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Cyber Snipa Silencer Review

For the professional, there's one component of the gaming world that arguably stands out above the rest in importance. You can always disable anisotropic filtering and drop the resolution if you want to claw back a few extra frames each second, but the precision and effective "frame-rate" of your mouse will always be limited by the technology in which you invest. It's with this in mind that we now set out to put Cyber Snipa's latest offering, the Silencer, to the test. These fine folks from...
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Nexus Air Duster Review

Nexus produce a wide variety of products, from cases to CPU Coolers, Power Supplies, and duster cleaning materials? Seems Nexus feel that dusty PCs need a bit of attention, and the best way to go about it is with a cleaning spray specifically designed for internal PC components while being "Ozone Friendly." Lets see how it does. Read...
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CoolIT Domino ALC Liquid Cooling System Review

Frostytech is testing CoolIT's Domino ALC liquid cooling system. The unit consists of a thin 122gram nickel plated copper waterblock, a 17cm length of Fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) plastic tubing and pump integrated into a 115x115mm aluminum heat exchanger with a 120mm fan. The Domino ALC is ready to go out of the box, the user need only install it onto the CPU and mount the radiator near by. Read...
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Xclio Nighthawk PC Case Review

Today for review I've got another PC case from our friends at Xclio, this one is called the Nighthawk. This case features modular hard drive bays that can be moved, or removed and can support up to eight of them. The Nighthawk also features fans that can be controlled so you can adjust their speeds, and those fans have plenty of LEDs to brighten up your day. So read on to learn more... Read...
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IPEVO Point 2 View (P2V) USB Camera Review

When you think about a webcam, what comes to mind? I know most of us will recognise the typical web camera's that have become very popular over the years. Basically consisting of a small bubble shaped camera on top of a small, wobbly, unstable stand. The balancing act of having the camera on top of your monitor, or on a stack of CD's and books to try and get that perfect angle is much more than just a hassle. Though fortunately our good friends at IPEVO have come up with a nifty, possibly...
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GlideTV Navigator Review

The GlideTV Navigator works with PCs, Macs and PS3s and allows these devices to be controlled using just one thumb. It features a touchpad with core function buttons, media buttons and eight additional buttons around the perimeter of the touchpad. All these features can help reduce the need for a keyboard in the HTPC setup. Read...
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In-Win Maelstrom Review

A case is the most essential piece of hardware for any computer, and holds a lot of potential to affect its owner's experience: convenience, cooling, efficiency, and appearance to name a few. In the gaming industry, these aspects are all the more important. The market is currently flooded with makes and models, each trying to satisfy every area or specialize enough in one to to become unique. In-Win's Maelstrom case is one of the former's leading contenders, and they've sent us a sample to find...
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QNAP TS-809 Pro Review

Data sharing has become one of the essential tasks in the digital age. In today’s household it's not difficult to find multiple computers. This myriad of digital photos, emails, documents, and multimedia files that all need to be shared among multiple computers need to be stored in a centralized location. There are a few solutions for sharing files. The most common way would be a server that centralizes the digital contents. However, servers are often costly and require a bit of computer...
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Titan Fenrir TTC-NK85TZ CPU Cooler Review

Today's review of the Fenrir cooler will test to see whether this is a good, great, or excellent cooler both aesthetically and through benchmarking on a Intel I7 965 Extreme Edition processor pushed to full load. The Fenrir cooler is a little more flashy than most of the competition, but at around US$50, is this more form than function, or will it pull through to be a cooler we at Tweaknews will recommend. Read...
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Roccat Arvo Review

As a company based entirely around the gaming peripheral industry, Roccat have gained a reputation for manufacturing top quality, high-performance products that deliver for all levels of gaming. The Valo, the company’s first venture into the keyboard market, was conceptually very good but a software typing bug and the phenomenally high price tag were the undoing of the keyboard. Roccat have moved swiftly in launching the Arvo; marketed as a compact gaming keyboard and at a much reduced...
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Sapphire HD 5970 OC Review

It seems like every year we are presented with a brand new graphics card that leaps ahead of the competition and steals the performance crown. This last happened when the Nvidia GTX295 jumped ahead of the 4870X2. Recharged, ATI is finally ready to jump ahead of Nvidia with the 5970. ATI made an interesting choice on the name here. Previously they included an X2 after the name of the card's GPU's. This time ATI decided to just name the series of cards with a flat number, similar to what Nvidia...
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StarTech Dual-SATA HDD Docking Station Review

Benchmark Reviews has put a plethora of storage enclosures and systems through their paces and all of the predecessors fell neatly into readily recognizable categories. The StarTech SATADOCK22UE is a horse of a slightly different color offering features that bridge the existing product categories  it's neither a case nor storage array, but has the capacity to allow access to single data drives as well as two drives independently or as a RAID array. It's a niche product with stealth appeal...
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Corsair H50 Hydro Series Liquid/Water CPU Cooling System Review

Corsair's H50 liquid cooling kit has a lot going for it. Not only is this a turnkey system that requires no assembly or maintenance, it is relatively easy to install, has very good cooling performance and is priced competitively with higher-end air coolers. Read...
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XFX Radeon HD 5770 Video Card Review

OK, we're through playing nice with these new ATI 5xxx video cards. The corporate logo for XFX says: "play hard.", so Benchmark reviews is going to take that motto to heart and show what this cards can really do. Almost every single competing card runs at higher than reference clock rates, and they all come that way from the factory. Every single card I compared the HD5770 to, when we reviewed the reference design from ATI, was factory overclocked. That's just the way it is with video cards...
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Thermaltake Element G Review

In order to achieve and become a “great” product, a case needs to succeed in a number of different areas. It not only has to keep the internals safe and secure, and with plenty of cooling but also look stunning too. Modders and enthusiasts pride themselves on the aesthetics of their enclosures and so the style, shape and even lighting of a chassis are hugely important. Thermaltake’s latest addition to their Element series, the Element G, aims to succeed at all these aspects as well as...
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