If you've got the money, SLI is definitely worth it. But how does it fare as an upgrade path?

ASUS and NVIDIA have been working very closely with each other on the nForce4 SLI project. NVIDIA took ASUS? A8N-SLI Deluxe on tour with them, doing demonstrations to reviewers all over the world based on this one motherboard. Obviously the partnership has irritated a few of ASUS? competitors, and thus it looks like Gigabyte and MSI are doing their best to get their competing boards out as soon as possible. But ASUS was the first to get us a final board and thus we have them in our review today.

Timeshifting HDTV in the past has been quite a chore to score a high WAF (wife acceptance factor) while doing... With the recent release of ATI HDTV Wonder MCE 2k5 drivers, we have an option for bringing a HDTV tuner into Windows MCE. However, the first working HDTV tuner card for MCE was actually made by Vbox, and HTPCnews is here to review their card. The DTA-151 is the first of a multi-part series of Vbox DTV cards getting ready to hit the USA shores this holiday season and are sure to spark up some competition for the value HDTV capture card market segment.

Corsair´s second foray into Samsung TCCD modules brings about higher levels of performance onto the DDR scene. Validating the ram for both Intel and AMD Athlon 64 platforms at timings of Cas 2.5 4:4:8 with 2.75v there is certainly the promise of memory Valhalla. So grab a shrimp fork, your favorite cocktail sauce, and fasten your seat belt kiddies this will be quite a ride.

From a company that was once happy to scrape by as a no-frills OEM supplier comes a motherboard that promises great things for the Athlon64. 3DVelocity got to see if DFI's LANParty UT nF3 250Gb can live up to its claims as the new standard barer.

Today TweakTown have a PCI Express graphics card shootout comparing three different ATI Radeon X600XT cards from HIS, ATI and GeCube. After taking a look at each product we run them through our usual array of benchmarks and then overclock each as far as possible and then re-run the benchmarks to work our which is fastest for modern day gaming.

It seems that Teschke.de has a little world premier on their website.
They have reviewed the MSI RX 800 SE graphics card on a AMD Athlon 64 3700+. I have googled a bit and no words found about this card. Read more

OCIA.net has posted a review of the Enermax 470 watt Noisetaker PSU. Below is a direct quote from the review:
"The EG475P-VE SFMA power supply has 470W of total power and exceeds Intel's new ATX 12V 2.0 standard. With the new ATX 2.0 specification comes the introduction of two +12V rails. The first +12V1 rail provides the noise-sensitive processor and motherboard components with their own clean power, while the second +12V2 rail provides power to all the drives and fans(except those connected to motherboard header pins) in a persons computer. If heat is the biggest factor in decreasing computer component life, one would think that computers would have a cool down period after shutting down, like many of today's automobiles do. Enermax now brings to the PSU table Smart Fan Technology or SFMA with this new power supply. SFMA will keep the units cooling fans running for up to 2 minutes after the computer has been shut down."

MHW has a review of the Steelpad S&S Mousepad, this pad includes a couple extras usually not found with your normal mousepad.

Removing the wrapper and opening the box itself you find that the S&S mousepad is encased in a black nylon dual zippered sleeve, with a logo on the bottom left corner. Since the S&S is advertised as a gaming mousepad and will probably see a fair amount of LAN gaming travel this makes sense, since a single deep large scratch could well make the pad unusable for that purpose.

My inner Gordon had made my mind up for me about Half Life 2 long before I even installed it. However, for those of you who haven't had the honour of playing it yet, Hexus have a review.

In my opinion this Keyboard is the best Keyboard on the market and if you are a gamer the blue backlighting is just the icing on the cake.

Computer cases have changed almost beyond recognition over the last few years. The choice of cases, from the compact HTPC cases to the huge full-tower behemoths, is quite simply massive. Chenbro have produced a case that is best described as "unique". Playing on the popularity of Spiderman, this case has a striking external appearance. The question is: are you won over by its looks, or repulsed by its tackiness? Hexus.net have a review.

Well I would have to say the Aqua 3 from X-Ray has got a lot to offer. I enjoyed using this product and think it may remain on my work desk until I get canned. The pad is well made and appears to be very durable. I like the stylish simplicity of design that makes for a very modern, professional and clean-cut look. The Aqua3 is not only comfortable and stylish, but it also has the functionality needed in a quality mouse pad.

Today 3DXtreme has the pleasure of reviewing one of Thermaltake?s latest mid-tower offerings, the SViking. Thermaltake has always been known for some quality modded cases and the SViking looks to continue in this tradition. Let?s have a look and see what this case offers and how well it suites our purposes.

3DXtreme have posted 2 new reviews on Aerocool's HT-101jr Heatpipe Cooler and Aerocool's Centaurus Titanium LED Fan!

Until now we had relied on the Thermaltake Silentboost K8 as probably one of the best, silent cooling solutions for the Athlon64. While it was necessary for us to operate the HT-101jr with a fan, it was certainly quieter than our Silentboost with our modification to 90mm fan.

It is ABIT?s turn in the spotlight today as TweakTown provide a look into two of their newest motherboards, the AA8 and AG8. Each are designed specifically to work with Intel's new Socket 775 processors along with DDR (on the AG8) and DDR-2 memory (on the AA8). After taking a look at both motherboards we compare the performance of each to determine which the best choice is. Intel 915 or 925X? Let?s find out now!

ATI's latest Athlon 64 chipset has been announced, and with it comes PCI-Express support. Both VIA and NVIDIA also have PCI-Express solutions for the Athlon 64, so ATI need a chipset that delivers without fail! HEXUS.net have a review.

Boiling down my thoughts on this impressive card and chipset is practically a no-brainer. If you are considering buying an enthusiast videocard and were leaning towards the 6800 Ultra, don't bother. Grab a 6800GT, overclock it and smile knowing you have just kept $150 in your wallet with the same performance.

According to Mushkin, with the proper timings set, you should be able to push this memory up to and possibly beyond DDR500 speeds. For our overclocking tests we ran this memory up to 250MHz HyperTransport speed with a resulting SiSoft Sandra memory score of 6904/6793 at timings of CAS3 4-4-8.

OCIA.net has posted a review of the Thermalright XP-90 Heatsink. Below is a direct quote from the review:

The second thing I noticed were the quad heatpipes protruding from the base of the heatsink. Heatpipe technology has recently found its way to aftermarket heatsinks and, if implemented properly, can produce very nice results. Another notable feature of this sink is the ability to work across multiple platforms. Should you decide to upgrade your system, there is a good possibility that you will not need to purchase a new heatsink.

3DVelocity casts a rather belated eye over the recently announced A64 4000+ and FX55 from AMD.

AMD keep turning up the revs and the A64 somehow keeps responding, though it should be said that in the case of the 4000+ AMD have increased the L2 cache to 1MB rather than incresing the core frequency This means three of their CPU's (five if you include the two flavors of FX53) now run at 2.4GHz, there's the 3700+ with its 64bit memory controller, the 3800+ with its 128bit (dual channel) memory controller and only 512k L2 cache and finally the 4000+ with both a 128bit dual channel memory controller and also 1MB L2 cache.