Todays review is going to take a look at a SandForce controlled SSD which is being sold by a UK based company, named Future Storage, who are hoping to push low SSD prices in worldwide sales. The SSD itself is 'SandForce Driven', assembled and shipped from the USA for North American sales. In fact, our sample SSD shipped with 32Gb Toshiba NAND flash modules that we hadn't seen in any SSDs sent our way as of yet.
In recent months we have seen a flood of Solid State Drives released, powered by the new class leading 2281 Sandforce controller. Today we are analysing the latest drive from Patriot – the Wildfire 120GB. This specific drive is using 32nm Toshiba MLC NAND, the same memory used in the class leading MAX IOPS Vertex 3, which we reviewed earlier this year.
Hot off the back of our Steelseries competition, we've teamed up with the guys over at Cooler Master to give you the chance to win some more hardware. Up for grabs today we have the Silencio 550 case, the GX 550w PSU and the Storm Sentinal gaming mouse.
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The ASUS MARS II is a monster graphics card consisting of two GeForce GTX 580 GPUs on a single PCB using triple slot cooling. Unlike the NVIDIA GTX 590, the MARS II comes with full GTX 580 clock speeds which give the card an almost 20% performance advantage over the GTX 590, making the card the fastest graphics card in the world, but also the most expensive at $1500.
They are back at it with a new motherboard based on the Intel Z68 chipset. Being built on Intel's latest chipset is not the motherboard's claim to instant fame but it is labeled as the first motherboard to offer Generation 3 PCIe bandwidth. As of now there aren't too many video cards that can push the 2nd PCIe bandwidth offering to its edge. So, it is a matter of being prepared when the time comes because it is coming, sooner or later.
