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I think Logitech is moving in the right direction in developing this wireless communication extension of the PC however I feel this will really only attract a niche market of consumers. Overall the MX610 is a solid unit with features that will be loved by people that need some downtime from the computer without completely sacrificing being ‘connected’.

Check out the full review over at 3D Xtreme.

The biggest drawback from the Lexcool XC-801 is the mounting issues
that I ran into but I have a very simple solution to alleviate the pressure
on the motherboard and to make mounting a lot easier….The fan does turn
rather fast and is quite loud at this speed and a fan controller would
really add to the value of this cooler. The cooling abilities of the XC-801
speak for themselves on the previous page and I was quite impressed with the
results.

Wow, I have not seen a CPU cooler like this before. Does the radical design do a great job? Check out the review at Overclockers Online.

The VapoChill Micro is the first shot at air cooling by Asetek, and it is one of the better CPU coolers in the market right as we speak. Asetek VapoChill Micro is lightweight, small size and its main advantage is its low noise operation. Silent PC enthusiasts will certainly find excellent noise over performance ration with this cooler. The small size of VapoChill Micro allows easy installation; it saves space and has lesser incompatibility issues on most motherboards. If you are looking for a silent high end CPU cooler, you should seriously consider Asetek’s latest product, the VapoChill Micro, which will cost roughly about 54USD. We gave Gold Award for this product because it can catch up with a few heat pipe coolers, without any noticeable noise, incompatibility issue or running into sophisticated installation process.

Check out the full review at PC Modding Malaysia.

Lost Coast was dominated by the X800GTO, but we didn’t experience image quality improvements when enabling the enhanced clock speeds. If you disregard the X800GTO, because it is clearly in a league of its own, the GeForce 6800 Std and 6600 GT performed as well as the two X800GT configurations that we’ve evaluated here. There was very little between the two mid-range NVIDIA parts and the two X800GT configurations and you’d be hard pushed to pick second place behind the GTO.

Check out the full review at Bit-Tech!

Centon gives their Advanced line a new face and joins the 2GB battle. The price point of the memory is supposed to be in the
affordable range, but the overclocking results didn’t look very promising.

Check out the full review at Insane Tek.

Packed with a great deal of improvements, AbiWord 2.4.0
(stable) has finally been released and with it comes a great deal of
improvements, such as on-the-fly grammar checking, tight image wrapping,
equation editor, OpenDocument file support, GNOME-Office charting, and
many other visual improvements. As always, binaries are available for
various Linux distributions and Microsoft Windows, along with the
complying to the GNU GPL v2.0.

If you are looking for an alternative to OpenOffice, check out the full pictorial at Phoronix.

This is clearly a budget case; however, it has lots of great features. It comes with one 120mm fan & an optional 120mm fan can be installed at the front. Installing this optional fan is strongly recommended for optimal air flow inside the case. It also comes with lots of drive bays & has a tool-less design for the drive bays & expansion slots. Additionally, it has an easy to access Firewire port, 2 USB ports, mic & headphone jack. Watch the Video to find out more…

Check out the full video review over at 3D Gameman.

The ASRock 939Dual-SATA 2 motherboard we’re testing here is a socket 939 AMD Athlon64 solution which incorporates a special slot for a daughter card that will in the near future support the upcoming Socket M2 AMD Athlon64 processor and its allotment of DDR-2 memory. Both the Socket M2 AMD processor and the necessary ASRock daughter card are not currently available, but the CPU is expected in Q2 of 2006 so the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 is certainly forward-looking. ASRock takes the worry out of things with its new 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard. The motherboard boasts the ULi M1695 Northbridge (1 GHz 16/16 HTT connection to the CPU) and ULi M1567 Southbridge which support any current Socket 939 AMD Athlon64/FX/X2 processor.

Head over to PC Stats for the full review!

Like many people, I once had an iPod. After selling my 20GB off many moons
ago due to the inadequate storage, I decided to build and install a complete
PC into my car as the iPod’s replacement. The car that I currently own is a
1993 Volvo 850GLT. While it isn’t exactly anyone’s dream car, my Volvo is a
reliable and solid means of transportation that’s served me well over the
course of its lifetime.

Check out the full article at ModTheBox!

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. Also known as the 1.8 Beta 5 milestone, this is the last beta release of the next major Firefox update and is aimed at testers, extension/theme authors and Web developers. The final release of Firefox 1.5, which will be widely promoted to end-users, is scheduled for later this year.

If you like the bleeding edge, grab the download here. You can check out all that’s new in the BETA here.

There is plenty of room inside the Xion II for what ever you might decide you need to install and where to hide the cables at. The two 120mm fans and the 80mm fan really pulls a lot of air across the PC at a noise level that will not make you insane. Plus the 450 watt power supply that comes with it seems up to the job to keeping your power hungry components happy. After a day of monitoring the power consumption the +12V averaged in at 12.6V, the +5V was running at 4.95V, and the 3.3V was at 3.312V…

Check out the full review over at Legit Reviews.

4.- juanflaiter: A good portion of a video card’s (or in your case a physics card) price is the onboard memory. Could it be possible to implement shared memory architecture with either the main memory or GPU memory?

MH: Although technically feasible, the benefit is not meaningful either in cost or performance. For the gamer who wants the best system, limiting GPU memory or stealing main memory just means the system isn’t the highest level system. Also, shared memory means that bandwidth is shared and will most likely lower performance. This tradeoff might be good for a mainstream product down the road, but not a performance product.

This is an interesting interview, although nothing much has changed since our interview with them back in July. It’s really great to see AGEIA’s PhysX bing used in a lot more places than just games though, such as 3D Studio Max. Check out the full interview at Overclockers.cl.

The world’s biggest software company and second-largest video game console maker behind Sony Corp. (6758.T) has said it expects 15 to 20 games on the market for the North American debut of its next-generation game player on November 22.

It looks like PGR3 and PD: Zero will both likely hit launch. This is great, because I was hoping to pick both of them up that day. Especially since PGR3 will likely be the first 360 “Killer-App”, it would help the launch if it did hit the date. Check out more info at Yahoo.

AMD has recently dominated the gaming segment, thanks to NVIDIA, their nForce4 SLI chipset, and the power of the A64 FX processor. During that time, the Intel camp has had little to cheer about, with Intel gamers forced to rely solely on single graphics card solutions. They could only watch as AMD users walked on by in fps performance. NVIDIA recently shook up that status quo by introducing NVIDIA SLI to the Intel market.

Check out the full review over at AnandTech!

In August of 2000 OCZ started producing high quality memory products and over the years has ventured into power supplies and thumb drives. The RALLY Dual Channel thumb drive is a new and fresh idea from OCZ making compact yet very fast storage possible. Jessica sent over their new RALLY 2GB unit to put to the test and see if it is as fast as they say it is.

Check out the full review at Tech-Mods. You can also check out our review of the drive here.

CoolerGiant sent me one of their PCI-E power supply’s the Enermax ALL In One PCI Express x2 535W PSU (EG565P-VE-FMA). Though this is not Enermax’s flagship unit, it is sure to power just about every computer out there. Lets get on with the review and see how well this PSU performs!

Check out the full review at Extensive Mods!

Once again RaidMax has offered up a solid performing case with an excellent fit and finish. The power supply and AGP/PCI expansion card locking system are both improved over previous models and the Ninja 918 has a stylish look that will attract attention without being over done.

Wow, I like the look of this case. It reminds me of the Logisys Case51W but on steroids. Check out the full review at Big Bruin.

The performance is the real story, as the asetek VapoChill Micro excelled in our testing, specifically when used with their Extreme Performance fan. Yes, it is noisy, but if you want to sacrifice a bit of cooling, by all means go for the Low Noise setup.

Check out the full review over at Viper Lair.

If you are looking for some kind of sexy device to plug into your beloved AMD Athlon 64 rig then you should have a quick look to the BTO Plusdeck 2 Cassette deck reviewed today at AMDboard.com. This true reminiscence of the audio renaissance is a great looking 5.25″ tape reader and recorder capable of offering a brand new life to your old forgotten cassettes and allowing you to transform them into indestructible WAV or MP3 files faster than it takes to say it!

Check out the full review at AMD Board!

Logitech, I’m pretty sure, unless you have been under a rock, you know the name, and chances are very good that you own or have owned one of their products at one time or another. When I hear the name Logitech I think of quality mice and keyboards, but they make other things as well, with the ever increasing popularity of Home Theater PCs comes a need or demand for quality input devices, preferably cordless, to go with those HTPCs. You need input devices that won’t stick out in the living room or the den where your HTPC is located, but since you put a lot of time and effort into your HTPC, then why just throw any old cheapie keyboard and mouse with it? Well you don’t have to, as Logitech has come up with a few solutions for this, today I will be taking a look at two of them, the Cordless Desktop S510 with Media Remote.

Check out the full review of both great products at Think Computers! You can also check out our review of the S510 Remote set here for comparison.