The News: Friday, October 26 Edition

It’s Friday! It also happens to be the weekend before Hallowe’en, when most adults are having their parties. Do y’all play along with that, or do you think of it as just another weekend? Me, I love Hallowe’en more than pretty much any other holiday. Unfortunately, I usually end up working and can’t do anything about it. This year, however, I win. Tonight is nothing special, just working a hockey game and then home. But tomorrow…tomorrow is the night we wear our costumes to work (hockey again), and then I have a party afterward. I’m going to give away my costume, because most people reading this will get it. I’m wearing a run-of-the-mill “death” hooded robe. And on my chest is a Windows fatal error screen. Get it? I’m going as a BSOD. I’ve been giggling about it for weeks now.

Real World Labs starts us off with the MSI GeForce GTX 650 Power Edition OC 1GB

TweakTown counters with the PowerColor DEVIL13 Radeon HD 7990 6GB Video Card

eTeknix sees that and raises the Palit GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB JetStream Graphics Card

TechRadar gets its hands on the iPad mini

techPowerUp tests out the Mach Xtreme MX-DS Turbo 120 GB SLC

ThinkComputers examines the Patriot Intel Extreme Masters DDR3-2133 16GB Memory Kit

OverClocked Inside explores the CM Storm Scout 2 Case

TechwareLabs spends some time with the AMD FX-8350 Piledriver Processor

BCC Hardware gets into the Giada A51 (AMD) Mini PC

Phoronix checks out FX-8350 Piledriver Tuning On AMD’s Open64 Compiler

HotHardware goes mobile with the Samsung Galaxy Note II Smartphone

NikKTech comes back with the Jabra SPEAK 410 USB Speakerphone

TechReviewSource sits down with the Dell XPS 12

Hi Tech Legion beats the heat with the Phanteks PH-TC90LS Low Profile CPU Cooler

To close out this selection, BigBruin offers you a chance to Win a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe MX 120 SSD