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CPU coolers come in all shapes and sizes. For the obvious reasons, here in VR-Zone we usually review cooler capable of delivering very high thermal performance and/or excellent acoustics. Today however we will have a look at the Samuel 17, a product from Prolimatech designed with a different purpose in mind; to be capable of delivering the highest possible overall performance while being only 45mm tall. How does Prolimatech’s David compare against the numerous Goliaths currently available? We will find out in this review.

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Cooler Master's gaming brand – CM Storm – keeps on expanding its range of products and its latest addition is the Sonuz gaming headset which is a simpler, more affordable option than the Sirus. For starters, the Sonuz is a stereo headset rather than a surround sound model like the Sirus, although it does have a few selling points of its own.

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Sony is rolling out a new feature for the PlayStation Network that will allow users who pre-purchase a game to download it before release.

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Hewlett-Packard (HP) is to axe up to 30,000 jobs in efforts to make the company more competitive in the face of the rising might of the smartphone and tablet markets.

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ZTE has admitted that its Score smartphone has a security vulnerability that could allow hackers to hijack the device.

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The ultra compact fanless PC market has just seen the addition of a new entry from VIA sporting the company's tiny EPIA-P900 Pico-ITX board.

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A post on Patently Apple enumerates the manufacturing process of a new seamless, unitary design for electronics housings. Apple may use this future process to create devices that appear as a single, undivided piece.

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In Apple's digital store, the word 'jailbreak' was being replaced with a censored 'j*******k'. After much ridicule on Twitter and the blogosphere, Apple quickly removed the censorship.

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During the Emerging Companies Summit at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, we spoke with several startups and experienced companies, seeing an interesting emerging pattern.

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Acer has just unveiled a new business focused 14-inch laptop in the UK under its TravelMate lineup, suited up with a third-gen Ivy Bridge processor.

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We have to say that Intel's first Thunderbolt equipped motherboard is something of an anti-climax, as the DZ77RE-75K is nigh on identical to the DZ77GA-70K, although we spotted at least one change beyond the Thunderbolt port. On top of that, it's also quite an expensive motherboard, more so than MSI's Z77A-GD80.

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If you live in a country with DVB-T terrestrial digital TV, then Asus' new O!Play Media  Pro set-top box might be of interest to you, as beyond being a DVB-T tuner with EPG support, it's also a media player that supports just about every format you can throw at it. On top of that, it will also stream video from a wide range of online services.

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In as much as NAS devices are handy when it comes to backing up data, streaming audio and video over a home network and many other things, one of the downsides is that the performance when it comes to actually putting the data on them isn't always there. Akitio has come up with a home storage solution that attempts to solve this issue by being a combination NAS/DAS with USB 3.0 connectivity.

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DDR4 will potentially arrive in the server space come next year, yet most mobile devices are still using DDR or DDR2 memory, with only a handful shipping with DDR3 memory. Samsung has announced that it has managed to improve things in several ways by shrinking its LPDDR2 memory to 2Xnm.

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Iran has threatened to sue Google over its omission of the disputed name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps.

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During the NVIDIA GTC 2012 conference, we spoke with several sources from the world of semiconductor manufacturing and the figures given were not… encouraging.

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Blizzard has delayed the launch of the real-money auction house in Diablo III and has apologised for its lack of preparations which led to error messages and many gamers being unable to play.

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Apple is in talks with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone network, to offer the iPhone to millions of Chinese consumers.

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PopCap Games has launched a high-definition version of its classic gem-busting game Bejeweled for Apple's iPad, complete with support for the retina display on the new model.

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Unconfirmed details have come about pertaining to a supposed GTX-680M mobile graphics solution from NVIDIA launching at next month's Computex 2012 event in Taipei.

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