Madshrimps takes a look at a Japanese engineered 3-in-1 CPU cooler, it has support for all popular sockets out there (754,940,939,370,478,462), features easy installation and a speed adjustable fan. Let´s find out how it stacks up against other popular heatsinks

Thermaltake has launched the industry's first Power Supply Watt Viewer. TWV is a 5.25" Bay Drive Display Panel that allows the users to see exactly how much power is being delivered to your computer system.

AnandTech have thrown up their Computex 2004 coverage with the first ever pictures and information on NVIDIA's NV45, including current clock speed information. Intel's PCI Express chipsets are all over the show, as are a number of other neat looking things that will find their way into your PC in the coming months. They also spy the first BTX motherboards. What are you waiting for?

This year's main focus was on 64-bit computing, Athlon 64 and Opteron processors, which were recently announced. There were also a lot of anti-Intel talk during the keynotes by special guests, which was expected but amazing to see how professionalism quickly disappeared in the room.

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Thanks to Guru 3D for the Info!

Creative has discovered a potential electrical problem with a number of units in a batch of subwoofers from our range of Cambridge SoundWorks MegaWorks 510D Speakers. This product recall is isolated to units within the serial number ranges B000001 to B002000 and B002801 to B004200. Creative has decided, in the interest of consumer safety, to recall all affected units from warehouse inventory, retail stores and end-user customers.

Can't afford an X800 XT and you really don't want to cross over to the Nvidia side? ATI's got a new budget line coming just for you!

ATI Technologies will showcase its first 0.11-micron graphics chip, the Radeon X300 (formally named RV370), at Computex Taipei 2004 from June 1-5, according to market sources. The Radeon X300 chips aim at the entry-level card market with prices below US$100! Read More

"The AMD Geode? NX 1500@6W processor leverages advanced architecture to provide a powerful solution for a variety of Internet edge, peripheral applications, and more. The AMD Geode? NX processors provides the highest x86 performance for fanless operations."

Logitech is one of the best when it comes to manufacturing PC peripherals such as keyboards, mice, game pads, and speakers. They have released some of the best designs for keyboards and mice in the market.

OCIA.net checks out the Foxconn 865M01-G-6LS mATX Motherboard in their latest review. Below is a direct quote from the review:

"First, I like how all of the cables coming off of this board will be to one side, the front. The Floppy, ATX Power, both IDE, and even the PWR/RST/SPKR cables will all run right off the front of the board without covering up other components. The AGP slot also features an AGP retention clip. While almost all AGP cards are designed for this, most manufacturers leave it off of the motherboard. Also, even though this is a small form factor, Foxconn still managed to squeeze in three PCI slots."

ExtremeTech have posted their DVD burner Roundup with 8 DVD writers from AOpen , Asus , Lite-On , Memorex , Pioneer , Plextor and Toshiba! Here's a snip.

Now that Sony has shipped the first dual layer DVD burner for the PC, it's time to revisit the "old" technology of single layer DVD burning. With the price of high-speed, multiformat, single layer burners dropping precipitously, now may be a good time to take the plunge. If you either don't need dual layer burning, or don't want to pay the cost for new dual layer drives and media, then a low-cost, single layer burner may be just the ticket.

Just spotted this bit of Info posted over at Hexus.net!

Today we managed to sneak an exclusive look at the new NVIDIA PCI-Express based NV45 card which apparently does not use the HSI interface (we are waiting for a 3rd party to confirm this fact.) Apparently NV45 is a new tape out and has NATIVE PCI-E support.

CNNMoney reports that while Microsoft has publicly avoided discussing its next generation machine, it has been quietly conducting studies on the consumer appeal of a hybrid device that would play both PC and Xbox games.

"As any overclocker will tell you, latency is the time required for requested data to become available for reading from memory. The lower the latency values, the faster the performance. Now Corsair raises the bar for DDR400 performance with our new XL line of low latency memory."

Phemo at Overclockers UK was the one who first figured it out and shared it with everyone:
I know the first thing you'll ask is how I did it. Well, I got a very sharp knife and scraped off my previous conductive paintwork, then I used the knife to scrape away at the two points - we are using the right points after all. I scraped them away until there was some bare copper exposed, bright copper instead of the usual dull, then re-did the paint job, booted Windows up and ran ATITool, she now apparently has 16 pipes
There's a picture of the contacts you need to connect over at the Overclockers UK link above, or I got it hosted over at Elite Bastards too.

Over the past year, Serial ATA RAID has become one of the most popular checkbox features for core logic chipsets. The latest offerings from Intel, NVIDIA, SiS, and VIA all support Serial ATA RAID, but there can be a world of difference between feature support and real-world performance. To find out which chipset offers the best single-drive, RAID 0, and RAID 1 performance with Serial ATA drives, I've spent the last month running Intel's ICH5R, NVIDIA's nForce3 250Gb, SiS's SiS964, and VIA's VT8237 through a punishing gauntlet of disk subsystem and application tests. The results of this benchathon are enlightening, to say the least.

Spijkenisse (the Netherlands), May 26th 2004 – After the successful introduction of its Wireless LAN products, TORNADO, supplier of computer peripherals, expands its product range in the field of wireless network with a compact Bluetooth Class 1 USB dongle, the Tornado 201, and a Bluetooth Printer Adapter for both USB- and Parallel printers called the Tornado 206.

Just spotted this bit of Info over at 3DChipset.com.

Recevied word from Josh Walrath over at Penstar Systems that he has ran into some problems with Athlon 64 Gigabyte motherboards. The problem he is having sounds awfully familiar to the intro of the Radeon 9700 Pro with crashes. I've had the same problem he is having. What's even more ironic is that I was on a Gigabyte board as well. It was the i850E Rambus board though. Note to myself, "If you own a ATi card, stay away from Gigabyte".

The BleedinEdge, a hard core computer enthusiast site, is very proud to announce their ongoing memory competition co-sponsored by OCZ Technology Inc. Each month a different category of processor and motherboard(s) will be selected for participation. You simply download a small program which tests your memory speed and system stability, and upload the information to our data base. Show us your system memory is the fastest based on the criteria and you win a very nice prize...

Snippet: "This June, AMD will launch a new processor which is based on the Socket 939 pin socket. This brings us to another battle of chipsets supporting this new CPU that incorporates dual channel DDR support for the mid range market."

DesignTechnica asks is Apple really developing a Video iPod?

Rumors have been circulating around for months now about a secret Video iPod that Apple has in the works. Most of the news coming out on the subject has been pure speculation by anonymous sources who claim to offer some tantalizing details. Truth be told, we know little to nothing about Apple's next-generation iPod.