The DDW-081 DVD +RW is a great drive and is well within the price range of most consumers. Its operation is both quiet, reliable and the media required is also very affordable. We just couldn't find any faults with this $55 drive!

Today VR-Zone takes a look at MSI's readily available NV40 part, the GeForce 6800 standard. Running on 12 pixel pipelines and DDR1 memory, does the card have enough power to keep up with cards like the Radeon X800 Pro and the GeForce 6800GT? Come and take a look.

3DGPU.com has a first review of the Logitech MX1000, the official replacement for the favored MX700 mouse.

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"Today 3DXtreme has the opportunity to review a truly unique product, the Ideazon ZBoard PC Gaming Keyboard. Included with our ZBoard was the newly released Doom III limited edition keyset. The ZBoard features removable keysets allowing user to purchase keysets for different games placing the common controls in locations that make it easier use. This unit has two built in USB ports and comes with a standard keyset and a gaming keyset, lets start by taking a look at the Features of the ZBoard.

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"More often than not, cheaper priced memory has a hard knock life getting respected in the enthusiast community seeing the market is dominated by a select few that make amazing memory, but it always comes at an amazingly high price. What I wanted to prove today is that you can save a boatload of money and still get absolutely exceptional memory capable of lower latency timings at stock speeds and still pull through with a jaw dropping overclock to boot."

The French website PC-Extreme has posted a review of the Lian Guan XGI Volari V8T 128MB graphics card. The card was compared to the Radeon 9600, 9600 SE, GeforceFX 5700 and 5600 graphics cards.

The Cool Drive product line from Cooler Master has been upgraded to version 6. We take a look at this hard drive cooler which offer the end user a lot more control and info then your average HD box. Fan control, temperature monitoring and real time HDD transfer speeds can be read from the LCD! Read on at Madshrimps to find out more.

MSI has combines an MP3 player with OLED display and a Bluetooth cell phone handsfree set in to one single device with the MSI MEGA 516BT. With 256MB of memory built in and an SD/MMC memory card slot you should also be able to carry plenty of music around with you. Check it out over at TrustedReviews

No, that is not an alien spaceship off to the left... It's the Global Win Dorri External Hard Drive enclosure. With top secret 40bit alien encryption it'll keep your data (ripped movies and mp3's) ultra safe via a set of removable security keys and keep up to a 10,000RPM drive quiet and cool with a 19dBA fan. Click here or click the image to find out if the good outweighs the multiple bad issues HTPCnews had with it and if it's worth your hard earned cash.

Today I have the pleasure of taking a step into Intel's new LGA775 backyard and review their top of the line Alderwood motherboard based on the new Intel 925X Express chipset formally released in June. What the Alderwood brings to the table is the new LGA775 pin configuration Intel P4, the new faster DDR2 memory and lets not forget the PCI Express videocard specification everyone has been talking about.

If you are considering a migration to the new 925X chipset, please remember that this will be a considerable investment. With the new motherboard you will have to purchase the new LGA775 based P4 along with DDR2 memory and a new PCI Express videocard. If you don't want to upgrade your memory and videocard, there are a couple of Canterwood 875P based motherboards coming onto the market which will allow you to keep everything but the new LGA775 processor.

Looking for a new LGA775 motherboard with every feature possible on it? Then look no further than to the Asus P5GD2 Premium Wireless Edition as it has support for 14 drives, 54Mbit WiFi, external S-ATA and dual Gigabit Ethernet. Check out the review over at TrustedReviews

There is a review of the XGI Volari V3 XT, a mainstream graphics card over at VolariGamers:

"Many of us get excited when hearing about cutting edge graphics cards, but let's face it : performance and whiz bang features are pretty nice, but the majority of consumers simply will not swallow the high price tag that comes with it.
Today we take a look at what XGI has to offer for the value market. The Volari V3 XT sports some pretty nifty features such as full DirectX 9 and native HDTV support, making it rather unique as to my knowledge no other value card fully supports HDTV. "

Read the whole article at Volarigamers

Logitech has silently launched a new cordless MX-series mouse, the MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse. This will probably be the successor of the MX700 mouse. The main difference between the MX700 and the MX1000 is that newer one doesn't use an optical sensor, but a new laser which is according to Logitech 20 times more accurate than an optical sensor.

More info at DV Hardware

Today 3DXtreme has the great pleasure of reviewing one of Thermaltake?s latest case offerings, the Tsunami Dream. When it comes to quality, attractive case designs Thermaltake is well known to be among the best. Always seeking new design ideas for both aesthetics and functionality they have come up with the Tsunami. Let?s have a closer look at this case and find out what makes it stand out in a crowd.

Silverstone, a Taiwanese computer case and accessories manufacturer, has made a strong appearance in the North American market by introducing new products at a fairly steady pace. That being said, the new products are fairly similar to each other in terms of updated features and specifications. While Silverstone carries a fair variety of standard ATX desktop cases, they seem to have a much larger product line of their HTPC cases. This could be that Silverstone is trying to dominate this particular market segment as the competition is less fierce than the desktop case market.

3DVelocity has got hold of an all singing, all dancing PDA from ASUS with built in WiFi and Bluetooth as well as both Compact Flash Type II and SD card slots. Check it out over at 3DV!

OCIA.net checks out the CoolerMaster Cavalier Case in their latest review.

How about fan controllers? Survey says... DING DING DING. One thing I have to brag on is the door and fan controller. This case allows you to install a fan controller and still shut the door. I can't tell you how thrilled I am about that. Not very many doors will let the fan controller knobs fit, but this one sure does.

Antec is a name that many of us know from our main gaming rigs... HTPCnews.com has reviewed their PSU's in the past with fair results; however this PSU is one of their first that?s aimed at Silent PC type users as well as the super power users. Antec packs this PSU full of items like modular power cables and a single 120mm fan to give it an edge over the competition. With Antec taking a departure from their normal PSU design of the past, will they have a winner on their hands? Find out. Click here.

In the run up to Intel?s PCI Express launch NVIDIA?s "NV45" turned up, boasting PCI Express compatibility. Whilst on first glance this appeared to have been a native PCI Express implementation, closer inspection revealed NVIDIA "HSI" bridge chip integrated onto the graphics core?s package. Here Beyond3D takes a look at NV45, in its GeForce 6800 GT PCI Express guise, and measure its performance against the standard AGP GeForce 6800.

Today 3DXtreme has the pleasure of reviewing a silent cooling system for VGA cards, the VM-101. The quest for a good, silent cooling solution has come a long way and with the need to cool just about every major component in a computer system the need for silent cooling becomes even more important. But can this large heat pipe really perform as well as a fan driven cooler? Let?s find out...