Elite Bastards have taken a look at HDA's Digital X Mystique 7.1 Gold discrete sound card, the first of its kind to support real time Dolby Digital encoding via its Dolby Digital Live support.

Bjorn3D.com checks out PowerColor X800 GT and overclocks the core to a wopphing 551MHz - well above default Radeon X850 XT PE.

Following on the success of the well-received Diamondback, Razer has revealed its newest cold-blooded killer: the Copperhead. Razer's newest mouse sports unique improvements and innovations, including a 2000dpi laser sensor, 32KB of on-mouse memory, and an adjustable weight system.

GameSpot

Today Guru of 3D brings you a review on the new Radeon x800 GT. The card my friends is an affordable, and considering the good framerates it can accomplishing in games, and one hell of an attractive piece of gaming gear. Strangely enough we find a little ogre that was manufactured under codename R480 and is actually built on the smaller 0.11 micron fabrication process. This card should be able to deliver what the x700 series couldn't, a little more performance to compete with NVIDIA's mighty fine GeForce 6600 GT. Let's have a deeper look shall we.

HEXUS.net has a review of the ABIT Fatal1ty X800 XL 512MB. From the review: "It's been refreshing to see a company willing to design better and cleverer cards than the majority of other board partners, and we hope to see more innovation from the folks at ABIT on, dare we say it, faster GPUs."

On the review bench today at Xtreme Resources is Chaintech's iteration of the nVidia nForce4 Ultra chipset based mainboard, the VNF4 Ultra Zenith VE. Our Senior US reviewer Steve "WxChaser" Carmel has a look at this full featured board and takes it thru it's paces with an FX55 aboard.

Pureoverclock.com find out if G.skills latest mid-range offering can truly compete with high-end TCCD. " TCC5 is not a brand new replacement for TCCD, it is simply the same chip speed binned to DDR466 instead of DDR500 and has been available for as long as TCCD . The performance of your TCC5 product now relies heavily on the binning process used by the memory manufacturers (OCZ, Corsair, G.Skill etc) but if they do a good job you should get identical performance to current TCCD" Read the full review HERE

OCIA.net takes a look at the Zerex Super Coolant Water Additive in their latest review.

Of course once I powered on the system, everything mixed together as anticipated. In a pure distilled water system, the Zerex would give the kit a mellow pinkish look. In the test rig, however, with the UV dye already mixed in, we had some interesting effects. Under UV light, the color of the liquid in the reservoir was still green, but less UV reactive than before.

The Madshrimps try and sort through the massive DDR1 line-up of the new upcoming enthusiast memory company, G.Skill. They take a closer look at 7 Dual Channel kits from the Extreme Series and test their overclockability

For almost 5 years running, Swiftech has led the way by spearheading innovation and design, proliferating and dominating aftermarket thermal cooling solutions. Swiftech specializes in three categories of cooling products: air, liquid and thermoelectric.

It used to be that if you wanted to detect a WiFi network you had to pull out your laptop, boot it up, and scan for a signal.

Now, many manufacturers are selling portable WiFi detectors that fit easily in your pocket. The problem with the majority of these is they will only tell you if you've got a signal and the signal strength. The problem with that is there's no way to tell if the WiFi network is Encrypted or not. Today we take a look at a new next generation WiFi detector from Canary Wireless, their Digital Hotspotter. Not only can it detect opened and closed networks, it can tell you the SSID as well as other information.

How does 80 Gigabytes of fast, easy storage in the palm of your hand sound? 3DVelocity reviews the stylish Western Digital Passport external drive with fast USB2.0 interface.

As far as the audio quality is concerned, it didn?t disappoint us either. Just like the polished FM tuner quality, the Rock, Metallica, Hard Rock, Hip Hop and Classical genres were all impressive to hear with all notes, pitch and strings being precise with little to no exaggeration. The audio was static free, even with the FM tuner, majority of the time. The only time we did experience static was if the track was encoded at low bit-rates and we tried to listen to it at full volume.

So we've been toying with Apple's new Mighty Mouse for about a day now. Being on the east coast this Tuesday, we were lucky enough to be one of the first to grab one of these puppies, long before Apple's retail stores opened in California.

The Mio 269 mobile navigation system is a hand held personal GPS receiver from Mio Technology. This is essentially the same basic system as the very successful, popular and cheaper Mio 268; both have a fully integrated antenna; touch screen; good functionality and excellent build quality in a beautiful, flat package. However, the 269 has a few additional extras such as over 8 million miles of road mapping data (sourced from Tele Atlas stored on an internal hard disk with 500 MB of usable capacity instead of being stored on a secure digital card) and a remote control too, and a 1 year manufacturer's warranty! Read more at DV Hardware

NVIDIA?s 6600GT is still the sweet spot for budget buyers that are looking for nice performance at an affordable price tag. That said, NVIDIA?s 6600GT positioning could change with ATI?s X800GT, as it proposes to be fiercer than its X700 series of graphics adapters. The X700 was really a competitor to the regular 6600 with better performance and an aggressive price tag, but it ATI was clearly marketing it otherwise to better deal with the situation.

Today TweakTown are taking a close look at GeCube's new ATI Radeon X800XL graphics card with 512MB of GDDR-3 memory onboard. After looking at the package and the card, we're comparing the 512MB model against a 256MB model to see what type of differences we have in our usual array of gaming benchmarks. Is it worth spending the extra money for the additional 256MB of memory or not? Read on and we'll try and provide some answers.

XFX has readied two spectacular GPUs for us today -- both of them overclocked right out of the box. The fastest GPU in the world lies inside!

PC Perspective

Has Intel's low-cost dual-core part got you considering an upgrade based around the Pentium D? If so, you'll be wanting a 955X motherboard, and we have two of the finest on test here. Which has the best features, best performance and best added extras? We drill down to the details and give you the low-down.

Bit-Tech

OCIA.net takes a look at the OCZ EL PC3500 Gold GX 2-2-2-5 DDR in their latest review.

In anticipation of receiving this memory, I purchased an OCZ DDR Booster, as the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard that I'm currently using has only 2.85V for the memory. With the DDR Booster, I'll have up to 3.4V at my disposal. Of course, when running this much voltage through the modules, ACTIVE COOLING IS REQUIRED! I placed two 80mm fans blowing directly on the DDR Booster and the memory modules.