Monster-Hardware

Motherboards Two For One

ADATA S596 128GB SSD

"ADATA is a company that is new to us, but is a well established company in the east, making their way west. Watch in this video review as I actually beat this drive on a table a few times and then run it through a gauntlet of tests. This new S596 SSD is a very fast drive and can hold its own agains't the competition. Check out the full review and I think you will like what you see, its pretty funny to watch just for the verbage and drive beating."

A-DATA N002 USB 3.0 & SATA II 128GB SSD

"The interesting thing about the A-DATA N002 drive is it is one of the first USB 3.0 devices on the market, as well as a SATA drive. This opens possibilities for the end-user of using the N002 as an external USB 3.0 OR SATA to move files from one computer to another fast. The drive showed excellent performance across the spectrum of benchmarks that we use on both the USB and SATA interface, actually scoring higher than some of the other SSD drives we have tested. These are a good indication of sustained read and write performance across a wide variety of programs."

Legit Reviews Two For One

Thermaltake Contac 29 CPU Cooler

"Today I'll be showing you Thermaltake's Contac 29 CPU Cooler which combines performance and silence in a heatpipe tower package. Priced at $36.99 plus shipping the Contac 29 sits around what I'd consider to be the mid-range price bracket. The Contac 29 is equipped with three 8mm heatpipes that make direct contact with the integrated heatspreader included in modern processors. Bundled with the heatsink is a 120mm by 120mm by 25mm fan that keeps the heatsink cool while running incredibly quiet..."

Kingston 30GB SSDNow V Series

"The idea of an SSD boot drive like the Kingston 30GB V Series drive works well of a lot of users who just can�t dump a load of money into a drive but would really like to get rid of the HDD bottleneck in their system. Performance for this drive was right on with the expectations set by Kingston. The unfortunate part of that is the write speed, which at 50MB/s, falls below hard drive speed and frankly, is disappointing. There were some benchmarks that did show writes exceeding this but they still barely rival most platter drives."

Pro-Clockers Two For One

Gigabyte H55M-S2H 1156 Motherboard

Even with the overclocking abilities of the H55M-S2H, it is still aimed at the HTPC crowd. Of which, I am a proud member. In order to get this board going, you will want to mate it with one of the new Clarkdale processors. Adding a monitor or flat screen TV will have you viewing your favorite movies or more in all their glory. If you want to see if this board has any more surprises, then you will have to read on."

Coolermaster GX 750W Power Supply

"Coolermaster realized this and came out with the new GX series of power units. As of this writing, the series consists of three units: 550W, 650W and 750W. The power range is not extreme at all, but the most sought after sweet spot. The entire line-up features a single 12 volt rail, which aims it at individuals needing the most stable power when using dual GPU setups. The largest of the three is Nvidia SLI certified. If you are not interested in the multiple graphic setups, but want great efficiency; well the GX has it as well with the 85% mark on all three units. We will take a short look at the new power supply to see what it has to offer."

Heaven Media Two For One

Aliens vs Predator PC

"People who grew up in the eighties know two things - the first being that Aliens was amazing and the second being that Predator was also amazing. This would lead anyone from that time to arrive at the conclusion that combining the two would be very much a wining idea. So it proved across various systems, the nostalgia mash-up delivering what many of us had hoped for down the years."

Interview With Creative Assembly

"Napoleon Total War launched last month and in our review we called it "A glorious recreation of the time period and as fun as it is taxing". Since then our sister sites Cadred and Tek9 took to the virtual battlefields in order to establish which had the strongest General... and community. Today in the latest update to our Total War content we talk to Kieran Bridgen, Studio Communications Manager from The Creative Assembly about all things Total War."

OCIA Two For One

Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red PC3-12800

"Crucial under its parent company Micron has been producing high quality, standard spec computer memory for more than 30 years. Although a latecomer to the performance marketplace, Crucial has not disappointed their fans and has built quite a name for its Ballistix line of memory over the last six years, beginning with their high speed DDR up through DDR2 and now DDR3. The Tracer series adds an interesting twist, that of LED activity lighting on the memory sticks themselves, useful for indicating memory utilization and also just for the bling factor. The memory I have for review today is the red version of Crucial's latest Ballistix Tracer series, in a 2x2Gb kit of PC3-12800 8-8-8-24."

Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Case

"The budget mid tower computer case market is one of the most saturated when it comes to computer components. There are literally hundreds of different low cost mid tower cases to weed through when trying to find one that will meet your needs. I'll be the first to admit that many offerings are complete garbage. The key here is to find a chassis that combines the right mix of features and good looks while still being easy on the wallet and that is exactly what Thermaltake is aiming for with their recently released V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Case. With a retail price of only $39 USD, most would expect the bare minimum but read on because the V3 is dressed to impress."

PC Stats Two For One

Gigabyte GV-567OC-1GI Radeon HD 5670

"Gigabyte has designed a slightly overclocked (+10MHz) version of the Radeon HD 5670 videocard called the GV-567OC-1GI. ATI has produced several 'sweet spot' videocards over the past year like the Radeon HD 4870, 4850 and 4770, and through aggressive pricing and new manufacturing techniques ATI has managed to get all of these videocards into that $100-$150 'sweet spot' that net excellent gaming performance at a cut-rate price. Will the GV-567OC-1GI be worthy to join such hallowed company?"

Top 20 DIY Newbie PC Fixing

"For the 90% of us without disposable money to fritter away on fancy new computer hardware each month, PCSTATS presents its TOP 15 BEST EVER Beginners GUIDES as chosen by you! A better computer doesn't necessarily come by spending money. All you need is the right Tweaking insight from a panel of experts who spend their days fixing PCs, revving them up, and know how to clearly explain it all. PCSTATS Beginners Guides are for newbies frustrated with a broken PC, for experts looking to refresh their skils, and for everyone in between."

Bigbruin Two For One

Intel D510MO mITX Motherboard

"The most appealing thing about the Intel D510MO Mini-ITX motherboard with 1.66GHz Intel Atom dual core processor was that it could be used as the core of a completely silent system. Since the board is passively cooled, you can pick other passively cooled or solid state components for a build that generates absolutely zero noise."

Geeks Mini USB 2 LED Projector

"The Geeks.com mini USB 2.0 LED projector was able to project an image of decent quality up to - and beyond - the specified 50 inches maximum, and all that had to be done was to connect it to a PC via USB. Still images looked very good, and I was pleasantly surprised to see it keep pace with video at 30 frames per second."

Tweaktown Two For One

ASUS M4A89GTD Pro Motherboard

"AMD has been having great success with their HD 5xxx line. These GPUs are not only the only DX11 parts on the market at the moment, but have performance that out does just about every offering from NVIDIA. However, they have not been doing overly well in the chipset and CPU market. Here they have been outdone by Intel consistently over the last few years. This has been good for Intel, but bad for the market in general. Of course, AMD has made some great strides in the CPU realm and in fact have produced some good and inexpensive products that have quite a bit of room for overclocking. Now they are moving back to the chipset side and are launching a new chipset today, the 890GX."

NVIDIAs Next-Gen ION Platform

"NVIDIA made many of us sit up and take notice of the hardware acceleration of HD video in netbooks and nettops back in 2009 at CES when the company showed off its first ION chip. The device took a while to come to market, but it eventually did and was welcomed by those looking for better HD video performance and graphics in small netbooks and nettops. NVIDIA is now unveiling the successor to the original ION platform; this referred to as Next-Generation ION by NVIDIA, but often called ION 2 in the media. So far the only product to have been unveiled using the platform is the Acer Aspire One 532G. NVIDIA is betting big on the new platform and sees a huge market for netbooks moving forward, especially those that use quality graphics like ION."

TechWareLabs Two For One

Jetway NC94-510-LF mITX Motherboard

"Today we take a look at a low power high efficiency Intel Atom D510 based board from Jetway. This board offers the ability to have a Home media or backup server that wont break the bank. The NC94-510-LF from Jetway includes some surprising features for such a compact board with some possible issues which we explore in our review."

NZXT Hades Crafted Series Case

"NZXT continues to expand the fleet of computer cases in 2010 with the new Hades Crafted Series 9 Bay Black mid-tower case. NZXT has designed one more mid-tower case with as many as possible places to mount large chassis fans without overdoing it. The unique look is unlike most on the market today with a unique front panel to assist with hiding your ROM drive, but keep a sinister look."

OCIA Two For One

Cooler Master GX 750W Power Supply

"In the past, Cooler Master's power supply offerings have showcased features such as high efficiency and silent performance. With their new GX (Gamer Xtreme) line, they hope to combine these features into one high power, super stable product. Today, we have for review Cooler Master's new GX 750W PSU."

Arctic Cooling Arctic Sound E352 Earphones

"With a name like Arctic Cooling you would probably suspect, and rightly so, this was a company that specialized in high performance cooling hardware for computers. But you may be surprised to learn that Arctic Cooling has recently released several new products that have no ties to cooling at all, such as a line of audio gear."