news 28 Posted September 29, 2009 Hello Webmasters and News Posters, NEW CONTENT (Storage) - TweakTown Storage Product Testing - Our How To Video Guide QUOTE: "There are many programs on the market to test hard drives. Personally I would love to use every single one of them in testing, but don’t think I could keep you interested for 30 pages of benchmarks. In the past every hard drive was the same; you had cache, platter speed, platter density and interface, boom, bing, bam, run the tests write it up and call it a day." Today we are going to walk through the testing procedure for storage here at TweakTown. There are a few categories that will be covered; SSDs, HDDs, RAID controllers, NAS servers and DAS servers. Since our previous AMD Opteron workstation was starting to run into performance issues with the latest round of ultra high performance SSDs, we have built a new workstation and want to thank a few of the companies responsible for helping to get the parts together." http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/2941/tweaktown_storage_product_testing_our_how_to_video_guide/index.html --- NEW CONTENT (Video Cards) - HIS Radeon HD 5870 1GB Video Card QUOTE: "It becomes hard to review the same card over and over again. We have companies who make the effort to send their product so of course we make the effort to review it. At a launch, however, we've got many companies who want the coverage, but 90% of the time the only difference between the cards is a sticker and sometimes a game in the bundle. What we need to do when it comes to looking at the performance of the card is to mix it up in how we compare it. We've already had a look at how the card compares to the main competitors. We've then had a closer look at how it compares to its previous generation sibling, the HD 4870." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2940/his_radeon_hd_5870_1gb_video_card/index.html --- NEW CONTENT (HTPC & Movies) - Race To Witch Mountain HD Movie Review QUOTE: "A semi-remake of the 1975 live action film Escape to Witch Mountain, now re-titled Race to Witch Mountain, continues to have nothing to do with Witches, but everything to do with kid friendly sci-fi. Taxi driver Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson, A.K.A. ‘The Rock’) gets slightly more than he bargained for (in all senses of the word) when two children (AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig) board his ride. When he delivers them to an address in the middle of the desert, he’s quickly drawn into an interstellar battle between evil aliens, good aliens and, of course, Government agents ready to do all manner of nefarious tests on all of them. Disappointingly, this is well and truly family entertainment by numbers. Surprisingly, even the production values are pretty cheap – take a look at the chase through the deserted house for the most obvious set I have yet seen in a film. Still, as far as family friendly movies go, I have seen worse. Particular mention should go to the child actors, especially the ever delightful AnnaSophia Robb who came to notice in 2007’s Bridge to Terabithia. She has such emotion in whatever performance she gives and has beautifully expressive eyes. She will be one to watch in the next few years." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2939/race_to_witch_mountain_hd_movie_review/index.html --- NEW CONTENT (Video Cards) - GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 260 Super Overclock Video Card QUOTE: "At over 12 months old it's surprising to say the least that we still see companies release models under the GTX 260 naming scheme. And while the model has gone through a few changes over the past year, NVIDIA would usually add a new name. To be honest, I'm surprised we didn't see a GTX 263 and GTX 265 as the minor improvements came to the model. Today we're looking at a pretty special GTX 260 from GIGABYTE. Carrying with it the new Super Overclock naming scheme, we hope that there's something pretty exciting about the card in store. While GIGABYTE managed to talk the card up a bit to me, most companies talk up their product so it remains to be seen how well it really goes." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2938/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_260_super_overclock_video_card/index.html --- NEW CONTENT (Video Cards) - AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs. HD 4890 GPU Comparison QUOTE: "When we had a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 we saw how it compared to a number of cards including the older HD 4890 and its main competition, the GTX 285 from NVIDIA. With a reference HD 5870 on our hands we thought that we could take a look at it in a slightly different way. What we'll do here today is see how the card compares to the HD 4890 and that card only. What we want to find out is the kind of performance improvements the new generation card offers over the previous generation without being distracted by any other models. While the HD 5870 might be replacing the HD 4890 when it comes to the red team’s fastest single GPU card, the older HD 4890 continues to be available with many companies having added their own flair to the model recently." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/2937/amd_s_ati_radeon_hd_5870_vs_hd_4890_gpu_comparison/index.html Best Regards, The TweakTown Team http://www.tweaktown.com Share this post Link to post
