Das Coolermaster bietet ebenfalls Platz ohne Ende ist aber etwas kompakter in der Bauform und mit 140 mm Bauhöhe 2 cm flacher als das LaScala gehalten. Die Dimensionen sind dennoch beeindruckend und es ist genügend Platz für mehrere Laufwerke vorhanden. Ein Rundum stabiles Stahlblech Gehäuse mit Aluminiumfront und 2 klappbaren Laufwerksblenden. Hinter der oberen Blende können zwei optische Laufwerke eingebaut werden. Hinter der Unteren Blende befinden sich USB und Audio Anschlüsse und es kann hier auch ein 3,5? Laufwerke eingebaut werden. Teschke.de

Madshrimps takes a look at 2 coolers from an upstart company called Primecooler which show a remarkable resemblance to the popular Zalman heatsinks. Read on to find out if these Zalman look-a-likes are also perform-a-likes

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"Chaintech's FX5500 is a great little video card with lots of spunk. The 256MB DDR will help boost your system so that you can play newer games (look how well it did with Jedi Knight II). It's a solid card which performed quite well in our benchmarks. Considering the extra RAM and the fact that it's a 128-bit card, I had expected it to outperform the 128MB 64-bit 9600SE in each test… granted Radeons have consistently performed better than NVIDIA chips in certain benchmarks."

That crazy DoGMaN at The Crucible put's asetek's latest water block under the microscope. It looks like it performed pretty well, even though the seem to recommend it more to the experience challenged (water cooling rookies).

Actiontec is a new name to many. The company produces quality PC accessories that include Media Centers, Headsets, and Internet related products. Actiontec is known to produce high-quality products with new and innovative features. They recently announced their two latest products in the market - Digital Media Player and a Wireless Bluetooth Headset.

A review of VMWare 4.5 appeared at Hernan Di Pietro's HDP Tools Site (www.hdp-tools.com.ar) including a test of VMWare 4.5 running Windows Server 2003 and a comparison with VMWare 4.0

How can a piece of plastic drop your CPU temperatures by 5°C or more? Read on to find out how a plug and play air duct can increase the cooling efficiency of your system!

Today ill be taking a look at their new 3200XL pro modules which are already causing quite a stir in the enthusiast market due to their extremely tight timings of 5-2-2-2 @ 400mhz. In todays current marketplace getting memory with timings this tight is nigh on impossible as the famous overclocking Winbond BH-5 chips have been phased out. The XL series of modules are being marketed as a screaming fast group of DDR modules and they are being shipped in the classic black and platinium heatspreaders in their PRO series. The XL family is based on a new Samsung chip, Corsair have worked closely with Samsung and their first tests showed the parts to be extremely fast.

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For the price point, this card is definitely a decent performer, and would serve well for any average joe's box. Performance in older games was excellent, and even though the card struggles a bit at higher resolutions in newer games, performance is on par for a card of its caliber. This is not a card that is designed to be a hardcore gamer/enthusiast component, but rather a good budget card for the occasional game. There are also multimedia possibilities which were not touched on here, but the card does support DVI, VGA and s-video out, and of course supports dual monitor configurations. This card would be a good choice if you are looking for something for playing your old favorites, that can handle newer games (albeit at lower resolutions), and want to save a buck or two.

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"Now before you discredit this card as a slow piece of hardware, let me clarify one thing. This card is neither meant or intended to be a screamer in any way shape or form. What this card is offering is a very cost effective solution to a person needing the great 2D quality ATI is know for, allow the user to have fully functional VIVO capabilities and do some very minor gaming from time to time. For me to judge this videocard on gaming performance alone would be a very ignorant and completely unfair. Not every card is made to perform in the enthusiast market."

Altec Lansing are well renowned for producing high quality, aesthetically pleasing speaker sets and the Concert Stage 21 package does not let them down in any aspect. They are well designed, not only to look the part, but also to give crisp audio performance.

With ATI?s latest high-end graphics processor, R420, announced in its AGP Radeon X800 guise a little less than a month ago we are already beginning to see a reasonable availability for the part and even some third part board variations. One of the first board vendors to bring the card to the market is Sapphire and Beyond3D takes a look at the performance of the Sapphire Radeon X800 PRO.

Fan controllers come in all shapes and sizes. Be that a simple knob rheostat all the way up to the fully automatic digital unit such as the Thermaltake Hardcano 12. Thinking outside the box, Thermaltake has gone in an entirely new direction with their newest fan controller, dubbed the XTunner. You have wireless mice, keyboards, NICs and printers so why not a rheobus? Thermaltake's press release cites the XTunner's extra "n" in its name, is for innovation. To come up with an idea like a radio controlled rheobus, I have to agree.

Have you ever played an online game like Americas Army and needed to communicate with other players quickly instead of trying to type text messages. Then TeamSpeak is for you. TeamSpeak is an application designed to enable people to talk to each other over the internet. Complete review

The Powerstream 420 arrived in a plain white box as these units are not yet ready for retail (at time of press), the supply itself however is built to the standard everyone expects from OCZ, first class, also internal component placement has been well engineered, taking full advantage of the units dual fan setup. The fans glow when in use - another aesthetically pleasing touch.

W2S Affiliate OverclockersClub.com has a list of reviews for the new AMD CPUs. As always, it's updated as they roll in.

The Athlon 64 platform has been gaining support in the enthusiast sectors, thanks to it high performance in 32-bit applications and the promise of more to come with a full64-bit OS, however the consumer chips have been split across two different platforms. With the move to Dual DDR on the Athlon 64, both this and the higher end Athlon 64 FX are being unified on a single Socket 939 platform. Today Beyond3D takes a look at the performance of the Athlon 64 FX-53 and Athlon 64 3800+ on the new 939 platform.

T-Break have scooped AMD's latest 64 bit processors in the form of AMD's Athlon 64 3800+ and FX53 CPU!

The Athlon64 CPU was one of AMD's most important products and, for good reasons, it has been quite successful since its launch late last year. At that time, AMD released the Socket 940 based AthlonFX CPU as well as the Socket 754 based Athlon64 CPU. The FX offered higher performance by utilizing a dual-channel memory controller built on the CPU while the Socket 754's memory controller only offered a single channel. Unfortunately, the FX only accepted registered memory modules which aren?t as easily or cheaply available as your standard non-ECC memory especially at higher speeds like DDR400.

Liquid3D from Madshrimps takes an in-depth look at the latest water block from Danger Den; the TDX features the same performance increasing nozzles as the RBX but improves on its design. Tested on an Athlon 64 setup! he takes a look at what it can do!