Not so long ago Nvidia launched the nForce 500 chipset's for AMD's new DDR2 capable socket AM2. By now you should all be aware of the minimal performance increases DDR2 has brought to the A64 architecture and it's low latency on-die memory controller.

Guru3D.com will be looking a frighteningly posh passively water-cooler systems that has been pre-built into a CoolerMaster case. Seriously .. this is one interesting product ! The product is targeted at the high-end enthusiast consumer. A consumer that hates noise and is willing to invest in that all-in-one solution. In the coming pages you'll be amazed how clever this system is setup, delivered and manufactured.

Laser printers are often bought with total confidence and wrongly so. There are however strong disparities in noise level, color accuracy, print rates, and precision between the products. Behardware.com has gathered 6 entry level products from HP, Canon, Epson, Konica Minolta and Dell to test them and report the results in figures and videos.

Well, I can't say Logitech has convinced me to become a webcam junkie, but I am very impressed with how far the webcam has come. For those who teleconference from home or on the road, the image quality is top-notch, the built-in mic works very well, and the addition of a basic, yet functional headset makes for a compelling product.

RaidSonic, storage solutions without limits is a well know company dedicated to deliver high quality storage solutions. External hard drives have become a very popular growing market, the need to transfer large amounts of data between locations and PC's is more common than ever. RaidSonic has been very active on this market and has solutions in every shape and format.

The £200 price point has always been a tempting one for consumers looking for high-end performance without breaking the bank, and as a result both ATI and NVIDIA have fought hard this generation to turn customers heads in this price range. NVIDIA's last DirectX 9 offering for this segment of the market is their G71-based refresh part, the GeForce 7950 GT, and today Elite Bastards take a look at ASUS' EN7950GT board based around this SKU.

This Review contains the final result, the overclocking result and a direct comparison of the AMD Athlon 64 Socket 939 CPU compared to the AMD Socket AM2 CPU on the identical motherboard.

Over the past few years, we've seen an incredible number of extreme hardware solutions marketed to PC gamers: graphics cards that cost over five hundred bucks, thousand-dollar "Extreme Edition" CPUs, motherboards with more ports than Dubai, custom physics processors, and now even a "killer" NIC. Without a doubt, though, the most extreme of all of these offerings has to be Nvidia's vaunted Quad SLI. The concept of running four GPUs together for insane gaming goodness is more extreme than snowboarding down some wicked moguls into a vat of Mountain Dew at the X Games.

Running at a blistering 695MHz core, Sapphire's TOXIC X1950 XTX is the fastest X1950 XTX card on the market. On top of that, it's also liquid-cooled.

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When contemplating my upcoming review of the X1650 PRO, I considered this card to perform exactly like the X1600 PRO tested earlier. They are essentially the same other than the slightly different core and its' smaller manufacturing process. Now add in the fact that it is lacking one texture unit and I was also contemplating maybe even a slight decrease. But surprisingly, the card performed well beyond my expectations and proved to be a valuable mainstream alternative for your next purchase

The EvoStream 600 watt power supply seems to be what a lot of power users are wanting, less resistance and a bunch of power from a conveniently modular power supply. A three year warranty and the great rep that OCZ has may make the EvoStream the next most wanted power supply. And if that is not enough, this new beast from OCZ also sports quad 12v rails.

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The most intriguing members of Abit's Core 2-compatible motherboard lineup are the AB9 Pro and AW9D MAX. The former is the most affordable P965 board to feature the ICH8R south bridge, and it comes with all the hardware monitoring, fan speed control, and overclocking options you'd expect from an Abit board.

This is when I saw where the reputation for the hot Prescott cores came from, I had problems keeping this chip from setting off alarms. I thought it might not be set properly so I removed it, cleaned it and reset it, and still was getting high temps. Letting this one stay on there a week for the AS5 to cure was a hard decision and I was glad to take it off and put the Zalman 9500 back on, but this time with the AS5.

Now that people are enjoying most of their videos, music and photos stored in digital formats, it is getting very important to keep the data safe but also easily accessible.

Networked Archive Server might be just the tool for this.

Asus continues their CPU cooler product series with this high end, 5 heat pipe compact tower cooler, a blue LED gives it *bling* and with a rating of up to 130W Madshrimps finds out if it gives you *bang* for the buck.

Bigfoot Networks' Killer NIC is more than just a beefed up network card though. In fact, the Killer is more of a "system on a card" than a NIC. The company claims their product can improve ping times and frame-rates in many on-line games, and it's unique design opens up the possibility of running dedicated network apps with the help of its on-board processor and RAM.

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Well, I'm pretty impressed. The GX700 VGA cooler from ZEROtherm is an excellent example of what a well-executed heatpipe design can accomplish, even in aluminum. This is an excellent first effort at VGA cooling from a company we're sure to see more of in the future. ZEROtherm calls the GX700 their "main-stream" VGA cooler, and represents, presumably, the lowest-cost cooler in their stable. At the proper price point, the GX700 from ZEROtherm could be an outstanding value.

While most of us enthusiasts these days are happily sat in front of a system with at least an AGP slot, and most likely a PCI Express 16x slot, to sate our graphics board upgrading needs, not everybody is quite so lucky - Although its becoming less common, you can still find new pre-built systems out there without any way of moving away from the supplied integrated graphics core.

Silverstone latest compact heatsink is light weight, features 120mm fan support and promises to provide excellent cooling for your hot running CPU. Let's find out how good it is.

Guru3D.com will be the first site ever to review an actual Dual GeForce 7900 GT GPU solution based on a single board :) That's right, this is not a GX2 with two separate boards mounted together, but one card with two graphics cores. This product comes from Galaxy's new "MasterPiece" line.