Clean and steady power is what our computers crave, almost like we humans need clean and abundant air. Sure we can live in a polluted environment, but our health will suffer, and our tolerance to exercise will be lessened. To the point, when overclocking our precious PCs, a high quality power supply is paramount in maintaining and pushing performance. Today the Madshrimps are looking at some of the finest power supplies out there

If you have ever tried to seriously enjoy music on your notebook computer, you know they don?t sound nearly as impressive as you would like. After all, they are only a mere pair of speaker set that is barely enough to deal with default sounds and are not for the audiophiles. So, what are speaker manufacturers doing to eliminate this "problem"? Well, Altec Lansing seems to have an answer for all of us today. The company recently announced their portable laptop speakers to the world that promise portability as well as high-quality sound, but do they really deliver? That?s our question for today.

Tired of puny little squeaks from cheap speakers? Throw them aside and bring in the REAL stuff! Today, we will take a look at a set of mid-range 5.1 speakers the Logitech Z-640! Let's see if it really can rumble!

Adrian's Rojak Pot

OCIA.net has posted a review of the Silverstone TJ-06 Case! Here's a snip.

Rotating to the right side of the case reveals a few things. First some will instantly notice that the motherboard faces the "wrong" direction of the case. In fact, it is turned upside down to allow for better cooling of the CPU.

We have completed a review of the AGP version of the GeForce 6600 GT OC from BFG Technologies. The GeForce 6600 GT continues to dominate the mid-range AGP market and is the best "bang-for-the-buck" graphics chipset that NVIDIA has designed.

XtremeResources have just published yet another review by our European Hardware Reviewer, Grace, this time evaluating the LC03S HTPC case by Silverstone.

The CNPS7700-Cu is Zalman?s latest addition to their 7000 series. The all-copper cooler incorporates a huge 120mm fan, comes with a full assortment of mounting hardware and delivers excellent performance with minimal noise.

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Seeing that this is the first of many water cooling product reviews to be posted on Tweaknews.net, you might as well come in with a bang or in this case, a strong gurgle. Asetek have been in the water cooling market for quite some time and it definitely shows. Along with the outstanding quality and workmanship, detail, and efficiency, my first voyage into Asetek water cooling has resulted in a very positive experience..

That's why we were excited when the new generation of eight-pipe graphics cards arrived this past fall, including the GeForce 6600 series and ATI's answer, the Radeon X700 line. The GeForce 6600 GT, in particular, was an excellent newcomer, and ATI countered by announcing the Radeon X700 XT, which we promptly reviewed. ATI's new mid-range card was a little slower than the GeForce 6600 GT, but the Radeon X700 XT wasn't a bad option, save for one thing: you couldn't buy one. ATI kept promising that we'd see them soon, but very few cards ever materialized. In the end, the Radeon X700 XT was stillborn, and ATI announced a replacement with better performance at the same price: the Radeon X800. The Sapphire Radeon X800 card that we're reviewing today is one of the very first Radeon X800 cards available on the market, and it promises to be stiff competition for the GeForce 6600 GT. In fact, given the Radeon X800's 12-pipeline design, this shouldn't be a fair fight. But it should be fun to watch. TechReport

When you have the fastest CPU (at stock speeds) on the planet, you just have to push it further, although phase change cooling can get your underway, LN2 is bound to give you the edge. Let´s pour a few litres on this blazingly fast A64 FX-55 to see how high it can fly.

Mike over at TweakTown takes a close look at the EPoX 9NDA3+ Socket 939 motherboard today which is based around nVidia's nForce3 Ultra chipset. The motherboard makes use of an AGP port instead of the newer PCI-Express version which makes it a good option for users wanting to keep their old yet workable AGP graphics card and upgrade to the new Socket 939 Athlon 64 platform. Read on as we compare the EPoX 9NDA3+ against other solutions in its league and work out which is best for your needs as a gamer.

NVIDIA introduced SLI (Scalable Link Interface) for the first time in November 2004. This technology has already been used for ages now, since 3DFX introduced this parallel connection between two cards around 1998 with their Voodoo2. Anyway NVIDIA claimed that SLI could deliver twice the performance of one single gpu and that is exactly what we are testing today. Read the review to find out more!

We've posted a new review on 3DXtreme.net - Saitek Cyborg Evo Force Joystick.

"We have seen other products by Saitek in the past and have come to expect some cool quality gear. Following up from the Cyborg Evo comes the Force Feedback version we have for review today. Every fan of flight simulators likes to have not only a joystick with easy to reach controls, but confort for those long flights. Does the Cyborg Evo Force answer the call? Let?s find out?"



Saitek Cyborg Evo Force Joystick Review @ 3DXtreme

The slow but inexorable march to 64-bit computing--the successor to familiar 32-bit x86-based technology, which has dominated the desktop world since the advent of Windows 95 almost a full decade ago--seems poised to speed up. Not only has Microsoft announced its plans to release its first 64-bit operating system for mainstream desktops, Windows XP (news - web sites) Professional X64 Edition, by the middle of this year, but also the company has delivered its initial Release Candidate (RC1) of the operating system......... ........Commercial 64-bit native applications are not yet available, so we put RC1 through its paces with several popular current (32-bit) apps--and in general we were impressed. (Owners of 64-bit PCs can download RC1 from Microsoft's Web site.) Read on at PC World.com

We have analyzed one of the new products that A-DATA will introduce in the spanish market this year; It is a peculiar device that join the functions of a USB Memory and a Web Cam; you can read the review about i-Drive clicking here

Today TweakTown compare the performance of two new ATI Radeon high-end graphics chips - the Radeon X800XL & X850XT through retail cards from GeCube. After examining each card we compare the performance of each against an nVidia GeForce 6600GT and 6800 Ultra which are what ATI's new cards are aimed at competing against. So, will it be nVidia or ATI in your gaming system? Read on and find out!

Now comes DFI with exactly what we've been asking for: a desktop motherboard for the Pentium M. The DFI 855GME-MGF transcends boundaries by offering Pentium M support in a microATX mobo with an AGP slot and some decent overclocking options. But can the Pentium M really go toe to toe on performance with the Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 when paired up with desktop hard drives and video cards? We've gathered up a Pentium M "Dothan" processor and an extensive array of competitors, ranging from an Athlon 64 3200+ at 2GHz to a Pentium 4 at 3.8GHz. Read on at TechReport

AnandTech have posted their review of DFI's nForce4 SLI and Ultra boards! Here's snip.

If you then throw in the fact that all the DFI nForce4 boards from the $140 UT Ultra-D to the $200 LANParty nF4 SLI-DR are based on the same PCB and use the same BIOS, the story becomes even more interesting. Those simple facts mean that all of the DFI boards perform the same, overclock the same, and contain the same pair of x16 PCIe slots. This allows even the bottom-of the-line Ultra-D to run 2 PCIe video cards in x16/x2 mode at about 90% the performance of full-blown SLI.

About a year ago we had the opportunity of reviewing the WC-201 which was a decent all-in-one unit for watercooling. We did a little modding to the unit and brought it to a point where it would perform much better in it's capacity. We mentioned some of our concerns to Evercool and I'm sure others did also and they have since updated the unit with the WC-202 that 3DXtreme has the pleasure of reviewing today. Our main focus of this review will not be to look at it completely as we did the WC-201, but to highlight the updates and to show performance of the unit in our modded setup. So without further ado, let's take a look at the WC-202...

Hauppauge has decided to give the consumers a bit of choice with their latest lineup of capture cards. You, the consumer, can purchase three different versions of their PVR-150 capture card, and HTPCnews is taking a look at the new low profile (l.p.) version today. Many may think that the 150 is inferior to the 250 since its number is lower (and the price), but we recommend you read the review and make up your mind for yourself. Coming in at a price of only 70$ at many places online and offering a better D/A conversion than their already famous PVR-250 could help this card make its way into many PC's.