The TRENDnet TEW-691GR 450Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router is a sleek looking router with a long name and potentially big performance. We’ll examine the specs, packaging, features, interface and of course performance, to determine if the TEW-691GR can survive in your personal network.
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Over the past few years In Win has been designing a lot of different cases to stir up the competition with larger manufactures. Their latest Full Tower Case, the In Win Dragon Rider is no exception to In Win’s quality products. The Dragon Rider has advanced features such as a CPU backplate cooling fan, two USB 3.0 easy access ports and support for E-ATX motherboards. The case also includes 4 fans and has support of up to 10 fans to go along with its already cool and quiet design. Let’s take a closer look.
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FREMONT, California — February 18, 2011 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced its plans for the upcoming transition from 34 nanometer to 25 nanometer flash chips used on its solid-state drives.
“There is a lot of confusion in the market about the impact the move from 34 to 25nm flash will have on both the price and the performance of solid-state drives,” said John Beekley, VP of Technical Marketing at Corsair. “We’ve been working closely with SandForce to ensure the smoothest possible transition and we’re sharing the details today.”
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Like many iPhone case manufacturers Speck has updated many of their popular iPhone 3 and 3GS cases to the iPhone 4. This way if you loved your old iPhone case and upgraded to the iPhone 4 you can still get the same great case. A while ago we took a look at the PixelSkin iPhone 3 & 3GS case and today we are taking a look at the PixelSkin HD case, which is the newer version for the iPhone 4. This case seems to be slimmer and does not have the same rubber finish as the original PixelSkin, let’s take a look…
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The new version of AIDA64 (the successor to Everest), Version 1.60 is now available for download! We use AIDA64 in our testing and it is really useful system tool and has quite a few different benchmarks included with it. Read on to see what’s new in this release…
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Ah good old Thursday! Today was such a beautiful day here in Pittsburgh, how was the weather in your neck of the woods? Are you looking to build an X58 system? If so check out our review of the Gigabyte X58-USB3 Intel X58 Motherboard. Here is a quote from the review…
“With the release of the Sandy Bridge processors and Intel’s P67 chipset you may think that X58 systems are done with, but they are really not. If you are a hardcore gamer or PC enthusiast who wants to get the most out of their CPU the X58 platform is still your best bet. It is also the only platform to support triple channel memory and Intel’s Core i7 processors. The thing that holds many people back from getting a X58 system is the price of the components. Well Gigabyte knows this and has released the X58-USB3 board that is a lower-priced board that still has all the great features you want with an X58 setup. Let’s take a look…” Read On…
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ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Motherboard Performance Review @ Legit Reviews
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional Socket 1155 Motherboard @ Pro-Clockers
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TRENDnet TEW-691GR Wireless 450Mbps Gigabit Router @ TechwareLabs
ASUS RT-N56U Dual Band Gigabit Wireless N Router Review @ TweakTown
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Synology RackStation RS411 review @ KITGURU
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MSI GeForce GTX 460 1GB Hawk Review @ Hardware Canucks
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