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Gabriel Ikram (Blog) - February 12, 2008 5:36 PM

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DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday

Systems
Überclok Ion: Midrange Overclocking @ AnandTech

Motherboard
EVGA 780i SLI Motherboard @ Motherboards.org

CPU
Tweaking the Phenom 9600 Black Edition @ TechReport
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 45nm Wolfdale CPU @ Madshrimps
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 @ Bit-tech

Mobile
ASUS Eee PC @ t-break

Display
SOYO 47-Inch LCD 1080p HDTV MT-SYXRT4791AB @ Benchmark Reviews

Cooling
Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler @ Virtual-Hideout
Asus Triton 77 Heatsink @ FrostyTech

Cases
Hiper Media Chassis HMC-2K53A-A3 @ ComputerShopper

Audio
Razer Piranha Gaming Communicator headset @ Bit-tech

Memory
OCZ Rally 2 Turbo 4GB @ I4U

Video
3870 Crossfire vs 8800GT SLI @ t-break
Gigabyte Radeon HD 3850 (256MB vs. 512MB) @ LegionHardware
XFX 8800 GS XXX / Sapphire HD 3850 @ DriverHeaven

Cooling
Cooler Master Hyper 212 CPU Cooler @ TweakTown

PSU
Corsair TX750W Power Supply Review @ Hardware Secrets

Display
Panasonic Lumix TZ3 @ TrustedReviews

Misc.
NVIDIA Acquires AGEIA: Enlightenment and the Death of the PPU @ AnandTech

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Loving that USB flash drive

By daftrok on 2/12/2008 9:51:18 PM , Rating: 1

Its amazing that we can buy 4GB of flash memory for only 30 bucks. I remember three years ago when I spent 50 bucks for a 1 GB flash drive.

RE: Loving that USB flash drive

By kmmatney on 2/13/2008 1:07:40 AM , Rating: 2

I just bought an 8 GB stick from Microcenter for $30.

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RE: Loving that USB flash drive

By daftrok on 2/13/2008 2:23:37 AM , Rating: 2

Dammit all! I'm always behind on these flash drives...

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RE: Loving that USB flash drive

By Mitch101 on 2/13/2008 10:14:30 AM , Rating: 2

I bought 2 8-gig one slow (A-Data) and one fast (Corsair)

1-I have a bootable OS with Ghost on it. That I use to make an image of a machine just after I get everything installed and configured. Keeps me from lugging around a hard drive and disk. Its slow but I just walk away anyhow. Then when I have the time I pop in the USB drive and burn a disk of the image for recovery later on if needed. Yea I know I can image to a disc but I tend to create incremental images. Like OS with patches only after windows authenticated, after anti virus, and after applications and updated again. This way if I use an image a year from now I might be running a different anti-virus app or have moved like I did from office 2003 to Office 2007. Having a base ghost image I dont have residual junk on the OS.

2-The second is all my general purpose apps and docs. If not U3 then http://www.PortableApps.com then I run a XAAMP which is a Apache web/sql server on a flash device.

Looking forward to the day I can afford to drop the cash on a 32gig stick.

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RE: Loving that USB flash drive

By SlyNine on 2/13/2008 3:29:45 AM , Rating: 2

Phht. You will never need more then 100 megs anyways.

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RE: Loving that USB flash drive

By jr9k on 2/13/2008 5:56:23 AM , Rating: 2

That's a lot. I don't need more than 640 KB ;)

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RE: Loving that USB flash drive

By choadenstein on 2/13/2008 8:34:24 AM , Rating: 2

damn, beat me to it. Nice one Bill Gates!

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Wolfdale

By Bioniccrackmonk on 2/13/2008 9:04:55 AM , Rating: 2

I recently upgraded my computer from an old Athlon XP 3200 to the E8400 and I have to say, it is freaking sweet. On air cooling, I had it overclocked to just over 4GHZ, but I live in FL unfortunately, so now I have it back down to 3.6 since it is in the 70's now. I miss our month of winter.