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Nice Looks, Cool Head: Guardian 921 with Sentry LX Fan Controller Review


Casting a Smaller Die

Nice Looks, Cool Head: Guardian 921 with Sentry LX Fan Controller Review
Sleek and appealing, NZX's Guardian 921 case provides plenty of space for gaming hardware, but the Sentry LX fan controller might be of limited utility to all but overclockers or relative novices.

Casting a Smaller Die
In a trend that could bode well for smartphones and mobile Internet devices, chip manufacturers are in a race to the bottom in terms of die size.

Capacity and Low Noise on a Budget: Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB Review
Although the larger 1TB to 2TB hard drives are getting most of the attention, there is still a lot of value in the latest 640GB capacity range. Vendors like Western Digital and Seagate offer at least one 640GB drive, and today we're looking at the value-priced Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB to see how it stacks up.

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02/26/2010 Weekly CPU Prices for February 26, 2010
With few exceptions, prices continued to hold steady in this week's guide, but a few small drops -- and some new Core processors -- can be found here and there.

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02/19/2010 Weekly CPU Prices for February 19, 2010
Only two of the prices we track, one from each camp, fell in this week's guide. The rest, for the most part, held right where they've been for weeks, with a few exceptions inching slightly upward.

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02/12/2010 Weekly CPU Prices for February 12, 2010
It's been another slow week for CPU prices, with the majority of the prices we track continuing to hold steady. But a handful from each camp did fall, albeit too slightly to stir much excitement.

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02/05/2010 Weekly CPU Prices for February 5, 2010
Unfortunately, last week's small flurry of price drops wasn't repeated this week. A couple of prices from each camp did dip slightly, but the rest continued to cling right where they've been.

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01/29/2010 Weekly CPU Prices for January 29, 2010
While the majority of the prices we track continued to hold steady, a fair amount experienced small to modest drops, leaving us hopeful that the coming weeks will see additional downward price movement.

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01/22/2010 Weekly CPU Prices for January 22, 2010
Savings were few and far between in this week's guide, with most of the prices we track continuing to hold steady and a few even moving upward. But there were a couple of modest drops in each camp's charts, giving us hope that we'll see more downward price movement in the coming weeks.

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01/15/2010 Weekly CPU Prices for January 15, 2010
As we've grown all too accustomed to reporting in recent weeks, most of the prices we tracked in this week's guide continued to hold steady, with only a few dropping at all and none dropping by enough to stir much in the way of excitement.

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01/08/2010 Weekly CPU Prices for January 8, 2010
The year's first CPU Price Guide, unfortunately, isn't any more exciting than what we'd grown accustomed to by the end of last year. A few prices moved slightly downward, which is nice. But by and large, prices held about as steady as we've seen them.

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12/31/2009 Weekly CPU Prices for December 31, 2009
This final weekly processor price guide of 2009 contains several price drops, something that's been all too rare in the past several weeks. And while none of the savings are huge, they nonetheless leave us hopeful that the coming weeks will see increased price competition between the two camps and better deals to be had by CPU shoppers.

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12/27/2009 Weekly CPU Prices for December 25, 2009
Once again, the overwhelming majority of the prices we track in this guide continued to hold steady, with only a few dropping at all and none dropping by particularly large amounts. But hopefully the coming weeks will bring a thaw in the seemingly frozen prices we've been seeing for a while now.

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Capacity and Low Noise on a Budget: Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB Review - 02/25/2009
Although the larger 1TB to 2TB hard drives are getting most of the attention, there is still a lot of value in the latest 640GB capacity range. Vendors like Western Digital and Seagate offer at least one 640GB drive, and today we're looking at the value-priced Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB to see how it stacks up.

Socket AM3 Arrives: AMD Joins the DDR3 Revolution - 02/17/2009
AMD has finally unveiled its Socket AM3 platform, including newly revamped Phenom II X3 and X4 models sporting a dual-mode DDR2/DDR3 memory controller, and with compatibility for both AM2+ and AM3 motherboards, this effectively puts the just-released AM2+ models out pasture.

Mainstream Liquid-Cooling for CPUs: CoolIT Domino A.L.C. Review - 02/11/2009
While most of today's processors utilize standard air coolers, there is a definite movement towards quieter, more efficient liquid cooling solutions. Their complexity, more difficult installation and higher prices are just a few of the hurdles that this technology has to overcome before it enters the mainstream, but CoolIT Systems believes it may have the answer with the all-in-one, sub-$100 Domino A.L.C. liquid-cooled system.

Western Digital and Samsung Push for Bigger, Faster, and Greener Hard Drives - 02/02/2009
The race for new capacity records is the modus operandi of the hard drive business, with Seagate often being at the forefront of any new announcements. But lately, that has changed in favor of a more segmented approach, with Western Digital and Samsung leading the way with new high-capacity, performance and eco-friendly drive lines.

The Warrior is Upgraded: Wolfking Warrior Xxtreme Review - 01/26/2009
Hardcore gamers demand specialized hardware, especially on the controller side, and several companies have emerged to serve this market. WolfKing is one, and their Warrior Xxtreme keyboard takes the popular Warrior design and adds a second keypad on the right side. But has WolfKing also doubled up on the gaming experience, or does the Warrior Xxtreme add up to less than the sum of its parts.





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