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Nowadays the so called laptop pads. Not only they provide large comfort when working, but they also cool the system and thus helping the overall stability of the machine. Today we will look into one 14” product manufactured by Evercool, called with the interesting name “The Zodiac”. Our friends from Evercool sent us…
We already introduced a detailed overview of the new generation Intel processors – Core i7 with Nehalem core as well as a X58 based motherboard. Today we will review the capabilities of another such motherboard, DFI Lan Party UT X58 T3eH8. Our friends from Solytron were kind enough to provide a X58 based motherboard…
At our office we often receive products, which are interesting, but do not get to receive a whole review. From time to time, when we have more such products, we will try to acquaint you with them. In the todays, first, article of this series we will introduce 5 quite interesting products. If you want to know which are…
For long time I waited for the opportunity to help with some other review for the site and here it is – the luck shone upon me yet again. As you may already know from the headline in the next article you will have the opportunity to read a review of some 120, 92 and 80 mm fans. Lets now see which they are and what…
Our friends from NVidia invited us to present thoroughly their new product, which will be available in stores pretty soon – their 3D glasses GeForce 3D Vision. In the pas we have seen such products, but these rely on much more logical approach. Today we will tell about our meeting and what exactly we saw there. In the…
As we all know one of the best gaming peripherals bear the Razer logo. The Razer product range is indeed wide, providing for the needs of even the most pretentious gamer. This time however, Razer had surpassed themselves. Their new Razer Mamba mouse is something awesome and a sure must for everyone. With incredible…
Time to show you what we've seen in day 4 of our stay in Hanover at the 2009 CeBIT expo.. GeIL , the famous and specialized memory manufacturer, naturally had a stand at the 2009 CeBIT expo. An what a stand! Probably the most crowd gathering ever. Many of you might know of GeIL and their top memory modules for gamers…
Of course, as should do any self respecting media visiting CeBIT, we tried to catch as many chicks as possible. This year the crisis took away most of the pleasure of the expo, marketing budget cuts obviously result in less eye candy. Anyway, we shot whatever we could. :)
Time to show you the weird and not so weird things we encountered roaming through Germany. For me the strangest thing I was one I encountered while trying to achieve a side goal wile at CeBIT. Upon leaving for Germany a friend of mine told me to try at least 8 types of German beer. Well, I managed to try whole 23, the…
One of the interesting halls this year at CeBIT was game hall 22 – Intel Extreme Masters. It was exclusively game oriented and indeed provided lots of fun activities. Here wat expected us in front of the hall. And here is about everything we saw inside: First thing we noticed right away was the few Formula 1 cars and…
Modern times impose modern ways. Cutting edge technology ensures we have bigger and bigger date storage capabilities whispering ever so gently - "worry not about the megabytes". Well, you know what? They're right. That's why external hard drive enclosure cases are something common nowadays. So today we choose to…
Time to show you what we've seen in day 3 of our stay in Hanover at the 2009 CeBIT expo. Arctic Cooling (Part 1: CPU & VGA coolers) Arctic Cooling is Switzerland company well known to overclockers and silence lovers including here in Bulgaria. The company makes variety of air coolers - for processors, video cards and…
And so we continue with our story about Modreactor's team at CeBIT 2009 in Hanover (Dermany), with the second day of it. The day we started with DFI LanParty . As you might know, DFI make products ranging from basic user ones to grand enterprise solutions, which however are indeed costly and therefore of no interest…
Come one, come all an hear the story of the Modreactor team, and their amazing journalistic journey through the world's biggest IT expo – CeBit in Hanover. Today's tale will be about their first day the beautiful city in lower Saxony. Aye! It was the first day of CeBit 2009 and we managed to walk through a small part…
Release of the first 45nm quad core AMD processors - Phenom II 940 and 920 in the beginning of the year was the most important event for the company and was the first significant success for the company processor division in quite a while. The new processors offered splendid performance for their price, and users…
Is it a toy? Is it a flying saucer? No! It's a brand new heatpipe cooler that flew in the Modreactor lab. The work of art in question - UFO V51, and its somewhat unclear purpose is in fact the new prototype of CPU cooler from GlacialTech. Our friends from GlacialТech were king enough to supply us with test sample of…
Lian Li is most likely a well known brand name to you, one associated with high quality and stylish design. Today we're reviewing one budget oriented (as if the word "budget" can be even vaguely associated with the products of this particular brand) case named PC-7FW. Lian Li have their distributor for our market in…
In high-end computer systems one of the problems we have to deal with is the large amount of heat irradiated by the powerful components. And while the processor and video card cooler are important factor in keeping temperatures at optimal levels, a small and ill ventilated case could be ruin of an expensive system by…
Recently NVIDIA released their new core named GT200 and the GeForce GTX 260 and GeFroce GTX 280 cards based on it. The core is manufactured by the 65nm process unlike AMD ones that are for quite a while now made by the 55nm process. Now NVIDIA released GT200b, or in other words the old GT200 core only with smaller…
In the past not too much attention was payed to the computer's PSU, but nowadays hardware is much more powerful and so parameters such as efficiency are more and more accented on. Today we're reviewing another representative of these products, one praising itself with 80+ efficiency. The name of this patient is NOX…
Another day, another cooler. Here, before us lies yet another heatpipe cooler with interesting design. This time it is with 100 mm fan and the radiator itself is positioned at an angle above the processor block. Silly me... the product in question is none other than GELID Solutions Silent Spirit. Our friends from…
Direct touch heatpipe processor coolers are not news anymore and nowadays we're seeing more and more of them. Today we'll be reviewing one such product from Xigmatek. The particular model in the center of our attention is the HDT S1284 Enhanced Edition. Our friends from Dekada kindly supplied us with Xigmatek HDT…
Between 2006 and 2008, NVIDIA hat a two years of comfortable rule over the video card market always maintaining their positions a step ahead of AMD/ATI in technology, performance and price. AMD were always big, yet review results inevitably assured the users of the superiority of some GeForce family model. Until the…
Miniaturization is becoming vastly popular and here are we with one follower of that trend, follower in the form of portable hard drive. Today we're reviewing the Samsung S1 Mini, a portable 1.8” hard drive. Our friends from Solytron supplied us with a sample of Samsung's new product - S1 Mini. This is a family of…
If you are a hardware enthusiast you're probably familiar with the name and ideology behind the brand of DFI. The Taiwanese manufacturer is well known with the "LanParty" series motherboards, the company being the only one creating motherboards solely for overclockers and hardcore gamers. Ever since the long forgotten…
The past 2008 came and went and we at Modreactor decided to make a roundup of the thermal compounds we used through the it. The ones we used were not exclusively for overclockers and enthusiasts, on the contrary they are for anyone that likes both lower CPU temperatures and lower noise. Through the past 2008 we used a…
Elated from the success of their sub-notebook products, the manufacturers boldly decided that the desktop market is also ready for accepting this type of computer. And with the same zeal Asus and MSI poured in creating Eee PC and Wind, Eee Box and Wind Nettop were devised. Interesting decision, after all Nettop is…
GPS navigation is a common thing nowadays, so we felt its about time we pay some attention to it. Today we'll be reviewing a budget automotive GPS device – GoClever Navigator 4384FM. Our friends from Solytron graciously enough supplied us with GoClever Navigator, more precisely - the 4384FM model. This is GPS with big…
Most people have a wrong idea about how much power does a modern PC require. There are models marked as 100-150W for the needs of ultra-small nettop computers capable of connecting you to the global net or playing music and movies and there are up to ten times more powerful ones with multiple 12V lines for hundreds of…
As we all know in order to receive the best ever experience from our PC, first we must give it the very best hardware. But every overclock knows to prepare for the tricks that the inevitable high temperatures will play with his hardware. One of the main components intended to counter these tricks is the good CPU…