DirectX-11 graphics solutions. If you're shopping for a powerful
middle-market video card, this externally-exhausting 1GB GeForce GTX 460
product could be the perfect fit.
Check out the
Thermaltake Armor A60 Case that is on deck over at
Hardware
Secrets.
Even though the new Thermaltake Armor A60 is based on the Armor A90, it
has a set of features that makes it better than its predecessor. In
fact, this is the first time that we see a product with a “lower” model
number being better than a product with a “higher” model number.
Overclocker's
Club bring the
Thermaltake Armor A60 Case up for another review.
Though a
small mid tower case, there is a lot of space on the inside. The case
looks great, cools appropriately, and has a lot of neat features. The
Armor A60, just like the Armor A90, is equipped with a mouse and
keyboard cable lock, as well as the option to lock the side panel in
place. This ensures security in public places where the components could
be at risk for tampering or theft, catering well to the LAN party goers
that want to protect their hardware without having to modify their case.
Free stuff! ( Gigabyte
GTX460 768MB)
Prolimatech Super Mega CPU Cooler in all its glory over at
PureOverclock.
By spec alone, these upgrades would seem to be an
enthusiast's dream, taking one of the top coolers on the market and
making it better. But as we know, paper specs do not necessarily make
for a tangible improvement out in the real world. We decided to put the
Super Mega to the test, to find out if it can indeed surpass the
Megahalems in cooling performance or not.
Here are a couple of performance mouse
reviews. The first is from
LANOC and covers the
Cooler Master Inferno Storm Mouse.
With StarCraft 2
out fresh I jumped into a few matches, then into some Alien Swarm,
ending with Modern Warfare 2. The tracking I saw in Photoshop came in
handy in game, making clicking on my SCV’s easy as pie. The rapid fire
macro was a blast to play with in MW2 with a sniper rifle or a hand gun,
but in the end it was difficult to handle in game, not to mention the
fact that most people will call you a hacker.
This is followed up by
Kit Guru and the
Thermaltake eSPORTS Mouse.
The eSPORTS
Black doesn’t glide quite as effortlessly as some mice like the
SteelSeries Xai but when we consider the price difference, this is quite
understandable. The rough surface of the Dominator gaming surface
doesn’t help matters; a finely woven cloth surface would probably be
more appropriate for this mouse. We did try out the Dominator with the
Xai which we regard to be one of the smoothest gliding mice on the
market and it was noticeably better.
Odds and ends.
Patriot 4GB PC3-19200 2400MHz DDR3 at R&B Mods.
Razer Carcharias Headset at Technic3D.
ASUS CineVibe Gaming Headset at OCaholic.
NZXT HALE90 750W PSU at BCC Hardware.
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