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RSS Feed OCC to Participate in the 12th Annual Build Your Own PC Race for Charity at CES! Comments (13) One of the hottest events at CES is the Build Your Own PC Race with the winner being awarded a $10,000 check to give to his/her favorite charity. This year OverclockersClub was one of only 30 groups invited to participate and our own ccokeman will be representing us. The race will take place on the first night of CES, January 8th. Pre-race festivities begin at 5:30PM Pacific Time with the race to begin at 7:00PM PST. This year's race will be broadcast and you will be able to watch it LIVE here on OCC!! We're working on getting the live stream set up and will post more details as soon as we can. Clear your calendars and join us in cheering ccokeman on as he competes in this worthwhile cause.
You can view the live stream of the event beginning January 8 at 5:30PM. We will provide the link just prior to the beginning of coverage.
Join the OCC Folding@home Team Comments (0) For the last several years Stanford University has been studying the mechanics of protein folding - or how proteins in the human body assemble themselves. As part of this research scientists are also looking at what happens when that process doesn't happen the way it's supposed to. When proteins do not fold correctly, there can be serious side effects which include many well known diseases such Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Mad Cow, CJD and ALS. Simulating the way proteins fold, though, takes massive computer resources, far beyond what would be possible using resources normally available to researchers. Stanford developed an ingenious approach to the problem by developing a distributed computing model where the computational requirements are broken down into many small pieces. Volunteers around the world download the client software from Stanford and use their computers' idle cycle times to work on the problem and return the results back to Stanford. Recent advances in processor technology and the use of stream processing on GPUs has enabled Stanford to make tremendous leaps in their research, none of which would have been possible without the participation of users around the world.
OverclockersClub is proud to be a part of that process with our Folding@home team. We are extending an open invitation for all to further Stanford's research efforts by downloading the Folding@home software from Stanford's site and be part of the OCC team (team number 12772) as we work together to better understand the role proteins play in these diseases. As a show of our commitment to the project, OCC will be running another contest sometime in February so now is the time to get those machines folding!
Click here to discuss this item in the OCC forums. Christmas Contest Winners Announced! Comments (29) OCC's mega Christmas giveaway Contest is now concluded. This year we had 60 prizes to award to our forum members as a way of saying thanks to all who made 2008 such a great year. So, without further ado, here is the complete list of winners:
Grand Prize Full System donated from CyberpowerPC winner is: TheWacoKid
Here is the list of runner up prizes:
From Sapphire:
1 X 4870 512MB - d3bruts1d
1 X 4850 - flareback
1 X 4830 - road-runner
5 X 4670 - kurosen, sYstEmATiC, Fireonice, O(V)eGA_l2el), philbrown23
From Thermaltake:
Spedo Case - mattwalter85
850 Watt PSU - werty316
3 X BlacX - Fanatic, Hemidare, JJRKOC
From Mushkin:
Triple Channel Memory Kit 6GB - Compxpert
From Palit:
5 ATI 3850's - Gr4vitas, Sparkyftw, Fight Game, nVidia_Freak, CheeseMan42
From MSI:
X58 Platinum - Crow47
Eclipse SLI - ekiM
From OCZ:
1 X DDR2-800 Reasper 4GB Kit - BKen
2 X Elixir Keyboards - Andrewr05, redtigerdragon
2 x ATV 4GB Flash Drives - ciddono, soundx98
2 X Behemoth Mouse Pads - Zerox12, turophiliac
From Sigma:
Raidmax Aztec - Rud3bwoy
Raidmax Icecube - capthowdy575
Unicorn Case - XiXVenomXiX
Phantom Case - kevinz90
From In Win:
GD Metal Suit Case - airman
Stealth Bomber Case - baz000ka j0e
From Coolermaster:
1 X RC-690 - Wormy
1 X Real Power Pro 750W PSU - r3d c0m3t
1 X Hyper Z600R - DLS2008
From NZXT:
Tempest - Krow
Avatar Mouse - PUTALE1
Whisper - hornybluecow
From Crucial:
3 X 4GB Kits of Crucial Ballistic Tracer Red - lucky13*, robAP, evanin
From Corsair:
2 x TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX - Dynamic, incrysis
2 x CMFUSBMINI-4GB - ocmooz, virus
From Super Talent:
5 X 8GB Pico USB - Fangsss, Harima, K7leafclover, LovermanOwens, pr0pht133
From ECS:
9600GT - Avo345
From OCC:
Corsair HX520W - xPETEZx
Patriot 2GB of DDR3 1866 - Slick2500
Asus Striker II Formula - tomcat42071
From Bosco:
750Gig Harddrive - Slugbug, viperk1
Thermaltake Case - SuppA-SnipA
Congrats to all of the winners and a special thanks to the sponsors who made this possible.
Merry Christmas guys!
Dave Sign Up For the OCC Newsletter Comments (3) Ever wondered what might be going on at OverclockersClub that you're missing out on? Want to be some of the first to find out about OCC's contests and other unique content? OverclockersClub announces the return of our newsletter designed to give faithful readers advance notice of the good stuff. We won't be bombarding your mailbox with everyday items, but when it's something really unique or time to give away some free hardware you'll be the first to know. To sign up, head on over to our subscription page and join now! January 7, 2009 Best Buy Sells Cheap Used iPhones Comments (0) | Posted at 08:42PM PST by Ediseye With Wal-Mart has been offering reduced pricing on its used iPhones, Best Buy has now stepped into the game and will be offering iPhones that were returned thirty days from the original purchase. Even though Best Buy has done this, they are currently claiming that its decision to begin doing so had no direct correlation with the deals that other retailers were offering, though it seems like it did in the long run. Geek Squad is also offering a two-year protection plan on the phones, on top of the one-year warranty that Best Buy provides. The 8GB model will be sold at a price tag of $149, while the 16GB version will sell for $249, though a two-year AT&T contract will have to be purchased. BFG Reveals Phobos Comments (0) | Posted at 08:31PM PST by Ediseye With the economy in what seems to be in a downfall, BFG has just recently shown a gaming computer that is hand-built, and features literally all cream of the crop parts inside of it. Some of these include a 3.2GHz Core i7 965 Extreme Edition, 6GB of Patriot PC3-12800 DDR3 memory, an MSI Eclipse X58 motherboard, four 300GB Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drives, a 1,200W BFM power supply unit, and a contained water-cooling system for both the processor and the graphics cards. The big price of the system is obviously the major included Core i7 processor along with the hard drives, but four NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 cards running in SLI are also contributing to the price. Other than those graphic cards, BFG will also be including a GeForce GTX 285, which will act as a PhysX processor for the computer. The Elite model of the Phobos starts at a whopping $8,000, while the cheaper version such as the Advanced model sells for $5,000, and the Performance model sells at a total of $3,000. MySpace Comes to Televisions Comments (0) | Posted at 08:22PM PST by Ediseye A user of the social networking site has always had to go onto a computer that was connoted to the internet to view their MySpace. Now, Intel and Yahoo have partnered with the popular company to allow those same people to see friend updates and access email and photo viewing from their own television. This is made possible by the widget that MySpace developed, based on an application framework known as the Widget Channel. This new widget should be able to be used on all of the modern consumer electronics that are connected to the internet, such as televisions, Blu-ray players, and even set-top boxes. The widgets are specifically designed to work with the Intel Media Processor CE3100 platform for consumer electronics devises. ECS Releases AMD Dragon Platform Motherboard Comments (0) | Posted at 06:07AM PST by Nemo 
In further news associated with the lead up to the official start of CES, ECS today released its A790GXM-AD3 Black Series motherboard. The board Supports the latest AMD Phenom II processors, ATI CrossFireX and dual channel DDR3 memory architecture. The new board is targeted at gamers looking the highest performance. The A790GXM-AD3 supports AMD's latest 45nm Phenom II processors and up to 32GB of DDR3 1333MHz memory. The board incorporates an ATI Radeon HD3300 integrated graphics core and ATI Hybrid Graphics technology which can provide up to 75% performance increase by enabling both the integrated graphics core and a discrete graphics card simultaneously. There are dual x16 PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots supporting ATI CrossFireX and features like ECS' BIOS utility, M.I.B. II, designed to provide various detailed tweaking options. Availability and pricing were not released. Hardware Roundup: Wednesday Edition Comments (0) | Posted at 05:05AM PST by Nemo For the next week or so, the news is going to be dominated by announcements and events from the Consumer Electronics Show going on in Las Vegas. OCC will be there in force to cover the show. While CES doesn't officially begin until tomorrow, there are pre-show happenings and lots of new product announcements. That doesn't mean that our affiliates haven't been busy with reviews. We have a trio of cases including the NZXT Tempest (reviewed by OCC here). As for videocards our roundup gets a look at the new Asus GTX285/295 cards along with Sapphire's HD 4850 X2 (reviewed by OCC here). It's going to be busy over the next week, so make sure you check back for all the latest.
Cases
NZXT Tempest Gaming Computer Case @ [OC]ModShop
In Win Matrix Tiny Tower Micro ATX Case @ Tweak News
Antec Twelve Hundred Full Tower Case @ Bjorn3D
Gadgets
Logitech Comfort Lapdesk @ DarkVision Hardware
Monitors
Asus VK246H LCD Monitor @ RBMods
Motherboards
ECS A780GM-A AMD 780G Motherboard @ PCSTATS
Tradeshows/Conventions
CES 2009: CES Unveiled Pre-show Event @ Legit Reviews
Pre-CES tid bits: NVIDIA ION spotted and more @ TweakTown
ASUS at CES 2009 - All About Eee and Multi-Touch @ Techgage
Video
Leadtek WinFast PX9800GTX+ 512MB Graphics Card @ TweakTown
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB @ Techgage
ASUS Launches New Range Of GeForce GTX 295 & GTX 285 Graphics Cards @ Tech ARP January 6, 2009 Lian Li Launches Two New Full-Tower Chassis Comments (0) | Posted at 08:49PM PST by Nemo 
Lian Li launched two new full-tower enclosures today at the CES show in Las Vegas. Fans of the clean, sleek look typical of Lian Li cases won't be disappointed as both retain the traditional simple elegance for which Lian Li is well-known. The cases, designated PC-B70 and PC-B71, are both all-aluminum with room for plenty of hard drives. The PC-B70 features a left side access HDD cage that can accept seven 3.5 inch hard disk drives secured using a removable HDD bracket with patented vibration reduction system. The PC-B71 is different, in that the lower part of the front bezel an integrated hot swappable SATA cage with a front door that locks. The HDD cage is cooled by two 140mm blue lit LED fans. The fans are filtered with removable, washable nylon filters. The cases are available now at a MSRP of $299.99US for the PC-B70 and $350US for the PC-B71. Psyko 5.1 Gaming Headset Wins CES Best of Innovations Award Comments (0) | Posted at 08:16PM PST by Nemo 
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is always an exciting time as vendors begin announcing all their newest lineup of wares. Not everything announced is worth noting though. Each year CES annoints the more noteworthy products with awards and this year Pysko Audio Labs was awarded a Psyko "Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Award" for its Psyko 5.1 Directional Audio Headphone. The Psyko headphones go beyond normal surround sound to deliver a "Perfect Room" sound experience placing the gamer right in the sweet spot. Psyko 5.1 will be available for $299.99 in early 2009. AMD Introduces New Yukon Mobile Platform Comments (0) | Posted at 08:12PM PST by Nemo AMD unveiled its new Yukon mobile platform designed for the ultra-portable, lower-cost notebook market. The announcement was made in conjunction with HP who partnered with AMD on the development. HP will be introducing its new Pavilion dv2 laptop designed around the Yukon platform. While it was announced today, it will be officially launched this week at CES in Las Vegas. The platform includes AMD's new single-core Athlon Neo MV-40 processor clocked at 1.6GHz and the M690T chipset. An optional discrete ATI Radeon HD3410 graphics card can be used as well. HP's Pavilion dv2 is a 12.1 inch laptop with up to 4GB of DDR2 memory and hard drives ranging from 160GB to 500GB and will be offered at a starting price of $699. AMD has announced plans for a follow up dual-core version later in 2009. XFX Introduces Radeon Cards Comments (0) | Posted at 07:59PM PST by Ediseye Since late last year when XFX announced that it would in fact be designing Radeon cards from AMD, people have been curiously awaiting them. Now XFX has shown off their Radeon HD-4000 series graphics cards, and while it is now delivering AMD chips to its users, NVIDIA will also be offered at the same time. The graphics card distributer states that the new Radeon graphics cards come with superior scalability, DirectX 10.1, and HDMI connectivity. While pricing has yet to be announced for the cards that they are producing, which include the HD 4870, HD 4850, HD 4830, HD 4650, and HD 4350, XFX is saying that it will offer reference designed cards, as well as those that are factory overclocked. SanDisk Announced New SSDs for Netbooks Comments (0) | Posted at 07:42PM PST by Ediseye SanDisk, who is a major flash memory manufacturer and supplier, has announced a new set of solid state drives to be used by both system makers and end-users. The new drives are mainly for netbooks, though can be used in a variety of different situations. SanDisk is saying that their new drives are going to be perfect for the netbook market, as they offer exceptional performance, power usage, as well as a low price tag; though one has not been set yet. Disk space is going to be ranging from 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB sizes and will be available in some part of February. All of the drives feature SanDisk’s own All Bit Line architecture. LiveJournal Staff Gets Laid Off Comments (0) | Posted at 07:33PM PST by Ediseye Though LiveJournal is a very popular social networking website used by many people across the world, it recently announced company layoffs. These layoffs have not been revealed totally, as a grand number is not known, but the website did reveal that its vice president Matthew Berardo is getting pushed out from his job. The headquarters, along with the servers, customer service team, legal staff, and admin staff will all stay in the United States. The global product development and design part of the site will now be based in Moscow however, and will allow the company to supposedly build a stronger business model. Some people are starting to think that the social website may go down in the future, mainly due to the related job losses. Skype Releases New Mac Beta Comments (0) | Posted at 07:25PM PST by Ediseye Mac users that have the popular voice application installed will probably love most of the features that are in the new beta, version 2.8. In this version the ability to screenshare between machines has been added, and is not currently available in the Windows version of the software. Along with this feature, others added include contact notes, larger profile photos, quick adding of contact, as well as chat priorities which help users organize their instant messages. While the Windows beta can be downloaded from a multitude of websites, the main area to down the Skype beta from is its official website. Text Messages Cost Next to Nothing...to Phone Companies Comments (2) | Posted at 07:08PM PST by ClayMeow Text messages used to cost five to ten cents apiece, but over the last few years, the four major U.S. wireless carriers raised it to 20 cents apiece. If you pay for an unlimited texting plan, you're probably paying anywhere from $15-20 per month. But how much is it costing the carriers? Practically nothing. Most of the costs originated from hardware and infrastructure investments, but all that occurred years ago, even before the price increase, and even then, the cost was minimal. The operating costs are even less. According to a computer science professor, "It doesn't cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million." There's not much way around it for now, but the 20 price-fixing lawsuits alleging that the carriers are illegally colluding to set text messaging prices artificially high could change things. 130,000 Expected To Travel To CES Comments (0) | Posted at 01:22PM PST by jammin The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held annually in Las Vegas is one of the hi-tech industries highlights of the year, giving companies the chance to show off products that will be introduced over 2009 (and beyond). Around 130,000 people are expected to travel to the show this year, which starts this Thursday 8th and runs until Sunday 11th January. Attendance last year stood at around 140,000 and considering the current economic climate a number close to that would be something of an achievement. Over 2,700 companies will be promoting their wares and Steve Ballmer will be handling the task of the opening keynote (previously delivered by Bill Gates). Naturally OCC will be attending the show again this year, bringing you information on what you can expect from the players in the PC industry. Look out for our coverage, which will start when CES kicks off later in the week. Logitech Announces Workforce Cuts Comments (0) | Posted at 12:26PM PST by Nemo Logitech, maker of peripheral equipment such as mice, keyboards and webcams, today announced it is cutting 15 percent of its salaried workforce. Blaming the deepening economic slowdown, Logitech said it is seeing weakening demand across all geographies and channels. With customers reducing inventory levels, Logitech said it expects the situation to only worsen in the coming months and the cuts are an attempt to further reduce its cost structure in light of what they expect to be an extended downturn. Logitech employees over 9,000 people worldwide with offices in Switzerland, Asia and the U.S. Samsung Unveils 100GB Enterprise Class SSD Comments (0) | Posted at 12:14PM PST by Nemo Today Samsung announced its new 2.5 inch 100GB solid state drive (SSD) targeted toward data centers looking for a high-performance alternative to 15,000 RPM SCSI and SAS drives. The SS805 SSD have enhanced performance giving it a sustained read rate of 230MB/s, making it ideal for I/O intensive application such as online transaction processing and video-on-demand services. Samsung used single-level cell NAND flash memory and interleaving along with eight parallel channels along with an optimized controller to increase performance. Samsung claims that with a sustained read/write rate of 230/180MB/s that the new SSD can process IOPS 10 ten times faster than the fastest SAS on the market. Availability is sometime this quarter but no ricing details were released. Hardware Roundup: Tuesday Edition Comments (0) | Posted at 06:50AM PST by Nemo Things got a little busier around the web today. Let make this quick. We have a pair of full-tower cases from Xclio and Cooler Master. In the cooling department we have CPU and GPU heatsinks from the likes of Vigor, Coolink and Cooler Master. We also turned up a pair of triple-channel memory reviews for that Core i7 build you've been dreaming of. Of course there's lots more you need to see by following the links below. See? I told you it was going to be quick.
Cases
XClio 1000 Enclosure @ Virtual-Hideout
Cooler Master Stacker 832 SE @ Bjorn3D
Cooling
Vigor Monsoon III LT Dual 120mm CPU Cooler @ TweakTown
Coolink GFXChilla VGA Heatsink @ [OC]ModShop
Cooler Master Hyper Z600 Black Label Heatsink @ Frosty Tech
Gaming
Budget Gaming Part 1: The Basics @ XSReviews
Memory
Corsair Dominator 1600MHz 6GB Triple-Channel Memory Kit @ Legit Reviews
Kingston Triple Channel 1333MHz 6GB Memory Kit @ TweakTown
Notebooks
MSI Wind U100 Netbook @ HotHardware
Speakers/Headphones
Razer Moray Noise Isolating Earbud Headphones @ Tweaknews
Video
Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 15.8 @ Tech ARP
Miscellany
Audio Archiving Guide: Part 2 - CD Ripping @ Techgage January 5, 2009 Pentax Shows Off Two New Cameras Comments (0) | Posted at 08:56PM PST by Ediseye Even with the Consumer Electronics Show, Pentax showed off two new cameras that are known as the P70 and the E70 before hand. While both feature advanced Face Detection, which can detect up to 32 faces in .03 seconds, the cameras with offer different megapixels and be different sizes. The Optio P70 comes with a 12-megapixel lens, a 4x optical zoom, and a 2.7-inch screen. It can also shoot video footage at an astounding 720p quality; though will only offer a lowly 15 frames per second. The Optio E70 will be able to take pictures up to 10-megapixels with a 3x optical zoom and a 2.4-inch LCD screen. Neither the P70 nor the E70 cameras features a viewfinder, and they sell for $199.95 and $139.95 respectively. Sony Speaks Of No More Restructuring Comments (0) | Posted at 08:54PM PST by Ediseye Since Sony cut jobs before Christmas, at a total of about 8,000. It also planned, according to the New York Times, who quoted Kazuharu Miura that it had already cut 4,000 jobs throughout the world, while also terminating another 5,000 just in the country of Japan alone. The Times is reporting now that Sony’s plan to restructure is just is not enough after the drop in the Japanese currency and other currency world wide. Even though it seems like major restructuring is needed for the electronics company, spokesman Atsuo Omagari is stating that they do not plan to make anymore additional restructurings plans at this point in time. Seagate Drives to Feature USB 3.0 Soon Comments (0) | Posted at 08:53PM PST by Ediseye This week, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Seagate along with semiconductor supplier Symwave, plan to show off their own FreeAgent external storage hard drive that features a USB 3.0 port. People attending the show are going to be, as expected, surprised at the speed that the new standard is going to deliver, as it blazes at a speed of 4.8Gbits/s. Symwave announced that it is honored to be working with Seagate to show off the new USB 3.0 speeds and plans to keep on delivering new and exciting products to consumers down the line as demand grows for high-speed storage solutions. Trojan Blocks Popular Torrent Sites Comments (2) | Posted at 05:40PM PST by ClayMeow A new trojan has been making its way around torrent sites called Troj/Qhost-AC, and it's unlike any virus you've probably ever encountered. There's no spyware or malware and it provides a simple message; "downloading is wrong." The trojan modifies the hosts file of your computer so that it redirects two of the most popular torrent sites, The Pirate Bay and Mininova, to yourself (127.0.0.1) and causes popups and audio messages stating that "downloading is wrong." Some people think the MPAA or RIAA may be responsible, but we'll probably never know where the trojan originated from. For those that happen to get infected, however, thankfully the fix is fairly simple. Sync Files With Your iPhone Comments (1) | Posted at 05:20PM PST by ClayMeow If you have an iPhone, you're probably already syncing your e-mails, contacts and calendar, but what about other files? Thanks to the Soonr app, released today in the App Store, you can now sync everything from Excel documents to text documents to pictures. Soonr supports 30 file types and allows you 500MB of storage in a "personal cloud" that automatically grabs the latest versions of your files without requiring you to upload files every time. In addition, Soonr lets you preview files and even print to remote printers. Best of all, it's free to all iPhone/iTouch owners. Suicide Threat Fails to Get WoW Account Reinstated Comments (6) | Posted at 12:22PM PST by Nemo After a 17-year old Ohio teenager was banned from World of Warcraft, he contacted Blizzard's help desk to get his account reinstated. According to reports, he told them he was suicidal and WoW was all he had to live for. Blizzard didn't reinstate the account but did call emergency services. When the police and paramedics arrived, the teen said it was all a joke and he was using the threat of suicide to get what he wanted. The police didn't find the joke all that funny and charged the teenager with a first-degree misdemeanor. Seagate 7200.12 Drives Boast 500GB per Platter Comments (0) | Posted at 12:02PM PST by Nemo Seagate announced today that it's newest lineup of hard disk drives, the 7200.12 family, are shipping with the world's highest areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch. In a 3.5" format, that works out to 500GB per platter. That allows the 7200.12 products to squeeze 1TB of capacity onto just two discs with a sustained data rate of up to 160MB/s. The previous generation of drives used three platters in a 1TB capacity model. As with the previous 7200.11 generation drives, the latest are SATA 3.0 Gbps, spin at 7,200RPM and offer 16- and 32MB of cache. The lineup currently comes in 1TB, 750GB and 500GB models. Apple's Jobs Sheds Light on Health Issues Comments (0) | Posted at 11:06AM PST by Nemo Rumors around Steve Jobs' health have been circulating for months now. Each time a new one pops up Apple stock takes a hit. Some of those rumors have, of course, proved totally unfounded. The concern gained ground recently when Jobs decided not to give the keynote address at Macworld. Today, Jobs put investors' fears at ease by saying that doctors have finally determined the cause of his recent weight loss. The problem stems from a hormone imbalance, the remedy for which is simple, but will take some time to control. Jobs assured investors he will continue on as Apple's CEO and the board of directors voiced their full support of Jobs. Apple's stock rose more than 3 percent in early trading today. Hardware Roundup: Monday Edition Comments (0) | Posted at 04:19AM PST by Nemo AMD's HD 4830 graphics card sits at the low end of the 4800 series lineup, yet shares the same RV770 core with its HD 4850 bigger brother. The MSI Radeon HD 4830 512MB OC Edition is a factory overclocked version (reviewed by OCC here) that manages to hang with its siblings, especially at lower resolutions. Areal densities on disk drives have continued to increase and Hitachi has updated its lineup of drives by squeezing 1TB of storage on just three platters in its enterprise class E7K1000 drive. Make sure you check out the rest of the reviews in today's roundup by following the links below.
Cooling
Nonaoxia Nano Fans and Koolance VID-487 GPU Water Block @ Bjorn3D
Motherboards
DFI LanParty DK 790GX-M2RS Motherboard @ Madshrimps
Gigabyte EX58-UD4P Intel X58 motherboard @ TechSpot
Mousepads
Nova Killer 2 Mousepad @ [OC]ModShop
Networking
Hawking HWRN1A Hi-Gain Wireless-300N Router @ RBMods
Notebooks
My First Netbook Experience @ Techgage
Power Supplies
OCZ Fatal1ty Series 700W Power Supply @ ThinkComputers
Storage/Hard Drives
Hitachi's Deskstar E7K1000 hard drive @ Tech Report
Video
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