Computer enthusiasts want to spend every last penny of their disposable income on the latest and greatest hardware. They always want a faster graphics card, a new microprocessor, faster RAM, a new motherboard, a bigger (storage wise) or faster hard drive and a better case, in that order.

With a digital or analogue input, claimed 10ms response times and a killer price, could iiyama's ProLite E435S be the LCD screen that finally gets you to bin that old CRT? 3DVelocity think it might be!

So, with price, response times, and text handling stacked against them, why would I even want to review an LCD monitor at all? Well, the answer is that this particular model claims it can tackle all three shortcomings head on and succeed! Marketing BS or a display that may at last get me to switch camp and join the LCD revolution? We shall see.

Shuttle introduces their first XPC based on the BTX design and it sure is a good looking and an extremely quiet SFF system.

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Intel is back in the spotlight with an evolution of the Prescott core. Three main innovations have been introduced compared to the Pentium 4 5xxJ, which was released last November. The cache L2 has been increased from 1 MB to 2 MB and it supports Enhanced Intel SpeedStep (EIST) and Enhanced Memory 64 (EM64T) technologies. Behardware.com has tested the Pentium 4 660 and EE 3.73 GHz processors to see if this new series will be good enough to compete with AMD?s products.

I have just finished my review of the Club-3D X800XL 256MB PCI-Express card.

With two 400MHz RAMDACs to convert digital data to analog signals for the monitor. SmartShader HD technology with 16 pixel pipelines for a fast fill rate, and 6 parallel vertex pipelines for up to 700 million vertices per second and an overall capability of over 200 billion floating points per second. 256MB GDDR3 memory for fast data rates and 3Dc image technology for increased performance and lower memory usage.

The PowerColor Theater? 550 Pro home-entertainment system combines the latest technology such as hardware-accelerated 12-bit decoder video processing engine with a high-end 3D comb filter and noise reduction technology that significantly enhances fine-detail to video by adding luminance and chrominance to composite video and TV tuner signals to eliminate color bleeding and other artifacting that would otherwise cause degradation in the image quality in prior standards.

Speeze has been in the cooling products game for a number of years. With this sort of pedigree we were really excited when we received this cooler. First of all, i just wanted to point out that Speeze has some of the coolest names for Heatsink/Fans (HSF) i have ever seen. This model is designed for the Intel Pentium 4 and it is called the Coppersnake III. Gone are the days of product numbers. Now, even our HSF have names!

We've all seen it happen. First there was the optical "look-at-it-glow" mouse then the wireless mice came quite fast afterwards, and the combination of the two was inevitable. A couple of months ago the laser "watch-out-for-the-eyes" mouse made its introduction. But this tops it all off: The battery free wireless mouse from A4 Tech.

When Corsair first brought its Pro series of memory to the market, it grabbed quite a bit of attention from the enthusiast community. After all, Corsair was the first to bring the "LED lights on memory" idea to reality.

With Windows x64 Edition nearing its' full release date, Intel has released their 64bit capable 6XX and Extreme Edition line of processors to tackle the new 64bit challenge and the nice thing is if you own a Intel® 925XE Express or i915 based chipset motherboard, 64bit computing is only a processor and a BIOS flash upgrade away.

XtremeResources takes a look today at a Power Supply Unit by a late blooming company in the EU by the name of Listan. Our European Hardware Reviewer ,Grace got her hands on their latest offering, the Blackline BQT P5-470W-S1.3 and took a thorough look at it's construction and performance attributes.

Today 3DXtreme is reviewing two of the latest Cases in the NZXT family, the Nemesis and the Nemesis Elite. Nowadays the Case that is used is just as important as the individual parts that are installed into it. NZXT offers some of the most unique looking Cases on the market while never leaving the product feel stripped of useful features. These new Cases add to the ever growing product line at NZXT.com.

January 2005 is a very good month for fans of LCD monitors as some amazing changes have come about. Samsung announced that it will progressively move towards a zero dead pixel policy, and prices have decreased so much that supplies now exceed demand. The real winners of all these changes are buyers who now have the option of bigger and cheaper monitors. 20? LCDs are now more and more affordable. These 1600 x 1200 pixels monitors, instead of 1280 x 1024 for 17? and 19?s, now target the general public. Behardware.com has tested the Acer AL2021MS, Belinea 10 20 05, Dell 2005FPW, LaCie Photo20Vision II, Nec LCD 2060NX, Philips Brillance 200P4SS and Sony SDM-S204H.

The last time we reviewed a Visiontek product was the X800XT in November of last year, since then we have looked at the majority of models coming from the ATI/partner stable. The ATI PCIexpress range is technically very strong across the board, but many people are disgruntled with availability, especially when we look at the Platinium Edition models.

Thermaltake has a sleek new mid-tower performance case that has an elegant look and beautiful glossy finish called the Soprano. The Soprano sport's a curvy front bezel which offers a double hinged door design that allows the user to open the front bezel in two ways. The first door allows the user to have instant access to his or her devices, while the second door opens up for quick and convenient removal and installation of the drive bay devices. Thermaltake Soprano Mid-Tower Case Review

Today NVIDIA unleashes the king of the mobile sector with the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. NVIDIA partnered with Dell to give the PC maker's new XPS Gen2 the most powerful mobile GPU on the market. Join Tom's as we preview the latest from these two industry heavy hitters, and see if they can give desktop PCs a run for their money.

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Today we take a look at and test a set of these gaming headphones from Icemat called Siberia Multi Headset.

One way to increase your gaming experience is to get a good set of stereo headphones. An even better idea is to get a set of headphones with a built in microphone to take advantage of games that include a voice over ip technology to allow real-time chat with teammates and opponents during game play.

HWLogic.com has reviewed Arctic Cooling's Arctic Freezer 64 heatsink/fan unit. They take a look at the features of the cooler, and then they overclock the system to see how it stacks up to other coolers. If you're in the market for a new cooler, check this one out.

XtremeResources Joe "Jbell" evaluates yet another enthusiast case offering from MGE's XG division, the XGBox Viper!

Welcome back to the second half of my look into two gamer computer cases by XG and I saved the best for last. Let me introduce you to the Viper. The Viper is easily the single most impressive OEM case you can buy that has most all the modifications you could want from a low cost mid-tower. The Viper runs a little more than the Sidewinder but what you get is an amazingly unique case that is fully modded from the factory.

The Extreme Edition of the P4 gets a speed bump as well as a new core. Say hello to the new 3.73GHz Prescott based Pentium4 EE.

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