Quote: Well needless to say, I want to improve on the 10MHz overclock that ASUS ships stock. With such a massive cooling system and the voltage tweaking capability baked in, I have high hopes of success with this card. I began in earnest trying to find the upper limits of this chip. Opening up ASUS [...]

Today I will be reviewing the Larkooler KU3-241 Extreme Performance G1/4 Liquid Cooling Kit. I have never heard of GBU or Larkooler before, so we are in unchartered waters with this new water cooling kit. I have dabbled with water-cooling before, primarily working with Swiftech components, so I know what to expect from the big [...]

Quote: When it comes to performance the AMD A8-3850 proved to be tough compet ition for the Intel Core i3-2105 processor, but to be fair both of the proc essors did well in certain areas and not so much in others. The one area th at the AMD A8-3850 APU never lost in was when [...]

Android might not have the huge line-up of games and apps that iOS boasts but ever since Eclair (Android 2.0/2.1) came along, Android has been slowly overtaking iOS as the smartphone platform with the best Internet browsing experience. It boasts a fast loading speed, smooth scrolling and most importantly, support for Flash!

CONTENT: Today well be looking at their dual 2.5 to 3.5 SATA drive convertor the snappily titled MB982SPR-2S. A tiny enclosure that not only accommodates dual 2.5 SDD/HDD but also packs an integrated hardware raid controller that allows striping, mirroring and combined storage. Further to that the enclosure offers full compatibility with both PC and [...]

Quote: Where the ASUS F1A75-M Pro truly excelled today was the performance of the integrated graphics. Every one of our graphics tests that we compared the Intel HD Graphics 3000 to the AMD A8-3850 with AMD Radeon HD 6550D ther e was a clear and decisive winner. For our recap of the graphics performanc e [...]

Quote: Overclocking the APU was a bit more difficult as it is not a Black Edition processor so the multiplier is locked. The only way to get more juice out of it is by raising the voltage and pushing the reference clock up until it is no longer stable. I was able to squeeze just [...]

/*Snippet:*/ /The A8-3850 is the on the top of the AMD charts for their Llano lineup. The 3850 features quad cores with a CPU clock set at 2.9 GHz. There is 4MB of onboard L2 cache and the TDP is rated at 100W. This chip comes with the Radeon HD 6550D which has the top [...]