Raidmax Volcano 630 Watt Power Supply Review

High quality power supplies should be a consideration for all your builds, since they can prevent many problems that stock PSUs may cause. Today’s review is of a nice Raidmax Volcano 630W PSU, which promises modular connectors and light effects.

http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Power...-Power-Supply/

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Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro Review

As processors get faster, they almost invariably get hotter. That's one of the problems with overclocking. This makes aftermarket air and water cooling very nice. Today, Mike MacKenzie reviews the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64, ready to cool your 64-bit and dual-core AMD processors.

http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/PC-Co...64-Pro-Review/

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5 Power Supplies Get the Full Juice Treatment

The manufacturers of the drop out units went back to the drawing board to make improvements, and sent us new models for consideration. You can read here about how the final version of the CoolerMaster Real Power 550 and the new Hiper Type R fared in our tests, along with information about some new models from other vendors as well.

Including:

CoolerMaster Real Power RS-550-ACLY
Enermax Liberty ELT500AWT
Hiper Type R 580W
Silverstone Zeus ST56ZF
Silverstone Strider ST56F

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/...ice_treatment/

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WD1500AD Raptor X-Tends Performance Lead

Almost three years ago, Western Digital's WD360 Raptor drive first saw the light of day, and was greeted with cautious optimism. It was meant to be a cost effective alternative for expensive SCSI enterprise-class hard drives, but would it succeed? WD's gamble paid off, but the majority of Raptor drives made their way into high-performance desktop PCs rather than into server systems. The new top model offers 150 GB, a good amount of extra performance and officially targets high-end enthusiasts. It is pretty obvious that the Raptor-X is a great drive, but is it great enough to become a "must-have"?

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/...formance_lead/

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AMD AM2: More than just a Memory Change

The new AMD technology refresh, now called AM2, will bring DDR2 memory to the Athlon64 on-processor memory controller. Many in the industry have speculated about the impact of this low latency memory controller on DDR2 performance, which to this point has suffered under the impact of the higher latency Intel Netburst architecture. We are looking forward to the opportunity to take a closer look at DDR2 performance on AM2 - which is everyone's big question.

There will be more than just new memory with AM2, however. We now have details on the new Socket 940 for AM2. It has been widely reported that the new Socket 940 will not be compatible with the existing Socket 940 used for Opteron and early Athlon 64.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=2688

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Liam