Bij The Tech Zone is een kleine review neergestraald over de blauwe Orb van Thermaltake. De schattige koeler is ontworpen voor het koelen van videokaarten en chipsets. Deze taak weet hij prima uit te voeren volgens de metingen van The Tech Zone: als hij geplakt is op een GeForce2 Ultra weet hij de temperatuur vergeleken met de standaard koeler met 10C te verlagen. Jammer is wel dat dit één PCI slot kost, maar als je in de vergelijking meeneemt dat ie stil en goedkoop is dan mag je gerust zeggen dat Thermaltake weer een fijn product op de markt heeft gezet
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The cooler performance translated into higher overclock speed. The GeForce GTS Ultra is pretty much an overclocked GTS and as such, is pushed as fast as nVidia would dare to push it. Still I was able to push the Ultra another 35Mhz over stock to 285Mhz and remain 100% stable. The best the factory cooler could do was 270Mhz and that created some ugly artifacts when running Quake 3.
The only downside to the Blue Orb is the lost of one PCI slot. This may or may not be a big deal to you. It isn't to me since the only PCI devices I have is a sound card and a NIC. Another problem is the Orb may not fit your video card because of its size. You should check with Thermaltake to make sure it will work with your video card before buying.
Priced at just $12.50 direct from Nerdsbyte, the Blue Orb is an amazing value. The performance is good and the unit looks great. I may just have to paint it green to match my video card however.
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Things have definitely changed with the second-generation KT133 motherboards. Implementation of multiplier control is now an expected feature. Motherboards that lack this functionality are almost immediately dismissed as having a lack of features. The same case for FSB speeds, users expect to have wide range of FSB settings available. For hardware enthusiasts, the ability to tweak core and I/O voltages is a must-have as well. All these features combined are mainly aimed at the overclocking community, obviously, because of their nature.

Plextor's latest SCSI burner is a solid performer in all of our tests, at or near the top of all of our performance measures. Even in areas of heat and noise, the 12/10/32S is excellent. Subjectively, this is the quietest, coolest Plextor we've yet seen. Along with the Sony CRX160E, this PX-W1210TS is the quietest drive we've ever run through our testbed. Seeks during high speed random reads were nearly silent-we had to eliminate all extraneous sound sources and put our ear nearly against the drive to hear it seeking during the Winbench 99 access time test.



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Built using an advanced 0.18 micron manufacturing process, the two new processors feature a 128KB Level 1 cache and support for a 100/133MHz Front Side Bus to ensure robust performance for the most popular productivity and Internet applications.
U.S. chipmaker Transmeta Corp said on Thursday that flawed versions of its revolutionary ``Crusoe'' chips could have been used by computer makers other than Japan's NEC Corp, but added that it was unlikely.


