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[Blog] Innovation Cooling Diamond 7 Carat TIM 3 Comments By randomizer on April 30, 2010 I did some tests of a largely unknown synthetic diamond-based Thermal Interface Material by Innovation Cooling. I compared it to the most well known and most widely used thermal paste, Arctic Silver 5. (more…)
Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX – Performance Review 13 Comments By mav2000 on April 27, 2010 Introduction Welcome to the performance review of the new 890FX chipset and more specifically, the Asus Crosshair IV Formula motherboard. We have already done an extensive pictorial preview of the board and today we are going to concentrate more on the performance of this board. We are going to compare the board to the MSI GD 70 790FX board. As many of you know, the MSI GD70 was one of the best 790FX based boards and was regularly considered amongst the big boys. The main focus of this review i...
[Preview] Unboxing of the Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX 5 Comments By mav2000 on April 22, 2010 Introduction Asus launched the first of the Republic of Gamers (ROG) series for the AMD platform way back in 2007, calling it the Asus Crosshair for the AM2 platform, which was based on the Nvidia nForce 590 chipset. The second in the series was the Asus Crosshair II Formula, which was based on the Nvidia 780a chipset. The third in the series is the Crosshair III Formula and this time Asus did the smart thing and ditched the Nvidia chipsets. They went ahead with the brand new 790FX chipset and m...
[Review] Cooler Master Vortex Plus 2 Comments By The Duke on April 22, 2010 Cooler Master was kind enough to send us the brand new Vortex Plus CPU cooler. It has a low profile design with 4 heat pipes in direct contact with the base. This is a nice touch to help dissipate heat as quickly as possible. With the low profile design, the Vortex needs every advantage it can get to make up for it’s lack of mass and surface area. We will put it to the test and see how well it performs. Will it be able to tackle the Intel i7 monster or will the i7 be too much for the low...
[Review] Seven Way AM3 Cooler Shootout – Winner Takes All 11 Comments By mav2000 on April 19, 2010 Introduction Hello and welcome back to the last installment of the AM3 round up for this half of the year. Over the last year, we have done a number of cooler reviews on the AM3 platform and this review will look to add to these results. But before we begin, we would like to thank Noctua and Thermalright for helping us to put this extensive shootout together. Over the last two years, there have been a number of changes in the rankings of the top air coolers. The TRUE was at the top for a long ti...
[Review] Patriot Bolt 6 Comments By The Duke on April 18, 2010 Our good friends at Patriot Memory have sent us the new Patriot Bolt USB Flash Drive. Bolt is available in the following capacities: 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. It comes with its very own built in security features to help protect your important documents. It will definitely help ease your mind if, one day, you find your flash drive missing. It comes with a 256-bit encryption algorithm built in. AES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard and is a symmetric key encryption technique. AES is s...
The TechREACTION.net & Thermalright Twitter Giveaway! 2 Comments By EnJoY on April 15, 2010 The TechREACTION team and Thermalright are proud to sponsor another Twitter giveaway! As with last months, we’ve tried to make this extremely fast and easy to participate in. The winner will be selected at random and the giveaway will run until Friday, April 30th. To win, all you have to do is follow these simple steps: Step 1: Go to Twitter.com, and if you don’t have an account yet, make one. If you do, step one is already done for you! Step 2: Go to the TechREACTION Twi...
[Review] Cooler Master 690 II “Plus” 6 Comments By mav2000 on April 14, 2010 Introduction Cooler Master’s current best seller, the CM 690 was initially launched in 2007 and has been one of their mainstays ever since then. The popularity of this chassis was such that it spawned a number of variants, amongst them a windowed version and later the pure version with an all black interior. The chassis was very simple in design and construction and what made it such a great product was that it was designed keeping a lot of the market requirements in mind. With chan...
[Blog] Calculating Monitor Height and Width from Diagonal Size 8 Comments By Oj101 on April 5, 2010 Firstly, this isn’t your typical blog. There are no pictures included as all of the following is pure math. Leave a comment if you don’t understand and I’ll see if I can draw the formulae and scan them sometime. Alright, so you want to buy a new 30″ monitor but you’d like to know the exact height and width of the panel to get a feel for the viewable are on your desk before you buy it. How do you do it? Simple. You need the following: ————R...
[Review] Sapphire Radeon HD5770 1GB PCI-E 5 Comments By The Duke on April 4, 2010 With the much anticipated release of the 5xxx series a success on many levels, the ATI crowd has much to celebrate. The new 5 series cards put ATI back on top of the video card market. They can now boast about the amazing DX11 compatibility and the Eyefinity technology introduced with the higher end 5 series cards. The 5770 is in the middle of the pack for the new generation of cards, with the 5970 in the lead and the 5450 bringing up the rear. All in all, ATI has to be loving the massive succes...
[Blog] Android 2.1 update on the Moto Droid 2 Comments By Burn on April 4, 2010 Well as some might already know, Verizon and Motorola have been talking about an Android 2.1 update for the droid for weeks now, and it’s finally here. Verizon began pushing out the update on March 30th, and I was able to get a hold of the update file and install it on my phone manually. My first impression wasn’t all that great; it didn’t include the fancy launcher that the Nexus One has, it didn’t include the cool 2.1 clock app the Nexus One also has, and some other lit...
AMID Announces Machine Intelligence Benchmark | SingularityMark 4 Comments By 64NOMIS on April 1, 2010 AMID Announces Machine Intelligence Benchmark SingularityMark Industry and academia hail new benchmark which promises to trace the path toward machine intelligence and self awareness. April 1st 2010 Embargo Until 12:01AM SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–AMID’s (NYSE: AMID) acclaimed platform technologies have enjoyed their rampage, blazing through the immersive games, revolutionizing productivity, transforming human interaction, and shattering world records. Reflecting...
TechREACTION.net – Blog & Win – Thermalright April Giveaway! 2 Comments By EnJoY on April 1, 2010 All registered Bloggers have the chance to win free hardware at least once a month forever! That’s right! FREE HARDWARE! Just for being a registered and active blogger of TechREACTION.net. How do I sign up? Simple, first register at this page to become a TR blogger. Once you receive your account information, half the job is done. Second, go to the TechREACTION forums and register there as well. You must be registered in both places to be eligible. Bloggers are given special acce...
EVGA March Blogger Giveaway! Here is the winner… 2 Comments By EnJoY on April 1, 2010 It’s that time again when a monthly blogging giveaway comes to an end and another begins. This past month was sponsored very graciously by EVGA. They offered up one of their P55 motherboards, specifically the EVGA P55 132-LF-E655-KR. EVGA P55 Motherboard The Winner of the March Blogger Giveaway is carpo93! Congratulations to carpo93, and thank you to EVGA for sponsoring. Stay tuned for April’s giveaway announcement later on today.

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