Thanks to the generosity of our friends at Ideazon we are thrilled to announce our latest contest! We have four Zboards - two Call of Duty 2 keysets and two Age of Empires III keysets. The keyset will be designated by the site admin upon being chosen as a winner in the contest.

The top Gaming PCs are the Falcon Northwest X2-4800 SLI, the Voodoo Omen a121, and the Dell XPS M170. These PCs include top-of-the-line components. Read the reviews of these systems and find out how much they cost.

PC-Mag

For those who are currently in the market for dual Opteron boards and are preferring products manufactured by Tyan, be sure to carefully pick power supplies with some research before purchase. We have been advised that certain Antec power supplies are having issues with the following motherboards from Tyan:

AnandTech

Well, it is that time of the year again. With Halloween done and over with its time for Thanksgiving and, before you know it, the holiday season. Every company realizes this and has made sure the stores are packed with cool new gadgets, gifts, and gizmos. This guide is going to go over a few of the items which appear of the wishlists of a few of the staff members. Nothing too formal, but you can get an idea of some of the cool products to keep an eye out for this season.

In closing, Logitech did provide somewhat of a remedy. The peripherals maker suggested that users who are having problems with surface tracking with either G5 or G7 mice should call Logitech?s technical support team to remedy the problem.

Maxell and InPhase are bringing a revolutionary technology to market - holographic media. With storage capacities achieving 1.6 TeraBytes per disk and data rates as high as 120 MBPs, holographic technology is a true breakthrough in optical media. These features, along with a long archival life, make holographic media a compelling choice for storage and archival requirements.

DV Hardware

When you are forgotten your USB stick at school, work or by a friend, the LG USB xtick alerts you.

Gadget Flash

The MIT Media Lab initiative to develop a $100 laptop?a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has been created. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nicholas Negroponte Unveil $100 Laptop Prototype at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.

Our friends at HKEPC Hardware have thrown up their review of Intel's Pentium XE 955 and Pentium 4 643 65-nano processors.

Intel has just launched the 975X chipset and so far only first tier motherboard makers like Gigabyte and ASUS have finished developing their boards based on the chipset. The new 975X chipset supports the upcoming 65nm Dual core Pentium XE and D processors codenamed Presler as well as the single core Cedarmill.

VR-Zone

Even though ATI RD482 chipset Crossfire boards are just appearing in the market, ATI is already far along in the development of their next chipset, called ATI RD580. We recently had an opportunity to spend two days testing the new RD580 Crossfire motherboard, code-named Manta, and to directly compare the RD580 Dual X16 chipset with the recently reviewed Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe featuring the nVidia Dual x16 chipset. The comparison included both single and dual video card head-to-head testing with 7800GTX SLI (running 81.87 drivers) and X1800XT Crossfire (running Catalyst 5.11).

In a brief commentary, Razer confirmed that the current variant of laser technology does indeed work best with smooth surfaces, but similar to Logitech, it?s working on supporting as many tracking surfaces as possible. Instead of altering various settings in the software to remedy the tracking issue, Razer has issued a firmware to distribute more power to the laser, which does improve compatibility.

As expected Intel today launched two new processors with Virtualization Technology (VT). This new technology, which used the be codenamed Vanderpool, allows a computer to run multiple operating system or applications in independent partitions or "containers" that can be tailored for specific needs such as IT management services and protecting networked assets.. Read on over here at DV Hardware.

AGP mainboard users have felt left out by Nvidia not offering their 7800GT or GTX cards in AGP format.

With the 6800s dwindling away in the market, there was a huge gap in NVIDIA?s product portfolio, which catered to the enthusiasts. ATI, however, had the X1600XT catering to the very market that NVIDIA was nowhere close to; therefore, NVIDIA could not leave the hole unplugged for long.

We took this new motherboard from DFI for some overclocking tests and put a naked FX-57 under some cascade cold treatment. With a better board layout/design and more tweakable options in BIOS, we are able to overclock the FX-57 to 3.9GHz and is stable under 3DMark benching. We will write a review on this fine board soon but now more OC tests continue.

VR-Zone

With the release of Catalyst 5.11 drivers and retail availability, the Radeon X1800XT is finally a viable purchase. How does it rack up? We put it through our real-world gaming tests and compare it to standard and overclocked GeForce 7800 GTX cards.

Bit-Tech

The article takes goes over Dell's open source line of desktop computers and workstations. The N line is something which Dell began to sell recently, but the situation is much more complex that it would seem. There is often little or no discount given if consumers opt to go with FreeDOS as their operating system, instead of Windows and Red Hat computers cost more than those with XP Pro. There is also a great link in the article showing how Dell is selling AMD processors in their Accessories section!

Thanks to the Chinese website PCPOP we have the first benchmarks and pic's for AMD Dual-Core FX-60 CPU!

Although ATI has just announced the Radeon X1000 family consists of X1300 (RV515), X1600 (RV530) and X1800 (R520) but the internal department isn't too pleased with their performance so far.

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