In what seems like no time at all, VIA's Envy24 audio controller has successfully infiltrated every level of the consumer PC sound card market. The Envy24 isn't a single audio controller per se but an entire family of chips targeted at different applications and market segments. At the high end, the Envy24HT can be found in sound cards like M-Audio's Revolution 7.1. For mid-range markets, the Envy24HT-S is available in cards like Mad Dog Multimedia's Entertainer 7.1. Not to be left out, motherboards from Chaintech, Albatron, and others offer integrated Envy audio with the Envy24PT.

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"The main difference in the model being reviewed today is the inclusion of wireless network printing support. Wireless networking is a growing standard that enables offices to be completely connected to a network without the need for running any cables. This leads to lower setup costs, increased workplace safety (ever tripped on a cable?) and reliability."

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"Recently I decided to get rid of my old keyboard, and order a new Cordless Desktop Express from Logitech. I chose Logitech because of its good name and also because of the price.
The day it arrived (24hrs.later) I was first very excited, until I unpacked the keyboard and mouse. At the first glace everything looked fine, until I started to put everything together!"

Recently Altec Lansing launched their new series of 2.1 and 5.1 speakers. Altec Lansing has been known to produce high-quality 5.1 surround speakers at an affordable cost, which sets them apart from various manufacturers. Surprisingly, the company's newly released 2.1 speaker sets are much more expensive than their counterparts. Considering how Altec Lansing has always known to support affordibility and how 2.1 speaker sets are not as popular as they used to be when they first launched, we never thought Altec Lansing would have very many market shares for their expensive 2.1 speaker sets.

Today we bring you a review of AMD's new Athlon 64 3800+ Processor. Using a brand new socket with dual channel memory, the 3800+ is an extremely fast CPU. Is it worth its $700 price tag? Come take a look

AnandTech have thrown up their review of nvidia's ForceWare Multimedia application that fully integrates all multimedia functionality into a simple-to-use interface. You can record live TV, watch DVDs, burn a favorite TV show to recordable media, listen to music, and even stream content to ForceWare Multimedia clients running on other PCs.

This revolutionary 800-dpi sensor now captures an incredible 5.8 megapixels every second and is able to track up to 15 G's of acceleration. So you get instant response to your fastest movements, with no lag. Plus, a collection of advanced features will streamline frequent tasks like scrolling through long documents, switching between applications, and navigating the web. And with a beautiful holographic blue finish, you'll enjoy the MX510's looks almost as much as its performance.

AMDZone have thrown up their review of Gigabyte's K8NSNXP motherboard based on nvidia's nForce 3 250GB chipset! Here's a snip.

Gigabyte has an entire line of impressive Athlon 64 motherboards supporting a variety of sockets, and CPUs. Today we are looking at their latest K8NSNXP-939 nForce 3 250GB based Athlon 64 Socket 939 motherboard. We will compare it to the Asus A8V Deluxe K8T800 Pro based motherboard. First up here are the specs for the new board.

OCIA.net checks out the Vantec 8 in 1 Card Reader & USB 2.0 Hub in their latest review. Below is a direct quote from the review:

"The three USB 2.0 ports are located on one of the short sides of the unit, which is just wide enough to accommodate these. As you plug devices into the 3 ports, lights located on the top of the unit will light up. These lights don't seem to serve much purpose other than a rudimentary check that the cable is plugged in firmly, but still a nice feature. On the opposite side there is the USB to computer and 5V power port."

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"While we all should back up our data regularly, do we really practice what we preach? I don't think so. How about if it were easy? Well, how about 3 buttons, like Selective Backup, Total Backup, and Restore? That about sums the COOLMAX 2.5" X-treme Files up for you. While there can be improvements made, as with any product, this one stands on it's own pretty well for being a 1st revision. Continue on to take a closer look with me!"

It's almost ritual by now. We follow up our evaluations of new Intel chipsets with reviews of third-party motherboards based on those chipsets, and the third-party mobos shed new light on the Intel chipsets. The most recent chipsets for Intel, of course, are the 915 and 925X Express series, which we reviewed not long ago. These new core-logic bad boys pack in all kinds of novel features, including PCI Express, DDR2 memory, and high-definition audio. But for all the new goodies, they haven't shown much performance advantage over the 875P chipset that preceded them. Even the high-end 925X, with fast internal timings and 533MHz DDR2 memory, couldn't outrun its predecessor in our tests.

Bjorn3D have thrown up their latest review which looks a pre-overclocked version of a GeForce 6800 GT ( 370MHz instead of 350MHz ) form BFG Tech and compares the performance to Sapphire?s Radeon X800 PRO! Here's byte.

Even when I had just heard the name BFG Tech for the first time, I knew that the company planned on doing something different, being a different kind of hardware company. I mean, it sure as hell better be with a name that uses those three letters in its name, right?

PC Perspective have thrown up the review of MSI K8N Neo2 nForce3 Ultra motherboard for AMD's 939-pin Athlon 64 processors! Here's a snip.

With the release of the 939-pin processors from AMD, NVIDIA released an updated version of their nForce3 chipset, called the nForce3 Ultra. We took a preliminary look at a reference board on the first of June in our 939-pin motherboard preview, and we have been tinkering with a couple of retail boards since then.

Shure is much of a silent name when it comes to audio products, specifically earphones for music and other multimedia activities. The company is more focused towards music professionals rather than common listeners. Shure produces earphones, microphones, music mixers, and other products that might interest an audio professional and some enthusiasts.

Today we will be taking a look at Shure's E3c earphones. This particular model is one of the three models that Shure offers to high-end consumers and professionals. The other two models are E2c and E5c; you will notice the E3c model to be in the middle.

Shure has built-in many options that will interest a true audio enthusiast. We will take a closer look at these options in this analysis along with our standard audio testing. What sets these earphones apart from the rest? Read on and find out...

Today sees the launch of the first in a new line of benchmarking - Already well known for their 3DMark and PCMark testing suites, FutureMark have decided to branch out into the fast-developing world of the cell phone in the form of SPMark04 - The smartphone benchmark.

FutureMark have let Elite Bastards take this intriguing new benchmark for a spin - You can read all about it and what we thought of it here

PC Perspective have thrown up their review of Thermalright's all copper version of their popular NB-1 Chipset cooler for nForce2 and Intel Northbridge chips! Here's a snip.

Thermalright continues to advance the art of Northbridge chipset cooling with the release of their new copper NB-1C heatsink fan (HSF). The NB-1C is almost identical to the original aluminum NB-1, but now the heatsink is CNC machined from a forged, high purity copper block which comes with additional mounting options.

Recently there has been a massive surge in people building custom HTPC cases from pawn shop purchases of dead DVD STB's and CD changers. Until recently there wasn't any power solution that involved a decent set of rails to go along with the small size of a mATX form factor that would include a fan that only produced 14dba. This barrier has been shattered and this most recent mATX PSU from Ahanix could very easily be a custom case modder's dream come true ( Yea! no more opening up ATX PSU's and risking electrocution ;-) ). Go see how it stacked up against HTPCnew's latest AMD test bench and if it survived a 36 hour marathon of prime95.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Bluetake BT420 EX Bluetooth Hi-Fi Sports Headphone. Here is a snippet:
"Today we introduce Bluetake Bluetooth Hi-Fi Sports Headphones that creates a new revolution in music listening that not only provides sound wirelessly, but high quality music through Bluetooth technology. In our review we will see amazing features such easy hook up to any multimedia device (TV, DVD player, computer, MP3 player, CD player), easy rechargeable capability and microphone capability that can be used with any Bluetooth device (cell phone, PC). "

Legit Reviews have thrown up their DDR2 vs DDR1 Memory shootout! Here's a snip.

To get a better understanding of DDR2 memory we need to go back to when it all began! It was back in October of 2002 that things started looking good for DDR2 memory and that it would actually become the successor to the DDR1 memory line. This is back during the time period where enthusiasts were running single channel DDR1 PC-2700 memory! So on paper DDR2 PC-4200 was a huge performance leap in raw bandwidth power, but was also meant to improve memory latencies and lower the overall power consumption. It was the goal to bring DDR2 out at PC-3200 and PC-4200, while lowering the voltages down to1.8V! As you can tell DDR2 533MHz would be a huge performance leap over DDR1 333MHz! The designers were happy and went off to build DDR2!

Shuttle launched their new line of "Zen" XPC small form factor cases a little while ago and we got the chance to check out their Zen ST62K XPC just recently. It features a new design with some interesting changes inside such as an external power supply unit which help reduces the size and weight. Are these features alone enough to make it a viable option? Read on and find out our thoughts?