Laser mice are starting to replace the optical predecessors in the gaming field. The question is: Is it worth? Well let's see if the Razer Copperhead lives up to the hype.

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Today 3DXtreme is taking a look at the newly released Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 revision 3 designed specifically for the NVIDIA 7800 GTX series of video cards. Arctic-Cooling has been producing some of the best after market coolers for GPUs replacing noisy, inefficient stock cooling with a unit that outperforms while producing very little noise volume.

XR's Senior European reviewer Grace has on the review bench Shuttle's latest offering in the SFF system class, the XPC SD31P.

Oakley's original Thump flash-based MP3 player was seen being worn by bounty hunter "Dog" Chapman and Manny Ramirez. But, the sunglasses seemed to be more of a fashion statement rather than a well-designed mp3 player.

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With a brand new shader model 3.0 architecture and blazing clock speeds (including a 1.5GHz memory data rate), ATI's RADEON X1800 XT and X1800 XL are built for performance. But are they enough to dethrone NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GT and 7800 GTX?

Titan likes to be unique, and it's very apparent in their product line-up. We are going to take a look at their Robela case, that's far from being ordinary. Packed inside is a full fledged water cooling set-up, but also includes many of the features you look for in a regular case.

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While all attention has been focused on the long awaited R520 from ATI, we managed to get hold of the next generation entry-level ATI card. The MSI Radeon X1300 PRO 256MB is based on the RV515 and promises to raise the bar on budget graphics. Without further ado, here's our preview of this card.

Despite having ~ 80 million more transistors than the GeForce Go 6800Ultra, the new GeForce Go 7800 GTX manages to retain roughly the same size, power, and thermal constraints. In short, those that are already gaming with notebooks featuring the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra may have the option of upgrading directly to NVIDIA's new flagship mobile GPU.

3DXtreme.net have posted a new review on OCZ Rally 2GB Flash Memory Drive Review.

Our Sandra bench scores confirm the HDTach results, along with that it also shows the write speed which also blows the Kingston drive out of the water. OCZ claims up to 23MB/s read and up to 17MB/s write for this 2GB unit and by the looks of the results certainly meets those numbers. The 512MB and 1GB modules are listed with even faster read/write speeds as they are smaller modules.

In Today's world, let's face it, you simply need more ram capacity to allocate to the every increasing resource eating applications and game titles in the current market's. Take the smash hit game Battlefield 2 for instance, this game simply runs better with 2048 MB of ram, no ifs ands or buts. If you are a fan of this game and want the absolute premium performance then invest in at least another gig of ram or simply purchase a dual channel 2 GB kit such as the Mushkin eXtreme Performance 2GB XP4000 Dual Channel pack.

Today Bjorn3D are looking at something special from PowerColor. Something overclockers will drool at. What if I told you we have a card equipped with its own liquid cooling system? That's right, it's the first card ever to be coupled with Thermaltake's TideWater system. No other AIB used this type of solution before. The card I'm referring to is PowerColor X800 GT EVO based on R480. Let me tell you, it rocks like crazy in our system! Don't mistake it with Mitsubishi Lancer EVO, although I have to say video chipzillas and vendors are using more and more fancy names to attract customers.

EPoX has been rather supportive of Nvidia's SLI technology and here, we see their latest SLI Innovation - A SLI-enabled Socket 754 Nforce 4 SLI mainboard!

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XR's Senior European reviewer Grace today takes a look at a very unique but effective notebook accessory, the Vantec LapCool 3 Notebook Cooler.

We've just completed another review for you here at Elite Bastards - Today we've been looking at ATI's attempt to compete with the runaway success of NVIDIA's GeForce 6600GT, in the form of the Radeon X800GT. We've taken Powercolor's 256MB variant of this board for a spin in a number of benchmarks, to see how it stacks up.

In our newest review we test a graphiccard from the midrange sector, we have tested a card with the geforce 6600 chip and 256 mb ddr memory. but no referenz card from nVIDIA with an active cooling device, concequentliy we decided us for a passive cooled NX6600-VTD256EH from MSI with a red pcb. You can find the results of the tests in our review.

Today at XR reviewer Joe "JBell" take the latest Power Supply Unit offering from MGE, the XG Magnum 500 Watt PSU for a full evaluation.

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When nVidia first launched their dual graphics platform, it initially come under some scrutiny for only offering two 8x PCI-E ports. Many months later nVidia announced their nForce 4 SLI X16 chipset which offers two full speed PCI-E slots, each with 16 lanes. Today TweakTown have got a very exclusive look at the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard.

Some time ago, Thermaltake entered this market with a complete system they called Bigwater. Recently, Thermaltake introduced their next generation successor to the Bigwater liquid cooling system. Dubbed the Bigwater SE (I assume this means Second Edition), Thermaltake has added/subtracted/changed some components but the fan, radiator and CPU waterblock remain unchanged from the original Bigwater system. Available online for as little as 105USD, the Bigwater SE is even more affordable than its predecessor.

After months of delays, ATI's CrossFire platform is finally shipping, and with a new lower price! See how dual X850 XT boards stack up against NVIDIA's latest and greatest, including the GeForce 7800 GT/GTX and the GeForce 6800 Ultra in single and SLI configurations in this article!

In the past few months we have seen several memory modules with chips that have "BH-5" printed on them, so what's going on? Has Winbond resumed production of the legendary BH-5 chips? Well, not exactly.