Desktop Replacement laptops are becoming more and more popular due to the fact that the components contained within them are now more than a match for many high end PC?s. The laptop we have in for review today is the Xtreme TI from Rock, and it is indeed a match for any desktop PC based going by its paper specs? for starters it has a 3.6ghz Intel Socket 775 CPU and Radeon X800 mobility graphics card running over PCI-Express? when you add to that DDR2 support you begin to get an idea of how serious a machine this is. Let?s see how it stacks up against a similarly specified desktop?

This is now the 3rd 550W Aerocool power supply we have had the pleasure of reviewing at 3DXtreme and it seems like they are getting better and better. It?s refreshing to see a company put out products and with each new product put out a better and better products. We were impressed the last time around with their improvements over the original Aeropower PSU and now they have moved into the area of modular PSU. Can they continue to improve on their products with the Turbine? Let?s find out just how well it did.

3DVelocity tooks a look at three very different coolers designed to run on Intel's LGA775 platform.

Prior to recent developments like strained silicon, low-k and reductions in die sizes, temperatures seemed to be spiralling out of control, and the continued use of air as a suitable method for cooling seemed less and less likely with each new processor. These technological advancements have prolonged the feasible life of the air-cooled CPU, though for how long is another question.

Today ATI's board vendors release a new board configuration: Radeon X800 XL 512MB. Beyond3D takes a look at Sapphire's version of the board, the Hybrid Radeon X800 XL 512MB, and we test to see where, if any, the extra 512MB of RAM can be of benefit.

From the review: Put simply, AMD Athlon 64 CPUs are the gaming CPUs of choice, as shown by the brief look at gaming results on the previous page. Buy yourself a competent S939 board and run with a mid-to-high-end Athlon 64 CPU instead. Either that, or invest in an SLI-capable motherboard for either platform! However, if you absolutely, positively want to run a decent Intel gaming platform, the ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE remains a great choice.

Recently I switched from an ATI X800XT PE Video Card to a Connect 3D X850XT PE PCI Express Video Card. I was impressed with the performance of the X850XT PE however the temperatures and the noise generated by this Video Card really left me disappointed with ATI?s latest flagship Video Card. My X800XT PE was just about as fast, silent and the load temperature of the Video Card never broke 60 degrees Celcius. From the moment I powered up my system with this red PCI-e beast installed I knew things were going to be different. At this point I could not go back to an AGP setup, isn?t PCI Express the future? So I began to look for an alternate cooling method. While surfing late one night I stumbled across the Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer 5 Revision 2 GPU Cooler and while half asleep I placed my order.

HTPCnews has a new review up of the high end HIS X850xt IceQ II Turbo 256mb card... Here's a snippet:

I honestly could not be happier with the HIS X850XT IceQ II Turbo VIVO 256MB AGP. The gaming performance was absolutely amazing and really did make for a more cinematic experience. Combine the gaming performance with the near silent cooling that the card comes with standard then throw in a component video adapter and the total experience is like no other.

Remember when Bill Gates said that Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM? I wonder what he would have to say about 512MB on your Graphics card!

With the bridging of the mid range X700Pro from PCIe to AGP, can this make it's mark as compared to rival Nvidia's 6600GT? Look here to find out more!

Altec Lansing is, once again, back with a new consumer product. They have been in the professional and home audio market for many decades and show no signs of slowing down.

The new iM4 is a portable, battery and AC adapter powered stereo speaker system. This product is a perfect match for an iPod or other potable player and is intended to be easily transported for your portable listening pleasure.

MBReview has released their latest motherboard review today, this time they've taken a look at Foxconn's Winfast NF4UK8AA-8EKRS. This is a budget oriented motherboard based off of the nForce4 Ultra chipset. If you're in the market for a budget nForce4 Ultra motherboard,give this review a once over to see if this board looks like what the doctor ordered.

When a company launches a product which offers more functionality and better features then previous versions you would expect a higher price ticket. Well guess again, Matrix Orbital pulls a bright rabbit out of their hat with their latest LED display in their MX series.

XtremeResources takes a look today at the Revoltec Star Series Procyon II 7 in 1 multifunction panel and UFO Design USB 2.0 Hub . Our European Hardware Reviewer Grace evaluates this latest offering from Revoltec, with a thorough look at it's multi-functionality and usefulness from the end-users perspective.

After testing out the 80mm version of the Aquagate Mini, we were interested in the bigger sibling, the Aquagate Mini R120. Spotting a 120mm radiator, look here to find out how it fares against the R80 with a 80mm radiator!

VR-Zone

ThermalRight is one of the most known and respected companies in the field of air cooling, thanks to its many excellent products that display cooling performance almost on par with water cooling systems. In the past few years, ThermalRight has released several successful series of coolers, some based on copper, some on aluminium and some combined both - the guiding purpose was to find the combination that would provide the best results. A few moths ago, ThermalRight released their new product series, called "SI", which is supposed to offer better performance and ease-of-use than the SP. In this review we will compare ThermalRight's SI-97 heatsink with several competing coolers (including its predecessor, the SP-97), in order to see if ThermalRight truly managed to outdo themselves

From the HEXUS.review: Dell is both large enough and savvy enough to engineer and market the best gaming system around. This Dimension XPS Gen-4, however, is overpriced and, from a package's point of view, hasn't been specified too well. Dell, I feel, needs to reduce the price to below £1,500 inc. VAT and offer a choice between CRT and TFT at no extra cost. Custom touches, such as a gaming mouse and windowed panel wouldn't go amiss, either. It's surprising to say this, but Dell, with this XPS system, isn't doing what it does best, that is, offering unbeatable value for money.

Asus is attempt to move into the desktop Pentium M market with this adaptor that allows you to use a 479-pin P-M processor on a 478-pin motherboard.

PC Perspective

If you have already spent some time reading articles on LCD monitors we are sorry but all you have learned during the last five years is going to fall apart. In the past, some LCD monitors built up strong reputations. Despite their long names some are still present in our dim memories. This list now needs to be completed with a new name: the 19" ViewSonic 3rd generation VP191b. The ViewSonic VP191b is the first MVA 8 ms monitor. We don?t want you to wait for the result of our tests: we were blown away. TN and IPS monitors are well on their way to disappearing.

nVidia introduces their first chipset for the Intel platform and we take a look at MSI's P4N Diamond and find out how well it performs.

T-Break

While S3 have long been in the PC graphics market, since their fall from favour following Savage 2000 they took a hiatus and didn't resurface until they produced their "DeltaChrome" graphics series, now under the ownership of VIA. While DeltaChrome implemented DirectX9 shader capabilities it failed to make too much of an impact in terms of market share most likely because of performance and time to market issues.