Dollar for dollar, you still just can't beat the value and features compressed into this one computer peripheral. It's a TV, it's a top notch gaming card, it's an FM Radio, it's a personal video recorder, well, I guess it is pretty darn well everything. You buy it, you install it and instantly your drab, boring computer has an amazing amount of potential and power needed to turn it into an excellent gamer or a home theater system.

Western Digital's Caviar SE16 is the latest hard drive to jump on the 300MB/s bandwagon, and fortunately, this Caviar is sporting more than just support for a faster Serial ATA interface. The drive also features a beefy 16MB cache and a stealthy all-black aesthetic that's unlike any other hard drive on the market. Curiously, though, Western Digital has elected not to support Native Command Queuing (NCQ) on its latest high-performance desktop drive. Will that decision hurt the new Caviar's chances against the latest NCQ-equipped Serial ATA drives from Hitachi, Maxtor, and Seagate? Let's find out.

We take a look at OCZ's titanium series of DDR2 memory modules and find out what makes them so special.

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We take a look at this overclocked X850 from HIS. With the price of Radeon cards about to go into freefall, how does the card perform in our suite of real-world benchmarks?

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The Mushkin Redline memory uses Winbond UTT ICs on a Brain Power PCB. What many people may not realize is that UTT stands for UnTesTed. So the ICs are basically unlabelled and binned by whoever is assembling them, in this case Mushkin. The PCB is a jet black, 6 layer design from Brain Power, Brain Power PCBs are known for their overclocking abilities.

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Today at XtremeResources our Senior European reviewer Grace has on the test bench AeroCool's latest, the AeroCool Turbine Power 450W Power Supply Unit.

There's no question that these are decent speakers. The reviews are already out there, and they're pretty universally favourable. Tons of gamers have raved about the bass, the bass, the bass. The bass seems to be a particular thing with gamers. They like the bass. But what about somebody that's not all that interested in the bass? I'm not a big gamer, first of all. I play games like Civilization and Evil Genius, where things like bass aren't really a going concern. What I do love, however, is music.

Chenbro decided their case range needed topping off with a premium aluminium chassis, which they christened the Gaming Bomb II. 3Dvelocity gets to see if it really "da bomb", or more of a damp squib.

Despite the launch of the latest 7800GTX and the immensity of falling prices, NVIDIA?s 6600GT would still remain one of the most sought after graphics adapters for enthusiasts on a budget.

Foxconn has a new single-socket Opteron board primed for dual-core processors. The awkwardly-named NFPIK8AA taps NVIDIA's latest nForce Pro chipset to offer eight Serial ATA ports with 300MB/sec transfer rates, dual hardware-accelerated Gigabit Ethernet ports, and more PCI Express lanes than any other motherboard we've tested. Packed to the gills, the NFPIK8AA has all the makings of a perfect dual-core platform for workstations and enthusiasts. Read on to find out if the board lives up to its potential.

A little more than 14 months ago, NVIDIA released the GeForce 6800 Ultra, which was up until now this company?s most powerful graphic chip. Now NVIDIA releases the GeForce 7800 GTX, previously known as the G70, the first GPU of the GeForce 7 line. Architecture details, synthetic tests, practical tests with and without SLI: Behardware.com has explored all sides of this GPU!!

Test: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX

Our synthetic tests show really interesting figures, in every single test the 945 based MSI board is faster than the 925XE and Nforce4 based boards. Considering how fast the NF4 chipset actually is this is a real achievement for MSI/Intel and as far as synthetic tests go the MSI 945P Neo Platinum is the fastest board we have tested to date.

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AMD have today launched the latest of their FX line of CPU's, the FX57. Running 2.8GHz but now on a 90nm core, 3DVelocity take a brief look at what your money buys you.

Today I'm taking a swift look at the latest addition to AMD's FX line, the FX57. While it does feature a 200MHz speed increase that's not all AMD have done. They have also migrated over to the 90nm "San Diego" core, which means SSE3 support, a generally more flexible memory controller and what AMD mysteriously refer to as "a few tweaks here and there", which could mean anything...or nothing.

MBReview is back with a review of Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 840. This processor is the dual core powerhouse for the Intel line of processors, excelling under multi-threaded and multi-tasking environments. If you're into CAD, or other multi-threaded applications, or are looking for the best Intel has to offer, give this review a look

Today at Xtreme Resources our very own Editor in Chief Frank "Gooch" takes a look at the SimpleTech SimpleDrive Deluxe 250GB USB 2.0/FireWire External Hard Drive. This is the latest high capacity portable solution from Simple Tech and is flexing it's muscles in a market that is continually becoming more attractive to those moving large amounts of data or simply to backup large files and programs and in a very fast fashion.

This morning, AMD announce the fourth generation Athlon 64 FX: the FX-57. The chip is manufactured on a new 90nm process, using the San Diego core - Tim Smalley evaluates what the Athlon 64 FX-57 brings to bleeding edge gaming enthusiasts. Is the latest generation Athlon 64 FX worth buying? Read on to find out...

Today 3Dxtreme is taking a look at the latest product from a company called Bluegears. Bluegears has released a new sound card, the HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold. For years gamers like us have relied on Creative Labs and their Sound Blaster line of sound card to deliver the gaming experience. Non-frequent driver updates and some chipset compatibility issues have plagued the Creative product line for years, but to many of us if you weren?t using an Audigy card, you just weren?t experiencing gaming as it was meant to be.

DFI® introduces the leading edge in 3D performance technology with one of the most powerful gaming solutions on the planet, the LANParty nF4 SLI-DR! The nF4 SLI-DR combines legendary LANParty performance and over-clock-ability in conjunction with high performance features like SLI-ready via two PCI Express x16 slots, CMOS reloaded®, all new GENIE BIOS and a host of other on-board attributes making the LANParty nF4 SLI-DR one of most versatile and highest performing mother-boards in the market today.

Apple has been making a lot of headlines recently for switching to Intel CPUs, iPods and their latest OS X. Being Windows people, we step into the strange land of OS X and find out about it.

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Creative Labs has created what they feel is the ultimate surround sound setup in a box which is known as the GigaWorks ProGamer G500 5.1 Speaker System. When coupled with their Decoder DDTS-100, you?ll be able to input digitally from your Xbox, DVD, CD players, and PC?s, which makes us believe that Creative has a winner on their hands. Can the GigaWorks ProGamer G500 5.1 Speaker System and Decoder DDTS-100 satisfy all of your surround sound needs? I put these units through the rigors to find out?