Hardware Roundup for Feb. 28

Hexus has the inside scoop of some upcoming Akasa products, and some of them are looking sweet! If you are in love with your iPOD, you will love their Zen case. It really does look like an iPOD casing, which is cool if that’s your thing. Legit Reviews takes the new Corsair Nautilus for a spin, and they love it! If you are a noobie to water cooling (as I am), then this kit will fit you perfectly. For the biggest storage solutions out there, GamePC has a roundup of some 500GB hard drives.

Cases & Enclosures
• Exclusive sneak-peek: Akasa’s latest gems – Hexus
• Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 – Frosty Tech
• DynapowerUSA Blackwidow Case – Mikhail Tech
• SilverStone Storage MS02 – Phoronix
• Ultra Aluminus ATX Mid-Tower Case – 3D Gameman

Cooling
• Arctic Cooling Accelero GPU Coolers (X1/X2) – Pure Overclock
• Corsair Nautilus 500 Water Cooler – Legit Reviews
• Zalman CNPS7000B CPU Cooler – Overclockers Club

Memory & Storage
• 500 GB Hard Drive Shootout – GamePC

Motherboards & CPU’s
• Epox EP-9GF6100MJ – PC Modding Malaysia
• GIGABYTE GA-8N Quad Royal SLI – Motherboards.org
• Intel 955XE and D975XBX – Technic3D

Peripherals & Power Supplies
• SilverStone Strider 600W Modular PSU – Xtreme Computing
• Thermaltake ToughPower 550w Power Supply – A1 Electronics
• VOQ V11 Professional Smartphone – Think Computers

Video Cards & Monitor
• ATI Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire – Xbit Labs

Etcetera & Contests
• February Contest Winners Announced – Gamepyre
• Gentoo v2006.0 (Linux) – Phoronix
• The Task Killer In Windows XP – Rojak Pot
• Why 7.1 Surround Sound is Overkill For Most Homes – Design Technica