[Water Cooling] Fan Test XSPC RX 480 Quad Rad6 Comments By The DukecloseAuthor: The DukeName: Drew Briggs Email: drew@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About: Just keeping it real for the average joe overclocker and computer user.See Authors Posts (168) on December 20, 2011
With all the questions I have received lately on water cooling, which fans to get and how will they effect my cooling, I decided to throw together a test with a few different fans that I have lying around here. I will be running a push/pull installation with my fans for the testing. I am hoping to show differences in the fans used, or lack thereof. Yes, I know the choices of fans are just a miniscule amount considering the large number of fans on the market today.
Yes, absent is one of the mos...
[Review] Cooler Master H612PWM1 Comment By BoTcloseAuthor: BoTName: Edward Reese Email: bot@codisha.com Site:http://www.codisha.com About:See Authors Posts (14) on September 14, 2011
Introduction
Today we have an exclusive Cooler Master release product on the bench. The H612PWM is an ambitious attempt to take the cooling crown. We are very proud to be one of the first to have it to get an exclusive look at what could be the future of the air cooling market.
Looks like sheer size and the brutal force of 6 heat pipes is the magic behind the Cooler Master H612. The cooler was not intended for small cases but performance was the primary idea behind this design. The H612 feature...
[Blog/Preview] Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200w Power Supply1 Comment By The DukecloseAuthor: The DukeName: Drew Briggs Email: drew@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About: Just keeping it real for the average joe overclocker and computer user.See Authors Posts (168) on May 9, 2011
Ranging from the ever-efficient 600W all the way up to the 1200W power supply, the Silent Pro Gold lineup will have something to satisfy the energy cravings of any system. With a power efficiency rating of 90%, the Silent Pro Gold line meets the 80Plus Gold Standard. To achieve this goal, Cooler Master incorporates three visionary patents into this innovative design.
The Hybrid Transformer incorporates the transformer with the heat sink, not only reducing the size by 25% over traditional trans...
MSI @ CES: P67 Big Bang Marshall and new AMD board?3 Comments By EnJoYcloseAuthor: EnJoYName: Alex Joy Email: alex@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About:See Authors Posts (53) on January 9, 2011
While we attempt to finish up our coverage of CES 2011, we paid a visit to our friends at MSI to discuss some of their new and upcoming products. MSI has been hard of work this past year, investing heavily into the overall quality and features of their motherboards. Check out the gallery below for shots of some of their products. We’ll go into greater details on some of the most interesting products further down.
#gallery-1 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-item ...
MSI GTX 480 Lightning Picture Preview2 Comments By PlanetcloseAuthor: PlanetName: Jake C Email: jake@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About:See Authors Posts (8) on November 17, 2010
Be sure to check back for the full review and extreme overclocking results from the card
#gallery-2 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-2 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 50%; }
#gallery-2 img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
Gallery of ASUS Sandy Bridge motherboards1 Comment By PlanetcloseAuthor: PlanetName: Jake C Email: jake@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About:See Authors Posts (8) on November 17, 2010
Check out the new ASUS boards based on the next generation Intel chipset
#gallery-3 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-3 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%; }
#gallery-3 img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
...
|LN2Cooling.com Evaporator Under Dry Ice| – |Phenom II X6 1090T Overclocking|1 Comment By SlappacloseAuthor: SlappaName: Matthew Sembinelli Email: matthew.sembinelli@gmail.com Site:http://slappablog.wordpress.com About: Hardware Enthusiast, and OverclockerSee Authors Posts (17) on November 16, 2010
In part one, I showed the unboxing of the pot I received for testing. This is a very large, and well-designed evaporator mainly used for LN2 and LHe. I decided I’d just recreate the thread with part one and two so you guys can see it all in one place:
I know some of you saw my recent dry ice runs on my Phenom II rig. In a few threads I discussed that for my next run I will have a different pot to play around with — and I assure you that promise was kept.
The video is up! Click...
[Preview] Unboxing of the Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX5 Comments By mav2000closeAuthor: mav2000Name: Ashish Mehta Email: ashish.dm@gmail.com Site: About:See Authors Posts (18) 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...
[Blog] ASUS MAXIMUS III EXTREME3 Comments By giorgioprimocloseAuthor: giorgioprimoName: massmiliano calandrini Email: giorgioprimo@gmail.com Site: About:See Authors Posts (1) on March 30, 2010
Since I saw it at CEBIT 2010 in Hannover i felt in love and finally got the chance to test it
The most attractive thing was the Bluetooth IRog module
The I/O section and the bundle are pretty stuffed
The power sections for CPU and RAM are fully enforced
Firstable started some test on air-cooling to check the capability of Bclock and Ram frequency ( different sets of timing)
let’s see how far is possible to push the RAM
230 bclock and 2300 RAM 3D benchable on air ̷...
PAX East: Nvidia “Fermi” Launch Event – Live Blog!4 Comments By EnJoYcloseAuthor: EnJoYName: Alex Joy Email: alex@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About:See Authors Posts (53) on March 26, 2010
TechREACTION.net is at PAX East tonight for the Nvidia Launch Event where they will be officially announcing the new GTX 480 and GTX 470 series of graphics cards. Many of the details of these new GPU’s have already leaked out, but tonight will we know what is true and what is false. Hopefully there will be a few surprises in store, but to find out you’ll want to keep track of this live blog from 6:00PM EST and on as we give you live updates from the launch event!
Keep your eyes pee...
[Blog] Nvidia GTX 470 benchmark results leak through the fingers?0 Comments By FetishgodcloseAuthor: FetishgodName: Robert Nowicki Email: nowicki.robert@gmail.com Site: About:See Authors Posts (1) on March 4, 2010
In the world where Nvidia “Fermi” graphics cards had been so long awaited, speculations are still the only thing most of us have. But speculations being unreliable, we can only assume that time will tell the tale. Apparently guys at Chiphell forums think otherwise. In fact, they just posted 3DMark06 benchmark results for the upcoming GTX 470. Question of course is if those are in fact legit numbers or yet another speculation on someones part. If those turn up to be true, Nvidia is he...
Antec TPQ 1200w0 Comments By The DukecloseAuthor: The DukeName: Drew Briggs Email: drew@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About: Just keeping it real for the average joe overclocker and computer user.See Authors Posts (168) on February 2, 2010
Well lets take a quick look into the Antec TPQ 1200w with a nice picture tour and a brief overview of what I see and notice along the way.
I hope you like pictures because I am bringing a lot for you to look at. Lets get started with the massive PSU and all the glory that is 1200w!
Features:
PowerCache™, a high-performance capacitor that delivers an extra power reserve when and where users need it most
NVIDIA™ SLI™ – ready certified and ATI CrossFire™ certified
80...
EXCLUSIVE! New EVGA Classified Dual-Proc Board – 270-GT-W555!18 Comments By EnJoYcloseAuthor: EnJoYName: Alex Joy Email: alex@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About:See Authors Posts (53) on January 7, 2010
I just came out of my meeting at the EVGA suite here in Las Vegas and I have some great pictures and new specs to report on this hot board! I was able to have some one on one time with EVGA’s Jacob Freeman and Peter Tan (aka Shamino) and was able to see this new board hands-on (a world first).
EVGA Classified Dual Processor Motherboard
First of all, most of you are probably aware of the primary specs that have already been released for the board. These include three phase PWM for each ...
ZombieTek – LCD Display3 Comments By BuckeyecloseAuthor: BuckeyeName: Bill Harmon Email: wharmon@comcast.net Site: About:See Authors Posts (10) on December 26, 2009
Last year I began working on a project with a couple of friends that was based on a 4” LCD Display powered by a SLCD6 controller.
After seeing these units at Reachtech.com who manufactures these units in all different sizes and specifications I thought to myself that one of these units would be a great MOD to show computer data on the front of my TJ07 that I had just built. With the help from my friend Jeff I managed to get a unit from Steve over at Reachtech, both of whom are great guys and f...
Piecemeal Upgrades Pt 2.2 – Components0 Comments By NeuromancercloseAuthor: NeuromancerName: Rich Smith Email: rsmith@nettronic.net Site: About:See Authors Posts (27) 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...
Phenom II 965 – Higher leakage than 955?0 Comments By EnJoYcloseAuthor: EnJoYName: Alex Joy Email: alex@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About:See Authors Posts (53) on July 18, 2009
TechREACTION.net Blogger and community member, pcc|2iminal, has ran that tests on an engineering sample Phenom II X4 965 BE CPU. His results are rather surprising given the mild bump in speed and .05 increase in VCore over the similar 955 series chip.
You can read his full results in his thread in the TechREACTION forums, here.
Watch the video here:
What Is Phenom II TWKR?6 Comments By SlappacloseAuthor: SlappaName: Matthew Sembinelli Email: matthew.sembinelli@gmail.com Site:http://slappablog.wordpress.com About: Hardware Enthusiast, and OverclockerSee Authors Posts (17) on June 14, 2009
I wish I knew. Don’t we all? These are supposed to be Phenom II X4 chips that have overclocking capabilities that exceed any retail Phenom II part. Pretty cool, but there are still many unknowns that need to be answered before we can truly start to speculate on the potential of these new chips. Let’s start with what we know…
What we know so far:
TWKR = “Tweaker”
-We can assume that this means this chip is a special performer for enthusiast overclockers
Speci...
EVGA X58 Classified Takes i7 920 Over 5.3GHz4 Comments By 3oh6closeAuthor: 3oh6Name: Jody Bailey Email: 3ohhh6@gmail.com Site:http://www.3oh6.com About: Being born and raised in northern Canada, you could say I was prepped for benching "cold" my whole life.See Authors Posts (6) on May 3, 2009
It was almost exactly a month ago that I took the Classified and its 965 occupant over the 5GHz mark and under seven minutes in 32M SuperPi. Well today, I took the baby nephew of the 965 – an Intel Core i7 920 – well over 5GHz and even further below seven minutes in 32M Super Pi.
The trip started innocently enough with a locally purchased i7 920 sporting the date code 3845B026. Soon after some quick air testing, however, things took a turn towards the crazy track with the idea to t...
AMD Phenom II 9550 Comments By PlanetcloseAuthor: PlanetName: Jake C Email: jake@techreaction.net Site:http://www.techreaction.net About:See Authors Posts (8) on April 23, 2009
Chew* has a great post on our forums with the new AMD Phenom II 955. Heres an exceprt.
“I saw a lot of shots like this and I personally disprove of them, not real world at all……….Yes you can do 4 gig on stock volts……….however lets see what it takes for true stability……..”
Check out the full post here
With all the questions I have received lately on water cooling, which fans to get and how will they effect my cooling, I decided to throw together a test with a few different fans that I have lying around here. I will be running a push/pull installation with my fans for the testing. I am hoping to show differences in the fans used, or lack thereof. Yes, I know the choices of fans are just a miniscule amount considering the large number of fans on the market today.
Yes, absent is one of the mos... 
Introduction
Today we have an exclusive Cooler Master release product on the bench. The H612PWM is an ambitious attempt to take the cooling crown. We are very proud to be one of the first to have it to get an exclusive look at what could be the future of the air cooling market.
Looks like sheer size and the brutal force of 6 heat pipes is the magic behind the Cooler Master H612. The cooler was not intended for small cases but performance was the primary idea behind this design. The H612 feature... 
Ranging from the ever-efficient 600W all the way up to the 1200W power supply, the Silent Pro Gold lineup will have something to satisfy the energy cravings of any system. With a power efficiency rating of 90%, the Silent Pro Gold line meets the 80Plus Gold Standard. To achieve this goal, Cooler Master incorporates three visionary patents into this innovative design.
The Hybrid Transformer incorporates the transformer with the heat sink, not only reducing the size by 25% over traditional trans... 
Be sure to check back for the full review and extreme overclocking results from the card
#gallery-2 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-2 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 50%; }
#gallery-2 img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
Check out the new ASUS boards based on the next generation Intel chipset
#gallery-3 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-3 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%; }
#gallery-3 img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
... 
In part one, I showed the unboxing of the pot I received for testing. This is a very large, and well-designed evaporator mainly used for LN2 and LHe. I decided I’d just recreate the thread with part one and two so you guys can see it all in one place:
I know some of you saw my recent dry ice runs on my Phenom II rig. In a few threads I discussed that for my next run I will have a different pot to play around with — and I assure you that promise was kept.
The video is up! Click... 
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... 
Since I saw it at CEBIT 2010 in Hannover i felt in love and finally got the chance to test it
The most attractive thing was the Bluetooth IRog module
The I/O section and the bundle are pretty stuffed
The power sections for CPU and RAM are fully enforced
Firstable started some test on air-cooling to check the capability of Bclock and Ram frequency ( different sets of timing)
let’s see how far is possible to push the RAM
230 bclock and 2300 RAM 3D benchable on air ̷... 
TechREACTION.net is at PAX East tonight for the Nvidia Launch Event where they will be officially announcing the new GTX 480 and GTX 470 series of graphics cards. Many of the details of these new GPU’s have already leaked out, but tonight will we know what is true and what is false. Hopefully there will be a few surprises in store, but to find out you’ll want to keep track of this live blog from 6:00PM EST and on as we give you live updates from the launch event!
Keep your eyes pee... 
Well lets take a quick look into the Antec TPQ 1200w with a nice picture tour and a brief overview of what I see and notice along the way.
I hope you like pictures because I am bringing a lot for you to look at. Lets get started with the massive PSU and all the glory that is 1200w!
Features:
PowerCache™, a high-performance capacitor that delivers an extra power reserve when and where users need it most
NVIDIA™ SLI™ – ready certified and ATI CrossFire™ certified
80... 
I just came out of my meeting at the EVGA suite here in Las Vegas and I have some great pictures and new specs to report on this hot board! I was able to have some one on one time with EVGA’s Jacob Freeman and Peter Tan (aka Shamino) and was able to see this new board hands-on (a world first).
EVGA Classified Dual Processor Motherboard
First of all, most of you are probably aware of the primary specs that have already been released for the board. These include three phase PWM for each ... 
Last year I began working on a project with a couple of friends that was based on a 4” LCD Display powered by a SLCD6 controller.
After seeing these units at Reachtech.com who manufactures these units in all different sizes and specifications I thought to myself that one of these units would be a great MOD to show computer data on the front of my TJ07 that I had just built. With the help from my friend Jeff I managed to get a unit from Steve over at Reachtech, both of whom are great guys and f... 
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... 
TechREACTION.net Blogger and community member, pcc|2iminal, has ran that tests on an engineering sample Phenom II X4 965 BE CPU. His results are rather surprising given the mild bump in speed and .05 increase in VCore over the similar 955 series chip.
You can read his full results in his thread in the TechREACTION forums, here.
Watch the video here:
I wish I knew. Don’t we all? These are supposed to be Phenom II X4 chips that have overclocking capabilities that exceed any retail Phenom II part. Pretty cool, but there are still many unknowns that need to be answered before we can truly start to speculate on the potential of these new chips. Let’s start with what we know…
What we know so far:
TWKR = “Tweaker”
-We can assume that this means this chip is a special performer for enthusiast overclockers
Speci... 
It was almost exactly a month ago that I took the Classified and its 965 occupant over the 5GHz mark and under seven minutes in 32M SuperPi. Well today, I took the baby nephew of the 965 – an Intel Core i7 920 – well over 5GHz and even further below seven minutes in 32M Super Pi.
The trip started innocently enough with a locally purchased i7 920 sporting the date code 3845B026. Soon after some quick air testing, however, things took a turn towards the crazy track with the idea to t... 
Chew* has a great post on our forums with the new AMD Phenom II 955. Heres an exceprt.
“I saw a lot of shots like this and I personally disprove of them, not real world at all……….Yes you can do 4 gig on stock volts……….however lets see what it takes for true stability……..”
Check out the full post here
News Headlines
Categories
Tags
Links
Archives
