Koribo Vivar Wireless Keyboard

Link: http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/review-of-koribo-vivar-wireless-keyboard/

Quote:
“Today for review I’m back with the final of three wireless keyboards from our friends at Koribo. This one is called the Vivar and it features a trackball as the mouse along with thirteen multi-media keys, scroll wheel and two sets of mouse buttons to round it all off. It has a nice soft rubberized surface to make sure you keep your grip, and all the while it provides you with the comforts of a full-sized keyboard. ”

Kingston SSDNow V100 128GB SSD Review

Quote:

“Priced at $240 for the drive and desktop upgrade kit, the Kingston SSDNow V100 128GB SSD falls in the middle of the pack in terms of price in comparison to its peers. It’s available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities with notebook and desktop upgrade kits available for all three sized drives as well. The 128GB desktop bundle version we received offers read speeds topping out at 250MB/s and writes at up to 230MB/s and is covered by a three year warranty….”

Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1556/1/

Sapphire EDGE-HD Mini PC Review

QUOTE: “The second I pulled the EDGE-HD out of the package I fell in love with it. The small stature which comes in at 19.3cm tall, 14.8cm in length and a skinny 2.2cm in width makes for an extremely tiny PC that comes in at only 530 grams. Based around the Intel Atom D510 CPU which comes in at 1.66GHz, you find yourself feeling a little dirty looking at a Sapphire product that houses a 512MB NVIDIA ION 2 setup inside.

On the RAM front we’ve got 2GB of DDR2 and storage comes in the form of a 2.5″ 250GB SATA hard drive. Connection to your network comes in the form of both 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet and 802.11 b/g/n wireless. Inside the package there’s not a lot, but at the same time there’s everything you’ll need. We’ve got a stand, manual and power connector, while cable wise we’ve got a HDMI cable and HDMI to DVI convertor. We’ve also got a little Sapphire USB Pen Drive which carries with it the goodies you’ll need once you’re up and running.”

For more information, please visit – http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/3874/sapphire_edge_hd_mini_pc_review/index.html

Boxee Box Review

“Feeling stifled by the narrow scope set-top boxes like Apple TV, but not quite ready to start stuffing circuits into a box to build your own home theater PC? D-Link pushes forth an unlikely solution with the funky and curiously geometric Boxee Box, which promises the control and flexibility of a desktop program packed into a standalone box. While it somehow manages to fall a little short of both, plenty of digital entertainment gurus will still find plenty to like in its imperfect middle ground.”

Link to the review:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/media-streamer-reviews/boxee-box-review/

Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 Fusion Motherboard

The Gigabyte E350N-USB3 is one of the first motherboards with the E-350 chip, and while it is just a small mini-ITX-motherboard, it still has full support for USB3 and SATA 6 Gbps as well as a full-length PCI-E-slot. Fusion APU motherboards are slowly appearing at e-tail stores. For example, Newegg has the Gigabyte E350N-USB3 for $149.99, which is a very good price compared to Intel Atom/ION motherboards.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/articles/Gigabyte_GA-E350N-USB3_Fusion_motherboard/2013.html

Antec KÜHLER H2O 620 Review

“Antec’s first foray into the watercooling arena is a very nice product. Given that the Kuhler H2O 620 is another rebranded Asetek unit, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the performance came very close to the Corsair H70 unit with its big radiator and dual fans.”

Article Url: http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/antec_kuhler_h2o_620_review/

Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler

CPU cooler design (for air coolers, anyway) boils down to a few simple truths: while things like heat pipe technology and base finish are important, the determining factors in a heat sink’s performance are its size and its airflow. Size is critical because the more metal a CPU cooler contains, the more mass there is to absorb heat. Airflow is important because the heat must be transferred from the heat sink to the surrounding air. With its Silver Arrow design, Thermalright seeks to maximize both of these parameters within the limitations imposed by a standard computer case, and the result is a giant cooler with twin 140mm fans. In this review, Benchmark Reviews puts the Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU cooler to the test against a selection of high-end air and water coolers.

ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=674&Itemid=62

Sentey Optimus Case Review

“The Sentey Optimus is a mid-tower case that costs only USD 60 but comes with lots of features usually only found on more expensive models. The product is black and comes with two choices of trim color: black (GS-6000) or red (GS-6000R). ”

Link: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Sentey-Optimus-Case-Review/1206

SandForce SF-2000 Series SSD Overview

Less than one year ago SandForce gained control of the consumer solid state drive market with their SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor. This technology replaced the previous generation of Barefoot SSDs designed around South Korean-based Indilinx, Inc. While popular themselves, Indilinx Barefoot MLC SSDs lacked proper NAND management and performance dramatically degraded over time. SandForce DuraClass technology paired to TRIM support in Windows 7 has helped with this concern, but it was their RAISE technology that provides RAID-like protection for single SSD computer systems paired to AES-128 automatic data encryption that put them on top. Now preparing to ship their second generation of SSD processors, Benchmark Reviews takes a look at the differences.

ARTICLE URL: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=665&Itemid=60

Intel Thunderbolt High Speed I/O – it’s official now

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=1085

Quote: “Technically, Thunderbolt is pretty interesting as both data
and display signals will transfer over the same cable with arbitration
from the controller chip. It is a bi-directional communication that
actually provides 10 Gbps of bandwidth PER PORT. It remains backwards
compatible with existing DisplayPort displays, but since those devices
likely do NOT have female mini-DisplayPort connections on them, they
will not facilitate the daisy-chaining required for connecting
multiple devices to a single Thunderbolt connection. Unlike what some
people worried, Thunderbolt will carry some amount of power over
cable, though how much hasn’t really been specified yet.”

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