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Overdrive Gemini GX2

Posted 06/19/2006 at 4:16pm | by

With stock overclocking options and top shelf hardware, the folks at Overdrive PC serve up a contender.

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Thermaltake Blue Orb II

Posted 06/19/2006 at 10:16am | by Josh Norem  

We gave the Golden Orb II a mediocre 7 verdict back in October 2005, but the Blue Orb II is bigger and much, much better. It’s a massive cooler that squats over the CPU socket like a sumo wrestler, taking up every square millimeter of space.

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Akasa AK-873 AMD Cooler

Posted 06/13/2006 at 4:37pm | by Josh Norem

The AMD-only AK-873 is small enough to fit comfortably in your palm, but its large copper base plate (zinc-coated to ward off corrosion) makes it surprisingly heavy. Two plump 8mm heat pipes carry the heat from the base plate to the upper area of the aluminum heatsink.

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Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600

Posted 06/13/2006 at 11:38am | by Gordon Mah Ung

Monster notebooks skew two ways these days: They’re either gaming-friendly, desktop-replacement machines that breathe fire, or they’re big-ass Media Center jobbies.

We haven’t yet seen a Toshiba notebook that’s competitive in gaming performance, but the latest Qosmio (pronounced Cosmio) just might be the best Media Center notebook we’ve seen to date.

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Tritton SEE2 USB 2.0-to-SVGA Adapter

Posted 06/12/2006 at 12:54pm | by

The Tritton product lets you translate your SVGA signal through a USB 2.0 port. Why? We're not sure either.

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Sprint PC-5740 EVDO Card

Posted 06/09/2006 at 1:08pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

If you’re the kind of road warrior who has spent an hour driving around aimlessly looking for an unsecured wireless router to check your email, it might be time to invest in EVDO service.

EVDO, which stands for evolution data optimized, offers “broadband-like” speeds using the CDMA mobile phone network. Such technology has been available for some time but never at the affordable prices it is today.

Sprint’s Mobile Broadband package is available two ways: $40 for 40MB of usage and one-tenth of a cent per additional kilobyte, or all you can eat for $60 (provided you have a voice account with Sprint.)

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Creative GigaWorks ProGamer G550W

Posted 06/08/2006 at 11:59pm | by

Cordless rear speakers reduce tripping accidents, but can Creative keep the quality sans cord?

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Swiftech H20-120 Premium

Posted 06/08/2006 at 11:59pm | by Josh Norem

We reviewed the new Premium version of the H20-120, which is Swiftech’s standard high-performance water-cooling kit. Since we last reviewed the kit, Swiftech made several changes in order to simplify installation, improve performance, and promote silent operation. All in all, Swiftech has fixed almost every issue the previous kit had, with one exception—the instructions are still horrible.

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