The Crucible has posted a web exclusive review of Thermaltake's newest all copper heat pipe cooler the Tower112. The unit is rather huge, but it really performs.

Seems like heat pipe is the buzz word of the cooling companies lately. If you look around nearly every major heat sink company has utilized this technology. So what is a heat pipe and why is everyone jumping on the bandwagon? What could 40 year old technology offer to combat today's hot processors?

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Actiontec Wireless Bluetooth Headset. Here is a snippet:

"Actiontec has created a headset that is fitting for anyone. The versatile design enables a user to use the headset in any ear, and the ergonomic design and lightweight construction ensure that it will be comfortable to the user. Whether a user will be making quick phone calls, or talking all day, the thin sleek design of the Actiontec Headset will hardly be noticed. The headset comes with absorbent padding that will eliminate outside noise, while ensuring a user gets clear reception. While the Actiontec Wireless headset is clearly not suitable for the primary sound on a PC, it is a great compliment to any PC and is a godsend to Mobile phone users."

PMI's PC3200 Platinum Turbo Memory can be summed up rather simply. If you are in the market for cost effective high quality PC3200 memory complete with copper heatspreaders, lifetime warranty and good overclocking potential, PMI's DDR400 would definitely be a smart buy. Throughout my three day barrage complete with gaming, benchmarking, overclocking and stress testing, never did I notice one problem.

I think the numbers pretty much speak for themselves. I received this video card not really expecting stellar performance and I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. Albatron has come through with a strong performing video card based on an older GPU. This card is targeted more at the budget minded consumer and at ~$100-$120 this card certainly is an attractive deal. With it?s counterparts still sitting in the $150-$200 price range this is a definite winner for the low end solution.

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"In this business there are some accessories that folks just need. This is one of them. The Bytecc ME-740 can support up to a 300 GB IDE Hard Drive. Imagine 300 GB of mobile storage for connecting to a PC, Laptop or customer’s PC at any time. Techies doing home repair would love a toy like this."

Although the buzz has been around NVIDIA's newest high end introduction in the form of GeForce 6800 Ultra, this still presently accounts for the very high end and NVIDIA vendors are still looking to the FX range to fill in the lower end of the range. GeForce FX 5900 XT's are ostensibly high end chips brought into the mainstream and in this review Beyond3D takes a look at examples from both Galaxy and Gainward.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Enermax Ultimate Controller (UC-A8FATR4).

The Enermax Ultimate Controller makes it capable for a user to control up to four fans simultaneously. It is the perfect noise solution for a hardcore system. When video games are played, all a user has to do is turn four knobs and the fans will spin at full speed. It also has features such as beeping when the fan speed goes below 1000 RPM or 2000 RPM, depending on the configuration, and an LCD display that shows the temperature for a maximum of four zones.

HTPCnews writes adding PVR abilities to your PC has never been easier than this. The Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 offers the recording quality of the PVR-250 lineup in an easy USB 2.0 plug and play device. This unit features the same Hardware encoding abilities used in the PVR-250 which allow for near zero CPU usage while recording full frame MPEG2 files. This unit also both the FM radio and the IR Remote control. The question lies, at what cost?

Arctic Cooling received thumbs up with VGA Silencer from every product review, and the product lines covering CPU, VGA coolers, fans and thermal pastes are distributed by SCYTHE world wide. We are taking a closer look at the Super Silent 4Pro L CPU cooler aimed at Socket 478 application. The all aluminum is rare for a new cooler as many have migrated into all copper or aluminum/copper hybrid.

A close-up look at the company and three of its leading products: the CNPS-7000A-Cu CPU cooler; the ZM80C-HP + ZM-OP1 VGA cooler; and the ZM400B-APS 400W PSU.

The Crucible has posted a review of OCZ technologies new enhanced bandwidth memory in the PC3500 flavor. This stuff looks pretty promising.

The EB technology is very effective. Overclocking results from these particular PC3500 sticks was very good. Reaching near PC4000 spec without changing the default timings is always a plus. OCZ has definitely built a lot of head room into this kit. The performance at 500Mhz is also the best we have ever seen. Out scoring anything we have tested prior to these. OCZ has a real winner with their enhanced bandwidth memory.

Overclockers club gets their feet wet with the Asetek Antarctica Waterchill Cooling kit. The Asetek Antarctica Waterchill kit is the newest iteration of Asetek's popular Waterchill line. Using the latest methods of jet impingment waterblocks, , we should really get a taste of some high class cooling today. Using popular market choices for the majority of their kit pieces, we'll get a feel for a couple of 'market standard' watercooling pieces as well.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Black Icemat 2nd Edition. Here is a snippet:

"The Icemat is the Roll-Royce of mouse pads. Sleek smooth surface matched with luxury quality style give the Icemat a unique and aristocratic aura. The Icemat is not a mouse pad for normal "run of the mill" computer users, but for the computer user who is ready to make a bold and extravagant statement about the quality and brilliance of the not so ordinary products that user has come to love. The Icemat is a mouse pad for computer users who love to show off their equipment. The look of forged steel mixed with glass is the Icemat's means of providing a brash new look, demonstrating a computer user's need to display computing beauty."

Brian "V. Slayer" Cochran has put the wraps on his latest review of Battlefield Vietnam. If you haven't read one
of his reviews you should check it out for a change. He has a different style than most in that he doesn't take
things too seriously and spares you the over-analyzation that is so common nowadays. Brian just tells it like it
is; no fluff.

Hard OCP has a review up for the new Nforce 250Gb from MSI.
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TweakTown have the Intel Prescott supported Gigabyte GA-8VT880 Ultra motherboard under the spotlight today. It is based on VIA's PT880 Dual Channel chipset for the Intel Pentium 4 line of processors. They compare it against Intel's Canterwood chipset.

AMDZone have thrown up their review of OCZ's PC3200 dual channel memory! Here's a snip.

Even though I get more hardware than the average geek, I still get excited by the latest products. Unfortunately for an AMD memory reviewer it has been a dry spell due to the lack of a serious need for memory faster than PC3200. But if you can't increase speed, you have to wait for an increase in size! So my eyes grew big with anticipation when OCZ slipped me their new memory heavy weight.

FrostyTech finished their review of Coolermaster latest high end heatsink, they test the noise levels and performance of this P4/K8 monster-cooling and put it up against more than 30+ other P4 coolers; The Hyper6 is ranking very high! Read the whole review here.

It's Here! The first new official MSX hardware, straight from Japan: the MSX Game Reader, a USB device that allows you to play cartridge games on MSXPLAYer, the official MSX emulator. MSX Resource Center puts this interesting new device to the test.

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.