Samsung UN55ES7100 55 inch LED HDTV My favourite time of the year is coming and that season is when everything goes on sale for the holidays. It’s a great time to pick up a new TV for the basement or upgrade the aging clunker. Today, we feature a review of the UN55ES7100. The ES7100 is in the middle of the pack, balancing budget with performance. Let’s find out how it does. [Full Story]
Cooler Master Elite 361 Cooler Master, a major player in the chassis market, has released a new slim, budget-worthy chassis. The Elite 361 is focused around versatility and adaptability, not performance, with support for 5 HDDs, its ability to be placed vertically or horizontally, and it’s relatively compact footprint. [Full Story]
Samsung UN55ES6500 55 inch LED HDTV Samsung came out with another slew of TVs mid 2012 as they have done in the past. As we test out what enters the Canadian market our eyes are drawn to the UN55ES6500 model. The ES6500 is a mid market TV that intents on offering a lot of value to the end customer. It sounds like the kind of TV most would want. Let’s find out. [Full Story]
JBL OnBeat Micro
=windows-1252QCorsair Hydro H60 Watercooling System Review
QUOTE: Corsair have updated the waterblock design and given the Hydro H60 a new compact profile which hides functional changes to the integrated pump and improves mounting bracket installation significantly. All of this is transparent to the end user though. Being the entry level water cooler model, the H60s waterblock lacks the integrated fan controller and LINK hardware present on the Hydro H80i and H100i units. No matter, you dont need the software/USB stuff to operate a watercooler such as this.
=windows-1252QCorsair Hydro H60 Watercooling System Review
QUOTE: Corsair have updated the waterblock design and given the Hydro H60 a new compact profile which hides functional changes to the integrated pump and improves mounting bracket installation significantly. All of this is transparent to the end user though. Being the entry level water cooler model, the H60s waterblock lacks the integrated fan controller and LINK hardware present on the Hydro H80i and H100i units. No matter, you dont need the software/USB stuff to operate a watercooler such as this.
[Tech ARP] Western Digital Red (WD30EFRX) 3 TB Hard Disk Drive
The popularity of Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices is rapidly ramping up in both small businesses and homes, fueled by their usefulness and their increasing affordability. This surge in interest has led Western Digital to add a new family of hard disk drives – the WD Red family of NAS hard disk drives, even as Seagate drops production of 5,400 RPM desktop hard disk drives.
Cougar PowerX 550W Power Supply
With some stand out styling and a low price point the PowerX 550w PSU look s to offer bronze level efficiency for those looking to build a gaming s ystem, possibly with multiple low-mid range GPUs.
Linksys EA6500 Router
iPhone 5 panorama app uses vibrate function to auto-rotate
Testing Memory Speeds on AMDs A10-5800K Trinity APU
Quote: In game benchmarks we saw a ~38% performance gain by running a 2133MHz memory kit versus a 1333Mhz memory kit. This is a major performance gain a nd obviously shows that the AMD Radeon HD 7660D integrated graphics was bei ng bottlenecked by the systems memory. If you ever plan on playing games wi th an APU powered system then youll want to go with the memory kit with th e highest possible clock speed that you can afford…
Testing Memory Speeds on AMDs A10-5800K Trinity APU
Quote: In game benchmarks we saw a ~38% performance gain by running a 2133MHz memory kit versus a 1333Mhz memory kit. This is a major performance gain a nd obviously shows that the AMD Radeon HD 7660D integrated graphics was bei ng bottlenecked by the systems memory. If you ever plan on playing games wi th an APU powered system then youll want to go with the memory kit with th e highest possible clock speed that you can afford…
Kickstarter funded, Android powered OUYA console ships