OCZ has been getting a lot of attention from enthusiasts these days and there is a reason for that. First and foremost their power supplies are getting quite popular among PC users; we, ourselves, were very impressed with their PowerStream 520W power supply, which we evaluated a while back. Considering that PowerStream line of units was their first attempt into the market, OCZ is doing rather well. Now the company is back with a 600W flavor of their PowerStream power supplies.

We won't go into details who are Plextor, you probably already know that they are one of the leaders in the optical drives market. Lately Plextor has always been on "the top of the wave" with their new products and technologies and thats why they've had the "King of Quality" mark on their products' boxes.

ATA Hard Drives are easily the slowest components in today's PCs. They may also be the dumbest and most inefficient, but Native Command Queuing (NCQ) could change all that. By intelligently re-ordering I/O requests, command queuing can make drives smarter, more efficient, and ultimately faster, all without increasing spindle speeds or adding on-board cache. Sweet.

ASUS sent us the V9999 Gamer Edition videocard and we are proud to review this very fast card, based on the NVIDIA 6800GPU. This card ofcourse supports all the latest and greatest features like CineFX 3.0 (100% support for DX9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 1.5 APIs for complex special effects) and UltraShadow 2 (boosts the performance in games with complex scenes and with multiple light sources and ofcourse objects).

OCIA.net has posted a review of the X-Ray Technology Mouse Pads. Below is a direct quote from the review:

Cracking the case (not literally) of the Thunder 8 reveals that it is packaged very well. These guys really take some pride in their product, which I like to see. I hadn't looked very closely at the Thunder 8 pad online before receiving it, so I was pretty curious to see what the instruction manual was for.

LED fans are a popular addition to computer cases lately, and every computer modding equipment manufacturer has their version of them. Today we take a look at SunBeamTech's version of their LED fan called the Crystal Quad LED Fan.

After using this case for a couple of weeks, I'm fairly pleased with its performance. The Athenatech A605 has a lot of competition in its $50 price range. While none of its features put it head and shoulders above its rivals, I feel it is a good buy. With the addition of another fan and a motherboard tray it would have been a great buy.

We has published a review about PowerColor Radeon X600 XT; This card is PCI Express Native, full compatible with directx 9 and It´s focused to standars users. One of the caracteristics is the 4 pipelines, 500 MHz GPU frecuency and 740MHz of memory frecuency.

A while back we, reviewed the GeForce 6200, and we were a bit perplexed. The GeForce 6200 was a success on most fronts. It brought GeForce 6-class features to graphics cards in the $129 range, including DirectX 9 with Shader Model 3.0?no small feat. Performance was quite good, and the product made sense overall, save for one thing: the 6200 was based on the NV43 GPU, the same graphics chip used in GeForce 6600 cards, but with much of its rendering power disabled. Graphics companies sell tons of low-end GPUs. Why would NVIDIA manufacture a bunch of NV43 graphics chips, which are relatively larger chips, only to cut them down to half the rendering power?

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into your PC store, webring you the Shark, a snazzy new aluminium case from Thermaltake.

When we reviewed ATI's new Radeon X850 series of graphics chips a couple of weeks ago, we said that the more exciting development in ATI's re-spin of its high-end products was probably the Radeon X800 XL, a card slated to replace the Radeon X800 Pro. We are, after all, notorious cheapskates, and a sixteen-pipe card for under $400 is the kind of proposition we tend to appreciate. In fact, the GeForce 6800 GT has been one of our favorite high-end cards, often edging out the 12-pipe Radeon X800 Pro at the same basic price.

Worried about how effectively that stock cooler is handling your latest graphics card? 3DVelocity check out a VGA cooling kit from Jetart that looks good and works like a charm.

It's tempting to assume that just because a manufacturers sells a graphics card with a particular cooler fitted that it's perfectly capable of doing its job, but we also need to remember that most cards these days are based on original reference designs, and these tend to put a lot of emphasis on low noise, low weight, small size and reduced manufacturing costs, but not necessarily great cooling. This is why so many aftermarket coolers perform better and, in some cases, look better too.

Soltek have produced a well designed Socket 754 motherboard in the 8KAN2E-GR. The most notable difference to many boards out there is the orientation of the DIMM slots, ensuring that they are away from any large graphics card that might be sitting in the AGP slot. Hexus.net have a review of the board, including benchmarks, from gaming to raytracing.

Kalyan Rai a.k.a. MUYA has just finished his review of the Leadtek A400 Ultra TDH. This is a snip of what he thought: The Leadtek A400 Ultra TDH and this package is probably one of the better ones in the market. The pricing seems to be in-line with the competition, but the bundle is probably one of the best I have seen.

"Looking at the thumbnail sized photos on the box, I tried to figure out some of the other configurations of the rack. Some of them appeared to have the rack "arms" mounted perpendicular to the rack. In this particular case, the "arms" were much too long to mount that way, even without a motherboard installed, so I assume that it is not one of the configurations. The only way I can see to mount anything in front of the PCI slots is to mount one "arm" parallel to the rack, and only have screws in one side of the drive, radiator, etc."

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The card we have in for review today is an interesting beast. Not full GT, Nor 6800 Non Ultra, rather 6800 Ultra toned down to somewhere between GT and Non Ultra. You?ll not have seen many reviews of cards with the GTo suffix floating about however they may well be worth a look, certainly from a price perspective it could well be a winner so let?s see how it performs against the more expensive 6800 Ultra?

Ever look at the price of network cables in your local retail store? What is that? A 6 foot cable for 10 bucks? And how many of you paid that? Ok, I'm not out to knock the person that needs one network cable, but what if you wanted to dabble in making cables for much cheaper than what you would pay retail? Well, you'll need a few things; cable, ends, a crimper, and possibly a tester. I'll be focusing on the crimper and tester of course. If that sounds remotely interesting, you can get the crimper and tester for really cheap. How about around $13 USD?

In order to get the maximum cooling, you would want the heatsink to be as big as possible, in order to get the largest surface area, but keeping in mind other limitations such as space and weight. Traditionally aluminum has been used, but copper has become more popular because it absorbs and transfers heat faster. Unfortunately, cooper is a heavy element so installing a big heatsink entirely out of copper might become a risk for some systems motherboards due to the weight.

The SyncMaster 193P is not meant to compete with the lower end affordable options and is more targeted towards the end user that requires a large LCD monitor with designer aesthetics, a higher contrast ratio, flexible mounting and screen orientation and color reproduction sought after in the graphics and CAD industry. This is Samsung's premier 19 inch model and they have done a great job at packing almost every feature needed by most consumers, yet still kept the slim and sleek visual appeal.

Sharkoon targets the enthusiast with their latest power supply, does the SilentStorm pack enough power to please the demanding high end user? Find out in this review