We?ve been big fans of OCZ products for a while now, my colleague and friend Allan ?Zardon? Campbell swears by it for Intel systems and has achieved some excellent performance results both at stock and when overclocking.

Today I?m taking a look at the OCZ memory aimed at the Athlon FX and Opteron Socket 940 based systems. The product is OCZ PC-3200 ECC Registered Dual Channel DDR and for this review it will be in 2x512mb configuration.

Madshrimps takes a look at two SATA RAID solutions from Promise, the high end SX4 PCI card which supports up to RAID5 and also the more budget minded TX4 which still packs a punch. Read on to find out how they perform.

Hexus have thrown up their review of Gainward's CoolFX Powerpack! Ultra/2600 graphics card! Here's a snip.

The title of "world's fastest graphics card" is a heady one. Reserved only for the cream of the crop, the outright expensive, the downright ludicrous. When used correctly, the title often applies all three superlatives to the product in question, at the same time. Simultaneously fast, expensive and slightly rediculous, Gainward love those attributes and apply them liberally to their flagship graphics cards in the quest for speed, speed and more speed, hopefully obtaining the aforementioned title so lovingly coveted.

Chaintech has a very competitively priced video card in its products range which offers a great price/performance ratio. Just how great? Madshrimps ran it through their benchmark mill so they could let you know!

Currently on the market there are multiple choices in VFD's, however today HTPCnews.com takes a look at the Cadilac of VFD's and reports back to you, the internet community, if these higher dollar units are worth the premium you'll pay. We also take a look at what this unit can do in a custom made HTPC case as a "finishing touch" to a long long project.

OCIA.net checks out the Glide Pad Series Mousepads in their latest review. Below is a direct quote from the review:

"The low end of the pay spectrum in the Glide-Pad series features the Glide-Pad Premier. It has a textured surface and is made completely out of plastic. The textured surface supplied a little drag, which was not to my liking. My wife on the other hand liked that resistance. She is not a gamer, and the drag gave her a little more control for drawing and cutting / pasting documentation."

First retail 6800 Ultra review of the XFX card over at TrustedReviews. Check it out here.

When making memory choices a few good names come to mind for most of us. For those of us who have a [H]ard side, we know Corsair all to well from our overclocking rigs. However, is there a place in the HTPC world for high end ram such as the Corsair TwinX1024-3200XL Pro Pack we have for review today? For overclocking numbers and more on this latest Corsair TwinX release, read the review @ HTPCnews

OCIA.net checks out the Foxconn AMD 3400+ Heat Guzzler Heatsink in their latest review. Below is a direct quote from the review:

Here's where everything started to suck. Guess what folks? The fan got in the way. The capacitors around the processor wouldn't let the heatsink on with the fan installed. It would fit without the fan, but that's kind of pointless. I was going to try and install the fan on the other side but it screws into a special holder that I couldn't move, so that was out of the question. This is something you need to check on your motherboard if your thinking about getting this heat sink.

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"Xenix, a company who doesn't seem to have a web presence, has a potentially gimmicky and cool mouse, no pun intended. It comes with a small fan, and is lit by LED's. You'll recognize the mouse perhaps, Xoxide resells them with their branding, and this is pretty much the same exact mouse. However, after looking around at some other reviews, I have a very different take on this mouse. Yup, read on, see why..."

Everyone has CDs these days. Whether they are DVDs or Audio CDs, they tend to get scratched after a while. It is not always practical to purchase a replacement disc due to many reasons. What many users prefer to do is make back-up copies of their discs. This is a good idea, but what happens when the original disc is ruined.

The `new kids on the block' from HWspirit.com have come up with a nice review of Western Digital's Raptor 74GB Hard Disk Drive. You can check it out here

The highly anticipated Accent HT-400b case is now up for review at HTPCnews.com. If you are in the market for one of the best overall looking HTPC cases, this is one to not miss. It may break your piggy bank at $300, but it sure does look sexy! It even includes front ports for that ultra high end gaming HTPC's gamepads to connect to. The million dollar questions of the day are, how's the rest of the case compare to the external beauty, is it really worth $300 and how can one mod it? ;-)

Chenbro have been makers of high quality cases for quite some time, they received critical acclaim and consumer success with their Xpider (PC61166) , this was a a favourite with Lan goers and gamers the world over. Never heard of it ? Perhaps you know it as the "gaming bomb", this was how it was marketed outside North America.

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

Article Snippit:

"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