January 2011 - Overclockers

Swiftech MCR220 and Technofront Air Box

January 27, 2011 maxi 1

Recently I wrote about Swiftech’s MCW80 and here I’ll detail how I was cooling the water for all of the card testing in that article.

Kingwin EZ-Connect USB3 Adapter Review

January 27, 2011 Brett Taylor 2

The Kingwin EZ-Connect Superspeed USB 3.0 adapter fits in a niche for computer users that want to quickly and easily connect an external hard drive to their computer without having to go through the hassle of a full external drive case. Since this utilizes USB3, instead of USB2, your transfer times should be drastically reduced, making it great for larger drives (i.e. 1 TB and up).

Danger Den D5 Monsoon Premium

January 26, 2011 Skinnee Labs 6

Danger Den has decided to expand their product line and the first step in this expansion is the Monsoon D5 Bay Reservoir. With a machined Delrin body and a front face of brushed-anodized aluminum with acrylic window into the reservoir body.

NZXT Phantom Case Giveaway

January 25, 2011 Matt Ring 280

Win your very own NZXT Phantom case with minimal effort. All you have to do is comment on this article and you are eligible to win.

AMD Bulldozer: Chipset 9 Series Info

January 24, 2011 Jmtyra 15

AMD fans have been eagerly awaiting for the Bulldozer-based CPU(s) to become available. Last week there were some minor changes in their release schedule, although AMD denied it later. Today, however, we have some more juicy details on the series 9 chipset from our friends over at Nordic Hardware and Donanim Haber.

Lian Li PC-V1020 Case Review

January 24, 2011 Jeremy Vaughan 7

Today we’ll look at a Lian Li case, the PC-V1020. It’s not a water-cooling oriented case as the PCX-900 was, but will it do well for air-cooled machines?

GTX 560 Ti Photos and Benchmarks Leaked

January 21, 2011 Jmtyra 45

NVIDIA’s GTX 560 Ti is set to launch on Jan 25th. Early details.

Creating a Modified BIOS for a GTX 400 Series GPU

January 20, 2011 Bartosz Waluk 10

This short tutorial is based on my Gigabyte GTX470, it’s a reference card with a slightly higher GPU clock of 630 MHz. A standard GTX470 has the max GPU voltage locked at 1.087 V, but there’s an easy way to unlock up to 1.212 V. Here are some steps on how to unlock the max voltage on a GTX4xx GPU.

Mvix Minix 6150SE-UC3 Review

January 19, 2011 Brett Taylor 4

Mvix is devoted to the HTPC market and they provided us with another mini-ITX motherboard to test, the 6150SE-UC3. It is based on an older nForce4 chipset but still supports AM3 processors and DDR3 RAM so it can’t be that bad, right? We find out …

2011 XtremeSystems CES Party

January 19, 2011 Matt Bidinger 27

This year was my first attending CES, and I took the opportunity while in town to join Fugger and his gang of miscreants at the XS party to enjoy some good company, warm food, cold drinks, and frozen processors. While this wasn’t an Overclockers.com event, I’m happy to cover it as thanks to Fugger for the hospitality and as thanks from the Overclocking community for a great event.