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TeamGroup Reveals New MP33Q M.2 And T-Force Vulcan SSD
TeamGroup has announced the launch of two new SSDs, the MP33Q M.2 PCIe SSD and the T-FORCE VULCAN Z QLC SSD. The TeamGroup MP33Q M.2 The TeamGroup MP33Q M.2 is a new M.2 that features 3D QLC flash memory chips on a PCIe Gen3x4 interface and NVMe 1.3 protocol. The…
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Super Talent Announced New mSATA SJ2 SSD
Super Talent Technology announces its newest and third mSATA SSD, the new JS2 solid state drive designed for industrial and embedded applications. The mSATA drives might not be the fastest on the block, but they have the big advantage of a tiny form factor and wide compatibility. There aren’t many compact…
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Team Group Announces its M.2 SSD Lineup
Team Group has just launched its next generation form factor high-speed TM4PS4/TM8PS4 M.2 SSDs, which are said to provide a great solution for mobile computing due to their data saving performance, ultra compact size and lightweight. The TM4PS4/TM8PS4 SSDs come with the next generation SATA III R3.0 6Gb/s transmission interface,…
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Gigabyte Z97N-Gaming 5 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Intel’s Z97 platform is a perfect basis for a mini-ITX system build as it features enough performance to please even the most demanding user while still being power efficient enough to be tamed by small form factor cases and modest cooling solutions. Due to those reasons it…
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Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Intel’s Z97 platform feels like it has been here forever; since its official launch in early May 2014 we’ve ploughed through a sizeable 13 Z97 motherboard reviews here at eTeknix. Yet in the grand-scheme of things that 5 months is barely any time at all:the average PC user will tend…
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MSI Z97S SLI PLUS (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Something that becomes apparently obvious with the motherboards I review on a regular basis is that most of them have too many features for the average user. That’s too many in the sense that most of them would go unused but mainly it is too many in…
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ASUS Rampage V Extreme (LGA 2011-3) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging The Rampage line of ASUS motherboards are famed for their class-leading performance and prestigious reputation. With every new CPU on Intel’s High-End Desktop (HEDT) Platform we’ve seen new ASUS Rampage motherboards. The first Rampage arrived with LGA 775 and the X48 chipset, we saw the second iteration Rampage II…
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MSI X99S MPower Motherboard Gets Pictured
If the MSI X99S XPower AC motherboard is a little too expensive and feature packed for your liking then MSI will also be offering another OC series board that is a few notches down. THE X99S MPower motherboard is an ATX X99 based motherboard with a 12 phase digital power…
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ASRock Reveal Their X99X Killer Motherboard For New Haswell-E CPUs
ASRock have unveiled their latest X99 creation which will provide support for upcoming Intel Haswell-E Extreme Edition processors and DDR4 memory. The X99X Killer motherboard is part of ASRock’s gaming-orientated Fatal1ty series of motherboards. Like most X99 motherboards it offers support for 8 DDR4 slots for a maximum of 128GB…
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ASUS Z97 Gryphon (LGA 1150) Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging The ASUS TUF line is always one of the more exciting product ranges to come out of the ASUS consumer motherboard platform, albeit a very niche form of excitement (well I find it exciting anyway…). I took a look at my first ASUS TUF series motherboard…
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Samsung Unveil 850 PRO SSD Series Featuring New 3D V-NAND
Samsung look set to continue their growing popularity in the SSD market with the launch of a new SSD series: the 850 Pro series. The 850 Pro SSDs make use of a new 3D V-NAND technology which they claim pushes SATA III SSD performance to its very limits offering 550MB/s…
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Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK (LGA 1150) “Black Edition” Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Gigabyte have given their Ultra Durable series a bit of a revamp for Z97 offering their boards up in Black Edition flavours. Whilst the implications of the Black Edition are fairly obviously, it is an overwhelmingly black-coloured motherboard, it also implies a new standard of durability. Gigabyte test…
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Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Biostar aren’t a brand of products we review that often as their main presence is within the Asian market, however, every now and then we do get a motherboard from them which they are targeting towards the Western market. Today is one of those rare days as we…
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ASRock Fatal1ty H97 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging There are plenty of affordable Z97 motherboards on offer, in the UK they start from about £70-80 while in North America they can be had from about $110. However, these entry level Z97 motherboards tend to be fairly basic in their feature set, styling and specifications.…
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The eTeknix Guide To Building Your Own NAS
Introduction There may be a lot of people like myself who have missed the “NAS bandwagon” and have made do with other fragmented storage solutions up until now: multiple storage drives on different devices (laptops, desktops, tablets, smartphones) with the gap being bridged between those multiple devices through space restricted…
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