In the computer world, heat is the number one enemy, limiting overclocking results and component lifespan. While you can find the temperature of your CPU from either the core diode or sensor on the motherboard, What about the heat coming off your graphics card? Or your hard drive? How about the heat inside your power supply? The CompuNurse Advanced can answer your questions and help direct your cooling efforts, all for under $20.

Just got word that Guru 3D have thrown up their review of Hercules 3D Prophet 9600 256 MB graphics card! Here's a snip.

Brr, what to say ... in retrospect I can say that the performance of the 9600 is as expected. But do you really need 256 MB, is of course the generic consensus here. At this point in time I'd have to state no. Personally If I had to choose between a 256 MB 9600 or a 128 MB 9600 Pro I'd opt the Pro as the performance is a tad higher. But even with 256 MB memory this product which is priced at roughly ? 180 still is about 30-40 Euro cheaper compared to the 128 MB pro (? 219)model and that my friends is value.

Well, we're back at it with another new name in the power supply market. Though these folks have been around for a while, they aren't a name that is always heard of when it comes to a PSU. Come join TweakTown's Mike "Darthtanion" Wright as he takes a look at the Allied 500 watt Power Supply. It boasts an abundance of power, and quiet, cool operation. We're going to stress it out a bit and see if it can live up to it's own claims!

AMAZINGLY, SHUTTLE has managed to keep its XPC line of small form factor systems on the bleeding edge of PC technology. When Intel launched its Springdale chipset back in May, Shuttle was there with the SB61G2. Some motherboard manufacturers took weeks to release Springdale-based boards, but Shuttle managed to have a cube ready for launch?no small feat considering that XPC systems are much more than bare motherboards.

I've just got word from my good friend Anton Nilsson at Nordic Hardware that they've thrown up their review of Intel's Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition processor.

Today, it's time for a new CPU release from the giant chip maker Intel. The CPU is meant to be Intel's new flagship on the desktop market until the launch of the Prescott core dated to the end of this year.

OCIA checks out the CoolerMaster Aerogate II in their latest review! Here's a snip.

The package contents are clearly visible in the picture below. The wires on the left side of the picture are the fan leads, which are labeled to designate which fans they are designed to go to. I placed mine in case fans instead of on the CPU and VGA fans. The 4 black wires in front of the Aerogate II are the temp leads. The wire on the right connects to the molex connector on your power supply.

After a somewhat quiet spell RipNet-UK are back with another review for you. This time the item in question is the Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer, here's a snip:

Whilst it may look strange at first, the shape of the Wireless Intellimouse Explorer makes it extremely comfortable to use. It's almost a perfect shape for the hand and seems to have grooves and curves in all the right places

Legit News have thrown up their 6-Way 1GB DDR500 Round-up with modules from Corsair, Geil, Kingston and OCZ! Here's a snip.

Have you ever taken the time to read a review on a product and later purchased it only to find out that the reviewers got hand picked "special" samples? Yeah, we know it happens, and quite often we (insiders) purchase something on our own that is very different from the samples that were sent to us.

Coming of age in the past 12 months or so is the Small Form Factor evolution. Shuttle were the true innovator of this exciting new small computer market and today TweakTown's Cameron "Sov" Johnson takes a look at Shuttle's SN45G XPC which is based on nVidia's nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset. How does it compare to a full-sized desktop system? Read on and find out just how much of a punch this small little thing can pack!

The guys over @ GD managed to get a Dell Inspiron 8600 Laptop for review. The Inspiron 8600 improves upon Dell's award winning 15.4" wide-screen Inspiron 8500. The new Inspiron 8600 incorporates Intel Centrino Mobile Technology to provide wireless connectivity and improved battery performance versus its predecessor. The Inspiron 8600's Wide Aspect Display (up to 1920 x 1200 pixels) provides a wonderful panoramic view for side-by-side document viewing or DVD movie watching in the cinematic 16:10 aspect ratio. Equipped with Nvidia's latest 128MB GeForce FX Go5650 4X AGP graphics card optionmay be the choice for your home digital needs with the DVD+RW2 drive option for easy DVD burning. Here's a snip:The storage demands on the 8600 are handled extremely well by a 7200rpm, 60GB hard drive that is quite frankly the fastest drive we?ve tested to date in any laptop. As you?ll see in our HD Tach scores, this is one drive that?ll have no problems with the most demanding of applications ? from fast load times in games to video editing, you should have no problems on the 8600. Read the complete review by clicking the above shown link.

The cooler has a 4-pin molex connecter for it's main power however it does have a separate 3-pin fan reader for the motherboard RPM monitor. Also incorporated into the wiring on the fan is a rheostat knob for adjusting the RPM's of the fan, relative to increased airflow and noise. Read more at our affiliate website 3DXtreme.

Madshrimps have hooked us up with their latest review of CoolerMaster's Jet 7 Heatsink!

With the newly released Jet 7 CoolerMaster further explores the world of radial fan heatsinks. There latest, the Aero 7, was a success. The Jet 7 has a bigger fan, but a cheaper heatsink. Does it manage to keep up the good name of it's older brother?

Just got word that PC Stats have thrown up their review of Corsair's new Pro-Series DDR Memory! So what so special about these DDR modules I hear you cry apart from the Speed! they include LED's on top of the module which light up when the RAM is active.

What can I say about Corsair that I haven't said a million times before; there's a good reason why so many enthusiasts hold Corsair in such high regard... Corsair consistently delivers the goods. True, Corsair's products are a little more expensive than the average, but when has the best ever been cheap?

We would all love to be in the position to be able to buy a brand new Ferrari on the way to work tomorrow but of course due to the high retail it is inhibitive of actually happening unless your numbers come up in the Lottery. The same, to a lesser extent, applies to graphics cards. If you can't afford the Ferrari of graphics cards, follow TweakTown's Cameron "Sov" Johnson as he takes a look at the Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro. It might just be what your wallet was looking while satisfying your performance cravings!

OCIA checks out the Lian Li PC-6077 Case in their latest review! Here's a rip.

I decided to do this review with no major changes to the case. Mods could change the results, which could skew the results on the case in either a positive or negative direction. I added no fans, and went with the stock fans. I'll give you a little taste of the results. The temps in the Lian Li with no mods are as follows: 1. CPU 38C and Chassis 32C. This was after folding at home had been running at 100% CPU for over an hour. I think I'll add another exhaust fan and not open any more openings. Those filtered intakes will help keep the dust down.

The company, asetek, known for it?s vapor phase extreme cooling solutions, has decided to get their feet wet and tryout their luck with building water-cooling solutions, enter the asetek waterchill. Companies such as Danger Den and Swiftech have been building water cooling CPU blocks and overall kits for quite some time now. When it comes to cooling a processor, asetek is o­ne of the best with refrigeration style cooling, but the question is?. Can asetek build a superior water cooler to compete with the already well known competition?

nVIDIA nForce3 150 is a single chip solution different from the rest of the chipset makers which adopt a North-South bridge chipsets. With an integrated solution, this bridge connecting the north and south is no longer needed. The only important factor is now the bus width and frequency of the HyperTransport link between the AMD64 processor and the the NF3 150 chipset is. Will the single chip solution compensate the lower bus width and frequency in up/downstream? How will that be reflected in the benchmarks when we compare it to ALi K8 M1687 ref board with 3200+ and Pentium 4 3.0G on ABIT Springdale and ASUS Caterwood board?

K-Hardware hat sich den devolo dLAN Adapter angesehen, mit dem ein Netzwerk über das heimische Stromnetz aufgebaut werden kann, ohne zusätzliche Kabel zu verlegen. Der HomePlug-Standard kann als Vernetzungsmöglichkeit voll überzeugen. Er kommt von den Datenraten zwar nicht an aktuelle Ethernet-Verkabelungen heran; er ist aber als ernstzunehmende Alternative zum WLAN zu sehen. Wenn WLAN aufgrund baulicher Gegebenheiten nicht einsetzbar ist oder man Funknetzen skeptisch gegenüber steht, dürften HomePlug-Adapter die erste Wahl darstellen.

Der gesamte Test ist unter dem obrigen Link zu finden.

As one of the few pioneer companies to create and mass market the aluminum case, Lian Li Industries has always been known to have THE best high quality aluminum cases on the market. A little over a year and a half ago, I had the opportunity to review the Lian Li PC-86 Black Aluminum Computer Case and found it to be a great case. Has the quality gone down hill over time? Has the company taken the cheaper approach their new models? You will find out in this review at Tweaknews.

Just got word from Crow at Darkcrow.co.kr that their Nvidia Quadro FX 3000 review is out, which includes benchmark results for :

SPECviewperf & SPECapc & MAYA 5.0 & 3ds MAX R5.1 SP1 & CineBench 2003 & C++ OpenGL API Test.