DFI is famous for their Lanparty series of motherboards, however they do make other types of motherboards... of course. HTPCnews decided to give one of their "other" motherboards a try, the K8M800 mATX motherboard, and they lived to tell a story about it. Does it's quality and features hold any water against their Lanparty series or any other mATX motherboards? Onboard video by s3, onboard audio, and support for the A64 lineup of processors are just a few "highlights" of this unit.

HardwareHounds have thrown up their review of Spirecoolers CoolForce VGA Cooler for nVIDIA and ATI GPU's!

How many of you out there still have your stock hsf on your cpu? How about your video card? If stock is not good enough for your processor, what makes you think it?s good enough for your video card? Enter Spirecoolers with the CoolForce VGA chipset cooling kit. A full copper, all-in-one cooling solution to help keep your video card running nice and cool.

The OCZ PC3200 Revision 2 memory delivered slightly faster speeds than the Corsair XMS 3200XL at DDR400 (2-2-2-5) and costs significantly less (around $280 vs. $315). This difference in cost may be the single most determining factor for someone that is shopping for DDR400. Keep in mind that with slightly looser timings operation up to DDR500 should be easily possible making this memory the perfect compliment to any system from an AMD64 based rig to an overclocked Intel P4 based rig. We award the OCZ PC3200 Revision 2 Memory the 3DXtreme Editor?s Choice Award based on the performance and price of this product.

As a DUAL OPTERON user running two monitors and a pair of hard drives in RAID 1, I'm a pretty firm believer that two is better than one. Maybe that's why Gigabyte's GA-K8NSNXP-939 Athlon 64 motherboard caught my eye. The GA-K8NSNXP-939 might only accommodate a single 939-pin Athlon 64 processor, but the board comes equipped with dual BIOS chips, a pair of Ethernet jacks, two Serial ATA RAID controllers, dual-channel memory, and even a six-phase "Dual Power System."

ActiveWin has posted up a review of the recently released AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Processor. This is one of the chips that supports Windows XP Service Pack 2's Data Execution Protection thanks to AMD's 64-Bit Chips, it's also one of the first chips to use Socket 939. Visit the review here

Find those 15.4" Widescreen notebooks too small, then maybe the Sony VAIO VGN -A117S is for you as it has no less than a 17" Widescreen display with 1,920x1,200 resolution. The hardware specifications are pretty decent as well with a 1.7GHz Pentium M CPU, 512MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive and a DVD writer. Check it out over at TrustedReviews.

OCZ Technology is a key leader when it comes to producing high quality workstation memory. They cater to enthusiasts with high expectations of gaining as much performance out of their systems as possible. OCZ is right next to their competitors and even ahead in some areas (value). System memory is not the only product that OCZ specializes in, the company produces power leads, heatsinks, and power supplies.

Eyeit have released their first hardware review of ELSA's Gladiac 940 GeForce 6800 Graphics card!

Overall with excellent speeds and good overclocking the ELSA 6800 card is a card for any of you that want to play the latest games in 1280x1024 with full detail.

Philips has once again invaded the PC Audio scene with a new soundcard offering. Earlier this year we took a close look to their Aurilium external soundcard which left us quite impressed. This time around they are bringing us a new internal soundcard based on the VIA Envy24GT chipset which combined with the Sound Agent 2 drivers we tested on the Aurilium, should make for a very solid entrance in the enthusiast market.

Lets start with the beginning, we received this Point of View FX5500 graphics card from believe it or not Point of View ;) and we are very proud to test this nice card with the latest NVIDIA Forceware 65.62 and 66.00 drivers. Both drivers arent WHQL certified but both are very populair among our daily visitors. You can download ForceWare 65.62 and ForceWare 66.00 from our local fileserver to find out if they work better then your previous driverset. Read on to check out the benchmarks used.

Now that NVIDIA is ready to take the lid off the performance of their new NV4x based mainstream card, GeForce 6600 GT, Beyond3D puts it through its paces with a full rundown of games performances, Shader Performance from Shader 1.1 to 3.0, PCI Express throughputs, video decoding performance, amongst others.

HTPCnews.com takes a look at the latest offering from Crescendo Systems, the famed external Transcoder manufacture (PC to HDTV interface). This time they are taking a different approach and have created a PCI version of their external transcoder which doesn't even need an external power source. They use the PCI bus to deliver all the power that the device needs, and even include a better set of chips this time around for a crisper picture on your HDTV. Perfect VGA to YPrPb conversions are possible with devices like this one, and they don't invoke Macrovision limiting the user to 480p resolutions which make them all the sweeter. Come see what happens when HTPC enthusiasts make a product for other HTPC users.

With the Inspiron 9100 Dell has produced the ultimate gamers laptop which can truly compete with a desktop PC in terms of performance. The Mobility Radeon 9800 graphcis card with 256MB of memory is faster than a desktop 9800 Pro and with a 3.4GHz P4 processor, 1GB of memory and a 100GB hard drive, this is one powerful laptop. Check it out over at TrustedReviews.

The Muro MR-100 is a new MP3 player with a set of unique features that separate it from other MP3 players in the market, and is proof that this new Korean company is serious about its business. When I decided to buy an MP3 player, I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted. Not a CD-MP3 player because of the size, and I did not really need an expensive HD-based player like Apple's IPod or Creative's Xen, so I started searching for a good flash-based player. The Suntec Muro MR-100 had everything I was searching for and much more. Read on to learn more about it.

Headphones are a must accessory for any gamer. They allow you to easily communicate with players throughout the world to better strategize your game plans. Altec Lansing has come up with a solution to suit both gamers as well as those who use voice chat and other similar features via the Internet. The affordable speaker producer has combined the functionality of a pair of headphones and a microphone into a single product. This idea is definitely not unique, but is always interesting to see the product differences in the market between each company. As the competition increases, every manufacturer is trying to outdo each other with something special.

Just got a word that OCWorkbench has posted a review on the latest Chaintech card, the Volari V3.

Today we?re going to stray a little from the rest of the pack and take a closer look at the recently released Chaintech Volari V3 card. Priced at about $47, this card certainly is one of the most affordable graphics cards you can find out there and is in the same price range as the nVidia Geforce MX 4000. However, unlike the Geforce MX 4000, the Volari V3 sports Vertex and Pixel Shaders support, the board has a DVI port and even more interesting, the Volari V3 seems to be the only card costing only $47 which supports HDTV up to 1080i !

Just got a word that Radeonthetop has posted a review on the Sapphire Radeon X800PRO Toxic. The link to the review: here

Just got word that Hardware.Ethek.com have thrown up their review of AMD's Athlon 64 3800+ CPU plus a performance comparsion againist Windows XP SP2 32 bits vs Windows XP SP1 64 bits OS using ATI's 9800 XT and 800XT PE video cards.

“It seems like all the rage these days is mp3 players. The growth in sales and the increasing number of features in these tiny devices is pretty amazing, they’ve gone from big bulky 32mb players with no LCD screens to 40 GB iPods with backlit LCD’s and games. I always thought my Panasonic Shockwave MP3 CD player was good enough for me. Sure it may be bulky, heavy and still skipped at times but after a while I decided it's time to try something new to run with. So upon the recommendation of a friend, I decided to pick up a 256mb mp3 player, the Creative MuVo NX 256mb, and we’ll see how well it works for an active user like me.”

Creative has just launched the MuVo² FM 5GB player powered by Seagate's new 1-inch ST1 5GB, 3600rpm hard drive with RunOn Technology. Of course, VR-Zone are very interested to know if this drive can be used in digicams like what the Hitachi 4GB Microdrive has been able to achieve therefore they take it apart and test it out.