LSDsmurf sends word that Dvhardware.net have posted their Sunbeam EL Stri^p review!

It's colourded, 1.2cm width, 150cm long and it gives off a colourded light what is it? An EL Strip! Sunbeams EL Strip is basically available in orange, yellow, blue, green, light red and many other colors.

Xbitlabs.com send word that their 3ds MAX 5 Rivalry: Nvidia Quadro FX against ATI FireGL X1 review has been posted.

Today we would like to offer you a really cool fight, a clash of strong wills: the new rumored Nvidia Quadro FX based on the latest NV30 chip against the ATI FireGL X1 in one of the most widely spread professional applications - 3ds MAX 5. I don't think I need to tell you more.

zenith: n. - the highest point; peak; acme: the zenith of someone's achievements. Will the Chaintech 9EJS1 ZENITH be just that? We'll be investigating that today! We were able to POST at 16x200, but no luck in getting into Windows. Dropping down to as low as 12x200 didn't fare any better. I decided to stick with a 16 multiplier for now, and drop the FSB one MHZ at a time until I could get stability. At 190FSB, the system was as stable as a rock.

We informed you about the Sony VAIO PCV-W10 back in November 2002. Now DesignTechnica was able to review this design-livingroom-PC system. Check out a photo via the above link or go ahead an take on the review: The VAIO W Series PC is the definition of Sony style. Sleek elegance blended with high tech mastery, the W has it all. During the time that I had it there were no major problems. One of the first things that I did was watch a DVD. Using the Cyberlink PowerDVD software, which was included on the machine that I tested but is not listed on the system specs, I was enjoying the movie DOT with very little effort. The widescreen, 16x9 format is a definite plus. Going back to the standard monitor resolutions is going to take some adjusting. I was getting used to seeing more information on the screen at any given time. DesignTechnica VAIO PCV-W10 Review

VR-Zone.com has just posted a review of the Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro nForce2!

With the K7NCR18D-Pro, we were able to reach a max stable FSB of 185 with a 12.5x multiplier, giving us 2313mhz, or an overclock of 238mhz. We were not able to adjust the multiplier since the BIOS did not have the feature, but we did use a Vcore of 1.90v. A feature worthwhile to mention of the K7NCR18D-Pro and the other nForce 2 boards on the market is that PCI frequency stays locked at 33mhz even when overclocking your CPU, giving you a more stable system when overclocking.

"Currently I would suggest the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro to anyone looking to make an upgrade to their video card. Keep in mind that this card can now be purchased for around $280 for the Pro version making it at least $100 cheaper than the nVidia Geforce FX." Read the complete review @ 3dXtreme

AOpen has a wide range of Pentium 4 motherboards and of course that includes the new SiS655 chipset as well. VR-Zone has done up a review on the AOpen AX45-4D Max based on the SiS655A0 chipset and sports nice features such as Dual Channel DDR266/333, Dual BIOS, Firewire, LAN and Audio. The performance scales up pretty well as the memory bandwidth increases and no doubt SiS655 is the performance leader now overtaking the Dual Channel DDR266 supporting Granite Bay.

Just got word from AC @ Nvmax.com that he's posted his LeadTek A180 8X Graphics card review. And did I mention that AC managed to get the cards memory up to 703MHz? Nice :D

The LeadTek A180 is not a high-end gamers card but comes up trumps for multi-use functionality. The ability to use nView and video-in is a big plus for such a cheap card and it's software and game bundles place it in front as the best GeForce 4 MX440 package we have seen to date. Admittedly we at nvmax.com dislike the GeForce 4 MX chipset for its lack of pixel and vertex shaders but LeadTek have almost hidden it in feast of a package at a stompingly good price.

Thanks to LSDsmurf for this review at DVhardware: Overall Skyhawk brought a cool looking and cheap aluminium case with the Skyhawk Galaxy Lx. It has some very cool and unique features like the bubble tubes and the UV reactive front and Q-panel. It has some downsides like the backplate wich isn't very solid and the side panels wich are a little bit hard to remove, but when we compare prive/quality this is a very good case.

PcPop have posted their 26 page review of Nvidia's GeForce FX. What is nice is that they stripped off the Flow FX unit to show us the VPU and some detailed photos of the retention mechanism. Here's the direct link Babelfish Translation

Mit dem Design hat Thermaltake bestimmt einen Volltreffer gelandet. Dieses Gehäuse wird zwar nicht jedem gefallen, aber da auch auf das verkleben der Front verzichtet wurde und alles verschraubt ist, bieten sich zahlreiche Möglichkeiten für individuelle Umgestaltungen. Wie zum Beispiel deine Gravur des Frontplexiglases oder der Einbau einer anderen Inverterfolie. Das Thermaltake auf ein neues Innenleben gesetzt hat, und nicht mehr das von Chieftec verwendet, ist bestimmt das die beste Entscheidung bei der Entwicklung des neuen Xaser III gewesen. Dadurch bietet das Gehäuse nicht nur viel mehr Platz, sondern auch noch einen einfacheren und komfortableren Ein-Ausbau von Laufwerken. Was sonst noch neu oder verändert wurde....... erfahrt Ihr beim Klick auf das Bild

Lars over @ Caseumbau.de had informed me that they have written a review about the Thermaltake Xaser III case.

The review is in german but the pictures are talking enough ;-)

Click the picture to enter the review.

Just got word from Julio @ TechSpot.com that their Creative Inspire 6700 6.1 Speakers review has been posted! Here's a snip.

The Inspire 6700s are the first 6.1 capable PC speakers system to be available in the market. Touted as the ?perfect companion? for Creative?s own Audigy 2 soundcard, the most obvious addition is the rear centre channel that takes full advantage of Audigy 2 features and grants you some Dolby Digital® Surround EX support, however what makes this more interesting is CMSS (Creative Multi-Speaker System) that is said to up-mix surround to 6.1 channels when used with a 5.1 sound card! I suppose one of the most common questions among the people reading this is going to be, what kind of improvement resulted from the 5.1 to 6.1 jump? We tested with both 5.1 and 6.1 cards to give you a fair answer.

EPoX 4PEA+ (i845PE) Motherboard: It seems that the Intel crowd keeps getting bigger and the chipset market is up to the challenge with new designs all the time. But how can the end user know what works and what doesn't? Join TweakTown's Cameron "Sov" Johnson as he answers these questions in regards to the EPoX 4PEA+ Motherboard. It uses the i845PE chipset and has a list of features that will make most folks drool, but can it cope with the stress that the enthusiast will put it through?

The guy's over @ Anandtech.com have posted their review of SiS's latest chipset, the SiS 655, which comes with Dual Channel Memory Controllers, being the first Pentium 4 chipset in the world that delivers 5.4 GB/s bandwidth! Here's a snip.

Today we take a look at the SiS 655 based MSI 655 Max. Featuring a dual channel DDR memory controller able to operate at DDR400 speeds, does the MSI 655 Max have what it takes to become the fastest Pentium 4 motherboard we have seen to date? You will be surprised what this $165 motherboard can do.

Just got word from Dave @ Beyond3D that they have had the opportunity to review numerous incarnations of ATI?s latest 3D chip. However, one remained un-reviewed, until now. Courtesy of PowerColor, they're looking at their ?Evil Commando 2 Gold? Radeon 9700 128MB card.

Those who are not familiar with the Radeon 9700 will want to know that this board variant remains exactly the same as Radeon 9700 PRO in all respects other than the clock speeds of the core and memory. This means that all 8 pixel pipelines available from R300 are there, as is the full 256-bit memory bus. All that's different is that where Radeon 9700 PRO has core/memory speeds of 325/610MHz, Radeon 9700 weighs in at 275/540MHz. This still equates to a theoretical pixel rate of 2.2G pixels/s and a physical bandwidth of just over 17 GB/s. We'll compare the performance of this board with two of its siblings, the higher powered Radeon 9700 PRO and the lower bandwidthed 9500 PRO, to see exactly where the 9700 stands in the lineup.

OCIA.NET have reviewed EL-Wrapped rounded cables. If you are into case modding, then u gotta have to check this article out. The review starts off by saying "When I first heard of these EL Wire wrapped round cables I was eager to get inside and change the color scheme of my Lian Li PC60. It has been UV for quite some time and while I must admit that while UV is nice, I was ready for a change. After a few weeks of damp abysmal weather here in Memphis I felt myself longing for blue skies so I decided to go with a blue scheme." For full reading warp 2 www.ocia.net.

Hardware-pacers.com have reviewed Logitech's ClickSmart 510 Webcam. It starts something like this: "Logitech has a long history of making bad web cams, but this time they failed to do so. This product on the market is priced at $ 150 and it has many great features. For camera that will let you record 1.30 seconds of video and take over 400 pictures at the time this is not to bad. Camera itself looks OK, it has hot upload button located on the front side, and few buttons for menu selection on the back." For full reading warp 2 www.hardware-pacers.com.

Just got word from Robert @TecCentral.de that there Enermax Silver Wizard 2 case review has been posted! you can check it by click on the Pic... Here's a quick translation as the sites in german.

The Enermax Silver Wizard 2 has four 80mm fans and sides windows among other things are already standard. Highlight is the illumination. A neon-light was installed inside the case, which can be switched alternatively between duration-business and sound-sensitive business. Also the water-columns are a true eye-catcher

The DFI AD77-Infinity certainly stands above some of the other KT400 boards that are around. Given that the AD77 Infinity has 333MHz FSB Support, DDR400 Memory support, 6-channel audio, S/PDIF-in/out, ATA/133, RAID, Serial ATA, LAN, USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 (Firewire), the board represents real value for money. The boards performance is on par with any other KT400 based board and the AD77 was stable at 133 and 166Mhz FSB speeds. Clearly this board is aimed at enthusiasts with it?s comprehensive BIOS setting,inclusion of the Cooler Mount holes, and good overclock potential where we got it overclocked up to 190Mhz FSB.