Hexus in the UK were given the chance to check out Shuttle's latest smal form factor PC the SB61G2. It comes with Intel P4 support up to 800Mhz FSB, S-ATA, Firewire, LAN, USB 2.0, 6-channel onboard audio... The SB61G2 is Shuttle's vision of a truly high-performance small-form-factor PC. By borrowing heavily from the new Springdale chipset, the SB61G2 is able to amalgamate some of the more desirable features into the cute little package. The most notable of these, in our opinion, is the inclusion of direct S-ATA support stemming from the ICH5 SouthBridge. The lack of space in the SB61G2 is almost perfect for the thin, slinky S-ATA cables. Additionally, great care has been taken with the placement of various headers and ports.

Thanks to Creative Labs, high-resolution PC audio support is something of an ambiguous area and as was found with the original Audigy, using 24-Bit/96kHz DACs doesn't necessarily mean it the card does play audio at that rate.

So is the Revolution a similarly quasi-24-Bit/192kHz soundcard?

For many, the mere sound of the term 'Alternative Cooling' is enough to make them cringe. But what if I were to tell you that someone has placed some safeguards into the mix? Join TweakTown's Mike "Darthtanion" Wright as he takes a hard look at the Thermaltake SubZero4G Cooling System. It uses a peltier cooling device but with some added features. He'll be looking at normal operation of this device as well as some results for an overclocked system, so see if this is your chance to get into the new cooling craze.

NH thought they'd give you readers something to read while waiting for their two upcoming videocard roundups. Gainward were nice enough to send them their GeForce FX 5600 Ultra! Here's a snip.

We think that the GeForce FX 5600 Ultra is probably the most well rounded product in the FX series as of yet. It has a great price/performance ratio and remains very competitive when going up against ATi's Radeon 9500 Pro/9600 Pro."

Seagate is the largest producer of magnetic storage products, so it is no surprise that it is the leader in the production of high performance SCSI drives. Seagate is now on to their sixth generation of 10k rpm SCSI drives, which is no longer the fastest spindle speed. However, with a data density that claims 36 gigabytes per platter. The Cheetah 10k.6 series boasts a maximum storage capacity of 146 gigabytes - couple these specifics with claimed 4.7 ms seek times and an Ultra320 interface, Seagate has created an extremely attractive hard drive.

Read the full article at Techware Labs.

VR-Zone has done up a review on the latest GeForce FX 5900 Ultra card equipped with 256MB DDR-I memory and clocked at 450/850Mhz core/memory! Here's a byte.

GeForce FX 5900 Ultra is built on the NV35 architecture and packed with several key enhancements such as a wider 256-bit memory bus, a more efficient memory optimization technology known as Intellisample HCT (High Compression Technology), a patent pending UltraShadow technology that calculate shadows much more quickly by omitting unnecessary areas and lastly, an enhanced pixel processing unit that delivers twice as many floating point operations.

Even without the EL lighting, this slim keyboard is a dream to type on. How does it function as a lighted keyboard though? You'll need to read the article to find out.

Overclockers.com received a Hydrocool 200 unit from Corsair, renowned company for their high-end memory products. If you want to learn more about the unit, read our article over here first. The review is very positive overall. Hydrocool 200 is an external unit. At its highest speed (Turbo), Die Simulator results place the HydroCool at the top of watercooling kits tested to date (Heatsink Ranking). At its low fan speed, results still place the HydroCool in the top rank. This is much better than I expected, considering the smallish waterblock.

Ever flashed your BIOS before? If you are anything like us it?s for sure you have done it at least once, if not dozens of times, either because of CPU compatibility issues or just because you want to keep up with the latest release from your motherboard manufacturer in hope of getting some extra tweakability.

Now what would happen if the flashing process failed for any reason? You know this may happen to you, but this time it happened to me, I was left alone in the cold with a corrupt BIOS and no possible way of booting.

Move over quad lighted fans, six is the way to go. Let's see if these Xoxide fans have anything to offer over the quad counterparts?

Just spotted this bit of Info at AMDboard.com called New French magazine claims first "real" Athlon 64's review. Here's a snip.

A brand new French magazine call PC Performance, focused on hardware, and more precisely about getting the max from processors, graphic cards and motherboards, claims it has published the first Athlon 64 review ever!

The Trios II allows you to have up to 3 operating systems on one machine and switch between them with the push of a button. I had heard about the original Trios some time ago and thought, "Sounds cool. Probably doesn't work." Then the Trios II came out and I began hearing good things about it from people I knew and trusted. Since my foray into the Linux world, the first and most popular question I get is, "How do I dual boot with Windows?" My answer was always, if you have to ask, don't do it. Why? Because I've seen even alpha-geeks hose their machine dual booting.

Just got word that those Mad Shrimps have thrown up their P4 2.4B-2.4C/865PE-875P vs AXP 2500+/nForce2 review! Here's byte.

With the newly released Springdale (865PE) and Canterwood (875P) motherboards, along with the 800 FSB P4's, Intel is giving AMD a very hard time.

Until recently, AMD's Tbreds managed to be a very decent alternative for overclockers thanks to their adjustable multiplier. A cheap XP1700+ coupled with a good nforce2 motherboard managed to outperform some Intel 3.06Ghz overclocks, thanks to their high overclockability and far higher front side speed bus.

This time the boyz from Hexus (UK) jump in the field. For reasons of space and overview I will add all follow ups from now on to this post, under the read more option. Hexus.net: The cooler has undergone a makeover in the interim period between 5800 Ultra and 5900 Ultra releases. It's difficult to be objective, but it appears to put out no more than half the 5800's racket when running full tilt in 3D mode. Loud but bearable is how we'd put it. The short space of time between the NV30 and NV35's launch tells us that the changes relate to bandwidth, primarily. Sure, there's a touch more bandwidth-saving going on and some advances in rendering shadows, but the NV35 is just an evolution of a decent design.

The lucky pal's at HotHardware took the DDR-II powered ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB for a spin. The 'built by ATI' board they have there comes with neat silver RAM heatsinks on 16MB DDR-II modules which are clocked at 700MHz (350MHz DDR) while the core stays at 380Mhz. Basically the advantage to have 256MB video memory is two fold: Like in Asherons Call 2 there may be games that let you run special texture settings while AA and AF settings can be run event at the highest resolutions with less performance penalties. [UT 2003] The 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro beat every other card, in every configuration except for one. At 1600x1200 without Antialiasing or Anisotropic Filtering enabled, the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra managed to nudge past the Radeons, but that was it. The 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro showed it's largest lead over the 128MB model at 1600x1200 when 6X AA was enabled, where it posted a 9.7% higher frame rate. In most of the other configurations, the 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro's performance was about 3% - 5% higher. We were able to take our card all the way up to a core clock speed of 428MHz, with the memory clocked at 810MHz (405MHz DDR). That's a full 48MHz (12.7%) higher than the default core clock speed and 110MHz (15.7%) higher than the default memory speed! Note: Overclocking Results MAY NOT be typical of cards sold at retail.

NewsWare writes the last few months we saw a robust price drop of the LCD-screens and especially the 15-inchers became very payable. Also new pcs are more and more standard deliverd with a beautiful LCD-screen instead of a classic CRT-monitor.

The looks, space saving and the high clarity makes LCD-screens very attractive for pc-users. But the offer is large and the differences arent always clear. I searched a few things out for you and tested seventeen 15-inch LCD-screens.

Tyan are a company who has been known mostly for their impressive server / workstation products. Recently they've taken notice of the growing overclocking market and decided to switch their focus slightly with the introduction of their Tyan Tachyon series of video cards.

Follow TweakTown's Cameron "Sov" Johnson as he takes a look at the Tyan Tachyon 9500 Pro video card based on ATI's Radeon 9500 Pro VPU. How does it stack up against the best on the market? Read on and find out!

Techseekers.net have reviewed the MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R P4 Motherboard with comparisons to the Granite Bay and the i845PE chipsets on both 533MHz and 800MHz bus where possible.(2.53GHz, 3.0Ghz). They also throw in a 400MHz FSB Barton (overclocked 2500+ ) into the mix for comparison. They did come across some serious BIOS bugs that might make enthusiasts think twice.

Just got word that Geoff Gasior at the Tech Report has thrown up his review of BFG Technologies' Asylum GeForce FX 5600 256MB graphics cards! Here's a snip.

The GeForce FX 5600 should be a popular mid-range graphics product among NVIDIA's graphics partners, so consumers will likely see a lot of different incarnations of the card on store shelves. Since all GeForce FX 5600 cards will share the same graphics chip and general feature list, it will be up to third-party board manufacturers to come up with attractive features to woo potential buyers to their brands. How does BFG Technologies differentiate its Asylum GeForce FX 5600 256MB? Let's have a peek.

We had a few hours alone with a yet-to-be officially released Pentium 4 2.4C and a new ABIT IC7 Canterwood mainboard. We wanted to quickly share what is to come......
With the 5:4 DDRRam MHz ratio, you can run full DDR400 in the dual channels supplied by the Canterwood chipset. If you don?t have the Ram to reach these speeds, the ABIT board also has a 3:2 ratio that you can pick in the BIOS. This would effectively give you a DCDDR333 memory bus, so PC2700 would do the trick....... [H]ardOCP