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Mushkin Radioactive PC3 12800 4GB @ OC Club

“If you need the extra bandwidth and are willing to sacrifice its tighter timings to achieve this, this RAM can really get up there frequency-wise. Most RAM in the 2000+ MHz range runs Cas 9 anyway, so you’re really not trading too much performance to loosen up this RAM and crank up the frequency if needed.”

PNY XLR8 6GB DDR3-1600 @ PureOC

“For the user looking to harness the power of triple channel memory but without an extreme price tag, then the PNY XLR8 6GB DDR3-1600 CL8 memory kit looks very promising. Priced at what looks to be the least expensive performance modules at this speed and latency, these XLR8 (read “accelerate”) sticks appear to offer some excellent value.”

Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD @ MadShrimps

“Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD is the latest sound card from Creative, aimed at both gamers and audiophiles, thanks to the included high quality components. For the first time, Creative offers us the possibility to swap the OPamps, to fine-tune even more the sound quality.”

Zalman S-Series 128GB @ TweakNews

“Zalman’s entry into the SSD market has left me impressed. The S-Series 128GB drive with its JMicron JMF616 controller performed well in benchmark tests, easily reaching the advertised 260mb/s read speed. Write speeds didn’t quite reach the advertised 210mb/s, but they came close and you can count on this being a very quick drive for everyday computing as well as for gaming and other intensive tasks.”

7200 RPM Notebook HDDs @ Tech Report

“You don’t have to go the solid-state route, though. For only $10 more than the average 40GB SSD, Seagate’s latest Momentus notebook drive offers a whopping 750GB at 7,200 RPM. At the same spindle speed, Samsung’s Spinpoint MP4 will take you to 640GB for only $90. Hitachi and Western Digital are a little behind on capacity among 7,200-RPM notebook drives, but then you’ll only pay $75 for the latest 500 Travelstar and $70 for the latest Scorpio.”

MSI P67A-GD65 Preview @ Hardware Secrets

“Let’s take a look at one of the first socket 1155 motherboards that will reach the market, the MSI P67A-GD65 (a.ka. MS-7681 Ver 2.0), based on the forthcoming P67 chipset for future Intel processors based on the “Sandy Bridge” architecture. The highlights of this motherboard include four USB 3.0 ports, four SATA-600 ports, high-end components in the voltage regulator circuit, and nice overclocking features.”

Gigabyte GA-X58-USB3 @ Legit Reviews

“Whether it performs like it or not, the GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 is a low cost board aimed at the budget conscience consumer. Let’s face it, that is a fact that the majority of us users out there today are faced with. Everybody is looking to get the best bang for their buck. For those looking at the Intel X58 spectrum of components, motherboards with the Intel X58 chipset aren’t exactly the lowest cost component out there.”

Patriot Viper Xtreme DDR3 2000MHz @ Neoseeker

“With two 2GB RAM modules it gives you a total of 4GB of RAM which will be plenty for most people with a 64-bit operating system. With an aluminum heat sink over a copper core, this kit should appeal to overclockers as well as the average user.”

Zalman N Series 128GB SSD @ Bjorn3D

“We never thought that Zalman, a company so renowned for their silent cooling solutions, would ever come out with SSDs for performance users and enthusiasts. Though SSDs work silently, we would have never thought that Zalman would get into the flash memory storage market to sell SSDs. Zalman launched several drives ranging from 32GB to 128GB, and our sources tell us that Zalman will have 256GB drives in the future.”

Giagbyte Radeon HD 5670 @ MadShrimps

“Today we’re looking at the GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5670 vga card. At first sight nothing special about this card, apart from (reading from the box) enormeous 80mm large fan, the golden (!) plated HDMI connector and to top it off: DX11 support. Oh, and it’s also Windows 7 compatible. Actually, the card doesn’t look that bad, as in ‘I have seen worse’.”