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• Phenom II vs Core i7: Gaming Value Comparison @ PureOverclock

  Published: Friday, August 14, 2009 | By: Will

  Another AMD and Intel comparison will always get everybodies attention. The battle that never ends, but it does get some fun flame wars going very well. I'm going to go ahead and throw some fuel on the fire with saying "Core i7 FTW!"

  " AMD vs Intel. Nothing quite stirs the passion and sets the flame wars firing than such a debate. Today we have a special treat as we'll be tackling that debate head-on with the question: Is a Phenom II or Core i7 system provide better gaming performance and value? To find out, we'll be running single card, dual cards, stock CPU speeds, and overclocked CPU configurations to bench the snot out two gaming systems and give you a definitive answer.
  
  Let the fanboy flame wars commence!!!"

  Core i7 FTW!

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• NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup

  Published: Friday, August 14, 2009 | By: Will

  Here is some PC game reviews for everyone to enjoy.

  Joint Task Force - JTF - PC Review @ Gamepyre

  "Now, if you were in a hurry and skipped all other sections of the review, I'm going to try my best to sum it up for you in just a couple of sentences. Joint Task Force (JTF) is a modern time military RTS. The graphics are good but they are by no means top of the line and the same can be said about the game's sound. Some of the game's features work really well, while others seem very buggy and unfinished. This game is a lot more entertaining in the skirmish or multiplayer modes considering that the storyline is rather boring. If you are ABSOLUTELY sick of WWII RTSs, this might be a nice stress reliever one skirmish at a time. But if you're expecting to play this game five years from now, you're expecting way, way too much out of JTF. I'll even go as far as saying that five years from now, this game will be completely forgotten." 

  Fall Out 3 Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt - PC Review @ Gamepyre

  "As all successful games, it was only a matter of time before additional content was released. Sometimes companies really try to push over products on their unsuspected fans. The best example is the stand-alone expansion pack to Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes - Tales of Valor. By making it a stand alone copy, THQ had in fact stole a score. As a stand alone game, Tales of valor was good, but if it were not a stand-alone product, reviewers would not have given it a score over 30." 

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• 15 Case Mods From Quakecon 2009 on Day 1 @ Legit Reviews

  Published: Friday, August 14, 2009 | By: Will

  Ninjalane came onto the hardware scene some 10 years ago with making modding our big thing. Now we are into a little bit of everything, but we love to see some great Mods when we get a chance.

  "I can't say that I have ever seen a full sized gas BBQ be turned into a PC, but now I can. The mod works great, but sadly the BBQ functionality has been totally lost. If only it had a working side burner! Just imagine you could BBQ up some dry rub spare ribs for dinner and frag at the same time..."

  Mmmm...ribs!

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• DDR2 & DDR3 Dual and Triple Channel Memory Roundup: Corsair, Patriot, GeIL, Elixir @ ModReactor

  Published: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | By: Will

  We at Ninjalane always love a great no hold bars cage fight amongst RAM. It is a great reason to wake up everyday with a smile.

  "Recently the Modreactor lab got flooded with various memory kits. And though initially we were considering a series of reviews, eventually we decided to write a single mega article comparing different type, latency, volume and frequency modules in not only scaling performance and different platforms, but also in the field of subjective general feel about them, describing what we liked (or disliked) in each of them. And so, it's about time we get to the ultimate comparison of DDR2 and DDR3 memory kits with Core 2, Core i7 and Phenom II based systems!"

  There is other reasons too, trust me!

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• DFI Lanparty Blood Iron P45-T2RS Elite Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks

  Published: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | By: Will

  It is funny how with the new Core i7 and the Core i5 coming in a short time down the road we tend to forget about the awesome Core 2 setups. Here is a review of one awesome motherboard for the budget minded person.

  "Even with the the i7 and their accompanying X58 boards being the current most sought-after combination when it comes to CPUs, LGA775 chips continue to sell well. Because of this, many companies have opted to release additional P45 boards into their lineups. DFI has done just that with their new $100 Blood Iron P45-T2RS Elite. Can this board live up to the legends put forth by past DFI products? We intend to find out."

  I love the red color of these boards.

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• Corsair Obsidian Series 800D ATX Chassis Review @ Legit Reviews

  Published: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | By: Will

  This case has been all the rage around the net ever since it was ever mentioned back in the day. Well to help keep us hungry for this new beast of a case Corsair has let the review samples out of the bag.

  "The Corsair Obsidian 800D might be a massive full ATX tower chassis, but it was designed to be a well functioning chassis. Corsair wanted the case to be that large so multi-GPU video card setups could be used as well as allowing custom water cooling kits to be installed. The Corsair Obsidian Series 800D chassis is also an example of what happens when you think outside the box and design something from the ground up. Several of the design features are unique to this chassis and make it stand out from the crowd. It has clearly done well enough to earn our Innovation Award and we can't wait to see what Corsair is planning for their next case design..."

  If you have not guessed it, then you do not read the news posts at all. For I want it one real bad!

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• OCZ and Indilinx Collaborate On New SSD Garbage Collection Scheme @ HotHardware

  Published: Monday, August 10, 2009 | By: Will

  With a title that includes OCZ, SSDs, and garbage it is a sure fire way to get attention. Let's read it though to see how Indilinx is helping OCZ Vertex SSD Drive lineup stay clean.

  "OCZ, working in combination with Indilinx, is poised to release new firmwares for OCZ's entire line-up of Vertex Series SSDs that performs active garbage collection while the drives are idle to restore performance to like-new condition, even on a severely "dirtied" drive.
  
  We just got our hands on a 120GB Vertex SSD that has been flashed with the new garbage collecting firmware, and wanted to give you all a glimpse as to how it works..."

  Now with just a little bit more of a price break and SSD's will be on everyones short list.

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• MSI P55-GD65 Lynnfield Motherboard Video Unboxing and Preview @ TweakTown

  Published: Monday, August 10, 2009 | By: Will

  The time for the new Core i3, i5, i7's is almost here, and to be honest we all are just gnawing at the bit for it to happen. Until that time comes we can all just sit back and look at the pretty boards that are about to be released.

  "Even though Intel isn't officially launching its upcoming Core i5 and Core i5 Lynnfield core processors and P55 Express chipset until the second week of September, there is already much talk about the next generation mainstream performance platform around Taiwan.
  
  In the spirit of getting an early look at upcoming hardware, MSI sent us its P55-GD65 motherboard for an exclusive video unboxing and preview. Watch the video below for the full down-low of the new product."

  Are they here yet? Are they here yet?

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• DDR3 Roundup: New Elpida Powered Kits from OCZ, Mushkin and Corsair @ Madshrimps

  Published: Monday, August 10, 2009 | By: Will

  Here is a nice little roundup of Elpida chips on these modules. The Elpida's have been know to be great overclockers, but not without some major failure issues.

  "Sometimes there's more to a memory module than meets the eye : Corsair Dominator and Mushkin Redline modules have always looked better than nice, and now they have the performance to match. We put these two against the OCZ Blade, a real high end kit based upon Elpida's "hyper" chips, and against our 8 previous triple channel kits, in order to get a good view of the Core i7 memory landscape to date."

  Yep, I want a set of each.

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• NL: Memory Reviews Roundup

  Published: Friday, August 7, 2009 | By: Will

  Feeling lazy today for it is Friday so putting the cruise control on and grouping the Memory reviews together today.

  Memory

  - G.Skill Trident Extreme Performance F3-16000CL9 DDR3 @ OC3D
  - Kingston Hyper X PC3 12800 Cl9 6GB Review @ OCC
  - Kingston Hyper DDR3 2000MHz 3GB Memory Kit @ Pro-Clockers
  - OCZ Low Latency Blade DDR3 1600MHz Triple Channel Memory @ Pro-Clockers

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