Monday Blahs

I don’t know what it is today, but I have absolutely no energy and am interested in doing nothing but watching TV. If you know me, you know how weird that is. But I figured I’d best haul myself off the couch and get the first post of the day done since I’m running really late.

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Futurelooks starts us off with A Guide to the Technology of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games

PureOverclock goes inside the SilverStone Fortress FT02

TweakPC counters with the Enermax Staray (please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation)

ThinkComputers gets into the Axus FiT RAID 500 Storage Device

TechRadar takes a look at the Acer S243HL

TrustedReviews gets its hands on the 3M Ergonomic Mouse

InsideHW presents its Intel H55/H57 Round-up: Full coverage for Core i3 and i5

techPowerUp checks out the PowerColor HD 5750 Go Green

GamingHeaven takes on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PC)

TweakNews chills out with the Zalman CNPS10X Flex Heatsink / Cooler

MadShrimps reports on the Integrated Systems Europe 2010 Tradeshow

Hi Tech Legion examines the Patriot Warp V2 32Gb Solid State Drive

Benchmark Reviews tests for Best CPU Cooler Heatsink Performance

Hardware Canucks shares its thoughts on the ASUS ROG Rampage III Extreme LGA1366 Motherboard

Lastly, Overclocker Cafe hooks up with the Kingwin Dock Master USB 3.0 HDD Docking Station

Did My Job Too Well

Don’t you hate when you do that? The show was interesting the first couple of times, but then I got sick of having to pay attention and wrote a little program to loop the graphics I need to run instead of having to do them manually. Which is great, but now I’m bored. Never happy, huh? But at least I have work! On the whole, I have to say this one goes in the “win” column. There are worse things to have to watch for the weekend…for instance, I could’ve been stuck with basketball!

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Xtreme Computing kicks it off with the akasa NeroS heatpipe CPU cooler

techPowerUp takes a look at the MSI HD 5870 Lightning

Top Review Shop goes inside the AZZA Helios 910R Case

TweakTown gets its hands on the Razer Imperator Gaming Mouse and Vespula Mouse Mat in a video review

Bjorn3D examines the Asus Maximus 3 Extreme

TechRadar weighs in on the Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition

OverClock Intelligence Agency sits down with the Logitech Speaker Lapdesk N700

iXBT Labs presents its 59 CPU Roundup

TweakPC takes on Assassin’s Creed II (PC) (please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation)

Hardware Secrets shares its thoughts on the OCZ Z Series 850 W Power Supply

Bona Fide Reviews hooks up with the Unitek USB 3.0 SATA HDD Docking Station (Y-1071)

Overclockers Online gets into the Axle GeForce G210 512MB

TrustedReviews focuses on the Samsung WB1000

Tech-Reviews beats the heat with the Coolink Lapchilla Laptop Cooler

And to finish us off, Motherboards.org sends us to its YouTube channel for the Intel Gulftown i7 980X Overclocked to 4.02GHz

The Snow is Gone

Or at least all but the piles at the corners of the driveway and sidewalk. It rained for most of yesterday and melted it all away! I couldn’t be more excited…it’s no secret if you’ve followed these posts for more than ten minutes that I hate winter. I’m sure we’ve still got one more snowstorm in store since that’s how it works here, but for now it’s been near 50F and my daffodils are almost blooming. I’ll take it!

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LanOC gets us going with the NZXT Panzerbox

TweakTown tests out the Proluma Deluxe Triple LCD Stand

HardwareLogic gets into the Imation M-Class 128GB SSD

Technic3D examines the Enermax MODU 87+ 600W PSU

RBMods tries on a Mionix Keid 20 Headset

Metku presents its Review of the latest CPUs from AMD

TweakPC wonders ROCCAT SDMS: A clever Desktop-Solution? (please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation)

OverClock Intelligence Agency beats the heat with the Thermaltake Silent 1156 CPU Cooler

TestFreaks spends some time with the Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT SATA6 Desktop Hard Drive ST32000641AS

Hardware Canucks takes a sneak peek at the ASUS HD 5870 Matrix 2GB & ASUS HD 5870 “V2″

PCShopTalk goes inside the BELKIN Iphone 3G/3GS Leather Folio Case

TrustedReviews sits down with the Samsung R730 – 17.3in Laptop

Legion Hardware gives you Asus P7H55-M Pro vs. Gigabyte H55M-UD2H

TechRadar rocks out with the Klipsch Icon 5.1 System

And to finish us off for now, Phoronix checks out the Jetway NC96 NC96-510-LF

Site Updates: A Rant

I shan’t name any names to protect the ignorant, but I frequent this particular site which has message boards. This week, they “updated”. Mind you, they “updated” two years ago and there are still things that were broken then that have yet to be fixed by their IT team. The site is run by a corporation most of you have heard of…they have several websites as well as cable TV channels. Their IT department is probably the most incompetent I’ve yet run across, which is saying something. Anyway, they “updated”. Now, the only way to view the site is to log in. Every time you navigate away from the site you are automatically logged out. A login lasts approximately six clicks, and then you have to log in again. The only way to “fix” the problem is to log out, delete all cookies, clear the cache, then go back to log in, but instead of doing so, click on the “forgot your password” link so it is reset via email. Then you can stay logged in for sometimes as many as a dozen clicks without having to go through the whole process again. Ah…improvements. If only they were….

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Futurelooks starts us off with the Intel Core i7-980XE Gulftown 6-Core 32nm Processor

Let’s see who else has reviewed the newest Intel creation:
Guru3D
Benchmark Reviews
Hardware Canucks
HardwareHeaven
hardCOREware
HotHardware
MBReview
TweakTown
Motherboards.org (via YouTube)
Motherboards.org (via its own site)
Hi Tech Legion
Hardware Secrets
Au-Ja
TweakNews
Bjorn3D
bit-tech
Legit Reviews

Whew! Now on to some other stuff…
bit-tech checks out the ASRock H55M Pro LGA1156 Motherboard

TechRadar pans the Chumby Classic

ThinkComputers weighs in on the Kingston SSDNow V-Series 30GB Solid State Boot Drive

TweakTown goes inside the Raidmax Skyline Windowed Mid-Tower Chassis

TweakPC examines some G.Skill PI 2200 CL7 F3-17600CL7D-4GBPIS Memory (please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation)

Pro-Clockers gets into the NZXT Hades Crafted Series Tower

Top Review Shop tries on a pair of Arctic Sound E361 Earphones

Hardware Secrets chills out with the Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler

PureOverclock takes a look at the PowerColor Radeon PCS+ 5830 1GB

And to close out this selection, TrustedReviews sits down with the Acer Aspire One 532h-2Dr – 10.1in Netbook

My Printer Is Possessed

That is the only logical explanation left. All of a sudden, it has decided that each sheet of paper is approximately six sheets thick, thus it grabs that many to print. Of course, that many won’t go through the machine, so it jams. But if I have only one sheet in the tray to try to trick it, it won’t take it in at all, and still tells me I have a paper jam. Might be time to retire it, although being me I’m going to try to fix it until it is broken so horribly beyond recognition that giving it a decent burial would be the only humane thing.

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LanOC gets us going with the Steel Series Siberia v2

OverClock Intelligence Agency goes inside the Raidmax Skyline Case

bit-tech presents CeBIT 2010 – SSDs, motherboards and more

HotHardware sits down with the Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 Laptop

TechRadar checks out the iStorage DiskGenie

TestFreaks hooks up with the Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB Boot Drive

TweakPC takes on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PC) (please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation)

Overclockers Online gets into the Cooler Master 690 II Advanced

TrustedReviews gets the picture with the Plustek OpticFilm 7600i SE Film Scanner

TweakTown weighs in on the Thecus N7700 Pro 7 Drive NAS Server

BigBruin chills out with the Cooler Master V8 Heatpipe CPU Cooler

Bona Fide Reviews spends some time with the USB 3.0 GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 PCI Express Card GA-USB3.0

XSReviews takes a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB

BCC Hardware gets its hands on the SteelSeries Xai Laser Gaming Mouse

And to finish us off, iGadget Life gives you its Review of Two USB 3.0 34mm Expresscards

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