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COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 CPU Cooler

What’s All the Hype About?

With Cooler Master coming up with innovative and sturdy products on the market shelves every day, you see them everywhere, from the internet sellers to the hardware stores to your neighborhood homes. Ever wondered what the hype is all about? You are just about to find out. We have decided to review in brief the efficacy and overall dependency of one of Cooler Master’s bestselling products on the shelves today – the COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 CPU Cooler, the only CPU Cooler you will ever need to manage the heat off your system and keep it cool and running like new.

Once again, Cooler Master has managed to come up with a product that is not only fancy and stylish but serves the purpose, and in most cases, exceeds the requirements. The blue LEDs take the spotlight once again. With its multi-platform support, you can be assured of all your compatibility needs. What’s more, the fan speed is a mere 2000 RPM, suggesting less work and lesser heat, thereby doing what the fan ought to do – keep your system cool.

And did we mention the uses four heat pipes? Enough about the plentiful list of features, let us talk about performance and packaging. You guessed it right, the performance statistics outperform most of the other products in its competition, thereby giving you more bang for your buck. And the packaging is sleek and trendy, not to mention sturdy to keep it safe until it reaches you securely in the mail.

Can I Afford It?

With all these great features lined up, you might be wondering about the price and competition. Cooler Master knows how to keep its customers happy; they are a brand you can trust. All Cooler Master products are competitively priced, thereby ensuring you worry more about your purchasing decisions that the financial ones. Once you make the decision to keep your processor cool with COOLER MASTER’s Hyper 212 CPU Cooler, sit back and relax; let Cooler Master worry about the rest.

ASUS P5N-D Intel Motherboard

Known as the Number 1 motherboard in the world, ASUS has one of the world’s best research and development teams who keeps on pushing boundaries of technology to conceive features and components that have resulted in revolutionizing the motherboard industry globally. The computer business is awash with ASUS motherboards being reason enough for the company to be receive numerous awards for their product designs, quality, high performance and value.

The P5N-D, a NVIDIA 750i SLI based chipset motherboard has a combination of powerful performance plus excellent energy saving efficiency and comes with the world’s very first ASUS Energy Processing Unit (EPU) which allows the CPU supply of power to be digitally monitored and enhanced with VERM efficiency to help save energy and contribute to the environment. This motherboard is much stronger than similar ones in the same price range and has a serial ATA-300 and ATA-133 storage interface. Being able to support up to 8GB of RAM, this motherboard is also ideal for digital video editing and file transferring.

It is suggested that a LGA775 compatible processor be used with the P5N-D and if you really want to take full advantage of the on-board SATA controller, you should consider upgrading the existing IDE hard drives. It is also relatively inexpensive and suitable for those who are in the process of upgrading or replacing their existing motherboard.

Consumers seem pleased overall with the performance of this motherboard. The consensus is that this motherboard has everything you could possibly want or need in terms of gaming, video, audio and overclocking. It is extremely fast with a number of overclock options and fantastic features. Installation and setup is a breeze and it is a great deal for its cost. Those who have bought this motherboard are actively recommending it to their fellow enthusiasts.

ASUS  GeForce GT 240 Video Card

The ASUS  GeForce GT 240 Video Card has the fastest data processing rate among today’s memory chips. It is capable of interpreting five times more data per second than the DDR3. This gives it a ceiling rate of 8000 megabytes per second. With such a fantastic speed, this video card is capable of producing crystal clear graphics and animation on the computer monitor. The video card makes use of HDMI technology, thereby making possible even more clarity of rendition and speed of rendering.

The result is that for animated frames, the transition from the previous to the next image frame is done smoothly, even for a succession of widely different images in the frames. Not only will the ASUS  GeForce GT 240 Video Card be perfect for graphics animation artists, but also for computer gamers.

Because the bandwidth available to your pc is considerably larger with the ASUS  GeForce GT 240 Video Card, you can experience flowing image streams and stunning realism in your games by using it. That will certainly be a great advantage for you if you play multi-user games which allows any number of users to occupy the same virtual map at one time. The usual lag that is experienced in this situation will be eliminated by the technology of this video card.

The video card is also equipped with SLI capabilities. This makes it possible for the computer to perform as if it had two or three graphics cards. The speed of processing images is further enhanced by this. It can be doubled or tripled. This because two or three graphics processing units will be working on one image.

The ASUS  GeForce GT 240 Video Card is a natural offshoot of the intensive graphics that are used for today’s computer programs. If what you love or need to do on your computer is greatly related to graphics and animation, you should consider using this video card to increase your own efficiency and performance.

Intel Core i7 Extreme CPU

The most advanced processors produced by Intel to date, the Intel Core i7 Extreme edition, is available in two variations, namely, the Intel Core i7-980X processors and the Core i7-975 processors. It uses a multi-core technology that enables computers to perform functions fast enough to keep up with the user’s workload. More than an ideal system for business and intense data processing, its high-quality visual output makes it a very good choice for home desktop computers and laptops.

This extreme edition contains the following amazing features:

• X58 Intel Express Chipset with 3.33 GHz core speed
• 3.2 GHz clock speed
• Intel Turbo Boost Technology maximizes speed up to 3.6 GHz when necessary for certain applications
• Integrated Memory Controller with three DDR3 1066 MHz memory channels that are capable of transferring data up to speeds of 25.6 GB per second
• 128-bit SSE Instructions brought by the Intel HD Boost technology for improved output and efficient use of multimedia applications
• Microsoft Windows 7 – ready

The following features can be expected in the Core i7-975 processors:

• A six-core Gulftown processor with 32 nanometer manufacturing technology
• Intel Smart Cache with a capacity of 12 MB for efficient memory cache subsystem

• Intel Hyper-Threading Technology with 12 threads cater to simultaneous use of applications for faster and more efficient work done when multitasking

The following features can be expected in the Core i7-980 processors:

• A four-core Bloomfield or Clarksfield processor with a 45 nanometer manufacturing technology
• 8 MB Smart Cache, a third level memory cache
• Intel Hyper-Threading Technology with 8 threads Dynamic Energy Management

These exciting attributes all combined make for the best experience on intense online and 3D gaming, multimedia applications, high-definition video viewing and digital photo and audio editing.

Western Digital VelociRaptor

The newest and fastest among the SATA hard drives. This high performance hard drive is designed to deliver top performance which is 35% faster than its predecessor with its 10,000 RPM SATA. The key feature of the hard drive is its top speed that is not only faster than the previous models but it is also faster compared to its competition in the field – with its 3GB SATA interface and 16 MB cache.

It is very reliable as it is designed and manufactured according to very high industry standards to withstand and provide high quality and reliability amid high duty environments. It also has a bigger storage capacity of up to 300GB which is two times bigger compared to the older versions of the WD Raptor. However, it consumes lesser energy and gives a savings of up to 35% less power. This is because of its ultra cool operation. It has a mounting frame that has a built in heat sink that keeps your high performance hard drive cool even when installed in a high performance desktop computer.

The large storage allows you to store up to 60,000 digital photos taken by a 10 Megapixel camera on JPEG format with an average of 5mb file size, up to 75,000 MP3 files of 4 minute-songs on average, up to 7,500 uncompressed CD quality songs, digital video of up to 23 hours, DVD quality video of up to 110 hours, and high definition videos of up to 36 hours. These numbers vary depending on the operating conditions and other factors such as settings, file size, formatting, features and software.

The compatibility of this hard drive to your computer may vary depending on your computer’s Operating System and hardware configuration. However, it is generally compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2000, and Windows 7. Its ultra performance is ideal for performance enthusiast system, workstations, as well servers.

The Corsair XMS2 RAM Delivers All the Power of DDR2 with Outstanding Stability

The big difference between inferior computer memory brands and Corsair XMS2 RAM is that the XMS2 can withstand speeds up to 800 mhz without any sign of over-heating. The makers of this superior brand of memory had in mind the ever-increasing requirements of new computer software.

With each passing year, users and software developers alike are looking towards more and more functionality, better graphics and sound in computer programs. The trend is not likely to abate in the near future. On the contrary!

The Corsair XMS2 RAM is especially designed to facilitate the smooth and prolonged operation of large operating systems like Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you are planning on upgrading your OS to these newer ones, you should be looking for this memory chip in your pc.

Besides, when you realize that it is not just operating systems that have become memory intensive but most of the applications running on them as well, there is no way that you can expect prolonged fast activity from an upgraded system with the latest applications running on it than by availing yourself of heat-proofed and failure-safe RAM.

The Corsair XMS2 derives its heat-resistance from the DHX (dual-path heat exchange) technology. This simply means that besides the conventional method used to maintain the temperature of memory chips at a safe level, it contains a device that transfers heat from the memory chips to the copper ground layer of the mother board. This first method alone reduces heat from the memory modules by half.

The conventional way of cooling memory chips is by the use of aluminum heat spreaders. The Corsair has an improved version of this type of heat dissipation mechanism too.

The Corsair XMS2 RAM is indispensible for gamers, computer animation artists and .Net programmers. If you belong in any one of those categories, you will appreciate how these memory chips can endure enhanced computer speeds without any undesirable side effects. Heat no longer is an issue in memory performance with the Corsair XMS2 RAM.