Cyber Power Black Pearl PC (Review)

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Playing PC video games requires more than just the cheapest bargain computer with wimpy hardware components. Those kinds of gaming PCs may have attention-capturing specs like Intel i7 processors or Windows 7 OS, but it's everything else that defines what the machine can actually do. Things like no-name motherboards and RAM are inexpensive – but you end up paying a steep price in performance. Playing games on a system with cheap hardware is like entering the Indy 500 with your mom's old station wagon. People who know gaming PCs know that high-end hardware is what makes high-end gaming PCs. A quality machine would never put a no-name part in the box and expect to sell it. The CyberPower PC Black Pearl received our TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award because it's the gaming PC that sets the standard for high-end gaming systems. This machine is full of names like Corsair and Gigabyte, which are both highly rated manufactures in their respective fields. Overall this machine not only stomps the competition into the ground but does it with ease.

Video/Audio:

A few months ago NVIDIA dropped a couple of bomb shells on us, the GTX 480 and 470. However, do to some minor issues the 480 was updated and sent out with a new name the GTX 580 which is by far their best card. This card is one of the most powerful on the market, giving the owner of one a nice smooth ride in any game they play. CyberPower's Black Pearl gaming PC comes equipped with two of these amazing cards, which is more than enough graphic processing power to run any game at max graphic settings and maintain a high rate of frames per second.

Each card has 1.5GB of GDDR5 video memory, which is more than enough for any game and is only dwarfed by AMD's flagship, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which has 2GB. The 1.5GB of memory are clocked at 1848 MHz and a core speed of 772 MHz, which is the fastest on the market

Aside from excellent performance, the other great part about the GTX 400 series cards is their inclusion of DirectX 11 which is the newest multimedia and gaming interfaced used to make those games even more realistic. For a while ATI cards were the only contenders in that market but that is no longer the case. DX 11 focused on adding more computing support, as well as the video rendering feature tessellation. These were to really give game developers, and eventually gamers, more realistic and fluid graphics rendering.

Tessellation has been around for a while but has never been implemented much due to the processing power it takes. Since the DX 11 release, though, that is probably about to change. NVIDIA took those same things and integrated them into the FERMI technology that the GTX 400 series has. With this added technology and support we are ready for some seriously intense graphics that will astound us all.

Processor:

Quad-core processors dominate most of the high-end gaming PC market. However, both Intel and AMD have taken the next step and brought out a six-core, 12-thread chip. The CyberPower PC Black Pearl has the Intel Core i7 980 Extreme, which is by far the most powerful CPU on the market. This processor stock is clocked at 3.3 GHz but it comes overclocked to 4 GHz. Normally you would have to worry about heat, but this gaming PC comes with the Asetek 510LC 120mm Liquid Cooling system, which will keep everything at a reasonable temperature.

Memory/Storage:

Another very important feature that every gaming PC needs is a good set of RAM. The CyberPower PC Black Pearl has 6GB of Kingston's HyperX DDR3, which is clocked at 1600 MHz. The motherboard allows for adding another three sticks if you wish and can handle faster clock speeds as well. That is plenty of RAM power and probably isn't the bottleneck on this rig. If there is a bottleneck it probably resides with the hard drive, which is a regular 7200 1TB HDD. Thankfully that is the secondary drive. The primary is an Intel 80GB SSD. As long as you are using it and not the secondary, slow speeds are not probable.

Additional Features:

The motherboard housing all these jaw-dropping pieces of technology is the ASUS P6X58D-E Intel X58, which should handle just about anything you can throw at it. The CyberPower PC Black Pearl has two PCI Express x16 slots, both running at x16. There are another two x16 slots running at x8 and then two xl slots. There is also a PCI slot for anyone still using equipment that requires one. With about every SATA connection you can think of you should have no problems with storage interface options. Also there is FireWire and up to 10 USB ports at your disposal.

This gaming PC is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit like most other pre-built machines. There are two optical drives, a Blu-ray drive and a DVD +/- RW drive. Now between the processor, RAM, graphics cards, optical drives, water cooling and everything else you can imagine how much power this gaming PC must need. Thankfully there is a Corsair 1000-watt power supply to do the job, and it does it well. A power supply with this much wattage should have no problem keeping up to speed with advancing technology.

Support / Warranty:

CyberPower PC offers full information about what is in each of their gaming PCs but like most other companies doesn't go into much detail about the specs of each piece of hardware. This is common and isn't really a problem since most people know what they're looking for when they buy a gaming PC. Although they don't offer those details, they can still easily be found elsewhere.

According to the code of Power PC's warranty, you are covered by a limited three-year labor and one-year parts warranty. Although it's only a guideline and not an actual rule, if any parts are defective, they will show their true colors before that one year mark usually. Three years of labor is nice should you need any servicing. After three years most gamers are looking to upgrade. On the gaming PC website you can find a contact phone number, email address, FAQs, driver downloads and just about anything else you could want for additional help and support.

Summary:

As you can see, the CyberPower PC Black Pearl gaming PC is by no means the "$300 super savings special." Gaming PCs need high-end hardware and unmatched computing speeds and this system gives you all the computing power you could ever want in a gaming computer. With it you can set sail on the vast ocean of great games, then pillage and plunder to your heart's desire. With all the great games coming out and DirectX 11 implementation creeping into the works, all gamers can use a powerhouse like this computer to help them in their epic gaming adventures.

2011-New Fashion Trends

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Urban Hip Hop Clothing For Winter and Spring:

The year 2009, is nearing to an end and fashion gurus from the world have announced 2010 Trends for Urban Hip Hop clothing. Let us have a look at what is going to rule the market is the next year:

Women's urban hip hop clothing trend for autumn and winter:
• Fashion experts announce that chunky knits are going to rule the clothing trends in winter. Thick textures in different colors would be trendy. Stylish knitted scarves and knitted jumper sweater would be the preferred accessories in the coming season.
• Laddered Stocking is clearly the trend for women clothing in 2010. Well, this look was first spotted in 2008 and has quickly picked up since then.

Celebrities such as Kate Moss have worn this look. The ideal way of wearing laddered stocking is to wear it with a short skirt. Thus, we are sure that short skirts are going to be another trend this season. Taking laddered stocking little further, super tight jeans with a few shreds here and there is too considered a hot trend in 2010.

Women's urban hip hop clothing trend for 2010 spring:
• Transparent clothing will come back in the spring of 2010. Katie Holmes is spotted with this look.
• One shouldered dress is also going to hit 2010 with a big bang.
• Denim skirts and one piece would be a rage in 2010.

Men's urban hip hop clothing trend for 2010 for winter and spring:
• Denims would rule the men's urban fashion. And by denim, it is not just jeans; denim would be translated to jackets and casual pants too.
• Athletic jerseys and sneakers can never go out of fashion front. But the trend clearly indicates that Rocawear is in. Not just serious office goers would wear dress shirts in stripes. Teenagers and young men attending rap concerts would wear these.
• Just as black leather jacket is always the trend, 2010 is not an exception. Black leather jackets will rule the urban wear clothing style.
• Tracksuits would be most worn casual attire in 2010. Along with tracksuits, men's tank tops too would be in vogue.
• Thermal wear in different colors would be a winter trend, whereas the trend in spring would be towards heat transfer tee shirts. This trend would in fact be an extension of the trend of 2009. The spring of 2009 was clearly ruled by heat transfer tee shirts.
• The most popular tee shirts would be the ones with funny messages inscribed.
Apart from the above, vintage clothing will also rule the urban clothing. This would include the tight jeans, leather skirts and mini skirts. Embroidered clothing in any form will always be in the forefront. This would include embroidered shorts, jeans, jackets etc.
With the stock of the above-mentioned items on your stack, you will never have a problem of non-moving items or locked up inventory. Try to stock as many varieties and styles in different colors, to give your customers maximum options.

Love For Your Lovely Mothers

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Your mother did and probably still does a lot for you her son. From the time you were born she took care of you, loved you and always wanted what is best for you. To this day, she loves you unconditionally. Now it is your turn to do something extra special for her on Mother's Day. If you search hard, and take some of these tips you can find some exceptional and very special Mother's Day gifts from a son.
One unique and most unusual Mother's Day gift from a son is to give Mom a piece of America...a piece of land from one of the 50 states. If your mother has always wanted to live in Arizona, why not surprise her with a one square inch piece of land so she is now the proud owner of land in her favorite state? If your mother has a few different states that she has always admired or wants to retire in...or just has always yearned to visit (like Hawaii, Alaska, New York or say Florida), you could get her a piece of land in each or Any of those states! Okay so it's not the real thing but what fun your mother will have telling friends and family that she owns land in all of her favorite places to visit.
Another one of the unique Mother's Day gifts from a son is a set of stamps. The stamps are not any old stamps that everyone can get; they are made from your personal photo. Does your mother have a favorite photo of you and her? You can now make it into a set of stamps. This gift is perfect for the mother that has everything. This gift is also perfect when you want to show your mother how much you love her and think she is one-of-a-kind and deserves something different than the traditional, ordinary Mother's Day gift.
Is your mother a Barack Obama supporter? You can give her the gift of history. You can choose from photographs, t-shirts, mugs and other items your mother is sure to cherish. One favorite is a copy of The New York Times with the winning Obama is President headline of the day after Election Day 2008.
If your mother is the adventurous type, she would be thrilled to take a ride in a hot air balloon. Give her the gift to go with you or your father. Make sure she has a camera for her once in a lifetime Mother's Day gift. At the end of the exhilarating hot air balloon ride have champagne waiting for your favorite girl (mom!).
If your mother is into NASCAR she would be amazed at the chance to actually sit inside of a NASCAR stockcar and drive it. She will never forget this moment in her life.
Take your mother camping and white water rafting. Bring a waterproof camera to capture all of the exciting moments and expressions on your mother's face.

Brooklyn Decker

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Brooklyn Decker is a stunning woman who has a great personality that will draw people in. Despite her beauty and status in the modelling world, she remains to be a real human who draws both men and women to really want to hang out with her. She is thought to be one who can get away with murder as she has the skill to really create a good chemistry with people.
She grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and later on moved to New York after she completed her high school. She eventually signed up with a Paris-based modelling agency called Marilyn Agency, which had a branch in New York. She quickly secured spreads in FHM, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan and earned campaigns for Gap and Victoria's Secret.
Armed with great wishes to have an acting career, Brooklyn Decker never ceased to audition for roles and pulled off some short spots on Ugly Betty, Royal Pains and Chuck. Eventually, she landed an interesting role in the romantic comedy "Just Go With It". She played the object of Adam Sandler's affection in the movie. In the end, her character was not picked by the man looking for his one true love, though Decker was able to play the role of a woman who had more than just a hot body.
Apparently, this natural character of Brooklyn is what got her the part. The film's casting director noticed that there was something about Decker that he did not see in a great number of great faces who auditioned for the role. Brooklyn Decker is one of the few beautiful models who can handle herself well in many different social situations.
Brooklyn Decker is one person who never stops learning about her craft. Serious about her wishes to stay long in the acting scene, she trains with notable mentors in New York and Los Angeles. Apparently, she has turned down some modelling gigs to give way to her acting trainings.
It is interesting to note that she did not have the passion for acting at a very early age. Her interest was spiked with her wishes to compensate for her lack of college education. She made a statement on how she thinks she is dumb, and that acting makes her use her brain in ways which modelling can't give to her. Brooklyn Decker gets stimulated to think in different ways with her travels during shootings for her acting stints. With that, she hopes her acting direction will live long like that of her role models in modelling-to-acting shiftees like Cameron Diaz.