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Sapphire HD 4670 Ultimate Edition @ OC Club

“The heatsink used on the Ultimate Edition HD 4670 is a passive design. This means that its sole means of discharging the thermal load, is to rely on the temperature differential between the air in the chassis and the heatsink itself. Of course better case airflow will allow the heatsink to be more effective. Sapphire has come up with creative solutions for cooling ATI based video cards over the past year with the Toxic and Atomic series of video cards.”

BFG GeForce GTX 295 H20 @ Guru3D

“BFG is the first to bring a liquid-cooled GeForce GTX 295 to the market. As extravagant liquid cooling a GeForce GTX 295 really is, the end results in cooling performance, gaming performance and the incredible aesthetics a product like this offers is extraordinary. The guys of Danger Den provided a massive copper block to sit in-between the two GPUs and chill them down to very nice temperatures.”

XFX GTX285 Black Edition @ OC Club

“The XFX GTX285 Black Edition was the fastest single GPU option in all of the tests, minus Fallout 3, and even put up a good fight with the dual-GPU options. The fan on this card was not loud, with an idle speed of 40% and maximum of 56% under load for measured fan speed. The card never ran over 80 Celsius at load, and idled in the high 30s.”

Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3-1600 @ Hexus

“The self-titled ‘memory experts’ launched a Ballistix line of high-performance memory a while back, primed to appeal to the enthusiast who’d usually look toward Corsair and OCZ for cutting-edge RAM. Ballistix was augmented with flashy (literally!) Tracer memory, which added some bling. Now, that Tracer series is available in three colours with LEDs to match.”

OCZ Platinum 6GB DDR3-1600 @ PureOC

“Today we’re looking at a set OCZ Platinum 6GB triple channel DDR3-1600 modules, sticks that appear to offer great aesthetics at a great price. But what about performance? We think Performance is King, so we’ll see if the missing link in the equation here is indeed missing or not with these OCZ Platinum sticks.”

AMD Phenom II X3 720/X4 810/X4 920 @ Digit-Life

“We can conclude that Phenom II processors demonstrate more attractive performance than their direct competitors from the Core 2 series. For example, the 810 processor looks much better than Q8200 and Q6600 that has a much larger cache.”

Sapphire 780G @ Bjoprn3D

“In fact with onboard graphics, that will take some load away from the CPU thus making your video run smoother, would be perfect for an HTPC. This also happens to be AMD’s newest socket, AM2. This socket includes a wide range of CPU’s from single core CPU’s, all the way up to quad cores.”

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 & GA-EX58-Extreme @ X-Bit Labs

“Our today’s article continues a series of reviews of the new platforms: we are going to talk about two new mainboards from Gigabyte: GA-EX58-UD5 and GA-EX58-Extreme. It makes perfect sense to combine these two mainboards within a single article because they have a lot of common traits and very few insignificant differences. This way we can avoid repeating the same things about them and at the same time focus on the distinguishing features of each of them. One of the most noticeable differences between them is their packaging.”

Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 @ TBreak

“The order of the day is all about a feature packed motherboard from Gigabyte based on the Intel P45 chipset, the EP45-DQ6. It rounds up to being the perfect motherboard for all users thanks to having almost everything one would need.”

DFI LANParty DK 790FX-B M2RSH @ Bit-Tech

“After many years those people who want to run RAID on XP (and thus need a floppy disk to load the drivers) will already have them and the rest of us will be using Windows Vista, which either has the drivers built in or can accept them via a USB key. The lack of a full complement of SATA cables is also disappointing, as most of us will prefer SATA cables for the many hard drives filling our systems these days, especially as mass storage is so cheap.”