With the onset of the new "quiet" trend in cooling, people are just plain sick of dealing with a screaming heatink/fan combination to properly cool there processors. People would rather sacrifice some cooling today just to have a peaceful workstation. Due to this consumer trend, companies themselves are dropping the "strap a screaming delta onto a finned block of copper" mentality and are running to the designing boards again to try to find another method of effective cooling!

If your building a new system or building your first system, and your on a buget then the Ahanix Platinum XP case should defiantly be taken under consideration. This case comes packed with a lot of cool features, at a reasonable price. Some of the features include, built-in stealth cdrom covers (makes it so that your beige cdrom doesn't have to be seen), built in digital temperature display, awesome gray & silver metalic paint scheme, and built in usb & firewire ports in the front side of the case!

VR-Zone has done up a review on the new ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB edition.

This card practically combines all the goodness of the TV, Video and Graphics into one solution. Users are able to watch TV programs, DVDs, VCDs, save and edit them and play latest games as well. Also we checked out the overclockability of the card too and managed to overclock the card quite a bit to 295/320Mhz.

Reverend has wrapped his usual review prowess around a VisionTek XTASY GeForce4 Ti4400 board this time. Along with the usual round of game tests Reverend takes plenty of time looking at the various IQ levels that GeForce4 Ti boards offer.

"Having spent quite a bit of time with the VisionTek XTASY GeForce4 Ti4600 prior to this review of the "lesser brother", I was pleasantly surprised that I did not really miss Ti4600. The VisionTek XTASY GeForce4 Ti4400 offers really enjoyable gaming as long as you learn to live with its obvious limitations (and which card doesn't have limits?)."

LITTLEWHITEDOG has just published a new review of a case that has been professionally modified by Northward Graphics. This relatively new company specializes in taking ordinary cases, and turning them into beautifully modified enclosures.

As most people would say, "Hey, my speakers are just fine!", or, "What's the point?". Well, I myself subscribed to that way of thinking for about seven years, yes, seven! But, with my continuous upgrades, I upgraded finally to a Sound Blaster Audigy Sound Card. At the time of purchase and installation, I wasn't all that impressed with the sound quality difference. As any consumer upgrading to a $150 soundcard, you would think that there would be a significant difference in audio quality. Well there was in fact a difference. The only problem is that I had an inferior speaker system to convey the clearer, and crisper audio quality of the Audigy(r) to my ear drums. Labtec(r) was kind enough to send me a sample of there new model of speaker system called the PulseTM-420 to take advantage of this quality sound card and show me what it can really do.

Today Overclockersclub are looking at the Eagle Aluminum Mini Server from Sky Hawk. The model number for this case is MSR-4610EPD(F). This is a great looking and very light weight aluminum case. There is no shortage of airflow, as there are five 8cm fans included with this case.

Just got word from Torosian that he's post his eVGA GF4 Ti4600 Review but this is the one using Nvidia's reference cooling, not the ACS2-cooled one! Here's what he's saying.

This review will deal with a Ti4600 and how it compares to a card two generations behind it, the GeForce2 GTS. People always say to wait two generations before buying a new card anyway. Remember throughout the article that a GF2 GTS performs very closely to a Radeon DDR (32mb and 64mb).

TweakNews have written a review about the Samsung Syncmaster 151B 15 Inch TFT Monitor. Here's a snip: "Have you had the chance to try an LCD yet? Have you actually ever seen one? Have you ever viewed photos on a LCD? If you have answered yes to any of those questions, you will know just how comfortable these monitors are to use. No eyestrain, lower power bills, more workspace, sharper colours, I just can't see why anyone would WANT a normal monitor." Read the review

Gamers around the globe have been very excited these past few months; this is because of Nvidia's awesome new GeForce4 series. With higher core and memory speeds, along with improved architectural efficiency and new features like the Accuview Antialiasing. The GeForce4 series delivers insane visual quality and frame rates that gamers have only dreamt about till now!

On a side note they overclocked the memory speeds to 690Mhz - a 140Mhz increase.

Have you ever had the problem of always running out of resources, your system slowing down?, always needing to upgrade and increase the amount of ram in your system every 6 months to compensate for those crappy memory resident startup programs? Well, what I'm going to be giving you a brief run through today might save you a little money and just for kicks, allow you to gain the control you deserve over your computer and the programs contained within it and also secure it from potential spyware and other malicious startup software.

I just received email from Philipp that they have posted their latest quick-review. Pinnacle Bungee is an USB based personal video recorder with TV tuner and MPEG2 encoder. Check it out here if you like.

Well, needless to say, I was really impressed with Stomp Inc's first real step into the CD Burning ROM software market. The product proved to be quick, efficient, easy to use and install, and had some nice bundled features. If anyone out there is looking for a great, more affordable burning suite than some of the big boys out there, then give this one a try. I haven't even reinstalled Nero(r) due to the fact that I just like this suite TOO much and you will to.

Nowadays personal computers are almost an embedded part of the electronic equipment in a household. PC's as other accessories represent a picture of the personal taste of their owner and, especially if custom build, these are a unique piece. Add to it that many enthusiasts are looking for a PC case with lots of space, good handling and superior cooling compared to factory cases. If you do make that count you'll probably end up looking at an aluminium case. Today we will be looking at the new Lian Li PC-6083A. This case is about to hit store shelves and retailers in June. I would like to thank James Wu of Lian Li for providing the test case. Click the logo for the review

Just got word from Thomas that he's posted his GeForce 4 Ti 4600 Review! Here's what he's saying.

Our NVIDIA GeForce 4 i 4600 review is online. It covers topics like:

GPU efficiency (NV25 275/275 vs. R200 275/275)
Do I need 128 MB ?
FSAA and aniso. filtering quality and performance.
OpenGL and DirectX benchmarks.
OpenGL and DirectX game engines -> cost per polygon.

Just got word from Haddad that he's posted his eVGA GeForce4 MX440 review: Here is a byte from his review:

For the first time ever, Nvidia has come out at once with a product solution for every segment of the market, with three GeForce4 MX models, three high-end GeForce 4 Ti models and a new Quadro, rather than the staggered releases of previous series.

Just got word from Tim that he has completed a review of the new Vantec stealth fans. Are they really as quiet as they claim? Here's what he's saying.

Today we will be looking at the Stealth fan series from Vantec. Which are designed to be 80% quieter that standard case fans. I know I sometimes get tired of listening to the noise of my fans. Well, the Vantec fans will hopefully solve that problem. These fans include a 3-pin to 4-pin adapter and a set of 4 screws.

They are also giving all three of the fans away! Read the end of the review, to find out how to enter.

Just got word that Martin has posted his Epox 8K3A+ motherboard review. Here's a byte from his review:

Epox has been catering towards the more extreme overclocking crowd for a while now. I've been voltage modding boards for a while now and Epox has been taking the fun out of things lately by offering the kinds of voltages that would normally require a resistor being soldered onto a small IC chip.

VR-Zone has done up a review on the Triplex Millennium Silver GeForce4 Ti4600 card.

This card comes with a sleek looking silver metallic briefcase and equipped with features such as 128MB of 2.8ns Samsung DDR SDRAM, TV-Out and DVI-Out. The GPU cooler and ramsinks are coated with a layer of shiny silver to make the card even more appealing. This card will definitely go well with a silver or black PCB board such as the SOYO KT333 DRAGON Ultra in a window modded aluminum case. All these do come with a price but some consumers will be willing to pay any amount just for the looks. We have checked out its overclockability and performance against the GeForce3 Ti500.

CyberwizardPit were lucky enough to get their hands on the Rocket Drive SSD, a fully fledged drive that uses RAMs to store Data that runs on a 32-bit PCI Bus. Here's a snip...

"Registering in at 144.8MBps in burst rates and an unbelievable RAM like access time of 0.06ms, the Rocket Drive SSD is fastest storage device ever created."