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[Review] Coolink Corator DS CPU-Cooler – Shootout on the AM3 platform 1 Comment By mav2000 on March 11, 2010 Introduction Hello all and welcome back to my never ending quest to find the best air cooling solutions from across the globe. Today we have in our hands a new cooler called the Coolink Corator DS. I would like to thank Kolink International for sending us the cooler. Kolink International Corporation is a cooling specialist established in 1996 and well known amongst industry insiders. Through the years, Kolink designed and manufactured many top-performing heat-sinks, under various different brand...
Overclocking The MSI 785GM-E65 Integrated ATI HD4200 GPU 0 Comments By The Duke on February 14, 2010 Now that you have read my first blog (*cough* HERE *cough*) about the HD4200 IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor). We will be moving on to overclocking the HD4200 in this article and seeing what all it has! Hopefully, this is satisfy all the advanced users curiosities, if you have any, about this IGP. This was a new experience for me, because I am an avid gamer and have always had a stand alone GPU. IGP is not in my vocabulary when it comes to building gaming systems. Needless to say, I was pre...
MSI 785GM-E65 Integrated ATI HD4200 GPU 8 Comments By The Duke on February 12, 2010 With my I7 system sitting around and only needing a video card, I decided to take it out of my AMD rig and use the IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor) the board offers. If you all are like me, it has probably been at least 10 years since you even thought about integrated graphics. With the new games that are available in today’s market these IGP’s, however much improved, will still be slaughtered. The real question however, is just how bad will these games eat up this ATI Radeon HD...
Piecemeal Upgrades Pt 4 Data Protection 0 Comments By Neuromancer on December 21, 2009 The Piecemeal Upgrade pt4 Data Protection: Redundancy, backups, offline and online storage. With limited funds in a single PC household it is important to have a PC that is never down for too long. One of the key problems associated with piecemeal upgrades however is the need to occasionally reinstall the operating system. This can be a nightmare trying to back up documents, photos, settings, applications as well as operating system tweaks one may prefer. Learning how to properly maintain y...
Corsair H50 – A Brief Look 1 Comment By mav2000 on December 21, 2009 Introduction As some of you know, I was stuck with an H50 for a few days and I was wondering if I should give it a go myself. The price was just about fine for this piece of kit and it sure looked good. So what I did do in the end was run a few tests against the Thermolab Baram to see what all the noise was about. Let me say that I was not disappointed. Before I get ahead of myself, lets take a short look at the company that produces the H50 and also take a look at the H50 itself. Corsair, as a...
Battle of the Titans – ASUS GTX 295 Vs. ASUS ATI 5870 5 Comments By mav2000 on December 10, 2009 Introduction Its been a while since I wrote a review and thats because I have been concentrating on completing two reviews at the same time. This along with an increased work load has meant that I have been off these pages for far too long. But enough of the chit chat, lets move along to the battle at hand. The Asus 5870 VS. the Asus GTX 295 This is a battle that has been brewing on the net for the last month or so, and I thought that I should do a shootout to find out for myself which is the b...
Air fun with HIS HD4890 1GB 1 Comment By 0Ro! on October 11, 2009 Hello everyone, I had a little time last week and I done some pretesting with the HIS HD4890 1GB that it can do on cold air form outside – next time maybe extreme cooling power were used. (more…)
Piece Meal Upgrades pt 3 0 Comments By Neuromancer on October 4, 2009 Piece Meal Upgrades pt 3 As already discussed, a piece meal upgrade is performed when a jump to an entirely new platform is not financially possible. A ground up all new part design is best and will give the best price performance ratio if properly setup. For those that cannot afford a complete rebuild though, designing a system with affordable parts that also support upgrading over an extended period of time is the only option. While more money will be spent over the life of the upgrade, re...
Personal Review 4890 ….with Benchmarking and Overclock ! 2 Comments By Gaul on September 27, 2009 OKAY ! Let me share FIRST thing to do : - Find oc software for increase VOLT GPU ( 4890 ) in this case Download : http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1383/mirrors.php after that… open it, Go to Voltage TAB, then show : VDDC = V gpu 1.3125 by default ??? = V RAM ( i think ), don’t touch this ! not recommend….as we know better OC GPU than MEM in ATI.. My RIG : -e84 @ 4 GH -4890 -4 GB kit FSB 5/5/5/12 ( 5 : 4 ) -CORSAIR TX-850W VANTAGE MAX OC on def Voltag...
A Madman’s Rant, AMD HD5870 1 Comment By Jason on September 27, 2009 First off I would like to say, my name is Jason Jones and I’ve been involved with PC hardware for the past six or seven years, I’ve seen the AMD Althon XP’s come and embarrass the Intel offerings. I’ve seen the Athlon 64’s come and embarrass the Intel Pentium D’s, and so on so fourth. Then the transitions from DDR to DDR2 and now as the processors and mainboards are evolving to DDR3. However the graphics card battles throughout the years and what happening now...
Ati Radeon 5870 out 3 Comments By carpo93 on September 23, 2009 Today the new ati top card can be bought. Here’s some pics: The chip architecture: Tonight i will post benches.
Piecemeal Upgrades Pt 2.2 – Components 0 Comments By Neuromancer on September 21, 2009 Components The longevity of your computer components varies wildly, with the most expensive pieces often being a top performer for the shortest period of time. In order from longest lasting to shortest Hard Disk Drive/ Optical Disk Drive, Power Supply Unit, Video card, Memory, Motherboard, CPU. This breakdown is purely subjective, and while easily could instigate discussion on what pieces do have the longest longevity citing specific models of components, for brevity’s sake we will continu...
Piecemeal upgrades pt2.1 – Peripherals 0 Comments By Neuromancer on September 21, 2009 The Peripherals Monitors, come in 2 distinct flavors, CRT (not manufactured anymore) and LCD. The difference between CRT and LCD is dramatic, with vivid colors and crisp geometries on LCD, higher resolution and better contrast on CRT. LCD’s can be upgraded very cheaply now, CRT has no upgrade path, it is only mentioned if the upgrade inventory currently has a high resolution or widescreen CRT monitor, it may be reused rather effectively until the size and power requirements effect the end ...
Piecemeal upgrades pt2 0 Comments By Neuromancer on September 21, 2009 Identifying your needs, wants and haves. The first step of upgrading a PC is identifying the specific functions that a PC is going to need to handle at the final build. This may change depending on your build upgrade timeline, as newer architecture is being released, and unanticipated price drops occur. Spending a few minutes a day reading about upcoming hardware releases helps to predict price drops on components as well as identifying features that you may want to add. OEM PCs make their...

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