Since this week the new M500 SSD from Crucial is available is in the stores and this SSD has not only an enormously high performance, but now also offers a capacity close to the 1TB at a price where some other fast SSD starts with the half size. Today we have the smaller Crucial M500 480 GB SSD CT480M500SSD1 with integrated 256-bit AES encryption tested and extensively benchmarked. Crucial declares both the M500 480 GB SSD and the Crucial M500 … Continue reading Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review
The AMD Socket FM2 platform has an excellent price/performance ratio and is especially very interesting for those who like to build a less expensive PC. ASRock top this with this AMD Trinity motherboard and offers for less than 60 EUR a micro-ATX motherboard with three PCI Express slots, one PCI slot, five SATA3 ports, one eSATA3 port, Gigabit LAN, 7.1 sound with optical output, USB3.0, USB2.0 and in addition to the optional COM port even an optional LPT port, which … Continue reading ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M AMD Socket FM2 Micro-ATX Motherboard Review
SSDs are currently the first choice for a high performance at very small dimensions. The SSD prices are getting lower, so that now even 256 GB or 512 GB are getting affordable. But those who would like to equip their notebooks with a bigger drive like e.g. 1 TB, will probably buy a conventional hard drive. And even for desktop PCs or servers a 2.5-inch hard drive can make sense, which Seagate is showing us with their fast Seagate Constellation.2 … Continue reading Seagate Constellation.2 ST91000640NS 1TB HDD Review
The Xigmatek Gigas PC case does not look like a standard Midi-Tower, but rather like a subwoofer in a high-quality aluminium chassis. So the enthusiast can decide to use the Xigmatek Gigas case cube made of brushed aluminium as HTPC in the living room or as stylish gaming PC. Because the case is not only very attractive, but provides also great cooling for high-end PC hardware. We examined the Xigmatek Gigas enclosure and test the practicality on the following 5 … Continue reading Xigmatek Gigas Review
Touchscreen systems are fully in line with the trend – as Smartphone, Tablet PC or as complete All-In-one PC with touch and multitouchscreen panel, which OCinside.de is testing now after several HTPC and media player reviews. Today we have a review of the Hewlett-Packard TouchSmart 520 All-In-one PC with 23-inch touch display, integrated webcam, sound system and many other features that will make the PC life easier for the user. Let us test, how well the touch panel is working … Continue reading HP TouchSmart 520 All-In-One Touchscreen PC Review
We have already tested some liquid coolers and some pre-filled PC water cooling devices at ocinside.de and today it is time to publish the new Cooler Master Eisberg Prestige 240L review. A few months ago we had already the pleasure to take a look at the first preview versions of it and today is the official launch of the new improved Cooler Master Iceberg 240 version. The Cooler Master Eisberg 240L AIO water cooler is based on a copper dual … Continue reading Cooler Master Eisberg Prestige 240L Review
Today we are testing a new Socket FM2 Trinity motherboard on OCinside.de, which reached a new reference clock record during our OverClocking tests. The AMD FM2 motherboard is based on the AMD A85X chipset and has a total of five PCI Express slots, two PCI slots, seven SATA3 ports, one eSATA3 port, Gigabit LAN and 7.1 audio with optical output. We tested the ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 Socket FM2 motherboard with an AMD A10-5800K Black Edition APU and overclocked it to … Continue reading ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 AMD Socket FM2 Motherboard Review
Today we tested an inexpensive PC power supply. The Xigmatek Tauro 500W PSU is 80PLUS Bronze certified, but not modular build. Therefore it is available for a lower price, so the concept can work out. In this review of the Xigmatek Tauro XTK-TB-0500B we will check in practice if the energy efficiency is just as well as the price and we will see, if this non-modular power supply can convince us. Thanks for the support … Many thanks for the … Continue reading Xigmatek Tauro 500W PSU Review
AMD Socket FM2 Trinity APUs are already on sale, but Socket FM1 AMD Llano processors and motherboards are still well purchased. For this reason, we have again reviewed a socket FM1 ASRock A75 Pro4 motherboard, which we tested and overclocked with an AMD A8-3870K Black Edition APU. The FM1 motherboard is based on the AMD A75 chipset and offers four PCI Express slots, four USB3.0 ports, five SATA3 ports, one eSATA3 port, Gigabit LAN, 7.1 sound and much more.
About a year ago we tested the Cooler Master Silencio 550 and of course we do not want to miss the new Cooler Master Silencio 650 case. Even then Cooler Master succeeded to find a reasonable compromise between good cooling and low noise level. The Cooler Master Silencio 650 case also provides excellent noise absorbing, is higher valued and offers some additionally features that you should not miss. Thanks for the support … Many thanks for the support with the … Continue reading Cooler Master Silencio 650 Review
Today we published a review of the new Xigmatek Centauro 600W PSU. The 600 Watt Centauro 80PLUS Bronze PSU is modular build and available for a low price. In this review we take a look at the power consumption and the results of the Xigmatek Centauro XTK-CB-0600M and compare these values with some of our previously tested power supplies. Thanks for the support … Many thanks for the support with the Centauro 600W by the manufacturer Xigmatek. The modular Centauro … Continue reading Xigmatek Centauro 600W PSU Review
Cooler Master announces with the CM Storm Scout 2 Midi-Tower a new computer case mainly for the high demands of gamers and allows for example the installation of one or two extra-long graphic cards as well as adding a lot of fans. Although the case already offers some high quality features like an acrylic window, removable dust filter, front USB 3.0 ports and a 120mm LED fan, it is available for less than 100 EUR. We took a closer look … Continue reading CM Storm Scout 2 Review
AMD and Intel CPU Cooler Roundup Cooler for Socket FM1, AM3+, AM2+, 939, 754, LGA 775, 1155, 1156, 1366 and 2011 CPUs OCinside.de already tested several CPU coolers and today we published a large cooler comparison chart with HSFs from Alpenfoehn, Antec, Arctic Cooling, Cooler Master, Prolimatech, Revoltec and Xigmatek. The new comparison contains some heatsinks with different fans and varied fan speeds. So you can easily compare dozens of cooling results to find the right CPU cooler for your … Continue reading CPU Cooler Roundup
In this review, we take a look at the first fully modular power supply from Cooler Master. The Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid 1050W power supply offers not only a gigantic high performance, but also a fan control for three more fans in the PC system and the internal 135 mm fan. In auto mode, the power supply is passively cooled up to an overall load of approx. 200 watts. Additionally, the Cooler Master 1050W power supply has a special … Continue reading Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid 1050 PSU Review
Today the Crucial m4 128 GB SSD CT128M4SSD2 with the latest firmware 000F is tested at ocinside.de and is compared against the bigger Crucial m4 256 GB SSD and a lot of more SSDs from other manufacturers. We have also tested the SSD copy software and the USB-to-SATA cable from the Crucial CT128M4SSD2CCA data transfer kit in this review for copying a hard drive or SSD partial or complete to the SSD. In this review we also check if it … Continue reading Crucial m4 128GB SSD Review