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Overclockers Online Report – April 2008

I dropped the 8 ball on this post, it’s almost the end of the first week and I haven’t filled everyone in on how Overclockers Online performed for April 2008.

We kept the same pace as March 2008 and published a total of 9 reviews:

Tagan BZ900 900W By Anthony Hong
Samsung CLP-610ND By me
Biostar GeForce 9600GT (V9603GT52) By Jared Thomas
mStation 2.1 Stereo Orb By Jared Thomas
Mitron Duplus DUP-35 HDD Selector By David Luu
PowerColor AX3650 512MD2 By Jared Thomas
Logitech MX5500 Revolution By Jared Thomas
HIS Radeon HD3650 IceQ (H365Q512GNP) By Nived Manohar
Thermaltake M9 VI1000BWS By Jared Thomas

It was definitely a good month of Jared has he wrote over half of those reviews! He’s been doing a great job and turning out to be one great reviewer. The month of May will be a bit slower as the backlog I’ve had has been cleared and I will be in Europe between May 7th and June 10th and unable to get everyone review samples during this period. I hope I’ve given the guys enough work!

We have a few motherboards and video cards to publish still and we’re looking forward to getting a bunch of new samples to work with. One of the new exciting toys is the Samsung 2263UW, this monitor just arrived in Samsung’s QA lab last week and Anthony has already set it up. With luck we’ll see the return of some Antec cases: Antec Three Hundred and the Antec Twelve Hundred. We also have our first OCZ power supply and Anthony is also building his own PSU load tester. The DDR3-2000Mhz review samples have dried up pretty quick but a few sponsors will inform us when new ones are available.

For the month of April we served 54,220 visitors for a total of 204,696 page views. That’s a respectable 3.78 pages per visit. Our feedburner subscription rate hovers in the high fifties – low sixties range. If you haven’t already done so, I encourage you to subscribe via RSS or email.

The biggest improvement on the server side was the addition of dynamic headers. Now everything you read our reviews, the title will appear on your browser’s title bar. This should greatly help search engine indexing!

If you’re interested in joining Overclockers Online, please visit our job opening page and contact me!

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. 05 May 08 | Reviews | Comments (0)

Overclockers Online Report – March 2008

It’s April, April Fools is over and that means we can reflect on that latest happenings at Overclockers Online over the month of March.
I started this report in February to keep track of how well we’re doing and to let you guys know what to expect in the coming month.
March has 31 days and we were able to publish 9 reviews!

Ultra Aluminum Hard Drive Cooler with Heatpipes
Samsung YP-P2
BlueLounge Cable YoYo POP
OCZ 2x2048MB PC8000 DDR2 (OCZ2P10004GK)
Noctua NH-U12P
Samsung 2493HM LCD Monitor
Zalman CNPS7500-CU LED
HIS Radeon HD 3450 (H345H256NP)
SilverStone KL02B-W

My original plan was to post 8 reviews in the month of March and we managed 9.  This is good, but it’ll be a challenge to keep this pace.

For the month of April we already have one review posted, Tagan BZ900 900W, and I have five more reviews queued up to go. In total, we’ll target 8 reviews as well.
I still have the Samsung CLP-610ND, mStation Orb 2.1, Mitron Hard Drive Selector, HIS Radeon 3650, Power Color Radeon 3650. I expect a few products from Liteon, Biostar and Thermaltake to get wrapped up. I’m in the works with Cool-It, NZXT, OCZ, Micron and a few other players to get some new samples. It should turn out to be a great spring for Overclockers Online.

In terms of contest, look forward to something coming from NZXT and Thermaltake. We’ll be working hard to get new things.

For the month of March we had 41,823 visitors and served 155,649 page views.  We moved over to two e2160 dedicated servers and eliminated our Germany server.  This should increase our site uptime, provide us with data redundancy incase one of the server crashes and most importantly, reduce the time for the pages to get served to you.

If you’re interested in becoming a news editor, hardware reviewer or article editor for Overclockers Online, please send an email to simon [at] overclockersonline [dot] net. Full details on the job posting can be found here.


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. 04 Apr 08 | Reviews | Comments (0)

Overclockers Online Report – February 2008

It’s a brand new month and it’s time to reflect on what has happened in the past month at Overclockers Online. February is a shorter month so that generally means fewer days to post reviews. However, I managed to get six new reviews out – one shy of last month. Not bad but there’s still plenty of room to improve. Here’s a list of reviews that were published:

Cooler Master 690
Antec NeoPower Blue 650W
OnAir Solution GT Mobile HDTV Tuner
Patriot Viper Extreme 2x1024MB PC3-15000
eDimensional AudioFX Pro 5+1 Headset
HIS Radeon HD3870X2 (H387X2F1GNP)

I’m looking to post 8 reviews in the month of March, averaging 2 a week.  It’s more than doable given the backlog I currently have.  Some of the goodies to look forward to include my review on the CLP-610ND, a review on the Samsung P2, Silverstone KL02B-W, Zalman CNPS-7500CU, Noctua NH-U12P, two ATI based 3860′s and a 3840 as well as a bunch of smaller items.  I’m hoping to bring some additional contests back to Overclockers Online.

There was a huge hiccup with respect to the backend of the page.  A function that is called from index.php crashed somehow and I didn’t realize until at 14 hrs after the page was done.  It prevented anyone from viewing the content on the site. – a terrible thing to happen given how it was a day after we published our review of the HIS HD3870X2, one of the more anticipated ATI card with its dual 3870 processors on-board.  Despite this happening, the site managed to serve 138,348 pages to 38,638 visitors.  We’ll see how next month pans out!

If you’re interested in becoming a news editor, hardware reviewer or article editor for Overclockers Online, please send an email to simon [at] overclockersonline [dot] net. Include in your email your name, and age, the type of camera you have, your computer specifications, your experience with computers and consumer electronics, your overclocking experience and any reviewing experience you may have.  Qualified candidates will be contacted and asked to write a sample review under typical time constraints for evaluation.

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. 01 Mar 08 | Reviews | Comment (1)