Content and news by Rob Williams

The power supply is the most important piece of hardware in your system. A newcomer by the name of SinTek steps into the
competition with their modular power supply. Do external adjustable potentiometers sound good?

Check out the full review over at InsaneTek.

For the cost involved the X700 from HIS turned out to be quite a performer. When compared to a similar classed card from NVIDIA it outperformed at almost every task put before it. AGP is still a VERY viable option, and HIS has proven with the X700 that they haven’t forgotten about those of us that can’t shell out a couple weeks pay every time a new card is released.

Head over to Viper Lair for the full look.

This memory has lots of performance, reliability, stability, and bling-bling with 18 LED’s in each module. While the memory timing of 2-3-2-6 is blistering fast, this memory can be pushed beyond it’s default speed. It comes in a 2GB kit which is fantastic for playing the latest very demanding games. All this and it’s backed by Corsair’s lifetime warranty. Watch the Video to find out more…

Check out the full review over at 3D Gameman.

VoIP is one of those mysterious acronyms that almost everyone has seen by now. If you’ve read or watched TV ads for Vonage or any of the other mushrooming broadband telephone services, or read about eBay’s acquisition of Skype, you’re familiar with it. You might have experienced it without even knowing it.

Check out the full article over at Design Technica.

Cooler Master has teamed up with InsaneTek to bring another great contest with free goodies. Hurry up on check it out before it’s
too late.

Check out all the details here!

Contest For November 2005:
• 1st Place: 1 Black Apple iPod Video 30GB, MSRP $299.
• 2nd Place: 1 Oppo Digital OPDV971H DVD Player, MSRP $199.

This contest is for the month of November, 2005 and ends November 30th, 2005 at 11:59PM PST. Check out all the details here!

If you upgrade your operating system hard disk, chances are the new one will be both faster and larger than your original disk. Since you can have multiple drives in your system, it makes sense to keep WindowsXP on the fastest drive, since its speed will make the most difference in that configuration. Trouble is, WindowsXP can’t just be copied over from your old drive to the new one. There are essential files which will not be created on the new disk if you try this. So what to do? Follow along as we walk you through an easy process to simplify your life, so you can get back to work.

Head on over to PC Stats for the full review!

Skiving is a relatively new metal working technique, and it is very similar to the act of hand planning a block of wood except that ‘shavings’ are shorter and remain attached. The benefit of a skived heatsink has always been the lack of a thermal joint between the fins and base, since each is formed from the same raw material. FrostyTech has tested out one of the latest socket 754/939/940 AMD Athlon64 heatsinks called the Dynatron A22. The heatsink at first appears to be nothing more than a plain aluminum skived heatsink, but closer examination reveals a couple very effective innovations, not the least of which are the V-shaped fins.

Check out the full review over at FrostyTech.

I just received a private message from a Guru3D user. The same user said something very interesting regarding this case.

These discoveries and analizations are very interesting. I’ve always enjoyed Anand, but it looks like one of their own is a little less honest than the rest of their staff. Check out the article at NGOHQ.

Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. This is the first release candidate of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback

A lot of extensions are still broken (Including the Calender plugin), but re-installing a few of them seems to fix problems. Grab the download over at the official site.

We’ve already shown you how it’s possible to share USB devices across the network using products from Silex and Keyspan, but what if you wanted a cheaper software way of doing things? USB@nywhere from Intellidriver may be right up your alley, offering support for keys, flash drives, scanners, cameras, HIDs, modems, printers etc. to be shared across the LAN or even the Internet as if the device was attached locally.

Check out the full article at Everything USB.

Func Industries is one of the most popular designers and producers of competition gaming surfaces on the market. The good people over at Func always seem to know what gamers want, and how to fulfill their demands. Ever since my first review of the Func 1030, I took an instant liking to their products, and have had the opportunity to review all of their new releases since.

Check out the full review over at Extensive Mods.

The G.SKILL F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ unite overclocking and 2GB. They almost overclock like the best 1 GB Dual-Channel kits, but offer double the amount of capacity. We reached 275 MHz (DDR550) at low 2.6V. If you want the smoothness of 2 GB and also overclocking, they can be yours for about $245, which is an excellent price.

Check out the full review at techPowerUp!

I decided to test another feature of the Transcend JetFlash 120 flash drive that is becoming mainstream in the industry. Transcend advertises their flash drives as being “bootable devices.” With little work, I was able to install a scaled-down version of Windows XP onto the flash drive using software called BartPE.

Check out the review at Big Bruin.

And with that being said this is a well designed and greatly styled ATX, Micro-ATX and baby-ATX compatible PC case with three 120mm silent fans, two of which have blue LEDs active. Active thermal monitoring for your system, HD and CPU on a blue front integrated LCD display. It’s buffed up with features like a reflective metallic front panel, aluminum chassis, it has “Stealth” Side Panels, it has a front (well right) panel for USB 2.0, Microphone, FireWire, headphone and last but not least it has 11 drive bays (4 5.25″, 2 3.5″ plus 5×3.5″ for your HD’s). Other notable features have to be the lightweight design. I mean seriously, this case weight roughly 5 kilograms. Furthermore, more or less everything in this case is based on a screwless design, the HD’s for example are fitted with plastic guides after which you can slide in your HD and lock it tightly (with ease) into the drivebay and that graphics card of your can be secured with a little clip.

Check out the full review at Guru3D.

Do you own a laptop? Do you have a hard time keeping it on
your lap because it’s too hot? Well we sometimes do. Most of our reviews
here are geared toward enthusiasts and overclockers, however, desktops
are not the only things that need after-market cooling these days. For
our mobile readers out there, today we have Vantec’s LapCool 3 laptop
cooling pad.

Head on over to Phoronix for the full review.

DFI surprised us all with the NF4 Ultra Infinity. This time they bring us their NF4 SLI Infinity, another budget motherboard for
the gaming/overclocking enthusiasts. It might not “look” much, but it does pack a lot of power.

Check out the full review over at InsaneTek.

While it might have been another good experience in the series, adding to the existing Gameplay and allowing gamers to continue onward in the series, Nightlife left us with a touch of a hollow feeling after. It was essentially a feeling of “so, what exactly are we paying for?” For me, the bulk of the title was but trivial additions, with the chemistry system, the ability to own cars and vampirism being the only real additions of value. Apart from this, much of the new items in the game are but new goodies to help distract us from the fact that this addition is mostly show and little go.

Check out the full review over at Game Pyre.

EVEN THOUGH I run a computer hardware website and spend my days playing with all of the latest goodies, I don’t actually upgrade my own PC all that often. I learned long ago not to stick review hardware into my own PC, for fear of messing up the main system on which I do my work. Swapping cutting-edge hardware in and out of your computer constantly is like doing cartwheels on a high wire–you’re seriously asking for trouble. Besides, moving all of your stuff from one PC to the next is a trying process, and I’d rather avoid it whenever possible.

Wow, going two years without upgrading you PC is almost unheard of! Check out the full look at Tech Report.

Printing at home presents few problems though- there is the inevitable compromise between expensive equipment and poor print quality. Your standard department store inkjet printer will have no problem doing the job, but the image quality will just not be there, relative to professional printing. Plus images use a lot of ink and good paper is expensive, so at the end of the day not much money is actually saved by printing at home. Digital photography brought along with it a stream of small, cool-looking photo printers. This review is going to be taking a look at one of the newest offerings, the Samsung SPP-2040 Photo Printer. This tiny device is design to give users high-quality 4×6 prints directly from your memory card, camera, or computer. Its portability means pictures can be printed where ever you want, even right where the shots are taken.

This is certainly not an ordinary looking printer! Check it out at XYZ Computing.