The Kiss-DP450, the first home DivX player has been released and looks amazing.

Samcheer from Belgium is relatively new to the PC enthusiast case modding and overclocking scene. They do however offer a wide variety of products ranging from LED fans, rounded IDE cables, acrylic and aluminum cases. Since we have a reference review database of Lian Li products, we wanted to take a look at Samcheers PC99 aluminum case which in fact is available in four different colors. We chose classic black. Click on the picture to read the review.

Tonight, we've taken a look at two of the most talked about i845PE based motherboards currently available, the Abit IT7 Max2 v2.0 and the Iwill P4HT-S. These are two of the most full features i845PE based boards on the market today. We pit these bad boys against each other in a heated head-to-head battle.

Abit has done an excellent job with the IT7-Max2 v2's bundle. Included with the board there are two, black, 80-Wire ATA/133 IDE cables as well as a standard floppy cable. A very complete User's Manual is also included in the package, along with a simple BIOS optimization guide and a set of adhesive cable hold-downs and wire ties. We also found the obligatory driver CD and a 3.5" floppy disk with drivers for the on-board HPT374 RAID controller.

Read the complete review over @ HotHardware.com.

Teschke has informed me that they have written a quick review about the Engelking AP2 - 6300 SFC PSU. Here's a snip: Like in the specs described , the fan of the Engelking powersupply switches on , when the temperature reaches 49°C . Under normal windows working enviroment the fan switches on after 22 mins. With fullspeed (3D mark 2001 loop) the fan switch after 14 mins on. Head over by clicking the above shown link.

VR-Zone has reviewed the latest phase change cooling unit from Asetek, the VapoChill PE S478 Titanium which is sleek in appearance and performs great. As the processors get hotter and overclockers get more extreme, a product like this will definitely satisfy this group of consumers who are constantly trying to maximize performance out of their current systems. With this VapoChill PE S478 Titanium cooling unit, they were able to overclock a cheap P4 1.8AGhz to over 3.5Ghz which is an impressive 95% improvement in clock speed!

DoGMaN from TheCrucible.ca has put the latest memory from Kingston, HyperX PC3500 on the docket. Can Kingston's entry into the overclockers market live up to the hype? Check out the review to find out.

Unsere Kollegen von Hardtecs4u haben den neuen AOpen Brenner getestet...

The guy's over @ Hexus.net have posted their OCZ EL DDR PC-3500 memory review! Here's a snip.

All the major players have at least some form of DDR-400 in their range. Some have gone further and qualified their best modules at higher speeds. I remember writing about some excellent Corsair XMS3500 C2 RAM. One point I made applauded the fact that they could ratify a module to operate at 217MHz (PC-3500) with a CAS Latency of 2 clocks (lower is better). Shortly afterwards I remember receiving an e-mail from OCZ Technology stating that Corsair weren't the only ones with PC-3500 C2 memory. In fact, looking through OCZ's website, it transpired that PC-3500 C2 (or EL DDR PC-3500) wasn't even their top-of-the-line module; EL PC-3700 was. OCZ Technology, like Corsair and Mushkin, specialise in providing high-performance memory modules.

Just got word from Crow @Darkcrow.co.kr that he's posted his 12 page Leadtek Quadr4 980 XGL, Quadro4 380 XGL, Quadro4 900 XGL and the Leadtek A250 UltraTi4600 review and he used the following benchmarks SPECViewperf 7.0 and SPECapc 3dsMAX, 3ds mas r5 Benchmark, MAYA, etc

Today Beyond3D takes a look at the Entry level, in terms of 3D performance, MultiMedia board from ATI's All-In-Wonder range. The 'Beast All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO' is brought to us by Sapphire and will soon have widespread European availability.

"The use of BGA modules also easily facilities 128MB variants, as seen by the empty module positions on the backside of the board. While the RAM on the standard 9000 PRO is rated at 3.3ns, the BGA modules on the A-I-W 9000 PRO are rated at a slower 3.6ns, however it is DDR SGRAM, not SDRAM. Also, the default RAM clock speed of the standard 9000 PRO is set at 275MHz, but in the case of this A-I-W 9000 PRO it's set at a slightly lower 270MHz (540MHz effective) -- testing will indicate whether the supposedly better performing SGRAM will alleviate the consequences of a lower memory clockspeed."

As everyone is waiting for GeForce FX cards to arrive next month, NVIDIA has quietly added two more GPUs recently and no official announcement was made about it. The two new GPUs are GeForce 4 Ti4800 and Ti4800SE with AGP 8X interface which are just GeForce4 Ti4600 and Ti4400 with AGP 8X respectively.

VR-Zone has the chance to test out the new Triplex GeForce 4 Ti4800SE Deluxe card which has a very nice packaging and cooler design. This card runs at a default core/mem speed of 275/550Mhz and i am able to overclock it to 325/670Mhz, reaching the performance of a ATi Radeon 9700 card.

VR-Zone has just posted a review on the AMD Athlon XP 2600+ running on the 333 FSB! Here's a byte.

Like we saw earlier, the 2600+ and the 2700+ were very close performance wise in all resolutions. Surprisingly, the 2600+ actually got a higher 3D Mark 2001 SE score at 1280x1024x32, showing you how close these two CPU's really are to each other when looking at gaming performance

VR-Zone has just posted a review of the Abit KD7-Raid motherboard, based on the VIA KT400 chipset! Here's a snip.

With the KD7-Raid able to unlock the multiplier on AMD Athlon XP chips, we changed the multiplier to 11.5 and made it our goal to reach at least 205 FSB with the KD7-Raid. Using SoftMenu III, we increased the CPU voltage to 1.95v, and kept pushing the FSB until it could not go any more. We ended up getting the board up to 209 FSB, using a 11.5x multiplier, giving us an effective system clock of 2.41ghz. An outstanding overclock by any means."

TweakTown: It wasn't too long ago when buying a budget graphics card meant a huge sacrifice to both performance and video quality. But things have changed of late. Come join Cameron "Sov" Johnson as he takes a look at the Gigabyte Maya II Video Card based on the ATI Radeon 9500. Can we finally get a reasonable mix of performance and price in our video output? Lets find out

Vijay Anand of Hardwarezone.com has posted third part of the series of his investigative review on the diffrences between AGP8X and AGP4X. here is a small snip:-
"Welcome to the third part of our AGP 4x vs AGP 8x articles. In the previous two parts, we had highlighted the differences between AGP 4x and AGP 8x, the graphics chipsets and platforms supporting AGP 8x and conducted head-on performance shoot-outs between the two interfaces using the reference SiS Xabre 400 in the first part and a reference NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200-8x (NV28) graphics card on the second part. The outcome thus far has not really been worthy enough to highlight the new AGP 8x, because of the extremely minimal performance increment. " for full read warp2 .. www.hardwarezone.com News source:- anandtech.com

Techseekers.net have reviewed the VIA EPIA M-9000 board. They test DVD playback as well as many different configurations of MPEG4 video streams (DIVX and XVID). "Although The EPIA-800 and the EPIA M-Series were developed for different types markets, the evolution shows and this second generation EPIA platform has developed very well.It has addressed the issues that plagued the first release and with a 933Mhz processor, MPEG2 onboard decoding, 5.1 audio, the ability to playback DVD, and all types of MPEG4 Video smoothly, the VIA EPIA M-9000 proves to be an impressive piece of kit. "

TweakTown.com: Swiftech have been around in the processor cooling business for many years now. Today they produce coolers that are air, water and thermoelectric in nature. Follow Cameron "Sov" Johnson as he takes a look at the MCW50-T thermoelectric water cooling GPU kit for ATI and nVidia based graphics cards!

Today TheCrucible.ca takes a look at Gigabyte's 845PE board the GA-8PE667 Ultra. You can check it out here.

PCXMods is a newcomer into the mouse pad scene. This one being geared for gamers, and even professional PC users. I'll be looking at the X-Trac Pro HS today. It is a large mouse pad geared towards optical mouse use, but as an added bonus of making a solid mouse pad, it works great with 'ball' mice. This will be one of the shorter reviews you will see here, but hey, nothing wrong with that right? Read on to see what I thought of this newcomer into the field of mouse pads...?

Two blue cathodes for $28. What more can you ask for? The quality is also good. Read the review at Aselabs if blue is the color of your choice.