Reviews & Articles

This article includes a brief overview and some benchmarks for Intel’s latest desktop offerings – the 945G Express chipset, Pentium 4 Processor 670 (3.8GHz, 2MB L2), and dual-core Pentium D Processor 820. Check it out!

You are used to seeing Gigabyte video cards and motherboards. But did you also know they make CPU coolers? Today we look at their flagship cooler, the Gigabyte G-Power Cooler Pro (GH-PDU21-MF).

Sapphire, like other video card companies, isn’t forgetting about the AGP users out there. The flagship X850 XT Platinum Edition card is now available in both PCI Express and AGP flavors. Read this article to see just how well Sapphire’s flagship AGP card performs relative to an X850 XT PCIe …

What can I say? The card is a beast and power hungry one indeed. With 16 pipelines and remarkable performance no gamer will stray away from getting one of those unique VGA boards. Even though the X850XT is last year’s refresh part it is here to compete with NVIDIA’s offering …

Read this article to learn a little about Sapphire’s X300SE HyperMemory card and Leadtek’s 6200 TurboCache card. Both use system memory to increase the amount of memory used by the video card. Take a look at some benchmark charts to see which technology edges out the other or if they …

After releasing several stand-alone DVD recorders over the past couple years, Lite-On finally graces store shelves with a HDD recorder as well. Check out the features and performance of the 160GB LVW-5045 in this review.

Check out this review to see how well Point of View’s GeForce 6600 GT performs. Point of View includes a nice bundle to accompany the good performance of this mid-range solution.

Sapphire improves on its already impressive X800 XL offering by making it nearly silent by employing a Zalman VPU cooler. This new card carries the “Ultimate” moniker and offers all of the performance of the standard X800 XL but at a much lower noise level.

Converting music on cassette tapes to digital music (or back) no longer is a complicated matter of hooking up your cassette deck to the PC. Instead BTO comes to the rescue with the Plusdeck 2, a product that gives you the flexibility of a cassette deck inside your PC.

Overall, Sunbeam’s Samurai case is a well designed low-budget project. If you are looking for cheap yet fancy case, you should give Samurai a try. Although a power supply is not included in this unit, you are free to choose any ATX power house you like.

In this article, we take a look at Seagate’s latest consumer-level SATA hard drive – the 7200.8 SATA NCQ. Read the review to see how well two 400GB 7200.8’s perform in RAID 0 and RAID 1 and how well a single 7200.8 performs by itself.

There are a lot of power supplies on the market these days. Some are good; others a pure junk. PC Power and Cooling’s offerings are in the good group, kind of like junk being a 1972 Ford Pinto and the 510-SLI being a Porsche Carrea GT. And just like the …

Modding has come a long way from when I first put in a window in my case a few years ago. A.C. Ryan is a company that has tons of nice items for any serious (and causal for that matter) modder, and we’ve taken a look at some of those …

Gigabyte has added another video card to its Silent-Pipe family. It features a Radeon X800 chip, 256 MB of GDDR3 memory, and a PCI Express interface. Read this review to see how it stacks up against both a GeForce 6600 GT and 6800 GT.

So how does a heatsink designed for an FX-55 run on lower speed AMD 64 chips? It works very well, should let you do some good overclocking on lower speed CPUs.

Did I hear the words correctly? A value-priced 19 inch LCD display with a super-fast response time? Check out our scoop to see if Samsung stuns or stumps us with their latest flat-panel display!

Are you tired of spending a lot of money on color ink for you inkjet printer? Samsung just may have the perfect solution for you – the CLP-510 Color Laser Printer.

Second only to the X850 XT PE, the Sapphire Radeon X850 XT offers extreme performance but at the cost of high value, just like other high-end cards. For those of you who must have the best though, this card should be on your short list of considerations.

If you’ve ever wanted to know important information about your memory modules just by looking at them, Corsair recently introducted the XMS Xpert memory line to fulfill that desire. The Xpert modules also allow you to display custom messages on their programmable displays, and Corsair provides a slick application to …

The HIS X850 XT IceQ II Dual DVI VIVO 256MB PCIe is yet another high-end ATI-powered card from HIS that costs a premium but delivers a lot of horsepower to your computer.

Considering the tremendous success and popularity of nForce4 SLI motherboards in the AMD world and NVIDIA’s November announcement of partnering with Intel, it’s no surprise to see the launch of the nForce4 SLI Intel Edition. Check out our look into the technology and preview of the performance.

In our second article about the Sony PlayStation Portable we take a look at some of the launch games and see if Sony ahs put enough power behind the hood.

One of the coolest things you can offer customers is a warrantied overclock, and BFG continues to do just that with its “OC” line of video cards. Check out this review of BFG’s 6600 GT OC; I cover the performance of the card by itself and in SLI mode. See …

Not content to just bringing the best mousepads for gamers, Icemat also has released gamer headphones. We’ve tested them to see if they are any good.

Pull yourself away from that TV and get to work on that paper! Wait, why don’t you do both with the Leadtek WinFast TV USB II hooked to your PC. Watch TV right on your desktop, record your favorite show, or listen to the radio! Homework just got better.

Move over Nintendo, there’s a new sheriff in town. Finally Nintendo is getting the competition that is needed in the portable market. The Sony PlayStation Portable is a sexy new toy that should attract both young and old and we of course have been playing with it for several months.

Check out this review to see how well Leadtek’s GeForce 6600 GT performs in single and SLI configurations. Leadtek includes a nice bundle to accompany the good performance of this mid-range solution.

Xoxide is a popular PC and mod components store on the WWW. In addition to fans, heatsink, cables and mod supplies, Xoxide also sells its own branded cases. Read this review to learn more about Xoxide’s interesting and colorful X-Treme case.

The LANParty NF4 SLI-DR and LANParty UT NF4 SLI-D are two of the most popular SLI motherboards out right now. With all of the features, included goodies, and overclocking options, it’s not hard to see why. Check out our review of the DFI’s nForce4 flagship – the LANParty NF4 SLI-DR.

If money is no problem, the HIS X850 XT PE IceQ II Dual DVI VIVO 256MB PCIe is the card to get. Blazing performance, lots of features and a good bundle make this card the best you can get right now.

Leadtek’s Winfast A6600 GT TDH proudly crunches the numbers so that you can enjoy your latest and greatest games. See just how well it performs inside.

The Steelpad QcK+ is a huge cloth mouse pad that was designed to ensure maximum precision while aiming during gaming. With its non-slip rubber base, it’s sure to stay in place while you get your frag on. Check out our complete review.

Samsung continues to bring new LCD screens to the public. This time we look at the Samsung SyncMaster 920T. I am very impressed with this monitor.

In addition to the feature rich nForce4 SLI and nForce4 Ultra chipsets NVIDIA also has released a more basic nForce4 chipset. Today we’ve taken a look at a motherboard using that chipset, the Foxconn WinFast NF4K8MC-ERS.

SilverStone’s LC11 is built specifically for the needs of the home theater PC. Is it really “The most advanced Micro-ATX HTPC case in the world”? Read the review to find out!

Thermalright has brought forward an innovative new design to the market; here is the full scoop on this excellent heatpipe-based heatsink!

The Leadtek WinFast PX6800 GT TDH is a great high-end video card for anyone looking for one, especially if you want potentially great overclocking right out of the box. To help consumers see what they get for about twice the price, this review takes a look this GeForce 6800 GT …

In this article, we look to see how an nForce4 SLI system with all our day-to-day software installed performs. This means no clean hard drive install to see just how fast it is under “real world” conditions. So let’s look the nForce4 system and see how it does.

Ultra Products takes advantage of the apparent abundance of Samsung TCCD ICs and releases some new low latency DDR. The PC3200 XL memory offers great performance and excellent overclocking. Ultra is set to make a name for itself in the memory industry if it can keep releasing RAM this good.

Cases have come a long way from being beige and boring. In this review, we are looking at a case that brings back the memories of the Transformer robots as well as provides some nice features in the case.