AMD CPU Update
The CPUs included in the review are the Phenom 2 X2 555 BE C3, which is the highest performing dual core from the current range, as well as three CPUs from the Athlon range: X4 635, X3 440 and X2 255.
Mionix Naos 5000 Gaming Mouse
Mionix is a Swedish manufacturer that started the business in 2007. Their product range covers mouse pads, a gaming headset, and a couple of gaming mouse models, the newest of which made its way to our review this time.
Sapphire HD 5750 Vapor-X
Gamers on a budget can have hard time on finding good value for their money. This time we'll check out if Sapphire's HD5750 offers enough "bang for the buck".
Mionix Keid 20
The names for Mionix products are borrowed from visible stars on the sky, so lets dive in and see if that's enough to keep their products "light-years ahead of the game" as they state on their site.
Assembly Winter '10
The venue chosen for the winter-event was Kaapelitehdas, located in Ruoholahti. We took a quick visit to the event, so we'd see how the new location suited the event.
Silverstone Fortress FT02
By the look of things, it's very much the same chassis as the Raven 2 reviewed earlier, but aimed at a bit different target audience.
MSI P55-GD80
The GD80 is one of MSIs top offering for the users that want to use the newest LGA1156 socket CPUs.
Valokkeet - Lightset
Instructions on how to make yourself a gadget that will heal all your bad moods and depression by only using light. No, you will not look at the light, nor hear it even though it enters your body via your ear!
Razer Imperator Gaming Mouse
Ever since the first appearance of gaming mice, Razer has without a doubt been one of the largest names. Ever since their first models they've been pumping out successful models one after another, and this time their newcomer - the Imperator - came to our tests.
ROCCAT ARVO
On the ever-growing gaming peripheral markets there have been lots of manufacturers and even more ideas on how to stand from the crowd, but at the end of the day there are just a couple of real players. One of the big names is Roccat, and this time they have come up with a new keyboard - Arvo.
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Linux 2.6.34-rc2 Kernel Released - Phoronix Some 18 hours ago the Linux 2.6.34-rc2 version was tagged and is now available, but oddly we have yet to come across a kernel release announcement from Linus Torvalds. However, for those interested in the Linux 2.6.34-rc2 change-log is available...
Roccat Kova Gaming Maus - Ocaholic.ch Roccat präsentiert mit der Kova ihren neusten High-Tech Gaming Nager. Dieser soll treiberlos funktionieren und vorallem eine noch angenehmere Form besitzen als ihr Vorgänger. Weiter soll man auch eine standesgemässe LED-Beleuchtung erhalten.
Mesa Receives Some OpenGL 3 Love - Phoronix OpenGL 3.0 was announced in the summer of 2007 and since then we have seen the subsequent releases of the 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 specifications. Just last week there was even the release of OpenGL 4.0. The proprietary Linux graphics drivers have picked up support for these latest industry standard specifications, but it hasn't been smooth sailing in the open-source world...
Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 "Lyngen" Alpha 2 - Phoronix I don't generally like to push out software updates over the weekend, but this morning when looking at the patch from 2.6 Alpha 1 (that was released 11 days ago) to the current Git master, it amounts to about 10,500 lines / 400kb. There's really not a lot of code reorganization or other trivial changes, so we are overdue for a new alpha release of Phoronix Test Suite 2.6, a.k.a. Lyngen...
NZXT Sentry 2 Performance Touch Screen Fan Controller Review - Legit Reviews The NZXT Sentry 2 is a full system fan controller with an advanced touch screen interface. The Sentry 2 easily installs in a 5.25-inch drive bay and is compatible with any fan that uses voltage control. The innovative touch screen features ultra fast selection and response time and displays all pertinent info including temperature readout in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Google Gets Into The 3D Driver Game - Phoronix To help out the adoption of WebGL, the Khronos-backed API originally started by Mozilla that seeks to let web developers tap into modern graphics processors via the web-browser natively, has caused Google to get into the graphics driver game. WebGL binds to OpenGL ES 2.0, and with the Microsoft graphics drivers being more DirectX-optimized rather than OpenGL, Google's playing to Microsoft. Google wants more users to be able to use WebGL, particularly when running the Chrome browser, so they have just announced the Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine. The objective of ANGLE is to just take the subset of the OpenGL ES API exposed by WebGL and to translate those extensions into their DirectX 9.0c equivalents...
Mionix Naos 5000 Gaming Mouse Review - bit-tech.net The Naos 5000 is a highly moulded gaming mouse that hugs the shape of your hand. With a maximum sensitivity of 5,040dpi and all the customisation options of a modern gaming mouse. Read on to see why it's one of the best mice we've tested to date.
Ubuntu Gets Another ATI Catalyst Driver Handout - Phoronix Well, to no surprise the trend of Ubuntu receiving unreleased Catalyst drivers has continued. Since Ubuntu 8.10, AMD has had to supply Canonical with early Catalyst drivers not otherwise publicly available so that they could ship with support for their binary Catalyst driver within the operating system's package repository...
Wine 1.1.41 Released w/ Direct3D Improvements - Phoronix It's time for another bi-weekly development release of Wine and this time we have the v1.1.41 release, which brings some particularly interesting changes. Wine 1.1.41 offers up a "wide range" of Direct3D improvements, support for SHA-256/SHA-384/SHA-512 algorithms, more MSHTML fixes, support for MP3 decoding on Mac OS X, widl improvements, more typelib fixes, and OLE storage improvements. There's also the usual variety of bug-fixes...
ASUS Eee PC 1008P Karim Rashid Collection: A Stylish Netbook - InsideHW The most basic question we have in mind before testing any new notebook is the expected performance. However, in the case of ASUS Eee PC 1008P Seashell Karim Rashid Collection netbook, the question was entirely different - could it really be as beautiful as we thought it was when we glanced at the pictures? Only a few seconds after the netbook had been unwrapped sufficed for most to agree that they were looking at the best looking netbook ever…
Trust SoundForce USB Powered Portable Speakers Reviewed - DragonSteelMods Most products out there aren't perfect, far from it, but many have redeeming qualities that will make up for a lot of bad things about them. Every once in a while though I'll get a product that is just downright bad and doesn't even come close to doing what it's supposed to do. Our ratings system here is a bit different than other sites, even if a product gets a perfect 5 out of 5, that doesn't mean it's perfect and flawless with no issues, it just means that it does what it's advertised to do and/or exceeds the expectations of the product. It's one that is worth buying as it performs as it should and it's a quality product. Today I've got a quick review for you of a product that I could only describe as horrible. Our friends over at GearZap have sent me over a pair of portable speakers for review and I'm guessing they're regretting it now. These speakers are USB powered and meant to be used with your laptop or netbook and they sound terrible, just full of static and crackling sounds. With one of my netbooks when I plug them in my netbook turns off! It's not the netbook, I've used other portable speakers and many other devices with it with no issues, it's the speakers themselves that have a problem somewhere. So read on if you want to, but you don't have to as it's not even worth the read!
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta Released - Phoronix It's arriving a day late but Steve Langasek has announced the release of the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta. This first major Ubuntu update of 2010 is codenamed "Lucid Lynx" and most Phoronix readers are already familiar with the new features and changes from all of our Lucid articles so we will spare you the details. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu have all reached a 10.04 Beta status too...
HIS Radeon HD 5670 Videocard Review @ Tweaknews - Tweaknews The HIS Radeon HD5670 is a very capable card for the cheap price of only US$89 at your favorite online retailer. Although it is not a screamer, at almost half the price of a HD5750, for the moderate gamer, it could be considered quite a deal for a videocard sporting such an impressive stock cooling solution.
Thermaltake Level 10 Super Gaming Case Review - Legit Reviews If you are tired of computer cases that look like just about every other chassis out there, then Thermaltake and BMW Designworks USA have the case for you. The Thermaltake Level 10 Super-Gaming Modular Tower Chassis is the culmination of performance, design and innovation in computer chassis. Actually, this case would qualify as a super case as it is in a league of its own!
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