Rainer send me some words that he has published a review about the ST-11 Low Noise Case.

The ST-11 low noise case has already won a contest between 7 other manufacturers in one of Germany's biggest magazines, the c´t.
The article is written in german, an english translation comes soon.
Review in german
Review in english via Google

TheCrucible.ca has posted a review of 7 nForce2 motherboards. Head to head comparisons of synthetic and real world performance as well as overclocking. Interested to see who makes the fastest board? Check it out.

Summing up this product is practically a no-brainer. Great features, great VHS/DVD playback, great options and Samsung's attention to detail and perfection makes this one of the "must-have" products of 2003. It pretty well handles every type of media you can throw at it and only takes up one measly space in your entertainment centre.

Digit-Life takes a different approach this time on the review. We all know the FX is fast and that it's loud. But how does it stack up against ATI's now 'mainstream' Radeon 9700 Pro in terms of quality? Well that is a different story and here is a snip of the answer: All these attributes of a super-accelerator do not help it outsmart RADEON 9700 PRO, except a few cases of victory, but at the maximum AA and anisotropy levels this card loses the battle. [...] All these facts and NVIDIA's striving for NV35 made NV30 an outcast with the manufacturers. Few companies are going to roll out cards based on NV30, but it will be done mostly for the sake of press-releases. Such cards won't be in large supply. Wise words by Andrew Worobyew. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Datafuse writes I could probably call this review: Mod-It Antec-Style.

It seems like ages ago since I looked at some accessories, but companies still manage to produce new and improved stuff. I'm going to take a quick look at what seems to be very nice rounded IDE-cables. And instead of inside case lighting such as CCFL's, I will be looking at some external lighting.

PCStats has reviewed Albatron's special i845PE based motherboard PX845PEV-800. The speciality of it lies in the fact that Albatron claims the board will run up to 200 MHz FSB and support PC3200 DDR memory. This would enable it to utilize the upcoming Prescott and Tejas processors from which at least Prescott will launch later this year. You got to keep in mind though that Prescott 800Mhz support will remain unofficial with the 845PE chipset. Here is an excerpt: At 145 MHz FSB we hit a snag and had to raise the CPU Voltage to 1.65V to help stabilize things. As suspected we maxed out at 150 MHz FSB, anything higher and we wouldn't be able to load Windows. For the sake of testing we also loaded up the P4 1.6A, that chip was able to hit 175 MHz FSB with a CPU voltage of 1.75V before becoming unstable. I'm positive that if I had a P4 capable of 200 MHz FSB I could run it on the PX845PEV-800 without any problems.

Just got word that Digit-life's Dmitry Mayorov has posted his SiS655- R658 chipsets review! Here's a snip.

Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), earlier known as a manufacturer of successful (and not very) low-end solutions for consumer desktops, decided on developing chipsets with the characteristics corresponding to the high-end level.

You already have LED fans and cold cathodes, but you want something unqiue again. Flexiglow has something that may spark your interest, check out these bubble lights!

DVHardware takes a look at the black version of the Enermax TecTroid A5 from MODHeaAdz. Enermax has recently launched a new line of peripheral products and this is one of it's multifunction panels. It's available in three different tastes: black, grey and white. Is this just yet another 5.25" fan controller or is it something special?

TomsHardwareGuide: "They are the size of a book, and yet they have all the functionality of a modern PC. We are talking about VIA's ultra-compact Mini ITX format mainboard based on the C3 processor. The latest generation works with DDR RAM and is said to handle multimedia well. We checked it out. " Although they seem to be popular in the european market, they are not widely available in Asia here. What do you think about these mini ATX form mobos? Warp 2 www.TomsHardware.com for the full read.

Just got word from Julio at the TechSpot.com that Per Hansson has posted his Crucial Radeon 9700 Pro & Sapphire 9500 Pro comparison. Here's a snip.

Without a doubt, if you are in for a new videocard, Radeon boards are currently your best bet considering soon-to-be-released GeForce FX boards won?t add much to the table (feature/performance wise), however, depending on your budget you might be debating whether to get a Radeon 9500 or a Pro model, or even put down the cash and invest in a more expensive 9700 Pro.

VR-Zone Hardware has just posted a review of the newest version of the Radeon 9700 Pro from FIC, the A97P! This one features copper RAM-sinks on front and a unique GPU cooler. Unfortunately no RAM-sinks on the back. Here's a snip:

Now we have First International Computer, or FIC as most call them, revamping their R300 product line and launching the A97P, an enhanced version of their first Radeon 9700 Pro, the AT010, hoping to capture the enthusiast market that FIC has been gaining respect and a strong following in the last few months. So will the A97P improve upon the first version of FIC's 9700 Pro, be attractive to enthusiasts and of course overclock well? Lets take a look.

TBreak was given the opportunity to test a first retail MSI GeForce FX. The card comes in a nicely designed package and features the notorious FlowFX cooling solution. More interesting than the card itself are the benchmarks. For benchmarking applications, Unreal Tournament 2003, 3D Mark 2001SE, 3D Mark 2003, Serious Sam Second Encounter, Vulpine GLMark, Code Creatures, Commanche4 and SpecViewPERF 7.0 were selected. The Detonators used in the review were 42.74 and 43.00 in comparison to Catalyst 03.2 on an ATI Radeon 9700Pro. There are a few hints in the review that should make you think:

....Once I understood what I was looking for in these speakers I went back and listened to more music and played a few other games, constantly cranking the volume higher and higher and the AOpen HP-590's started really rocking. It was like having a subwoofer inside the headphones and I began to realize while this wasn't a ground breaking technology it was a cool effect... Read the whole review over @ 3dXtreme

Overclockers Australia took the wireless BlueTooth desktop set for a spin. The included Microsoft Wireless Transceiver for Bluetooth works with keyboard and mouse, providing a wireless range of up to 30 feet, connects via USB and may reduce interference effect over radio transmission devices. The set also features customizable buttons on keyboard and mouse. Here is a snip: The signal refresh rate is excellent with this wireless keyboard. Typing seems to show no difference in speed of data transmission between this Bluetooth Wireless keyboard and a cabled keyboard. The transmission speed doesn't seem to be affected even when the keyboard is used quite far away from the transceiver. The only thing that can be a little irritating sometimes is that after long periods of non-use while the PC is on, typing something on the keyboard will not have any effect for a few seconds because the keyboard has to wake up, then the Bluetooth Transceiver has to pick up the signal again.

Wonder about your PCs CPU and RAM usage? Wonder how to help manage them better? Read on about just such a helpful utility program.

CDRLabs have published their review of Plextor's first DVD writer. The DVD drive supports 4x DVD+R and 2.4x DVD+RW recording speeds while CD-R and CD-RW can be written at 16x and 10x. Here is a short excerpt: For the most part, the PX-504A delivered the kind of performance we've come to expect from Plextor. Thanks to its 4x DVD+R writing speeds, the drive burned DVD's in record time. The PX-504A also had some of the fastest CD read speeds we've seen on a DVD writer. In our tests, it was able to read pressed and CD-R media at 40x and CD-RW media at a respectable 32x. Plextor's new drive also did much better than I expected in our DAE tests. While 33x DAE speeds aren't exactly earth shattering, the PX-504A did not have the slow down problems we've experienced with some other DVD+R/RW drives. Unfortunately, the PX-504A's performance does have a few low points.

Just got word that MaxPower from Nvnews.com has posted his Gainward GeForce4 PowerPack! Ultra/750-8X XP Golden Sample Review. Here's a snip.

Realizing the fact that this card is targeted for a niche market, all benchmarking was done at overclocked settings of 320/700. I opted not to include default clock settings to keep this review tidier and also because most of you have a good idea of default settings already.

The guy's at Toms Hardware have been lucky enough to have received some new high performance FireGL X1 & Z1 drivers! Here's a snip.

In the last article, the ATI FireGL X1 didn't turn out great results. There was a large discrepancey between the theoretical performance and the actual performance scores.

....Der Praxistest diente zur Leistungsermittlung der Gehäusebelüftung. Trotz der 6 Lüfter verhält sich der Miditower noch im angenehmen Geräuchbereich und die Lüfter sind nicht nervend oder aufdringlich. Die Belüftung des Towers ist mehr als ausreichend und optimal verteilt. Die passiv gekühlte Radeon 9700 pro wurde mehr als ausreichend gut gekühlt. Solche geringen Temperaturen haben wir bisher an dieser passiven Graphikkarte noch nicht gemessen..... Zum Review