Overclocker Cafe have thrown up their review of Speed Strip's Athlon XP unlocking kits! Here's a snip.

So what is it you ask? The Speed Strip is a small piece of plastic with several holes drilled in it. Two of the holes (pic on bottom right) are coated in such as way as that the pins passing through the holes are shorted unlocking the multiplier giving you a range from 5 to a multiplier of 12.5.

Just got word from my good mate Anton Nilsson over at Nordic Hardware, that their Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro review is out! Here's a snip.

Creative is a well-known name to everyone, so is the word SoundBlaster. The opinions regarding its products are widespread and differs a lot, and in accordance with other manufacturers of today (for example ATI, nVidia and AMD) they have their supporters and those who bitterly despise them.

There are a lot of front panel display products on the market which spit out all sorts of interesting information. However, have you ever seen one which spits out as much as the funky-looking L.I.S VFD Blue Platinum from VL System? Read on and find out!

SiS 755 is probably the second chipset that features a South Bridge supporting SATA RAID 0/1/JBOD through SiS 964. The board fully complies to HTT of 16 bits up/down at 800MHz. In this review, we compared it to various boards using ALi M1687 Ref board, VIA K8T800, NF3 150 boards.

Just got word from Stuart ?Veridian3? Davidson over at Driver Heaven that he's thrown up their PNY Verto Geforce FX 5900 & Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 128mb video cards Review! Here's a snip.

Recently we had the chance to review the 2 new additions to the Radeon range, the 9600 and 9800 Xt?s. Before the next batch of Geforce cards hit the market we now have a little reminder of what?s available at the lower price point of the enthusiasts market, the 5900 non ultra and the 9800 non pro. With the addition of NV38 and R360 the price points for these cards will surely fall and these cards might just be the best value for money of the range, read on to find out how they perform.

Im Schweizer Kernforschungszentrum CERN haben Wissenschaftler einen neuen Geschwindigkeitsrekord im Internet aufgestellt. Wie das Nachrichtenmagazin "CNN" berichtet, übertrugen die Forscher 1.1 Terrabytes mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 5,44 Gigabit pro Sekunde an das California Institute of Technology. Das entspricht der Übertragung einer kompletten DVD in sieben Sekunden oder einer 60-minütigen CD innerhalb von einer Sekunde. Die bisher schnellste Übertragung fand im Februar mit 2,38 Gigabit pro Sekunde statt - ebenfalls zwischen dem CERN in Genf und Kalifornien. Nach dem neuen Rekord zeigten sich die Wissenschaftler zuversichtlich, in naher Zukunft 10 Gigabit pro Sekunde erreichen zu können.

TheLostSwede sends word that Trusted Reviews have thrown up their Motorola A920 reivew!

The Motorola A920 is larger than most modern PDA?s but still offers a smaller screen. It might be a bit narrower than the HP iPAQ 1940, but it?s much taller and quite a lot chubbier. The exact dimensions are 60 x 148 x 24mm (WxHxD) and it weighs in at a hefty 212g, which makes this by far the largest mobile phone I have ever owned.

ATI has successfully filled every possible sector with an All-in-Wonder option that is bound to please anyone with any wallet size. With great performance and a very good pricetag, the All-in-Wonder 9600pro is bound to be one of the most sought after stocking stuffers for the 2003 Christmas season.

ATI's Radeon 9600 XT is here and Gamers Depot give you an early glimpse at the performance of this upcoming value-card which should excite many gamers on a budget.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the X-micro WLAN 11b Broadband Router. Here is a snip:

As we enter deeper into the Internet era, we begin looking for different ways to connect to it. For mobile users, most current laptops have some kind of built in WLAN capability or a PC Card slot for WLAN cards, for desktop users, it is easy as buying a WLAN USB Adapter. Today, X-micro has an 802.11b wireless router that brings accessing the internet one step further.

Its that time again, the NDA has been lifted on the 9600 XT and Driverheaven have all the information you'll need on the 9600 XT...

On the 30th September ATI announced 2 new products, the Radeon 9800 XT and the 9600 XT. Reviews of the 9800 XT have been available on the web for since the announcement however information on the 9600 XT performance has been scarce. Today we have the opportunity to review the 9600 XT and show you just how much performance the card has.

As you can very well make out, I am impressed with this case. It's packed with useful practical and aesthetic features and is has a great price tag. Costing a mere US$54.88 and even having an included power supply to boot launches this case up to my top choice and I have actually claimed this case to be the next candidate for my own computer system."

Today GeekExtreme posted a review of the iRock i830 MP3 Player! Here's a rip.

For a $99 MP3 player, you'll be hard-pressed to find so many features. All the standards are there, including bitrate support up to 320Kbps, MP3 and WMA Playback, easy button navigation, etc. However, iRock takes it to the next level with a built in FM Radio that I was surprised to find out that despite the fact that there is no antenna, the radio is powerful enough to pick up many radio stations clearly, even from inside a warehouse.

Digit-Life have thrown up a new review which takes Asus's new range of graphics cards for a spin! The cards have AGP x8/x4 interface ((9200SE has AGP x8/x4/x2), 128 MB DDR SDRAM memory (ASUS RADEON 9800 XT has 256MB) in 8 chips on both PCB sides (ASUS RADEON 9200SE 128MB has only 4 chips)...

ASUS RADEON 9200SE 128MB ASUS RADEON 9600SE 128MB ASUS RADEON 9600 XT 128MB ASUS RADEON 9800 XT 256MB

Remember back a couple of years when all computers were created in a beige box? Things have changed considerably since then, but that doesn't mean all new designs are created equally. Come join TweakTown's Mike "Darthtanion" Wright as he takes a look at the Z-Black Case from Extreme Cases, Inc. It offers a true budget price and some features that may give you enough reason to add it to your wanted items list!

I can imagine that most of you don't really care about graphics cards still using the PCI interface, but just remember this: one day AGP will be long forgotten. When that day comes, you'll probably hope that some manufacturers still take the time to develop new standards on older interfaces.

OCIA.net checks out some Vantec Vibration Dampeners in their latest review! Here's a snip.

"The fan kit comes with two 80mm silica gel vibration dampeners, more than enough fan screws to install two fans and silica gel washers to use if the fan dampeners will not fit your case situation. The dampeners are easy to install. To use them, simply place the dampener on the fan on the surface between the fan and the installation point and screw the fan in place."

Today we have a new innovation from Sunbeam that I haven't seen before in a fan grill. These new fan grills contain EL wire for lighting effects. While EL wire hasn't been the rage for general lighting effects in computer cases, EL wire justifies its purpose by highlighting. This is the first time that I have seen EL wire used in something such as a fan grill. Continue on as I'll show you the grill as well as my opinion on it.

Another review for you from RipNet-UK, this time of something just a little out of the ordinary. Today the EZ-Buddie system gets put under the spotlight. Slightly bigger than a Shuttle or Barebones, can it cut the mustard? Here's a snip:

"The front panel of the PC features the EZ-Watcher display. This allows you to both increase and decrease the CPU frequency with the CPU tuner dial, and also has coloured displays indicating the status of your motherboard, processor, hard disk and optical drive. It does not give any detail, basically a green icon is good and..."

It's time for Part 2 of our Dual Channel Memory roundup series where this time we check out new modules from Kingmax, Corsair, Geil, OCZ, Transcend and Crucial - 8 different types of modules all up over a massive 33 pages!