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 Back in October we had the opportunity to review Sapphire's take on
the HD4870, the Toxic. Overclocked right out of the box and
cooled by the impressive Vapor-X cooler, we knew the HD4870 Toxic
was pretty impressive. Today Sapphire takes this great card
one step further by increasing the memory to 1 GB of GDDR5.
With prices down and the memory up we just might have your next
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Lian Li launches the all new PC-B70 &
PC-B71 Tower Chassis
6 January, 2009, Consumer Electronics
Show (CES) 2009, Las Vegas – Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd has
launched the
PC-B70 and PC-B71
full tower chassis. Both cases are made from
aluminum sheet metal, and have plenty of
room for large numbers of hard drives (HDD)
while still incorporating the classic brushed aluminum style and
functional design for ease of use and stunning good looks. The
PC-B70 has a left side access HDD cage
that can accept seven (7) full 3.5 inch hard disk drives.
The Hard drives are secured by means of a
removable HDD bracket with patented vibration
reduction system. While the five Optical bays
are an added bonus (the last ODD can be used as 3.5”disk reader).
Both towers stand at 220 x 595 x 590mm (W,H,D).
The PC-B71 is different
via the lower part of the front bezel which
has an integrated HDD Hot swappable SATA cage
with a front facing securely lockable
door. The HDD Cage is
cooled via two (2) 140mm blue lit LED fans.
The fans are filtered with removable, washable nylon filters. The
easy access to the hot swap Raid HDD backplate via the front
lockable door makes the PC-B71 convenient while still retaining the
good looks found in every Lian Li chassis.
Read the full press
release here.
NOW SAPPHIRE HD 4870 TOXIC has 1GB
SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced global availability of a new
1GB version of its highly acclaimed HD 4870 TOXIC Edition graphics
card featuring Vapor-X – the Vapor Chamber cooling technology
pioneered by SAPPHIRE.
The SAPPHIRE HD 4870 1GB TOXIC Edition features the
award winning Vapor-X cooler, SAPPHIRE’s implementation of Vapor
Chamber Technology (VCT) first introduced by SAPPHIRE over a year
ago on its ATOMIC and TOXIC series of high performance graphics
cards. On this new model, the Vapor-X cooling solution is used to
efficiently remove heat from the core logic. So the heat from the
GPU, memory and other components is carried away by the vapor
chamber together with three heatpipes and heatsinks cooled by a
thermally controlled fan venting outside the case. This hybrid
solution provides more efficient and quieter cooling than competing
solutions for this generation of high performance graphics.
The SAPPHIRE HD 4870 TOXIC edition ships overclocked
out of the box for an immediate high performance graphical or gaming
experience, and the advanced cooling solution provides enthusiasts
with further scope for performance tuning.
The SAPPHIRE HD 4870 TOXIC has 1GB of high
performance GDDR5 memory, clocked at 1000MHz (4Gbps effective) and
the GPU core is pre-overclocked at 780MHz. Supporting AMD CrossFireX
technology, two high speed connectors on each card allow multiple
cards to be daisy-chained together for enhanced performance when
installed in a suitable CrossFireX mainboard.
Read more about the new HD 4870 1GB Toxic here!
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Kicking Off 2009 with ClubOC and NZXT!
Club Overclocker is kicking off the new year with another great
contest. This time our friends at
NZXT
are putting up some great prizes in the form of a cool gaming case
and mouse! Two prizes means there will only be two winners so
enter early and often!
Seagate ships desktop hard drive with
world's highest areal density - 500GB per disk!
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. — January 5, 2009 — Seagate (NYSE:STX) today
announced first-to-market volume shipments of a mainstream desktop
hard drive with the industry’s highest areal density. Packing 1TB of
capacity on just two disks, Seagate’s Barracuda® 7200.12 HD, a
3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive features an areal density of 329 Gigabits
per square inch to deliver the best combination of capacity,
performance and reliability for PCs, desktop RAID and personal
external storage.
“Demand for more desktop PC storage capacity is
far from letting up as computer users worldwide generate massive
amounts of digital content every day,” said Tom Major, Seagate vice
president, Personal Compute Business. “Seagate is leading the
industry with new storage solutions designed to store, share and
manage all of that business- and user-generated content.”
The Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive provides a
stellar combination of storage capacity and speed required for
today’s most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive’s Serial
ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data
rate of up to 160MB/second for fast boot, application startup and
file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second. The 3.5-inch drive is
also offered in capacities of 750GB and 500GB with cache options of
32MB and 16MB.
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Today we will be looking at the latest
Multimedia chassis from GMC, the noblesse K-2 Ebony. The Ebony
is a full featured all in one ATX tower designed to provide all of
the multimedia options you might need with a look the will nicely
complement you expensive Hi-Fi components. The Ebony is not
your typical Home Theater PC chassis,
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Sanus is a well known
manufacturer in the home theater world for their quality VESA
mounting systems. They offer a very wide variety of products
including this Desktop Mounting VESA unit dubbed the 101-G1. Sanus
offers this style of Desktop VESA mounts for standard display sizes
(SD103) and for medium display sizes (MD103). The MD103-G1 is a
classified as a full-motion mount meaning it offers vertical travel,
swivel rotation, and tilt control.
Read about the Sanus MD103-G1, right here at Club
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Happy New Year!
OCZ PC3-10666 Platinum Low-Voltage Triple Channel Memory Review
 Today we take a look at a new Triple Channel kit
from our friends over at OCZ in the form of the PC3-10666 Platinum
Series. This kit, part number OCZ3P1333LV3GK, contains three 1
gigabyte DDR3 memory modules designed specifically for the Intel
Core i7 platforms. This kit could also be used for any system
running DDR3, including all 32 and 64-bit operating systems. For
64-bit users who need more than 3GB of memory, OCZ also has 6 and 12
gigabyte kits.
Come join us as we take this Platinum series kit for a ride on our
64-bit Core i7 test system.
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Cooler Master, one of the best computer case manufacturers on the
planet, has a new line of power supplies called the Silent M.
Although not yet available in the United States, the Silent M series
is designed to meet the demands of the low to mid price range computer
market. As a single rail power supply, the Silent M really isn't
designed to meet today's high end system requirements. Instead,
Cooler Master has targeted owners who want a high quality power
supply, but don't have a need for those spare no expense, gaming
power supplies that you can jump start your SUV with.
See how
the Silent M 500 watt power supply performs, right here at Club
Overclocker.
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Windows 7 Beta 1 Review @
TechReviewSource.com
"The first beta of Microsoft's upcoming
Windows 7 operating system, the successor to Windows Vista, will be
released to the public for beta testing in
January. TechReviewSource.com was able to get their hands on the
public beta that will be released for general download sometime in
January 2009. Windows 7 looks very promising right now in the sense
that it seems solid and addresses a lot of the complaints and issues
that Windows Vista currently has. Read the full review complete with
screenshots for more information."
Read about it over at Tech Review Source.
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The staff at Club Overclocker wishes you
a Merry Christmas!
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The Day The Internet Stood
Still
As some of you may have noticed yesterday, our website was down for
a few hours...along with many other websites hosted at The Planet. I'm
not sure if the cause was extra holiday traffic, DNS issues, or some sort of DOS
attack, but it caused quite a bit of fuss over at The
Planet. Anyway, we're back up and running. And before I
forget...Happy Holidays!!!
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Today we have the honors of testing some of Crucial's first Triple
Channel offerings for the new Intel i7 Nehalem systems. We've heard
that the new triple channel memory technology was fast, but we were
expecting something like a 10 to 20% performance gain at the most.
What we discovered first hand totally blew us away! What we have
before us today is a Crucial Triple Channel Kit in the form of 3,
2GB DDR3 memory modules rated at PC3-10600.
Let's dive right in and
see what this triple channel technology is all about...
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Just a few short months
ago, ATi and Sapphire shocked the world with the explosive
performance of the Radeon HD 4870 X2.
Six months later, and this card still
stands uncontested as the fastest single card on the market.
So what do you do if you are Sapphire?
You try to make the fastest even
faster. Which brings us to
today’s spotlight at the Club.
Sapphire has unveiled their brand new
limited edition, factory overclocked version of the 4870 X2, known as
the 4870 X2 Atomic Edition.
This isn’t your typical factory
overclocked edition video card, however, as Sapphire has really
upped the ante with extra features in this bundle.
Check out this sweet special edition right here at Club
Overclocker!
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OCZ Unveils
2000MHz Triple Channel Memory Kits for Intel® Core™ i7
processors
Sunnyvale, Calif.—December 18, 2008—OCZ Technology Group,
Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high
performance and high reliability memory, today introduced
the Blade Series Triple Channel Memory kit, the latest
maximum-performance RAM designed specifically for the Intel®
Core™ i7 processor / Intel® X58 Express Chipset. At
DDR3-2000 CL 7-8-7, the Blade Series harnesses
industry-leading speeds at the low voltage required to
safely run Core i7’s triple channel mode. With the ideal
combination of all the factors that formulate the ultimate
memory solution— density, speed, latency, and an effective
new cooling design—the Blade 2000 kit is guaranteed to
please enthusiasts looking to take the hottest Intel
platform to new heights. Read
the full press release here.
Lian Li launches the all new
T-7024W and T-7022W Top Panel Radiator Kits
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December, 2008, Keelung, Taiwan – Lian-Li Industrial Co.
Ltd has launched two top panel radiator kits called the
T-7024W and T-7022W. Both are suitable for the PC-A70 /
PC-A7010 chassis only. The kits include a copper radiator
mounted into the underside of the top panel with open vents
to allow the internal fans to exhaust the heat. The outer
face of the panel has multimedia ports for ease of use.
These combo panels are ideal for those with water cooling
kits and who want to keep the kit low profile and
internalized, while keeping the functionality of cooling
your PC rig at a premium.
Read the full
press release here.
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