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It was also 13% faster than the old HD 6770 and 23% faster than the HD 6750.

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The i7-3820 system used about the same as the 2600K setup, sipping a few more watts under load. However, it consumed drastically less than the hexa-core 3960X-based machine when stressed.

The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. That’s on top ofthe human costof over 800 lives. Among those was Nidec, which produces ~70% of the world’s hard drive spindle motors. The graphs below show prices from Newegg from mid-September 2011 until February 1 2012. Some drives appear to have been more severely impacted than others. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 is selling for double the price at the beginning of October....

Here the bandwidth of 231.7MB/s meant that it was the fastest SF-2281 based SSD we have ever tested. This explains why the Intel SSD 520 Series 240GB has provided consistently strong performance throughout or benchmarking phase.

This provides great graphics performance. Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors are among the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world. It improves performance by utilizing serial point-to-point links, allowing for increased bandwidth and stability. SLI/CrossFire On-Demand Why choose when you could have both?SLI or CrossFireX? The board features SLI/CrossFire on Demand technology, supporting up to Quad-GPU SLI or Quad-GPU CrossFireX configuration. Whichever path you take, you might be assured of jaw-dropping graphics at a level previously unseen....

The Canon Color imageCLASS MF8450c sets new standards for business photo-quality results and speed in the workplace. Its enhanced performance capabilities allow your small business or work group to compete in today’s fast-paced business environment. With Canon’s Quick First Print Technology, the imageCLASS MF8450c provides first copy time of approximately 16 seconds.

This is a 16% core clock increase and a 12% rise in memory frequency.

Launchy is a free cross-platform utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes. What’s New:

Colors are accurate, though, and the display performed well enough in direct sunlight. The top of the phone is home to both the micro-USB charging/syncing port and the 3.5mm headphone jack. It is also where the power/sleep/unlock key is located. And in the case of the Lumia 710, that storage is rather limited.

There is also a slightly slower and considerably more affordable option. Today we are checking out five high-end X79 motherboards from Asus, Asrock, ECS, Intel and MSI. When we first tested the LGA2011 platform, we were shocked by theX79 chipset’s lack of features. Unfortunately missing from our roundup is Gigabyte. That particular board has a very weak feature set along with an exuberant price tag. Apparently Gigabyte’s HQ is very tight on samples at the moment, must be the economy....

Ever need to change attributes (date and time of their creation etc.) of files and folders? As you know, with Windows it’s tedious and slow. Not so with Attribute Manager! Attribute Manager allows you to change Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive attributes. The program is easy to use and supports a multi-lingual user interface. Note, that changing the attribute Compressed for large files can take a long time.

It also works on Windows Server 2008 R2 (but you are not supposed to customize a server). It requires a decent GPU for the 3D animations to run smoothly. What does it do?