Xilence M608 Pro CPU Cooler

Xilence M608 Pro CPU Cooler

Supporting both Intel (LGA775, LGA1155, LGA1156, LGA1366) and AMD (AM2, AM2+, AM3) processors, the M608 Pro is the latest CPU cooler from Xilence Technology. This high performance cooler is packed with four copper heatpipes, an aluminum heatsink and a 120mm fan that operates at 500 to 1500 RPM. The Xilence M608 retails for 48.90 Euro (about $69).

Asus Eee Slate EP121

Asus Eee Slate is a true tablet PC providing a proper fully featured Operating System known as Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium. Well we have come across Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Motorola Xoom and their respective manufacturers are labeling them as Tablet PC, but i rather call them Entertainment Tablets instead of Tablet PC because a limited features mobile firmware (iOS, Android) actually doesn’t make any device a proper PC (Personal Computer) on the other hand Asus Eee Slate EP121 is really bringing a fully functional Tablet PC, Eee Slate EP121 consisting of dual core Intel Core i5-470um, 4GB DDR3 memory and 64GB SSD. It has also WLAN and bluetooth 3.0. This touch screen Tablet PC features 12.1 inch screen, 2 USB and 1 mini-HDMI port and weights only 1.6KG. If you really want a Tablet PC you must you for it.

AMD launches Radeon HD 6990 powerhouse for $699, maintains 'world's fastest' title

AMD launches Radeon HD 6990 powerhouse for $699, maintains 'world's fastest' title

If you're scoring at home, NVIDIA currently holds the lead in single-GPU graphics cards with its GeForce GTX 580, but ATI's dual-chip Radeon HD 5970 has been holding down the absolute speed crown for a good long while. Now, bearing the name of AMD Radeon HD 6990, its successor sidles up to the throne and demands attention as the fastest single expansion board you can plug into your shiny new motherboard. The 6990 boasts a massive 4GB of GDDR5, 3,072 Stream Processors, 64 ROPs, and an 830MHz core clock speed. A dual-BIOS switch will let you crank that clock up to 880MHz with a corresponding increase in voltage, but don't expect to see much overclocking headroom above that.

Reviewers note, alongside their fawning assessment of the world's best performance, that the HD 6990 is a massively power-hungry card (375W TDP) and one that makes quite a bit of noise while going through its herculean tasks. That's in spite of a new vapor chamber cooling system that allegedly supports up to 450W of thermal output. If all this strikes you as a somewhat flawed execution, maybe you'll join us in hoping NVIDIA's imminently upcoming response, dubbed the GTX 590, will be able to offer a neater, more efficient assault on the extreme peaks of graphical performance.

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IDAPT i2 Plus – Juice Up Your Mobile Devices with a Plus

IDAPT i2 Plus – Juice Up Your Mobile Devices with a Plus

With all the new mobile gadgets coming out these days, people probably can’t help but wonder how they even manage to keep them juiced up or how do their devices keep up with them. Usually, ordinary people are guilty of carrying a chaotic tangle of wires and cables called chargers – they do only recognize it though once they managed to figure out which plug goes where. Smart people spare themselves the trouble by getting IDAPT I2 Plus – a unique charging solution that can recharge up to 3 mobile at once using independent chargers with self-regulating power supply. This device has a DC output of up to 13 watts, measures 169 x 135 x 32 mm, and weighs around 250 grams. It supports more than 4,000 mobile devices including: Nokia, Samsung, Blackberry, LG, and Sony-Ericsson mobile phones; iPhone, HTC, LG, Motorola, and Palm smartphones; Motorola, Nokia, Jabra, and Samsung Bluetooth headphones; Tomtom, Garmin, Magellan, Navigon, Mio, and Navman GPS; Nintendo DS-L and DS-i, and Sony PSP game consoles; cameras, AA/AAAA rechargeable batteries and even iPad and other tablets.

The IDAPT i2 Plus also sports exchangeable tips for customization and 2 charging points plus an extra USB port to eliminate tangled cords and provide more than just one recharging outlet. Other noteworthy features of this charging solution are LED indicators that reflect the charging status of every plugged devices and articulated tops that can accommodate various portable gadgets. To blend with your home interior or even just please your color preference, IDAPT i2 Plus comes in various colors of black, scarlet red, white, hot pink, light blue, lime green and orange.
Purchase Idapt I2B-SL6V5-USL i2 Universal Desktop Charger (Silver) here.

Simon Flash to be coming soon

January 26th, 2011

If there is one thing that doesn’t seem to go out of fashion, it is Simon. The game where the player must use their memory and repeat a flashing pattern of colored lights has been imitated in Loopz and various other iPhone Apps.
It has now been updated into Simon Flash, which is essentially Simon split up into 4 different blocks of red, blue, green, and yellow. I suppose that you could put these blocks quite a distance apart, and get some exercise while you play the memory game.
In addition to the often imitated memory game, the user can also play a different game based on another age-old and often imitated game: Mastermind. The player will have to find out a secret color combination in a certain amount of moves, says my Source.
There is no word as to when the Simon Flash will be available, nor a price. I would imagine that you would have to put a battery or a few batteries in each particular square, and these squares would have to be somehow linked together, perhaps with Bluetooth.
You know, I have a great idea. Is there any way that someone could take 4 iPhones or 4 smartphones and link them together to make a DIY Simon game? If you know of anyone who has done this and has it on YouTube, leave us a comment with the link.

Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d – Not recommended for gaming enthusiasts

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3D became quickly popular in the televisions but this technology is taking its own time in laptops and desktops. This is a bit surprising especially because the functional and tested 3D infrastructure has been around for a long time through Nvidia’s 3D Vision technology. I have seen only a couple of laptops with glasses and 3D hardware. Maybe its because gamers prefer consoles to laptops when it comes to gaming.
Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d that I got in my labs for testing is based on TriDef 3D technology which is the same as that on the  Acer Aspire 5738DG-6165 that I tested last year. Both these notebooks offer poolarized glasses instead of battery power active shutter glasses used on Nvidia 3D Vision notebooks and lots of other consumer 3D devices.

The cost of the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is $1,399 and it is priced quite reasonably for its components as the ATI Radeon 5730 graphics and  Intel Core i7 processor are quite high end. However, there are other products like the non-3D HP Envy 14 which starts at just $999 and a config closer to the Y560d will cost you $1,249. Also, there is Toshiba’s 3D Satellite A665-3DV which costs $1,599 and has similar specs along with Blu-ray drive and Nvidia’s 3D Vision hardware. The latter is much better for gaming.
The main problem on the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is that the TriDef 3D system works well but is not particularly impressive. You have to tilt the screen to an angle for running the apps through the third party app and this kills the performance. In my lab tests, the frames dropped drastically in the 3D mode. The sample games and videos that I tired gave good 3D experience but mostly, I had to close one eye or look away or squint.
Without the 3D feature, the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is an excellent high end notebook with nice design. However, if you don’t really need 3D, I would recommend you to take a look at other Lenovo IdeaPad laptops which are less expensive and give good great nice performance too.

Lenovo has always been generous in IdeaPad line’s design and it continues the tradition here too. Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is far from the traditional office-oriented laptops from this manufacturer courtesy of the funky tribal tattoo on the lid. Apart from that, the design is quite similar to other systems like IdeaPad Y460. Both of these have a copper accent strip on the lid’s outer edge and on the inside, there is a mix of matte black buttons and black plastic which is not too glossy.
On the keyboard’s top, there is a row of touch sensitive buttons with backlighitng. A quick launch bar pops up when you slide your finger back and forth on it. There are assignable slots for the different apps. It is really cool but you will need some time to get used to it. Running the finger on the right part can even change the desktop background but I never got hang of it in my lab tests.

MSI GT663R Notebook

MSI has announced its most powerful gaming notebook GT663R (not available in market yet) equipped with Intel Core i-7 740QM Processor (4 Cores) and high performance GPU by Nvidia GTX 460M (1.5 GB Memory). RAM options are 6GB, 8GB and 12GB. Storage capacity option ranges from 320 GB to 1 TB. MSI GT663R assures you a full HD display with 1920×1080 resolution on screen size of 15.6 Inch. Providing you the Super Speed 2 ports of USB 3.0 along with option of Blu-Ray drive instead of DVD combo the MSI GT663R meets the real need of a GAMER !!!

AES 256Bit hardware encryption, 3 Years of Virus protection, 32GB of Memory, behold Buffalo new RUF2-HSCLTV3 USB Key

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Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 – The Evolution of Hard Disk Drives

In the battle between hard disk drives and solid state drives, the former isn’t showing signs of backing down as it keeps on the fight to dominate over the storage solutions market especially when Hitachi gave customers another reason to stick to HDDs. The new Travelstar Z5K500 is industry’s first 7 mm z-height 5,400 RPM single platter 500GB hard drive that features thin, rugged and innovative design made for consumer electronics, laptops, netbooks and other compact systems like the new G-Technology G-DRIVE Slim external HDD.

The new Z5K500 is also designed to directly replace standard 9.5 mm, 2.5-inch drives. With its slim profile and high capacities, the Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 drive offers the best cost per gigabyte and gigabyte per cubic millimeter when compared to solid state drives, and 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch 9.5mm disk drives. It also features the right balance between power and acoustics, the drives feature 1.8 watts read and write power and a measly 0.55 watts when idle, and deliver a nearly perfect quiet operation at 1.9 idle and 2.1 seek bels, which is more silent than most ambient noise in a household.

All Travelstar Z5K500 drives have an 8MB cache and a Serial ATA 3Gb per second interface. They are also equipped with Hitachi’s second generation Advanced Format drive that increases the physical sector size on HDDs from 512 bytes to 4,096 (4K) bytes, in so doing, improves drive capacity and error correction capabilities. Every Hitachi Z-series 7mm drives features standard connectors and mounting points for easier integration into existing and flexibility.