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Introduction
It's hard to believe that yet another year has come and gone. Intel has come a long way as well. Today's CPUs are more capable than anything we could have imagined ten years ago. The Intel i7 "Ivy Bridge" CPU even includes the new Intel HD 4000 Graphics, which we'll be taking a look at in both benches and real world games.
Can it play Skyrim? We'll find out.
CPUs aquired - Direct from Intel. CPUs are "prerelease" material. My CPUs from Intel always are, but I have no reason to believe that they perform any different from a retail release.
Read more: Sandy Bridge vs. Ivy Bridge Benchmark Comparison and Review of Intel 3770K
OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS Review
Introduction
What a long, windy road THIS has been. After a disastrous start, OCZ is back on uryaen.com and this time, we have something I can say truly nothing negative about.
Instead of dwelling on the past, let’s just dive into what we have here:
Today we have a twin pair of OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPSs for evaluation. These are ultra light, ultra fast SSDs to replace your HDDS with. This review is going to be comparatively brief, and keep focus on the video content.
Asus Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard
It's here: Sandy Bridge vs. Ivy Bridge!
Introduction
Instead of the usual "review" style article, today we're going to look at "Gulftown vs. Sandy Bridge" from one particular perspective, and one that I think isn't properly represented on most sites, and that's "multi-tasking".
Thus, this article will encompass the complete "reviews" of both the Intel Core i7 970, and the Intel Core i5 2500K. The 970 will be tested at 4.2GHz, and the 2500K at stock clocks? Why? A - Because I can, but more importantly B - because it shows that NO amount of overclocking the six core will create an advantage where there would not otherwise be one due to having more cores. That's important.
Seagate BA110 NAS Review
Introduction
UPDATE: December 6th - Instead of the frequent updates such as I did with the Revodrive, I'm only updating this once. After months of failed backups, failed reboots, and all around failing, I finally just cracked open the case to extract the drive, which is incidently not a user friendly process, to see if I could at least salvage the drive. That is a no go. The drive is a complete failure. This is now the THIRD Seagate drive in a ROW to catastrophically fail in my lab. As Seagate has been less than forthcoming about updates or further samplings, I will simply conclude for now that Seagate does not have its act together, and you should avoid drives from them. If I get more drives I will review them, but don't hold your breath.
Like my review of the OCZ Revodrive; this review will be relatively short, and lack comprehensive benchmark testing. I will get into why as we go along, but make a note to return to this review in the near future and I will update with more information once I have some product from competitors.
When I first started gathering products for this site a number of months ago, among the vendors I wrote to for product was of course Seagate. Seagate promised a number of product; including the BA440 and a couple of smaller external drives.
UPDATE: October 24th: I have sent a final warning and plea to OCZ leadership about their failed products and near nonexistent customer support. I have moved OCZ for now to Level 5 Warning Status. This means that until I see a marked change in policy and attitude from OCZ and a number of products tested that work without incident to MY standard, I am STRONGLY recommending to never purchase anything OCZ. You will regret it. If this experience changes things for them, great, I will be happy to let you know but for now stay away. OCZ DOES NOT HONOR THEIR LIFETIME WARRANTY. That should be enough to not honor them with your money.
UPDATE: September 29th: Despite repeated pleas to clean up their act, OCZ continues to fail my Integrity Check. I now add "consumer warranty fraud" to the list of failures. I will spare the details, as they no longer matter, but I wouldn't hold my breath for more review product from this flawed company. It's truly a shame, they put out some impressive SOUNDING product, but that product fails to work, and the company behind it fails to support it. This article receives a lot of Google traffic inbound with keywords such as "how to diagnose revoderive", "how to install windows on a ocz revo ssd 80g", "how to updateocz revodrive frimware update", "ocz 80g revo ssd review", "ocz revo 80 gig problems", "ocz revo not recognized", "ocz revo x2 faulty", "ocz revodrive 80gb issues", "ocz revodrive 80gb not see in startup", "ocz revodrive firmware, and so on and so on. These are just SOME of the many ACTUAL search results from Google that have landed on my review. As you can see, people have a lot of problems with OCZ product, and I have a harder and harder time recommending them at all. I have informed the company time and time again, and they remain silent on these issues, and refuse to honor their warranty on my memory product. They are welcome to work toward fixing these issues, but they have shown zero intent to do so.
Read more: OCZ RevoDrive 80GB Review - UPDATED! October 24th.
Corsair 800D Case Review
Introduction1
SPECIAL NOTE:
The following article will reference pictures that are not there. This is not an accidental omission on my part. I am in the process of buying a new camera, but I wanted to start getting reviews posted and get the site going without having to wait. Please be patient, and check back often as I will post when I get the camera, and let you know that the images are going to start coming. Thank you for your patience.
Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Review
Introduction
SPECIAL NOTE:
The following article will reference pictures that are not there. This is not an accidental omission on my part. I am in the process of buying a new camera, but I wanted to start getting reviews posted and get the site going without having to wait. Please be patient, and check back often as I will post when I get the camera, and let you know that the images are going to start coming. Thank you for your patience.
Note: The 6950 and 6970 are forthcoming by the end of next week. I will update this review at that point, with fresh benches and commentary.
The Acer Aspire ONE Review
Introduction
SPECIAL NOTE:
The following article will reference pictures that are not there. This is not an accidental omission on my part. I am in the process of buying a new camera, but I wanted to start getting reviews posted and get the site going without having to wait. Please be patient, and check back often as I will post when I get the camera, and let you know that the images are going to start coming. Thank you for your patience.
Coolit Systems Coolers Review
Introduction
This Meta review will cover a batch of similar products from Coolit Systems. As will be my standard, when I have a set of similar products from the same company, I will combine them, as the keystone concepts of my review process are not given to requiring individual reviews for individual products, or getting bogged down in endless pages of hard to read charts, but is more about the integrity of the product and the company behind it. That said; as we go along, I will gauge reaction and adjust my level of testing detail to match demand. For now I feel that these brief results with the accompanying commentary and unique perspective are a very appropriate level of detail. Some reviews will have more or less.
Read more: Coolit Systems E.C.O 120, 240, and O.M.N.I Liquid Coolers