Thursday, 26 June 2014

Bitspower ASUS Rampage VI Black Edition Full Waterblock





Just wish to share this beautiful waterblock from Bitspower. No more separate CPU and motherboard blocks. Cutting down from 6 ports to just 2 ports! easier tubing routing as well as cleaner look!







Comes with two different colors and seems Bitspower Taiwan is having a 5% discount currently!








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Kingston HyperX Fury Memory

For my Project Rampage III Cerberus, I had decided to use Kingston HyperX Fury series of 8GB DDR3-1866 kit.







As the build is meant for media rig for my living room, I don't need high memory or high performance memory. Kingston HyperX Fury fits the bill, in terms of price to performance.











The Kingston HyperX Fury line of memory will position itself between the HyperX Genesis and high-end HyperX Predator. Kingston aims to provide a affordable performance and enthusiast priced memory. Nice!



The Fury came in different color of heat spreader, Red, White, Black and Blue. Depending of the color scheme of the build, users have no issues in finding the right color.



The heat spreader of the memory modules are low profile and the PCB of the memory are black. Very nice, no more ugly green PCB!







Specifications of Kingston HyperX Fury



PNP: Plug and Play automatically overclocks the memory up to the system maximum specs.

Capacities: 1866 MHz

CAS Latency: 9,10.

Voltage: 1.5 V

Reliable: 100% tested.

Guaranteed: Lifetime warranty.



Once the memory is plugged in, this is what you’ll see for the SPD information. One feature of this memory is its ability to boot up at its rated speeds and timings from the get go.



Unlike my Corsair Vengence memory modules, I do not have to manually set the memory speed. Thumbs up!



The HyperX logo could be seen at the top of the heatspreader. The sides of the heatspreader, HyperX logo are not painted but more of CNC cut, very nice as well!











Apart from the Kingston HyperX 3K SSD, Kingston HyperX Fury is another great product which I would recommend to anyone.







I will do further test in terms of performance when the rig is up. Stay tune!





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Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD Review





For my main rig, I had purchased a new SSD to replace my older drives. I had decided to use Kingston HyperX 3K SSD.







The box came nicely packaged, with the different features and performance of the SSD can be seen on the box itself.







Kingston HyperX 3K is using SandForce SF-2281 and is paired with Intel 25nm MLC NAND rated for 555MB/510MB sequential read and write speeds. This pairing of Sandforce and Intel had helped Kingston HyperX to be one of the best performance SSD drives around.



Unboxed Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD





Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD comes with a blue aluminum SSD mounting kit with screws. I felt it would be better if Kingston would package the mounting kit to be of the same color as the SSD itself.



Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD









The built quality of the Kingston HyperX 3K drives indeed are very good.



Overall, this is a very good and value for money SSD which works out to be less than $1/GB.



Thumbs up Kingston!





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BeamIt shines a light on visually rich chats

US-based company Cooliris has split its eponymous media hub app into a chat messenger. Will this work in Asia? EMBARGOED 11 PM SGT TONIGHT A picture is worth a thousand words, but a photograph from a loved one miles away means so much more. Unfortunately, the current chat apps on our smartphones do not respect Read the full article...



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Google announces Android One, a reference platform for low-cost devices


Android One was barely talked about*at Google’s I/O developers conference, but it could revolutionize the budget smartphone market in emerging countries.




Google has announced the launch of Android One, a program that aims to bring better hardware and software to budget devices in emerging markets.

Android One, at its core, is quite similar to Google’s Nexus program (and might be the rumored Android Silver lineup repurposed for budget devices.) Google is aiming to help local manufacturers in emerging markets like India build cheap high-quality phones, by providing reference designs for the hardware and taking care of the software side of things, removing the need for manufacturers to spend time on research and development.

“We’re working with partners on a comprehensive solution—which includes hardware reference platforms—to address the mobile computing needs of those in emerging markets. Android One will provide smartphones that are high quality, affordable and come with reasonable data plans,” Google explained in a blog post.

Devices launched under Android One will have hardware chosen by Google, and will run a stock version of Android, with software updates coming directly from Google. There will also be features such as auto-installation of recommended apps for a particular country/region, and Google has already teamed up with Indian manufacturers Micromax, Spice and Karbon to bring the first Android One smartphones.

Android One is Google’s newest plan to target the next 5 billion users that don’t currently own a smartphone, and could considerably improve the quality of white box devices in emerging markets. It’s unclear when Android One devices will become available for purchase, but they are*sure to drive Android adoption further in countries*like India,*while ensuring a user experience that’s considerably better than what big brands like Samsung currently provide in the important budget smartphone segment.

Source: Google



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Au revoir! France Singapore ICT Awards 2014 concludes

Digital media firm Hexaglobe and 3D nanofilm manufacturer Nanoveu are among the winners at the fifth France Singapore ICT Awards Last Wednesday saw the conclusion of the 5th France Singapore ICT Awards, held at The Arts House, Singapore. Organised by UBIFRANCE and the French Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (FCCS), it attracted over 130 IT Read the full article...



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Cooler Master MIZAR Gamer Mouse Review

Cooler Master is a well know manufacturer of hardware and gaming equipment. In this review we are looking at their Cooler Master CM Storm MIZAR Gamer Mouse, that uses a Avago 9800 Laser sensor and 128KB memory for macros.



Cooler Master MIZAR Gamer Mus - CMStorm Mizar - Tweak.dk








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