We(hardware12v.com) have been published a review for the barebone eX5 MINI ME from EPoX, here is a snip:

"We ended a greater opinion of the one than we hoped on this one product, to have prejudices with some of the systems barebone of other marks that preceded to him, but is certain well that nowadays this field of barebone has been growing his performance to the maximum balancing it as much in price as in yield to common equipment ATX.
It is certain well that great part of the recognition takes chipset i865G to it of Intel, nevertheless EPoX has returned to do a great work with his plate EP-4PGF enabling it with a high level of overclclock, expressing the yield of chipset."

Techseekers.net has looked at VIAs EPIA TC-10000 motherboard. This board differs from the other EPIA boards because of its built in 12V DC PSU and PCMCIA and Compact Flash slots. They decided to get down to currents and watts and see how much power this board takes under various tasks such as DVD and XVID playback as well as MP3 playback. The VIA EPIA TC-10000 is a uniquely practical little board. Ideal for custom PC mods that are tight on space or use it as a car mp3/divx player since all cars are based on 12V electrical system. The TC-10000 looses little functionality over standard ATX powered EPIA boards, and it does away for the need of a DC-DC adapter if you wished to use those boards. From the results we can see that power requirements are quite low, and power consumption increases linearly with CPU utilisation.

Silverstone SST-TJ04 Case Review Well, Silverstone apparently wants to give this whole aluminum/steel-hybrid-case thing a try. Hybrid cases can often flaunt some good looks at a fraction of the price of an all-aluminum case. Let's see how Silverstone's SST-TJ04 fares.

Tom´s Hardware Guide have thrown up their review of Intel's all new mobile processor Dothan with a 2-MB L2 cache backed by Intel's 90-nm production technology.

Intel's CEO Craig Barrett had already announced Intel's plans to launch the Dothan in early 2003. Touted as the next-generation Banias mobile processor based on the Pentium-M core, Barrett said it would launch the device at the end of 2003. In August 2003, the rumors began to circulate. Dothan CPUs would not see delivery until mid-February 2004, some said. Finally, in January 2004, Intel officially postponed the device's launch until to Q2.

The nForce2 Ultra 400Gb incorporates many new features from NVIDIA's nForce3 250 chipset like GigE, native SATA, RAID features, and NVIDIA's new hardware based firewall solution. The RAID is capable of on-the-fly rebuilds of corrupted or missing data, while you're still running your operating system. Other RAID features include, spare disk allocation, bootable RAID's, and a cross-controller that allows you to mix and match IDE and SATA hard drives to create a RAID array.

DataFuse.net just finished reviewing Zalman ZM-RSSC 5.1 External USB Sound Card

Here's a quote:
"It's no secret Zalman is now apart from being in the cooling-business, doing audio products as well. After reviewing their 5.1 headset, I've noticed Zalman has quite some tricks up their sleeves. Products can only be sold when there is a demand, in this case Zalman snooped around to see what people need. Laptops still don't have 5.1 audio setups, but a lot of them are powerful enough to run every game out there. Same story with DVD's, just think of all the people who watch their favorite movies on their portable devices. "

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Tisonic Mega Power ATX-460W EPS. Here is a snippet:

"Brilliantly colored cabled wrappings give the Tisonic Mega Power 460W EPS a cool look. Having a power supply that will meet the demands of higher end CPU's and still have a sleek and stylish look is a concern to many higher end computer users. Tisonic has been able to meet the needs of those users. From the Gold plated fan guards to the "day glow" UV reflecting cable wraps, the smooth bold look of the Tisonic Mega Power 460W EPS will give a chic computer user a trendy and reliable power supply."

Razer has been producing high DPI mice for many years. Although you could chronicle the struggle immense, I'm very glad Razer is back now. Razer has just introduced the Viper. How about 1000 DPI for an optical mouse? Yes, that is correct; Logitech just got beaten at their own game. If you need a responsive mouse, continue on as I look at this new offering from Razer Inc.

The Corepad encompasses everything that a gamer will need. It's relatively cheap, well built, includes a wrist support and is quiet, accurate and stable while gaming. Throw in the fact that it looks great and you have something that I would recommend as a Top Rank product.

The Black Icemat 2 is indeed a good mousepad but in reality you have to realize one thing. It is a US$50 square piece of frosted glass. You will never convince me that any mousepad is worth this kind of money unless it comes with a lot more extras, contains a lot more features or will play the game for me.

In TweakTown's latest article they compare the Serial ATA RAID performance of controllers from Promise, Silicon Image, Highpoint and nVidia. They compare both 32-bit PCI based solutions as well as nVidia's new native nForce 3 250 solution on two revision 2.0 Western Digital Raptor hard drives in RAID 0.

There is a market for wireless keyboards and mice for budget-minded users. Wireless connectivity is the future of many products. Every manufacturer is looking to develop something unique that is affordable as well as useful. Logitech is a well-known brand when it comes to speakers, keyboards, mice, keyboard and mice duos, and other products. They have always impressed us with their quality. Unfortunately, Logitech is too expensive for budget-minded consumers .... Read the full review here.

When we think of the typical consumer sound card today what comes to mind is either Soundblaster or onboard sound like the AC97 codec. While there are many choices out there one that might not stand out as a typical consumer sound card is a solution from M-Audio. M-Audio is known primarily for high end audio solutions geared more towards the music mixers and editors. The Revolution 7.1 sound card from M-Audio represents a step towards the every day consumer market for this company and provides a full featured solution that should leave the end user more than happy.

Quote:
"Without fail, the perpetual battle between videocard manufacturers results in faster video cards and lower prices. The cycle of tit-for-tat comes full circle with the recent unveiling of the Radeon X800 XT, a brutish piece of hardware designed to do battle with nVidia's lean green GeForce 6800 Ultra. Actually, both cards were designed to tear through all of the latest games at 1600x1200 with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering cranked up through the roof. It's all a matter of which card does it faster, conferring the best image quality in the process."

Geil has send us this DDR memory kit, this memorys belong to the recent Ultra Platinum series from Geil, include a cooper heatskin and a stiker thermometer that it be able to visualize the temperature of your modules, from its especifications emphasize the 400MHz speed, his low latency (2-3-3-6) and the total kit capacity og 1Gb.
To know more about it just click on the picture.

VIA'S ATHLON 64 CHIPSET, the K8T800, has dominated the Athlon 64 scene since the processor's launch last fall. Right from the beginning, we found the K8T800 to be a fast, stable solution that outperformed its only real competition, the NVIDIA nForce3 150. Not only that, but the K8T800-based MSI K8T Master2 put in a stellar showing in our dual Opteron workstation motherboard round up not long ago.

TTIC pulled 2 impressive rabbits out of their hat giving us end-users a HSF solution which will please those looking for extremely silence, or extreme performance, and to top it of they are very competitively priced! Read the full review of these heat pipe coolers at Madshrimps.be

The graphics world is in the season for reinventing itself once again, and following NVIDIA?s GeForce 6800 Ultra?s announcement a few weeks again, ATI are now ready to tip their hand. The Long awaited R420 is now ready to be shown in two incarnations of the Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition and the Radeon X800 PRO. Beyond3D digs into the performance and architecture of both these boards to see what features are on offer and what types of speed improvements ATI brings in comparison to their previous generation of high end boards.

AnandTech have thrown up the first look at Sony's DVD+R Dual Layer drive the DVDR-9! Here's a snip.

Even though we received a preproduction sample from Sony, we have a generally good idea which media will be bundled in the final version of the drive. To no surprise, most of the Nero Express suite will ship with the final drive. This includes Nero Express 6, InCD 4, ShowTime, ImageDrive, WaveEditor and the Nero Toolkit.

Today 3DXtreme has the great pleasure of reviewing another fine product from Aerocool, the AeroPower II+ 550W Power Supply. Aerocool has made more of a name by providing system cooling solutions such as the Chameleon and the Storm Juggler fans which we have reviewed in the past. With this power supply they jump into the arena of a providing a modded unit that provides ample power for even the most demanding user. Let?s see how well it performs?

OCIA.net checks out the Everglide GIGANTA V-3 Mousepad in their latest review. Here's a snip.

Here is how the mousepad came to me, just some basic shrink wrap to keep the USB cable from getting mangled. As you can see, the mousepad is quite large, measuring 9 1/2" tall, 11 1/2" wide, and 1/4" deep. The USB cable is also 5' long, to make sure it reaches your computer, no matter where you put it.