Bulgarian modding community - hardware reviews and the latest news
Our friends at techPowerUp posted a review of the girls from Computex 2008 :). Briefly: "This year's Computex was full of pretty asian booth babes fighting for your attention. Just like on previous tradeshows we set a day apart to chase down all the sweet girls for you. In total we have over 150 pictures with full-res…
Our friends at Rbmods posted a review of the Raidsonic IB-390StUSD-B HDD Docking Station. Briefly: "With the need of more harddrive space we need more space to store them. The latest HDD docking station makes it easy for you to swap drives and take them with you wherever you might need them. It also looks good and is…
Our friends at Madshrimps posted a review of the Spire HandyBook 2.5" External HDD Case. Briefly: "With laptops getting smaller and smaller and Solid State Disk gaining popularity, disk sizes are getting smaller. This is once again making small external hard disk more popular nowadays. Today we'll be testing a stylish…
Our friends at Madshrimps posted a review of the Audioengine Audiophile AE2 and AE5 PC Speakers. Briefly: "Today we introduce the first in a series of Audiophile articles/reviews. It's fitting we begin with the company Audioengine, their AE2 and AE5 powered speakers represent relatively a recent development in the…
Our friends at techPowerUp posted a review of the Sapphire HD3870 X2 Atomic Watercooled. Briefly: "Sapphire HD 3870 X2 Atomic Edition comes with pre-filled, pre-sealed and maintenance free watercooling. This allows Sapphire to ship the card with higher clocks, making the card the fastest HD 3870 X2 on the market…
Spire is showing off a few new cases at the show. The first we have seen in form of a prototype, which was not on public display at CeBIT. It has now been announced. The "Emerald" as it is called, features a metal look and a small "roll" at the top of the case, which holds the front I/O on one side and power/reset on…
Toshiba's Storage Device Division (SDD) launched today the industry's highest-capacity 160GB Serial ATA (1.5Gb/s) 1.8-inch HDDs. The new 5400 rpm hard drives come in single-platter 80GB (MK8017GAS) and dual-platter 160GB (MK1617GSG) models, delivering market-leading capacity, high-performance and compact size for…
Catering to gamers who want to enjoy the ultimate in gaming experiences, ASUS, world leader in motherboard production, has released the new ASUS ROG Maximus II Formula series motherboard. Equipped with an Intel P45 chipset and supporting DDRII memory, this cutting-edge piece of hardware provides exceptional gaming…
HIS is showing off a few new products at the show. The first is a USB to DVI graphics adapter. This unit uses the DisplayLink technology to enable output from a USB connector to a DVI monitor. The units are connected to a notebook. The second item is a Radon HD2400 low-profile graphic card with built-in HDMI support.…
The thermal compound, as insignificant component as it may seem, has in fact very significant impact in high performance configurations. Every respectful overclocker seeks the best mix there is. Today we test one such grease – the Tuniq TX-2, which impressed us very much. Why we say we are impressed, read on to find…
Micro-ATX is particularly interesting form factor. Its basic features are small dimensions, it is a common motherboard with all the necessarys tuff and as for the price - in most cases it is lower thant the price of its full ATX brothers. Today we test two such motherboards, bearing the MSI brand, one based on Intel…
In this review we will look at one cooling from the wide product range of Xilence, namely Xilent Blade Pro. Will the looks will be backed up with performance you will find after you read the review :P The review is only in Bulgarian for now, but soon will be available in English HERE
In this review we'll look at a budget PSU from the less known at our market manufacturer - Xilence. We wanted to see if the good specifications and awesome looks do hold their ground. Read the full review HERE .
Our friends at Madshrimps posted a review of the SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4GB USB Stick. Briefly: "SanDisk is known for their digital storage solutions, today we take a look at their compact 4Gb Cruzer Micro USB stick which sports a retractable USB connector and promises speedy transfer speeds." Read the full review HERE…
Our friends at techPowerUp posted a review of the Airlive AirView-2000 WiFi Projector Server. Briefly: "The AirView-2000 can stream your Windows desktop or favorite video to the device through any normal 54 MBit wireless network. So there are no cables to tie you down and you may walk around freely with your tablet PC…
XFX is displaying their version of the GeForce 8300 mainboard for the first time. It comes with a heatpipe cooling unit, dual BIOS and post code display by the rear mainboard connectors. The other interesting item is the 750a, which is for AMD as well. This board boasts two PCIe x16 slots, which can be used in an…
Our friends at techPowerUp posted an Interview with David Makin / Palit Multimedia . Briefly: "In our interview with David Makin from Palit Multimedia we learned about recent US activities of the company and how Palit is working on increasing their market share. Also David talks about his personal background and how…
Thermaltake is one of the companies always showing a lot of new stuff at shows. Let's start with their coolers. The first, very interesting looking unit is the "Rotation", which uses a radial fan in the center, with some heatpipes to cool the CPU. The second looks much like a butterfly is called the "TMG IA1" and uses…
Our friends at Rbmods posted a review of the GThermaltake Max 4 HDD Enclosure. Briefly: "We need more and more harddrive space these days and our cases might not be able to handle all the drives so therefore there are external HDD enclosures on the market. Thermaltake is one of the companies that have released several…
Our friends at Rbmods posted a review of the G.SKILL F3-12800CL7D DDR3 Memory. Briefly: "Today we look at the new DDR3 kit from Gskill. The F3-12800CL7D seems to be a middle class memory kit from Gskill that is supposed to perform very well, it is also equipped with a new heatsink that is also supposed to outperform…
Our friends at Rbmods posted a review of the Zalman Trimon ZM-M220W Monitor . Briefly: "Zalman is mostly known from their high quality cooling solutions, but during the last months Zalman has expanded their product range to cover also other interesting products. New products are FG1000, their new mice, and couple of…
The thermal compound, as insignificant component as it may seem, has in fact very significant impact in high performance configurations. Every respectful overclocker seeks the best mix there is. Today we test one such grease – the Tuniq TX-2, which impressed us very much. Why we say we are impressed, read on to find…
Even though it has not been announced officially yet by NVIDIA, ELSA has been showing a card at their Computex booth that is labeled as GeForce 9800 GT.The specs are nothing impressive, 112 shaders, 1 GB GDDR3, 256-bit memory, 630 MHz / 1800 MHz clocks. So basically the card is a rebranded GeForce 8800 GT. There are…
As the name suggests, the GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DQ6 is based on Intel's new P45 chipset. What makes this board special is that it supports four Gigabit Ethernet ports, with an optional teaming feature. While this feature is only of limited use for desktop users, it becomes interesting when building a powerful office or LAN…
Micro-ATX is a rather comfortable motherboard format. Characterized by its somewhat compact size, it usually is an ordinary motherboard with everything you need, and that at a lower price that its full ATX brethren. Today we'll review to such MSI motherboards, one with the Intel 945GC chipset and the other with the…
COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2008 Despite NVIDIA's desperate attempts to keep its upcoming GT200 series graphics cards under tight wraps, more and more tidbits about the cards still continue to show up. VR-Zone has come through with the goods once again, bringing us all some very nicely presented naked shots of the top dog GTX…
The Denube Gaming Machine Concept is basically four computers in one case, powered by a single power supply.It is targeted at people that often have friends coming in for small-scale LAN parties. Also it would allow cost, size and power efficient installations for bigger Internet Cafes.At this time it is still a…
In the current review well play with a cooler from the vast Xilence product range, namely - Xilent Blade Pro. Does the appearance compensate for the quality? You'll find out only if you read the review :P With each passing year coolers get bigger and heavier, yet a small part of the manufacturers do seem to notice…
Noctua and Coolink are sharing a booth once again. Both have new products and prototypes on display. Starting with Noctua, the have various upcoming coolers and fans. The first is the NF-S12B, which will replace the current NF-S12. It features a redesigned blade, which translates into more airflow and pressure at the…
A-DATA is showing off their memory cooling solutions. These have changed slightly in shape and the memory heatspreaders have also been redesigned to fit the additional cooling units better. The memory scales up to 2133 MHz at CL9. As you can see, the heatspreader design is black or grey. The latter will be used from…