| Aerocool Silent Master Blue |
| A truly great build has powerful internal components, an impressive aesthetic, and quiet performance under load. The Aerocool Silent Master Blue 200mm LED fan definitely helps with the latter two, adding blue LED lighting to your rig while never running louder than 18 dBA. |
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| ARCTIC Accelero Hybrid - Serious About Cooling |
| The ARCTIC Accelero Hybrid is familiar territory for the company; it replaces your graphics card’s factory heatsink and shroud. What’s different, however, is that the Accelero Hybrid uses a closed-loop liquid cooling system, similar to the closed-loop CPU coolers we’ve reviewed in the past, to do it. |
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| Cooler Master CM Storm Scout 2 |
| Cooler Master’s popular CM Storm Scout was clearly designed with LAN parties in mind. Its vented and windowed side panel does a nice job of showing off just enough of its owner’s component choices, its front panel provides convenient access to all the ports you’ll need for a long weekend of gaming with headphones and whatnot, and of course it has conveniently placed handles for lugging your pride and joy to and from the LAN. |
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| GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UP4 TH - Thunderbolt Technology Bonus |
| The GA-Z77X-UP4 TH also provides a number of overclocking features. You’ll find GIGABYTE’s 3D Power Utility, which lets you control the motherboard’s overvoltage protection, load-line calibration, and PWM frequency to ensure stable overclocks. |
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| GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 660 Ti OC Version |
| After what seemed like ages without much of anything to talk about on the graphics front, GIGABYTE sent us the GeForce GTX 660 Ti OC Version (GV-N66TOC-2GD), the follow-up to the GeForce GTX 670 meant to bring Kepler’s 28nm gaming genius to a much wider audience. |
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| Kingston HyperX Red 8GB DDR3-1600 |
| The HyperX red line provides you with a red heat spreader that offers an aggressive presence inside a build, especially one with a red-black or all-red scheme. These HyperX heat spreaders are also low profile, at a height of 1.18 inches. As such, the modules should easily fit under even the largest CPU coolers. |
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| LaCie Porsche P'9230 - Nice Big Desktop Drive |
| Apple hasn’t put USB 3 on any of its desktop Macs yet, but it can still be useful to have a nice big desktop drive waiting back at home or in your office sometimes. Besides, we can probably assume that there’s an iMac update in the pipeline that will include USB 3 in the not too distant future |
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| Patriot Memory Gauntlet Node |
| The Gauntlet Node’s matte black exterior is a muted disguise for a lot of functionality packed into a small package. The plastic enclosure measures 0.96 x 5.47 x 3.39 inches (HxWxD) and is designed to support drives up to 2TB. It can provide Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) access to stored content for as many as eight mobile devices. |
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| How To Choose A Printer (Part 2) |
| If you have a home network, this should be thought of when you decide to buy a new printer. Though any printer can be used via network after PC’s connection and Windows sharing is set up. It is not an ideal situation because PC and attached printer will need unlocking for other devices to gain access to them |
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| How To Choose A Printer (Part 1) |
| Choosing a printer seems like a discouraging task. Should you buy a cheap model or a pricey one for long term? Laser printer or inkjet printer? Single-task or multi-task? You considered list keeping being lengthened. |
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| Thermaltake Frio Extreme |
| Thermaltake's quiet Frio ruled the roost in many situations, especially at high heat loads. As such, the Frio Extreme will have a tough job bettering it and, at $116, it competes with Corsair's H80 too-dangerous ground for an air cooler. |
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| How Much Power Does Your PC Need? |
| Whether you’re buying a PSU as part of a whole new system, or as an upgrade for an existing one, there are no point in buying a PSU that’s far beyond your needs. PCs are remarkably power-efficient these days, and their PSUs are actually most efficient at 50 per cent load. |
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| PNY NVidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB |
| Based around the same GK104 architecture as the rest of NVidia’s 6-series GPUs, the GeForceGTX660Ti has the same streaming multiprocessor (SM) disabled as the GTX670 2GB, resulting in a stream processor count of 1.344 Its clock speeds match those of the GTX 670 2GB too, with a base clock of 915MHzand a guaranteed boost clock of 980MHz, although you can expect some cards to boost to up to 1.115M Hz,. |
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| Razer Taipan - Shape And Size Make It Awkward |
| Razer is one of the most prolific peripheral manufacturers around; it has a gaming mouse, headset or keyboard for just about every single type of game, play style and budget. Even so, it always seemed to neglect a small but significant portion of the population - lefties. |
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| Video Message via Mail Gets Easy |
| FaceTime and Skype keep you in touch with your family, friends and colleagues. However, video-call isn’t always available for everyone. Many people don’t still have integrated camera and even some of them don’t want to. In these cases, you must consider sending a video message to your beloved people – you will see a 30-second video can deliver far more emotion than any texts. |
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| Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A |
| Asus upgrades Zenbook with classic Full HD screen and trendy Ivy Bridge processor, but are they enough to make it the best ultra-book? |
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| No Windows 7 Setup DVD Supplied With Your PC? No Problem! |
| My main system these days is an HP G72-b01EA laptop. I've increased the RAM - easy. I've updated the BIOS no problem. But then a brick wall loomed into view. When trying to use the recovery discs I created when I first bought the laptop, I got a message saying they were for a different machine. Guessing the new BIOS was to blame, I reverted to the previous version, and the discs then worked. |
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| Make A Super Charged PC |
| With most software and games available to download, an optical drive is no longer essential – but they do make it easier to install your OS. They’re also cheaps as chips, as this 12x Blue-ray drive proves. |
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| Make Raspberry PI Projects |
| Phones and tablets are fun, but to earn your Elite stripes you need to spend some time on the Pi – a $48.5 PC built for bedroom programming |
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| Having problems with Regional and Language Options |
| “I've recently purchased a second hand netbook from a friend, who gave me a very good deal much better than I could ever manage from a shop, or even online. The laptop is an Acer model, and it's fairly powerful, certainly for what I need it for. It's running Windows XP SP3, and I've updated it fully, with all of the latest Windows updates and patches. |
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| How To Get Rid Of Babylon Toolbar? |
| My PC has been infested by the Babylon Toolbar. It came with a demo I installed and I accidentally forgot to unstick the necessary box to avoid installing it. Now it's there, and my virus scanner won't even delete it. Do you have instructions for getting rid of it? |
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| How Did We Get To Metro? (Part 3) |
| Both of these GUIs are designed as mobile operating systems, one being Apple's closed source model, the other being Linux powered and open source. Both are backed financially by the two biggest companies ever and both do pretty much the same thing. |
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| How Did We Get To Metro? (Part 2) |
| Windows looked good. It could run everything the PC users had at the time, it was simple to use and it was intuitive. The use of drop-down menus, scroll bars, better-looking icons, dialogue boxes and application switching made many millions for Bill and his band of merry men and became the stepping stone to making the GUI an independent operating system, as opposed to being installed on top of DOS. |
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| How Did We Get To Metro? (Part 1) |
| Innovative, intuitive, ground-breaking: these are just a few of the words that some have used to describe Microsoft's bold new interface, Metro. Frustrating, useless, nasty and bad have also been bandied around, usually in the same sentence as the former compliments, which is a little unfair, as we've only had a brief taster of what Metro can do and how it affects our productivity. |
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| How To Buy…SSD Drives (Part 3) |
| The price of SSDs is spiraling downwards as increasing demand makes it easier and more profitable to develop solid state drives. Demand is also being driven forwards by a spate of natural disasters in East Asia, which have affected the availability and price of 'normal' hard disk drives. |
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| How To Buy…SSD Drives (Part 2) |
| Although you can encounter a reasonable number of manufacturers, we recommend sticking with one of the big five: Intel, Crucial, Kingston, Samsung and OCZ. All of these brands produce well-priced, well-performing SSD drives in a wide variety of capacities. |
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| How To Buy…SSD Drives (Part 1) |
| The popularity of solid state drives has been rising steadily for the past few years, but only recently have they reached a point where they've become a truly viable option for the majority of computer users. But how are they different from the average hard drive, and why might you want one? |
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| Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 : Modifying User Accounts |
| After you’ve added a user to Windows Home Server, you can modify the account as needed via the Windows Home Server Dashboard. You can view the current account properties, change the account password, disable the account, and remove the account. |
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| Windows Server 2008 Server Core : Working with Scripts - Creating a Basic Script |
| Scripts can make the command line significantly easier to automate and can improve the reliability of command line tasks by helping you perform tasks in the same sequence every time. This section shows how to create basic scripts in both VBScript and JavaScript so you can see the differences between the two languages. |
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