We've had a pair of dual-core Opteron processors on the test bench for some time now, and we're pleased to report some rather impressive results. AMD's dual-core design is something more than just a pair of CPUs glued together on a single piece of silicon, and this design choice yields a performance dividend. Keep reading to see how the new Opteron 275 stacks up against its Opteron predecessors and against Intel's latest "Nocona" Xeons. We also have a head-to-head battle of single-socket, dual-core workstation processors: the Opteron 175 versus the Pentium Extreme Edition 840.

With the increased popularity of digital cameras, PDAs, etc, memory cards have become an integral part of our lives. Quite often, we just stick the memory card(s) into our device and forget about them but when you want to transfer information from your device to your computer or vice versa, suddenly a problem appears. It?s slow! Depending on what you are trying to do, it can actually go from slow all the way down to tedious. One way to rememdy this is to use a card reader. So today we're taking a look at one such card reader from Sansdisk, their USB 2.0 5 in 1 Card Reader.

Today at XtremeResources we've published an HTPC case review by South Korean case manufacturer Uneed. Our European Hardware reviewer Grace takes a look inside and outside this new product and evaluates it's strengths and weakness's in the HTPC case realm.

OCIA.net has posted a review on the CoolerMaster Aquagate Mini R80! Here's a snip.

Today we will be looking at a watercooling solution from CoolerMaster, the Aquagate Mini R80, a self-contained, maintenance-free system that is designed for nearly every socket and every case on the market. Can such a system really stack up to today's cooling demands?

Today, we have its supposedly better version on our hands, and it would be an understatement if we say the board is better. For some reason, the 250Gb boards perform extremely well than their 250 predecessors. According to NVIDIA, the only difference between the two should just be the features, but as we apparently found out that wasn?t the case at all. Though this article primarily focuses on the features of K8N-E Deluxe over its K8N version, we suggest you look through our K8N evaluation to get an idea of how it performs.

Techgage.com has a new review up, this time of Ultra's X-Connect 500W Titanium PSU. Case clutter has been a problem with computers forever, especially with PSU cables lying all over the place. Ultra promises to solve this problem, by allowing you to only use the cables you need. The X-Connect PSU includes other cool features as well, and you can read about them in our review. Review can be accessed here

After taking a look at VIA?s K8T800 chipset last week and NVIDIA?s nForce3-150 chipset internally in our labs, it?s clear that both chipsets failed to offer AGP/PCI lock and lacked features that would impress the high-end home user. There were instances where certain manufacturers were able to implement AGP/PCI lock on certain motherboards, namely Abit, but majority of them did not bother to do so. The problem was a tough one to crack, since the chipset never had support for the aforementioned feature initially. NVIDIA?s nForce-150, on the other hand, supported an AGP/PCI lock, but due to manufacturer?s mistake, it wasn?t implemented on many boards either. According to NVIDIA, many board makers wrote the BIOS incorrectly, which disabled the feature. Whatever the reason may be the initial socket 754 chipsets weren?t for the high-end overclocker.

Today, we bring you Shuttle's latest innovations, the ST20G5 featuring the ATI Xpress 200, the first chipset featuring onboard DirectX 9.0 graphics, and the SN25P, Nforce 4 packed into a pretty Shuttle P chassis. How does the ST20G5 fare against the SN25P?

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After many hours of blood, sweat and tears we've finished our look at nVidia's latest chipset for the Intel Pentium 4 platform. It's the nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition or as its become known around the labs, the NF4 IE. It follows the features found in the nForce series of chipsets but helps fills a gap in the gaming market offering SLI gaming performance on the Intel platform.

XtremeResources has today again turned our reviewing prowess to watercooling as our European Hardware reviewer Grace has had the pleasure to work with a watercooling kit from one of Germany's finest watercooling component manufactuers, Aqua Computer. Follow along as she evaluates this kit utilizing 2 Intel systems, both of which contain the hot running Prescott core P4's.

Monster-HardWare has a review of the Mediagear Songbank digital audio jukebox, more than just a MP3 player it also acts as a USB 2.0 hard drive, can record audio, as well as having a FM tuner.

OCIA.net has posted a review on the CoolerMaster Vortex TX HSF! Here's a snip.

The Vortex TX creates more airflow, higher air pressure, with ultra silent operation using a 92mm circular fan with wider blades. This fan also supports thermal speed control and PWM (pulse width modulation), both used to ensure the lowest amount of noise possible with acceptable temperatures. The omni-directional fins that you'll soon see provide concentrated cooling with maximum heat dissipation.

PalmOne has been a strong leader in developing Personal Digital Assistants or PDAs for the business class for quite some time. The company, rather obviously, is a global leader in PDAs and provides almost all accessories to support their products. This includes accessories from necessary software to hard cases and much more. Recently, PalmOne made the announcement to introduce a more value class PDA to the market, Tungsten E2. The Tungsten E2 is originally developed from its predecessor, the regular E version and carries more or less the same feature set. Although the differences between the two are far and between, could this be the right PDA for you?

OCAU have taken a look at the Fatal1ty AA8XE i925XE, ABIT's latest flagship motherboard for LGA775 P4 CPUs. It takes its cooling seriously - in fact, in this comparison with two motherboards from Intel and ASUS, it leaves one of them literally melted in its wake.

Today at XtremeResources we've turned our reviewing prowess to watercooling as our European Hardware reviewer Grace evaluates one of Swiftech's latest high performance offerings, their H20-120-T TEC Liquid Cooling Kit.

Abit is a name synonymous with high-quality, rock stable and overclocking friendly motherboards. The company caters to enthusiast needs and is truly an innovator in the industry. Throughout the years, Abit has innovated exclusive technologies that allow overclockers to push their systems to extreme limits. These technologies include their famous SoftMenu BIOS and the latest uGuru technology, a real-time overclocking utility. Naturally, they haven?t just concentrated their efforts on tweaking, but also on the board layout and the rest of the features that really make a motherboard an all rounder in its category. We are of course talking about the idea behind 90 degrees rotated IDE and floppy connectors that other manufacturers have adopted due to its preference by the community.

ATI?s newest, high end board in their flagship line of multimedia boards, the All-In-Wonder X800 XT, has been heard of for some time but only seen fairly recently. Whilst the All-In-Wonder hasn?t stood still in terms of features, neither has the rest of ATI?s businesses here we?re taking a look at the new board to see what new functionality it offers over the previous generation.

The QuadroFX 4400 512 MB card has just hit the market, right as nVidia's GeForce 6800 512 MB cards (which are based on the exact same design, funny that) are hitting store shelves as well. We've got the remarkable opportunity to test our two of these QuadroFX 4400 512 MB cards, not only in single card configuration, but in a dual-card SLI configuration as well. Curious how 512 MB of video memory affects games and applications? Curious to see if SLI helps workstation applications? Curious to see what a full SLI system with 1 GB of combined graphics memory is capable of? Us too. Let's continue.

It seams everybody is wanting to do more and more with their PC these days. We have ultra fast systems that put out lots of heat, so we want to keep them cool. We have digital cameras and other devices that use all kinds of media cards, not to mention those that use USB, Firewire or even SATA connections. To fulfill these needs companies have come up with fan controllers, I/O panels, card readers, and temperature displaying LCD screens. But what about the limited amount of real estate on the front of your case? If you have all these items and a standard mid-tower case, there?s no room left for your drives. How are you supposed to make that work? That?s where Sunbeam comes in.

HIS are back in the labs again this month with their latest generation of cards, the PCI Express versions of the ATI Radeon X850XT and X800XL. Both cards are part of the HIS IceQ II series which claim (and do) to offer better cooling than ATI reference cards as well as not exceeding 20db in the noise department. Both cards support iTURBO and the X850XT version even has a standard iTURBO overclocked setting which matches the clock speeds of the more expensive X850XT PE. That means you?ll get the performance of the ultra high-end X850XT PE for the price of the high-end X850XT. Read on as TweakTown take a close look at both cards!