" Today we will be taking an in-depth look at the newest drive in Western Digital’s arsenal, the Western Digital Raptor 1TB 10,000 RPM SATA 6Gb/s Hard Disk. The last iteration of this famous hard disk drive came in a 600GB size and was launched about 2 years ago. Most of you are aware that the Raptor Series of hard disks have been touted as the fastest consumer spinning disk drives on the planet because of the spindle speed of 10,000 rpms. Prior to SSD’s becoming mainstream the Raptor was THE performance drive and provided the end user a noticeable performance increase over the 7200 rpm mainstream drives. "

" Corsair is expanding its case range yet again with the first of its chassis in the new Vengeance case line up, with a design heavily based on a military theme its right up many gamers streets but lets give it the OC3D once over to see if the Corsair quality has pulled through the basic military design process. "

" Enermax is a well known manufacturer of high end power supplies, and some of the best fans around, but they also have a full case line, including the budget gamer the ECA3175-BL. The Enermax ECA3175-BL mid-tower case comes in at a low price, but it is rich in gaming style features with room for a full ATX motherboard, six 3.5” internal and one external HDD bays, as well as four 5.25” optical drive bays. To keep the gaming build looking good, the ECA3175-BL is finished in black inside and out, and features a large side window to show off your components. Front audio and USB 3.0 and 2.0 keep connections within easy reach on the black mesh nose featuring a blue LED intake fan. One 120mm fan is included, with room for rear and bottom mount 120mm fans, and two rear panel holes to accommodate liquid cooling. "

" Today we are going to take a look at a computer case named “Silencio 450″ from Cooler Master. Cooler Master is known for their high quality products that are often low-noise. I myself am very interested in and attracted to low noise products and am excited to get right on this case and test it out! "

" It's been almost a year since the release of the original Optimus 3D from LG, and in that time we've been watching 3D technology continue to evolve. Undoubtedly you've seen the changes in your local cinema, and even your living room, if you happen to have a 3DTV. While it still hasn't permeated every aspect of our reality as in Total Recall or the likes, it's at a stage of budding infancy. Since the Optimus 3D, LG have been the only big-name manufacturer to stick to their guns in the 3D smartphone market. There's been nothing official about a potential EVO 3D sequel by HTC and it's a safe bet to say that the cutting-edge of mobile 3D technology can be found in the Optimus 3D Max. "

" When VIA introduced the mini-ITX form factor back in 2001, it did not get much support because back then, both Intel and AMD based motherboards used a two-chip design. Now, however, motherboards are a single chip design, so it is much easier for motherboard manufacturers to cram enough ports and features onto their boards to fit into the mini-ITX form factor. We have seen many motherboard vendors now launcheing mini-ITX boards along with mATX and ATX when a new chipset is launched. ASUS is probably the most noticeable such vendor; they had mini-ITX boards for the Z68 and the Z77 chipset at launch. Zotac is also another big player in the mini ITX world with its array of boards for both AMD and Intel platform. "

" Zalman has been producing CPU coolers for as long as I can remember. Their typical style has been the all-copper “flower” style heatsinks in various configurations and options. The flower style coolers have their advantages with providing airflow to the VRM’s and MosFETs on your motherboard. Traditional tower-style coolers lack the downward airflow to help cool these components. Their latest “flower” style offering is the CNPS (short for Computer Noise Prevention System) 8900 series. This comes in two variants – the Quiet and the Extreme, which we’ll be looking at here today. "

" Xilence was founded in 2003 and is a German-Chinese manufacturer which as its name implies is specialized in components for cooling and noise reduction in PC systems. The range of products they make consists of cases, PSUs, case fans, notebook coolers and coolers for all components of a desktop PC (e.g. CPU, HFF, GPU, RAM etc.) Today we will focus on their newest PSU offerings which belong to the XQ series. The three new PSUs have 750W, 850W and 1000W capacity and the smaller one is 80 Plus Gold compliant while the two stronger XQs feature platinum efficiency. In this review we are going to fully test the new XQ series 850W unit and see if it is worthy of your money and if it is truly silent following Xilence's philosophy. "

"  Antec has one of the largest selections of PC power supplies on the market today and their new HCP-1000 Platinum power supply features 1000W of continuous output power and is 80 Plus Platinum certified. The High Current Pro Platinum is the first power supply in a new series that will replace three existing lines, the TruePower Quattro, High Current Pro (80 Plus Gold), and Antec’s Signature series. The High Current Pro Platinum series will be the new top class of maximum efficiency within Antec’s range of power supplies with modular cabling. The HCP-1000 Platinum is based on a brand new platform, co-developed with Antec’s partner Delta Electronics and combines several new technological developments and features to provide unmatched performance and be the very best power supply possible. The HCP-1000 Platinum incorporates all modular cables with six PCI-E connectors, NVIDIA SLI-Ready certification, ErP Lot 6:2013 compliance, a 7-year warranty and it is being introduced with a MSRP of $269.90 USD.  "

" Thermaltake's Frio Advanced heatsink is basically a reboot of the Jing heatsink, but this time around the copper heatpipes are exposed at the base, none of the aluminum surfaces are nickel plated and the heatpipes not soldered to the cooling fins. We mention this seemingly minor point of construction, since the Frio Advanced's heatpipes are pressed into each aluminum fin with a new type of swage joint we haven't encountered before. "

" After launching a very successful premium drive based on the most prolific solid state processor of all time the LSI SandForce 2281, Intel decided to launch a value oriented drive based on the same LSI SandForce 2281 processor. We have heard a lot of rumors about this drive. First we heard that this drive would follow what Kingston did with the HyperX 3k and provide the consumer a lower price point through the use of lower cost 3000k P/E NAND. Then we heard the rumor that the 330 would be using less channels of the solid state processor similar to what is done with graphics processors and cpu’s to provide the differentiation between the premium and value offerings. "

" Arctics lists the Freezer i30 as having an upgraded 320W cooling capacity slightly higher than the previous Freezer 13 Pro we reviewed, which should give any enthusiast plenty of overclocking headroom. The Freezer i30 carries a 4 x 8mm heatpipe arrangement that uses the Direct Touch configuration that we previously only seen with Xigmatek coolers. We also get with the i30 48 0.5mm aluminum fins stacked on top of it one more than the Freezer 13 Pro, the fan that drives the cooling power of the Freezer i30 is a 120mm fluid dynamic bearing with a low noise level of 0.3 Sone or ~35dba. Arctic has carried on with the graceful warranties of their products giving the Freezer i30 a 6 year warranty,which is industry leading in the cooling market. "

" The Freezer 13 Pro comes into a saturated market with the big dogs like Noctua and Thermalright holding strong as the kings of cooling. The Freezer 13 holds a few good selling points with one of those being its price; at 44.99 at the time of this writing I’m not sure you will find a better looking cooler or one that can even compare to this at the same price. So can a much smaller, much more affordable cooler perform on par with these “big dogs” in the cooler market? "

" Recently MSI released the GD65 version of their Z77A motherboard. We already reviewed it and it is a top notch product. Of course MSI also had something else under their sleeves, they always release a GD80 version which is more high end. And that's what we'll be reviewing today, the high-end version aka the MSI Z77A GD80. Albeit it shares 95% of the DNA of the GD65 it comes with one feature that some of you will be very interested in, a ThunderBolt controller. To put it very bold, or to bol't'ly go where no one has gone before Thunderbolt (formerly know as Light Peak ) is the fast version of a storage connector like the 5 Gbps USB 3.0, yet twice as fast as it is running at 10 Gbps. "

" Corsair is definitely one of our favorite manufacturers out there - during the last couple of years they've entered numerous new hardware categories and always come up with innovative and good products. This time they've set their aims at budget case market with some new case models, and we also received a sample of their new Carbide Series 300R case. Now lets see what this model is all about! "

" We are witnessing an increasing number of applications of the Thunderbolt technology. After Apple, Promise and LaCie, now Western Digital is launching a product that takes advantage of this lightning fast connection technology in the shape of the WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo. We tested the 4TB version of WD's new external hard drive. It won't be long now before the first PC motherboards with onboard Thunderbolt will become available. However, until the first Thunderbolt-compatible motherboards arrive, you will need a Mac to be able to enjoy the lightning-fast Thunderbolt devices. For this test we used a 2011 Apple Mac Mini. The WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo 4TB looks about the same as the other My Books with two drives from WD. The main difference is in the colour and of course the two Thunderbolt connectors on the back. "

" Synology has a variety of storage solutions for consumers and businesses. If you need just one disk, Synology has that. Should you need two or even twelve disks, Synology has very good products in those categories as well which you can read about in our recent reviews. At the top of the product line you will find the DS3612xs, a model that resembles the DiskStation DS2411+ but is significantly more powerful. "

" Corsair’s first step into cases was the Obsidian series 800D, it was a full tower aimed at enthusiast. Next to be released was the Graphite series cases that consisted of Midtower cases with a little sleeker style than the Obsidian series cases. Then Corsair released the Carbide series that was a balance of styles of both the Obsidian and Graphite series. Now Corsair has introduced the Vengeance Gaming line of products that includes cases, mice, keyboards, and headsets. We have already looked at the Vengeance 1300 Headset and the Vengeance K90 keyboard and M90 mouse. Today we have the Vengeance C70 case. The Vengeance C70 was designed with gamers on the go in mind. The entire case, including the front bezel and bay covers, are made of steel. "

" AMD's Radeon HD 7970 has been on the market for a while now. The card introduced a new shader architecture and brought numerous improvements in power consumption. It later met heavy opposition from NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 and 670, which has caused HD 7970 pricing to go down quite a bit. VTX3D's HD 7970 X-Edition is a highly overclocked HD 7970 using a custom dual fan cooler and a large clock increase to 1050 MHz GPU and 1425 MHz memory. "