Got my hands on a Razer Naga, their new 17 button mouse. I’ve gotta say this thing looks soooo much better in person than it does in pics!!

The successor to the iconic HX620 power supply brings 30 more watts of power, a different colour scheme, and some other cool new features.

This is infuriating. First of all, I can’t upload any videos and have them pre-set to private (which I normally do so that I can edit the title and all of the settings, then release it once the video is processed).

Second of all, my videos won’t get out of the “processing” phase. That’s why the X25-M video isn’t up yet. I’m trying one of my old videos (which I know is compatible) right now to see if that one is broken too.

/rant

Today I’ll unbox the hottest SSD on the market right now. The new “generation 2″ model of the Intel X25-M. I’ll also show you the adapter you need to mount it in your case

I confess I know nothing about the Xbox 360, being a PC kinda guy, and even less about SFIV.

Now that that’s out of the way, these fightsticks still look sweet, so I thought I’d open one up and see what all of the noise is about!

It took us a little while with no documentation to figure out how to get Eyefinity working, so I thought I’d throw together a quick guide on how to set up Eyefinity.

Hope you enjoy it

So far I’m really enjoying my time with the CoolIT Boreas. I set it up last night on a test bed PC running a Core i7 860, 4GB Corsair RAM, an MSI P55-GD65, and a Topower OEM 900W PSU. Overall at idle the unit is reasonably quiet and performs quiet well, but I’ll definitely be making some changes to it. Here I show idle temps with the Core i7 860 running at 3.6GHz using OC Genie. At load though it jumps up to 60C. It’s very important to manage the heat output of your CPU for the Boreas to perform well. Unlike a conventional water cooling system which can actually dissipate more heat as the CPU gets hotter, the Boreas will perform exceptionally well until it is overwhelmed as we’ve seen demonstrated in reviews and end-user testing.

I’ll be making some major changes to this unit including new CPU block, new pump, new (bigger tubing), and we’ll see what it’s capable of.

Got my grubby paws on an XFX Radeon HD 5870 today. I know I’m a day late and it totally sucks, but we’ve unboxed it and a Tech Tips is coming soon!

This one was shot in an empty room in my house and I can see now that it’s uploaded the lighting isn’t quite there yet. I’ll do some more work on it next time to find an optimal place to shoot when I have to do videos from home. It’s tricky when I can’t do them outside, but I will have to find some solution for the winter time.

So I got a new toy today. The CoolIT Boreas MTEC cooler. I had NO idea how big this thing was, but I’ll definitely find some room for it on my test bench over the next few weeks. I want to test it in a variety of different configurations as follows:

Bone Stock
Stock with better CPU block
Stock with better pump & bigger tubing

I borrowed a kill-a-watt thing from work today to find out if I even have room in my build for this monster (power wise) and it looks like I’m going to be pushing my system to the max. Load readings for my system while running Prime95 and playing Batman Arkham Asylum peaked at around 710W. Once I add the Boreas I’ll be sitting at 850W of power consumption under load from my system. At 85% loading, many PSUs lose their efficiency and quiet operation, so we’ll see how well the HX1000 holds up to the task. Since the HX1000 is a multi-rail PSU, I’ll also have to consider the implications of which plug I put it into.

I’m thinking i5 is probably the platform most people are interested in, but I’m also curious to see how it stacks up against my current water cooling solution, in which case I would need to throw it on the i7… I’ll decide that later. Here are some pics for scale of this thing. I can’t think of a case anywhere you could actually mount this thing in. Not even the Corsair Obsidian 800D!

More to come.