Duel: the new IPS panel versus a TN 2 ms in games. Unfair? Not at all ! This is the revolution of the year as IPS is becoming the gamer?s technology of choice for 20" monitors!

Nec 20WGX² : IPS equivalent to a 2 ms TN

Are you planning a trip to a place you've never been before? Well, now you can add a complete in-car navigation system to your Bluetooth enabled Pocket PC or laptop wirelessly with Socket's GPS Nav Kit. This handy GPS Device uses MyNavigator software that makes trip planning quick and easy and with audible "turn by turn" instructions.

Looking for half a terabyte of storage in a sleek, quiet, 3.5" package? If so, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.9 500GB may be just for you. This drive boasts 300MB/sec SATA transfer rates with NCQ support, a speedy 16MB cache, and the highest platter density of any 500GB HDD on the market. See how it performs in today's review!

Well the Swiftech H20-120FB really exceeded my expectations, as well as most people that knew about this little project. Many believed that my temperatures would be much higher, but this kit and the Maze4 performed amazingly! For a little over $200 I was able to move into a water cooling kit that helps me to maintain a stable overclock with very good temperatures and have dropped my load temperatures on the video card by 30+ Degrees C with a Zalman VF-700 aftermarket air cooler and almost 50 Degrees C over the stock X1900XTX cooler.

AMD'S Opteron 100 series processors have led a difficult existence. For most of their run, they've been sojourning in the wilderness of single-plug Socket 940 motherboards?a lonely and desolate place, to be sure. They've had to suffer in relative obscurity as their siblings and cousins, the Opteron 200 series and the Athlon 64, have gone on to resounding success. That's gotta damage a chip's psychological makeup.

This one is for all those that like a PC quiet. Whether you are an owner of a HTPC or a high end gaming powerhouse, our next product up for review may be what you need. Aerocool has been around long enough to know what people need and want in building of their computers. Heatsinks, cases and cooling fans are just a few of the thing that they are known for. And if you don?t know them for power supplies, you will now. Aerocool claims the Zerodba will remain absolutely quiet and provide you with all the power you need. Let?s check it out!

Pro-Clockers

All-in-one motherboards are always ordinary - Cheaper, Limited extended ability, and Normal performance. At the beginning of February DFI launched RS482 Infinity, which is ATI RS482+SB450 chipset for the AMD S939 platform. How does it overclock? Madshrimps has the scoop. Best of all may be its price... ?100 !

Antec Phantom 500W is the most powerful power supply in Antec's series of passively cooled PSUs. By using passive cooling the noise is kept at a minimum and this is something many users appreciate. With Phantom 500W Antec has chosen to add a fan though, in other words it is not completely passive. Or to be even more precise, it is passive as long as it doesn't need better cooling and only then the fan starts to spin.

I recently had a chance to review Zalman Home Theatre PC Enclosure HD160. It motivated me to go ahead and turn my own personal PC into a ?Media Center? PC. The entire chassis is 100% brushed aluminum and it sits horizontally which allows it to blend right into the rest of your home theatre equipment, and gives the system a very luxurious look.

DV Hardware

Iwill ZMAXd2 Barebone has been tested at todoreviews.net. The new mini beast from Iwill can be equiped with two dual-core opterons and two graphic cards in SLI mode making it the more powerfull SFF-PC in the world, and one of the more powerfull desktop systems that money can buy.

The latest of ECS's Extreme offerings is the KA1 MVP, a Socket 939 motherboard that combines ATI's Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire Edition chipset with PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet and Serial ATA RAID. That looks like a decent spec on paper; however, we enthusiasts are a picky lot, and we demand more than just an "Extreme" moniker and checkbox features. Read on to see if the KA1 MVP delivers the performance, BIOS, layout, and extras needed to back up ECS's intentions.

Western Digital continues to break the speed limits a hard drive can achieve with its line of Raptor drives. Today we look at the newest one.

Today, we are taking a look at a new release from Scythe, the Katana CU. The Katana CU is an upgraded version of the older Katana unit that was all aluminum. The new is all copper as the CU applies. We will see how much better, it any, it performs over the older model. And also see if it is easier to install.

Pro-Clockers

We received three interesting watercooling kits from some of the big names in aftermarket PC cooling and we're going to torture them with an Intel Prescott 670 and an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ for your reading pleasure. Complete with overclocking tests!

VR-Zone

Radeon X1900 XTX, formerly known as R580, is the new high-end chip from ATI, replacing Radeon X1800 XT as the fastest GPU from ATI. We?ve got a reference sample for this new model from ATI, so we will compare its performance to other members of the Radeon X1000 series, to previous ATI chips and also with competing products from nVidia, namely GeForce 7800 GTX.

Hardware Secrets

Quite a few new technologies made their debut at Consumer Electronics Show this year. In the mobile world, Intel?s Core Duo processor made a big splash, while multimedia mavens no doubt were excited to see the first crop of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players from Sony, Toshiba, Pioneer, and many others on display. FiringSquad

Twelve 4" x 6" printers, half inkjet technology and half thermal sublimation, are tested on Behardware.com. Costs per page, print rates, color and black and white quality are evaluated

Here is the list of the printers tested :

Our friends at HKEPC Hardware have thrown up their review of Intel's Pentium D 805 Dual Core 533MHz FSB processor.

Our first look at Biostar's new Intel value performance board based on the nForce4 SPP Ultra chipset.

AnandTech

If you're a hardcore gamer then you need to get your butt down to a Creative Labs dealer and have a listen to the new Creative GigaWorks S750 7.1 speaker system. This is Creative's flagship multimedia speaker and it has a price to match. The S750 goes beyond mere 5.1 sound by adding two more rear channel speakers for 7.1 surround sound output. This ensemble of speakers and high tech gizmos has created the best sounding Creative speaker we have ever heard.