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Ceton Echo Windows Media Center Extender Review

Posted 05/09/2013 at 2:45pm | by Michael Brown

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Xbox? We don’t need no stinkin’ Xbox!

Until the Echo hit the street, the Xbox 360 was pretty much the only Windows Media Center Extender still on the market. Companies such as D-Link and Linksys discontinued their extenders years ago—probably because they couldn’t compete with the subsidized price of Microsoft’s gaming console.

Note: This review first appeared in the March 2013 issue of the magazine.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Teardown Reveals $229 BOM (U.S. Version)

Posted 05/09/2013 at 12:09pm | by Paul Lilly

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IHS iSupply tears down the Galaxy S4 from Samsung.

Barring a sale price or a promotion, you're liklely to pay $200 for a Samsung Galaxy S4 handset, not including the overall cost of a two-year service agreement to qualify for subsidized pricing. Data fees notwithstanding, that's $29 less than the bill of materials (BOM). Manufacturing costs add another $8.50 per device, so on paper, Samsung is paying $237.50 for every Galaxy S4 device it builds.

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NZXT Takes Another Stab at the Sentry Mix Fan Controller

Posted 05/09/2013 at 9:38am | by Paul Lilly

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Sometimes the sequel is better than the original.

Truth be told, NZXT's original Sentry Mix fan controller was kind of ugly. The general design wasn't bad, but the big grey sliders stuck out like a sore thumb on any black themed case. NZXT's new Sentry Mix 2 improves upon the original with a better aesthetic design and PWM-ready connectors, giving users of all types (mainstream, gamers, and overclockers) fine grain control over a variety of fans.

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Origin PC Starts Shipping Beastly EON17-SLX SLI Laptops, Bundles Gaming Peripherals

Posted 05/09/2013 at 8:20am | by Paul Lilly

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Desktop power in a laptop form factor.

When you fire up Origin PC's EON17-SLX SLI laptop, it should play George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone," lest anyone can think of a more appropriate song to describe the hardware inside. As the name suggests, this badass notebook has been fed not one, but TWO Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M graphics cards, both of which Origin PC takes the time to overclock before shipping out.

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Powercolor Slaps a Passive Cooler to Radeon HD 7850 Graphics Card

Posted 05/08/2013 at 11:33am | by Paul Lilly

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Do you hear anything? No? Good!

Looking for a challenge for your next PC build? Try piecing together a quiet system that will hardly let you know it's running without jamming your ear to the side of the case. Not only is it entirely possible to build such a system, but you can build a quiet PC that's still powerful enough to play games, it just takes a little research. One component that could help you along the way is Powercolor's new SCS3 HD7850, a passively cooled Radeon HD 7850 graphics card.

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BitFenix Expands Prodigy Case Color Options

Posted 05/08/2013 at 10:46am | by Paul Lilly

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A colorful mini-ITX case line.

Maybe you already saw that BitFenix offers a mini-ITX case family (Prodigy) and thought to yourself, "Self, if only the darn thing came in green or blue, I'd totally be sold!" If that sounds at all familiar, then (A) you may want to construct an aluminum foil deflector beanie to prevent BitFenix from continuing to read your mind, or (B) think up other ideas you'd like to see BitFenix implement, the company is listening.

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Zotac Slings an Intel Core i5 Processor Into Pint Sized Zbox

Posted 05/08/2013 at 9:22am | by Paul Lilly

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Small form factor (SFF) computing meets up with Ivy Bridge.

When you stop and think about it, the amount of power in some of today's mini PC systems is pretty amazing. Enter Zotac, a company that lives and breathes small form factor (SFF) systems under its Zbox line, which today it infused with an Intel Core i5 3470T processor. It's a respectable desktop part built around Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture with two processing cores clocked at 2.9GHz (3.6GHz via Turbo), 3MB of cache, and a rated max TDP of 35W -- plenty powerful enough for general purpose computing.

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AMD Launches DDR3-2133 Memory Kit, Takes Aim at Gamers

Posted 05/08/2013 at 8:59am | by Paul Lilly

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New RAM from AMD doesn't shun Intel users.

AMD on Wednesday announced its new Radeon RG2133 Gamer Series Memory and Radeon RAMDisk 4.1 software. According to AMD, it's RG2133 kit is the only memory on the entire planet that offers both XMP and AMP memory profiles in the same package, so no matter which platform you're rolling with -- Intel or AMD -- you can still benefit from AMD's pre-configured overclocking settings.

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NZXT 'Silently' Launches H630 Ultra-Tower Chassis

Posted 05/08/2013 at 7:02am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Silence, in this case, is not golden but matte black or glossy white

PC chassis maker NZXT on Tuesday announced the release of a new case called the H630. The new H, as the El Monte-based company likes to call it, has been designed to smother the acoustic signature of the beast within.

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Purported Pictures of Nvidia GTX 780 and GTX 770 Emerge

Posted 05/07/2013 at 9:52pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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The 700-series graphics cards share the same cooling solution

The rumored Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 and GTX 770 graphics cards, which were said to be arriving in late May as of last week, have allegedly had their pictures leaked to the Web. The said pictures were posted on a Chinese forum on Monday.

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