Most of you already have seen the original Golden Orb from Thermaltake and are familiar with their legendary Orb series. Now it?s time for the second coming of their Golden Orb Cooler. Those of you who were at Computex have already seen the new Golden Orb. Thanks to the staff from Thermaltake we are going to take the new Golden Orb II for a test drive and give you the chance to see it in action.

Xtreme Resources today has on the review bench DDR memory by the now familiar company G.Skill. In the past 6 months they have made an enormous name for themselves in the overclocking community with their Samsung TCCD IC based modules, particularly being able to easily overclock beyond the 300Mhz barrier on AMD A64 based systems. Our Senior European hardware Reviewer Grace today has a look at their latest "value" offering, the G.Skill F1-4800DSU2-1GBFR DDR600 2T dual channel memory kit.

As the savior for all those consumers with buyer remorse that invested in a AGP based computer, you still have options that will have you gaming right along with even the best of what most PCI Express cards have to offer. If you do not have enough money to upgrade your whole system to the newest hardware, you can easily just upgrade to this AGP card and buy yourself the time to make your computer last and still have an excellent gaming experience.

HTPCnews reviewed the MediaPilot and seemed to like it a good bit, here's a quote that shows how it raised the bar: "With each new product that hits the market, we almost expect them to ?out do? the others by adding some new extraordinary feature. This product does not disappoint with built in Universal IR remote capabilities that can be programmed to control up to eight of your Home Theater devices and has 30ft range using 2.4ghz RF signals."

Fancy a nice, aluminium keyboard to match that HTPC, SFF or even your main PC? 3DVelocity reviews two such products from the folk at KeySonic.

We take a look at Intel's low cost dual core CPU today- the Pentium D 820 priced at $250. This is certainly one little CPU that can give the bigger, more expensive CPUs a run for the money.

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The G500?s come in a handsome packaging and design ? the Color scheme and overall look are modern and can be easily place in most spaces. The metal grills over the satellites and subwoofer driver have an industrial-type look that we?re sure will have a wide appeal to gamers and desktop-theater users.

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Our friends at HKEPC has done an interesting review on the ULi M1695 with TGi (Triple Graphics Interface); simultaneous PCI Express x16, AGP 8X, PCI graphics interfaces that allows up to 6 monitor displays. Along with a PCI-E x16 riser card that splits into two x8 slots, you are able to run SLI and Crossfire configurations. More interestingly, with a hacked Catalyst drivers, they are able to run Crossfire in AGP + PCI-E interfaces.

Being one of the most innovative platform around, we take a look at the ECS PF88 Extreme Hybrid, and the ECS SIMA A9S Platform Converter card. It's back to the good old days where switching between AMD and Intel could be done without a new purchase!

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With X850 XT dual-slot copper cooling, dual DVI, and VIVO, Sapphire's RADEON X800 XL 512MB is loaded with features. In today's article, we've put this board through its paces against the latest high-end cards at high resolutions in order to see if the extra memory really helps. Over the course of our testing we found a few cases where the 512MB board outperformed its 256MB predecessor, in addition to one app that actually takes advantage of the additional memory: F.E.A.R. beta.

Today 3DXtreme is presenting a review featuring two new products from our friends at Sun Beam. The Pro Series Illuminated Keyboard and Blueflame Illuminated Mouse arrived recently for us to put through them through the paces. I believe the keyboard is the answer to the Saitek series of backlit keyboards and the mouse is an illuminated 800 DPI optical mouse. The Blueflame mouse is Sunbeam?s answer to the Logitech MX-510 series of mice. Let?s see how these new Sun Beam products perform.

Although EVGA could be a bit more innovating, the company has managed to impress us with competitive performance and comparatively lower prices than other manufacturers. Therefore, we?ve had no problems recommending EVGA to those of you with strict budget guidelines. After evaluating its 6800 PCIe graphics adapter late last week, today we?ll take a look at EVGA?s 6600GT. Though we don?t hope to see a significant increase in performance at stock speeds, we do have a keen interest in the card?s overall value in terms of its retail cost. Furthermore, the overclocking results should be quite promising as well.

Looking for a new mainboard to accomodate your Intel Dual Core Processor? Today we will be taking a look at the Asus P5LD2-E WiFi-TV, a board based on the Intel 945P Express Chipset. It features various functions like Digital TV, Wireless connectivity and storage options, and it doesn't blow your wallet like boards based on the 955X chipsets.

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Xtreme Resources Senior European Hardware reviewer Grace today takes a look at Zalmans current offering in the "silent performance" CPU cooling segment, the CNPS7700-AlCu CPU Cooler.

Func Industries has been a leader in competition mouse surfaces for several generations offering some of the trickest mouse pads to people like you and I. Continuing another award winning product line, Func Industries introduces the F-Series hi-performance competition mouse surfaces. The F-Series is available in two sizes and in two surface textures ? the F10.S and F30.R. The construction on this pad incorporates the use of new space age Polycarbonates.

NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU has been usurped by the 7800 GTX as the fastest graphics card in town. Various benchmarks show the latter to be up to twice as fast in both single and SLI'd usage. However, the GeForce 6800 Ultra recently shipped with 512MB of onboard memory. Recent history has taught us that larger framebuffers tend to adopted every 2-3 years, just when games' assets begin to stretch incumbent framebuffers to the limit.

Last year we had the opportunity to review an LCD display product from Crystalfontz which opened the door to looking a some specialty modding items. We found that the user can display a number of things from just plain audio information of a song they are listening to, to critical system information such at temperatures and voltages. Now we have received a similar product from Matrix Orbital, but instead of being LCD based it is PLED based and promises to be just as good if not better than the Crystalfontz display we looked at before. And to add to it?s features this display also has fan control built in along with some other programmable control keys. Let?s take a closer look.

What is Ulti-mat Ltd? Ulti-mat Ltd., is the latest developer out of Helsinki Finland that is developing and marketing the next evolution in mouse surfaces. Utilizing DuPont Teflon, the Ulti-mat gives you one of sciences most well known and heavily used polymer resin compounds in the world and puts that technology to use by offering one of the most friction free pads available. The Ulti-mat offers superior traction for ball mice and superior friction fighting surface for the latest optical input devices. Let's take a look.

OCIA.net takes a look at the Sunbeam Pro Series Lite-up EL Keyboard in their latest review.

"Thankfully, this keyboard comes equipped with an on/off switch for the EL function. I have seen other keyboards which remain lit constantly. This does nothing but decrease the lifetime of the lighting source within. I first turned on the EL function with the overhead light still on. You could tell that the EL function was on by the faint blue haze under the keys. It was not until I turned off the overhead light that you could fully appreciate this function."

Today we are going to take a closer look at the new Antec Mini tower case from their new 2005 line up. As most of you know Antec is very well known for their excellent cases and Power Supply units. Antec launched its original Performance Series back in 1998, now 6 years later Antec introduces its third generation, the Performance TX series.