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31st July
Exclusive Coolermaster Competition - Win Prizes! | Posted on: 31/07/2009 @ 13:06
Vortez Hardware has teamed up with Coolermaster to offer readers the chance to win some great prizes. All you have to do is answer three questions to be in with the chance of winning the goodies. 1st prize: Coolermaster 690 2nd prize: Chair laptop computer stand/cooler 3rd prize: Air-Trough laptop stand/cooler To be in with a chance to win these prizes please follow the link below:
29th July
GELID Solutions GC-2 Thermal Compound | Posted on: 29/07/2009 @ 12:50
The new GC-2 thermal compound by GELID Solutions is unique from its competition. It comes in a large 7 gram container and is priced the same as competitors' 3.5 gram products. Its thermal conductivity is excellent and an included applicator tops this product off.
27th July
OCZ Agility SSD Contest | Posted on: 27/07/2009 @ 17:51
Benchmark Reviews recently reviewed the OCZ Agility MLC SSD, and decided that this would be the perfect product to introduce one lucky BmR visitor into the ultra-fast world of Solid State Drives. The Agility is identical to the popular OCZ Vertex SSD in every aspect except NAND selection, plus the Agility SSD series offers the same Indilinx \\\'Barefoot\\\' controller and 64MB of DRAM buffer ...
25th July
Compaq Presario CQ60 | Posted on: 25/07/2009 @ 14:30
Notebooks have become cheap and plentiful in 2009 and the Compaq Presario CQ60 priced at around $500 is no exception. This is notebook that is simplistic for the average user and gives you portability and a very nice 15.6-inch widescreen display all for a cheap price without leaving out too much in terms of speed and performance.
No New GLSL Compiler For Mesa, But Optimized IR | Posted on: 25/07/2009 @ 13:30
Beyond the news of a new Radeon shader compiler for Mesa and Gallium3D, there is some other Mesa news this morning too, which is both good and bad. Intel's Ian Romanick has announced on his blog that his new GLSL (GL Shading Language) compiler for Mesa was doomed for failure and as a result it's pretty much off of the table right now...
24th July
GELID GC-1 Thermal Compound Review | Posted on: 24/07/2009 @ 20:20
I remember when I first discovered thermal compound. I had no idea that working on computers could be as messy a job as changing the oil in an old Nissan. My mentor told me, and I quote, “There is no better paste than this right here.†He said this as he handed me a tube of Arctic Silver and a broken piece of a Big Lots gift card to apply the paste with. He then fell asleep playing ...
22nd July
GELID Solutions GC-2 Premium Thermal Compound | Posted on: 22/07/2009 @ 4:40
17th July
GELID Solutions GC-Extreme Thermal Compound | Posted on: 17/07/2009 @ 21:50
The new GC-Extreme thermal compound by GELID Solutions is definitely one to consider when you are in the market for some thermal grease. It has amazing thermal conductivity and does better than the competition.
16th July
Coolermaster CM690 Competition | Posted on: 16/07/2009 @ 16:41
Straight off the back of TakTak and friends winning some fine Noctua prizes, we\\\\\\\'re back with our next competition, this one with the kind folks over at Coolermaster supplying the prizes. Also, if you all behave yourselves and this goes well, they will be providing us with prizes for you guys, every single month, for the rest of the year. So be good, and get entered .
15th July
Review of HP Compaq Presario CQ60-313SA | Posted on: 15/07/2009 @ 11:50
The Compaq Presario line of machines has been around for years (since 1993 actually) and has a reputation as a solid brand name. The deftly named CQ60-313SA is one of the newer additions to this family. For under £400 HP/Compaq is offering a dual core machine with 3GB of memory, the question is, can it be trusted?
9th July
Compaq Presario CQ60 | Posted on: 09/07/2009 @ 14:10
Notebooks have become cheap and plentiful in 2009 and the Compaq Presario CQ60 priced at around $500 is no exception. This is notebook that is simplistic for the average user and gives you portability and a very nice 15.6-inch widescreen display all for a cheap price without leaving out too much in terms of speed and performance.
7th July
CompuServe Shuts Down After 30 Years of Service | Posted on: 07/07/2009 @ 14:20
CompuServe, became the first major commercial Internet service in the United States and dominated in the 80's and into the mid 90's it had its largest user base ever at half a million users. After AOL purchased the company, the service had gone down hill ever since and falling to the waist-side of many other service popping up during the late 90's. However, all good things must come to an end and ...
6th July
Review: Compro VideoMate T1000W | Posted on: 06/07/2009 @ 11:10
Life is complicated. You have to make tough decisions every moment of every day. When do you take your morning coffee break, which pub do you go to after work, which game do you spend your weekly allowance on? All difficult, but the decision about how to watch media in the lounge is possibly the toughest of all. Is Compro's VideoMate T1000W making things more or less complicated? It's all about ...
Gelid Solutions GC-2 Thermal Compound Video Review | Posted on: 06/07/2009 @ 8:30
This is the last in our series of thermal compounds that we’ve been looking at, as of late. Last time we looked at the GC-Extreme Thermal Compound which was aimed more at the hardcore overclocker who wanted the best performing results and didn’t mind paying a bit extra for it. This time the GC-2 is [...]
