Hexus.net have thrown up their review of XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra 256MB video card!

Technologically-speaking, the Volari Duo V8 is an up-to-date design. Each chip contains 8 rendering pipelines that make it into a 16-pipe design. That's GeForce6 and Radeon X800 XT country, folks. Add in the 350MHz clock speed and you have a potential fillrate of 5.6GPixels/s. Compare that with the Radeon 9800 XT's 3.296GTexel/s. 2 chips dictate a dual 128bit memory controller. To that end, XGI uses 900MHz-rated DDRII modules. Another quick calculation reveals potential bandwidth of 28.8GB/s. Potential is the key word in the last two sentences. Hitting the maximum limit is difficult for a first-time design.

How many times have you been using your cell phone with a hands free headset and find yourself getting tangled in the cable? What if I could give you a hands free headset that does not have the cable? Well the Jabra FreeSpeak BT200 is your answer. The convenience of hands-free combined with Bluetooth that is built into many of today?s cell phones makes this a wonderful gadget to add to any tech savy?s list. Read the review Here

Swiftech's high end MCX6400-V heatsink increases the overclocking potential of your Athlon 64 setup while keeping the noise down. Read the full review

Julian over at TweakTown checks in today with a look at the HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600 - with a difference. It features Dual DVI native outputs along with a total of 256MB of onboard memory. If dual displays excite you, this is worth a look.

The Crucible examines Corsair's latest goodies. TwinX Pro PC4000 memory. Not only is the ram rated at 500MHz but Corsair includes cool "LED activity lights" so you can see what is going on.

The TwinX1024-4000Pro kit performed admirably. We would have liked to see a little higher stable over clock, but they operated as promised, and a little more to boot. Corsair has done a fine job. The activity LEDs will appeal to those looking for something a little different than the norm. At first we didn't find them overly useful, but after using the system for a week or so they become very interesting. Especially when gaming.

Linux Compatible has published a review on Fedora Core 2 with 30 screenshots

Fedora Core 2 is the latest release of Red Hat's community supported Linux distribution. This release is available on 4 CDs (+ 4 CDs sources) or 1 DVD, and for x86-compatible (32-bit) and AMD64 (64-bit) platforms.

There is always room for improvement, that is the general idea behind the whole computer business. If you don´t want to be left behind, upgrading your product is necessary to keep up. Asetek made some improvement to their WaterChill cooling kit, let´s find out if the changes are for the good!

OCIA.net checks out the Raidmax Cobra 822 Case in their latest review! Here's a snip.

On the inside of the side panel, Raidmax has included a self-branded clear LED case fan. The model I received contained red and orange LED?s. I am pretty sure this is the same for all of the color choices available in the Cobra 822. It would have been nice to have a blue or a blue/red LED fan included here, especially given that the rest of the lighting on the case is blue/red as we will see later.

The rumour has it that the ATI X800Pro and X800 XT are the same GPUs and it is possible to enable the 4 pixel shader pipelines locked in X800Pro. There are bridges on the X800Pro GPU just like AMD AthlonXP series processors. It is claimed that the upper-left bridges could be connected to have an X800Pro X800 XT, meaning the number of 12 pixel shader pipelines can be increased to 16. These bridges, though truly exist, there is only one person who claims to have tried and succeeded.

I?m sure most of you have heard of Zalman and some of the wacky and wonderful coolers they have brought to the market in the last several years - their emphasis on good cooling with as low a noise level as possible. They have introduced CNPS (Computer Noise Prevention System) which encompasses a whole range of products. Today I?m taking a look at their fanless watercooling system - "The reserator". Before we go any further let?s dispel the rumours, this isn?t "passive" as there is a pump that circulates the water through the system.

Reserator" is a compound word derived from 'Reservoir' and 'Radiator' - it acts as a reservoir while radiating heat. This product works well with natural convection and integrates a water pump inside for convenience.

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"Well, I went in slightly skeptical, not wanting to be disappointed, and I was blown away. This case is fantastic. I've left it running for hours, checking on it periodically to see what the temperature inside the case is, and it always remained cool. Even the acrylic felt cool to the touch. This design is superb."

Flexbeta goes inside data compressors placing the most popular data compressors head-to-head. Putting together nine categories of file types including MP3's and executable files, Flexbeta collected data concerning compression time and compression ratio from the seven data compressors used in the review. The seven data compressors used include: Uharc GUI v2.0, PowerArchiver 2003, WinZip 9.0, WinAce 2.5, WinRAR 3.30, StuffIt Deluxe 8.0 and 7Zip 3.13.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Actiontec Wireless Digital Media Player. Here's a snip:

Today we take a look at the Wireless Digital Media Player from Actiontec which allows wireless access to a wireless accessible computer and Internet access without having to utilize a PC. It offers a remote controller to type in URLs and to access the PC. Movies, MP3s and other files that are located on the PC can be played and displayed on a TV. Since the Wireless Digital Media Player has access to media files on the PC, the family does not need to huddle around a computer monitor to see a media file. It can also access Internet radio stations and play them all day long.

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"Today I will be reviewing Epox's latest edition to their i865PE (Springdale) based motherboards. The EP-4PDA5+ is not your everyday Springdale motherboard. Although it is not targeted towards the enthusiast market, you will see in the upcoming pages that if you didn't know what chipset this motherboard was powered by, you would swear it was a Canterwood.

Aside from performance, this motherboard is no slouch in the feature department either. With an extremely overclocker friendly BIOS, 7.1 channel onboard sound, Gigabit LAN, four SATA drive capability and Prescott support, it's hard to believe that the MSRP is only weighing in at a measly US$110. Is this the fast and cheap motherboard the cash strapped masses have been waiting for?

While ATI's Radeon 9550 based graphics cards have been selling well in the China market, we will only just begin to see them showing up in all other markets now. Today TweakTown compare ATI's new Radeon 9550 GPU against the GeForce FX 5500 and 5700LE to find out which company has the lead in the value to mid range graphics market. ATI or nVidia?

Today AMD is Launching its Opteron 150, 250, and 850 processors. These CPUs pack all the same goodness we've come to appreciate in the form of the Opteron 148, 248, and 848 models, plus 200 more megahertz, for a total of 2.4GHz. Like all previous Opterons, the x50 series is built using AMD's 130nm fab process. Since this is just a speed bump for the Opteron series, we decided to throw a party and spice things up a bit by testing the new Opterons against over twenty different competitors.

Thermalright has currently one of the best, perhaps even the best heatsink for Socket A. The SP-97. But this heatsink isn´t very budget friendly, so today we´ll take a look at their ALX-800. This heatsink looks a lot like the popular SLK-800, but by using a combination of aluminium and copper fabrication is lower, and so is its price. Does it still perform well though? Let us find out.

Today TweakTown have each of the Intel Pentium 4 amigos under the spotlight. They compare Northwood (P4C), Gallatin (P4EE) and Prescott (P4E) against each other and discuss compatibility issues with P4E and which processor is your best choice.

AnandTech have thrown up their review of Plextor's 12X DVD+R recorder! Here's a snip.

Last week, we had another DVD recordable exclusive: the Sony DRU-700A. This week, we have another exclusive review, the Plextor 712A. Plextor already impressed us once six months ago with the first 8X DVD+R dual format burner. Right on schedule, the next generation burner has high expectations, if it is to rival its already tried and true predecessor.

The wave of the future is here! Or is it really? For those who cannot decide between a portable laptop and a tablet pc, this one makes that decision easy. Input into this laptop can be with the supplied stylus or with the built in keyboard. Read the review "Gateway m275x Tablet PC" here.