The Crucible takes a look at one of Dr. Thermal's stacked plate P4 heatsinks. The TI-A8736N is a budget cooler, so don't expect super performance. This little puppy does turn in a good showing though.

Thermal Integration's Dr. Thermal TI-A8736N is a decent replacement for the stock Intel cooler. The performance is good, not great, but good. The A8736N performance is slightly better than the stock cooler, there how ever is a trade off. The A8736N is quite a bit noisier than the stock cooler. Whether or not the trade off is acceptable is up to you.

There are a couple of factors that impressed me with OCZ's PC4400 memory. For one, I liked the use of copper heatspreaders. It is well known that DDR550 memory does get warm and using a heatspreader material with a higher heat conductivity rate just makes pure sense. It has been argued for some time whether heatspreaders are really necessary on memory today. For PC3200 memory, this may indeed be true, but for PC4400, it's mandatory. Kick in the fact that it looks great (see picture above), and you have a great combination of practicality and aesthetics which is sought after by enthusiasts today.

The Antec Overture is by far the most common starter HTPC case and has been at the center of multiple heated debates on its temperature "issue." HTPCNews.com decided to bring everyone an editorial on how to tame this beast in the cooling department while maintaining the same overall look and feel to the original case's exterior. If you are one of the many thousands who have purchased this case, here's a few examples for getting the best performance out of your rig.

Today TweakTown have GeCube's brand new Radeon 9600 XT All in Wonder on the test bench. It offers the same features as the more expensive Radeon 9800 Pro AIW but at a price point more affordable for the masses.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the X-Micro WLAN 11g+ Router 108Mb. Here's a snip:

When the first wireless routers were available in the market, it didn't matter how fast they really were, the excitement alone having a wireless router was enough. Now we want something more out of them, such as increased security and throughput. Today X-micro features a router with 802.11g capabilities and a great firewall. As the new wireless routers expand into the horizon such as the X-Micro WLAN 11g+ Router, we will take them with us and give them a new meaning.

Today Xbitlabs.com are going to compare the performance of 20 hard disk drives with 80GB storage capacity from IBM-Hitachi, Western Digital, Samsung, Seagate and Maxtor. Hopefully, this indepth test session will help you to make the right choice for your needs.

GamersDepot have thrown up their review of Dell's Flagship Gaming and Multimedia Inspiron XPS Notebook! Here's a snip.

Harnessing the power of Intel?s P4 3.4GHz EE CPU, this heart and soul of this laptop is unquestionably without equal right now. Two Megabytes of addition L2 cache not only help in CPU-bound games, but also make multimedia functions like video capture go a lot faster.

Thermaltake has been producing cases for a long time. They have undoubtly produced some of the best looking and best "performing" cases in the market. There are many factors to take into consideration when choosing a computer case. First and foremost are the looks. Many of us don't consider a case solely based on looks. Then comes the weight and the general size. And finally, we have the price conflict and the features.

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"Today, I will be reviewing the PX-504UF's big brother, the PX-708UF. The PX-708UF is a carbon-copy of its predecessor in terms of connectivity and style. In terms of performance, the PX-708UF takes a fairly big leap forward by supporting 8 different formats (8X DVD+R, 4X DVD-R, 4X DVD+RW, 2X DVD-RW, 12X DVD-ROM, 40X CD-R, 24X CD-RW AND 40X CD-ROM)."

Now that water cooling systems are becoming more popular, you'll find a lot of retail solutions. Most of them are high priced and offer only average performance. Building the setup yourself is an option, but getting high quality water blocks is the most difficult part. Good performance for a decent price is what we are searching for in this review.

AnandTech have checked out Jetway's all new MiniQ MagicTwin series barebone system that allows two users to share the computing power of a single PC system! Here's a snip.

The Jetway Magic Twin 865 does stand out in this increasingly crowded market. It is the first and only 2-user SFF that we have seen or heard about. Someone in Jetway obviously took a long hard look at the SFF market and asked how Jetway could distinguish themselves in the crowded 865 SFF market. Jetway's answer was the MiniQ 860Twin based on their proprietary 865GFT 2-user SFF motherboard.

It's not every day you see a review of mouse pad, but mousing surfaces can be a big deal to the extreme gamer, especially in first person games where accuracy and precision is important. There are many types of mouse pads out there. Some are made of plastic, aluminum, and even glass. Anyone who has tried a Steelpad, Icemat, Ratpad, or any other gaming mousepad already knows what a big difference they make. Today I will be looking at a new version of the popular mouse pad - the Everglide Giganta Ray.

GuruReview have thrown up a new review entitled Athlon 64 FX 53 - Benchmarked in 32 & 64 bit Environments ! Here's a snip.

From the picture we can see that this CPU was manufactured in week 52 of 2003, so AMD had been sitting on these for quite a while before their release three weeks ago.

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"Today we are going to compare the performance of 20 hard disk drives with 80GB storage capacity from IBM-Hitachi, Western Digital, Samsung, Seagate and Maxtor. Hopefully, this indepth test session will help you to make the right choice for your needs."

With 256Megs of texture memory and full dual DVI connection support for US$149, the Excalibur Radeon 9600 is targeted towards the price conscious consumer that is in need of a good upgrade for their workstation, wants to game from time to time and have some money left in their wallet.

Sure it isn't a screamer when it comes to gaming, but it was never meant to be. Gaming on a 17 inch monitor at 1024x768 set at driver defaults was very comfortable and even with moderate quality settings I could game for hours just like I could if I was using a 9800pro.

Just got word from Crow at Darkcrow.co.kr that he's been searching the web high and low for the latest graphics card reviews to have hit the web and grouped them all together on one page! There's 30 reviews in total. Here are some of the list:

In an official statement at IDF (Intel Developers Forum) in Taipei, Taiwan, Intel said it will update its Itanium 2 processors to make the chips more productive and cost-effective for its enterprise clients. The official statement was made on Tuesday.

DVD Writers are becoming a must have for any one who uses an PC these days for backing up shows / games and creating back ups of those priceless DVD's the kids play over and over again (before they become Frisbees). Plextor sent HTPCNews their most recent drive to run through the normal HTPC related tests and report back to everyone who is interested... If you are in the market, this one is for you.

Here they are folks what we've been waiting for? the first reviews of Nvidia's NV40 aka GeForce 6800! The new high-end product, the GeForce 6800 Ultra, will retail for $499, while a slightly less powerful version, the GeForce 6800, will sell for $299.

TTIC is an upcoming company in the PC enthusiast cooling market. Today TweakTown are taking a look at their NPH-201 heatsink for the AMD Athlon XP processor. It offers a new technology called "Heat Column" which provides adequate cooling with low noise output with just a 70mm fan.