Content and news by Rob Williams

ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) today announced its Mobility
Radeon(R) X600 graphics and Radeon(R) Xpress 200M chipset are available in
two new ThinkPad(TM) models from Lenovo-the Z60m widescreen Leadership
Model and the R51E mainstream performance notebook. ATI’s current
top-to-bottom line of graphics processors support Microsoft’s next
generation Windows Vista(TM) operating system (OS).

Read: Full Press Release

Thermaltake recently released a new PC case. Targeted at the high-end and enthusiast consumer with a diminutive amount of money to spare, Thermaltake offers a new series of PC ATX/BTX ready casings. It’s widely compatible with all mainboards and has a certain balanced feel to it.

Check out the full review at Guru3D.

Thermaltake has recently released the Golden Orb II. Now they have the Blue Orb II. This cooler is a good deal bigger than its golden brother, which results in seriously improved cooling performance. Also the fan seems to have been improved – cools better, but not much louder.

This is a great looking cooler, but HUGE. Check it out at techPowerUp!

Running expensive enthusiast memory is not always needed to increase system performance. Having larger system virtual memory is
also beneficial. OCZ’s Value Pro 2GB kit will not break your wallet and will still overclock.

Check out the full review at InsaneTek.

Here’s your chance to win a case, a power supply or a CPU Cooler!
The million dollar question is how you win! It’s simple. Just email us with
your Full Name, Email, Full Shipping Address, Country and Day time phone
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Head on over to Overclockers Online for the details!

What can you say about a 7800GTX? The most powerful video card on the
market at this time certainly did not disappoint in this review and managed
to make me look twice at certain results. The AOpen Aeolus 7800GTX-DVD256 is
not a lot different from any of the other 7800GTX cards out there and is
pretty much identical to the other manufacturers such as EVGA, XFX, and BFG
brands.

Check out the full review at Overclockers Online.

Most of the talk going on in the computer processor industry is revolving around dual core processors. But what advantages do they actually give and is it worth it in terms of price?

Check out the complete article at Bona Fide Reviews.

Now the performance of this motherboard. For the most part in our ‘Office’ benchmarks and our video encoding tests the two motherboards performed fairly close, within 1-2%. Only three programs showed a marked difference between the two motherboards, TMPGEnc, UT2004 and Half Life 2. In TMPGEnc the Asus board was slower in real time then the ECS board, while CPU time was more or less equal.

Head on over to Viper Lair for the full review!

The Hiper Clavier is an example a keyboard which was released by a company which is known for selling different types of hardware, particularly power supplies. This is not an oddity, but it raises the question, what would a company that does not specialize in input devices have to offer the keyboard market?… Looking at these features we start to get an idea of what the keyboard is all about. Foremost is style- the keyboard uses short stroke keys, has a solid aluminum bezel around the key area, and even purple LEDs. Hiper is not the first company to produce an aluminum keyboard, but this is certainly one of the best looking ones available.

Check out the full review at XYZ Computing!

This card overclocked better than I expected, I was able to reach the core speed of 485 MHz and 1200 MHz on the memory. The card was 100% stable at that speed and no artifacts occurred. In reality and according to Riva tuner the card runs at 526 MHz core and 1200 MHz for the memory, very impressive indeed. Now you are probably curious to see if the Asus Extreme N7800GT is as fast as or faster than the 7800GTX.

Check out the in-depth review over at NGOHQ!

We have modded the new ATI Catalyst 5.9 for Mobility into a driver that will support all the desktop cards as well. Since it’s not the official version, please use at your own risk.

Wow, that was a fast release! If you are dying to try out the newest, download this at NGOHQ!

Now the performance of this motherboard. For the most part in our ‘Office’ benchmarks and our video encoding tests the two motherboards performed fairly close, within 1-2%. Only three programs showed a marked difference between the two motherboards, TMPGEnc, UT2004 and Half Life 2. In TMPGEnc the Asus board was slower in real time then the ECS board, while CPU time was more or less equal.

Check out the full review at Viper Lair.

Many are intimidated by this subject and they shouldn’t be.
Overcloc1king is simple and painless but much like dinner at the in-laws, it
can be a long and tedious process. Some refer to overclocking as an art
form, if it is then call me Picasso or Monet and consider this guide to be
oc101. I figured it was high time to write up a comprehensive and in-depth
guide as this comes up far to often in forums not only here but everywhere.
I will concentrate on overclocking the AMD64 processor today on a Windows
based machine…let’s get started.

This is pretty in-depth stuff! Check it out at Overclockers Online!

By now, you would almost need to be living underneath a rock
to not have heard about the upcoming NVIDIA Rel80 GeForce display
drivers. Although a majority of this preliminary information has been
Microsoft Windows centric, today we’ll be sharing with you some of the
features that should be on the horizon for Linux users and the 1.0-8XXX
drivers, one of which feature is the long awaited SLI support.

Check out the full article at Phoronix.

You might have read our article on Avivo earlier today and thought “dual dual-link DVI? LIES!”. You might even have the stance that ATI’s R5-series of products is the most talked about piece of vapourware since 3DRealms announced Duke Nukem Forever. Allow HEXUS to pictorially debunk both of those…

This coverage just keeps getting better. Check it out at Hexus.

Everyone has fans in their system, even people running water cooling, the only exception you may find is someone running a vapor cooled system. In any case you want something that will keep your temperatures low and for some the added benefit of quietness is a major plus. Myself I don’t mind listening to fans howl at high speeds, but some enjoy the bliss of a nice quiet system. The two fans I will review have been optimized for noise to airflow ratio, the lades have a forward swept design, the motor has a reduced size and shape to allow a larger surface area of fan blades and improve the aerodynamics also something which is exclusive to them are the fan mounts which are silicone-composite which dampen vibration.

Head over to Think Computers for the full review!

The Evercool K802-715CA is a pretty standard Athlon64 heatsink whose main selling point is its copper construction, and inexpensive sticker price. How its 516 grams of copper have been assembled are not necessarily conducive towards great cooling efficiency however, and the results of FrostyTech’s synthetic thermal tests will shortly illustrate the K802-715CA’s effective limits.

Check out the full review at Frosty Tech.

Today NVIDIA is announcing a new K8 chipset family that brings GeForce 6 graphics to the nForce4 platform. The chipset family is made up of a pair of interchangeable north and south bridge chips, with the former sporting DirectX 9-glass integrated graphics derived from NVIDIA’s GeForce 6 series. Integrated graphics is so important to NVIDIA’s new north bridge chips that rather than being branded with the nForce name, the new chips have been dubbed GeForce 6150 and GeForce 6100. Read on for more details on NVIDIA’s new core logic.

Head over to Tech Report for the full look.

Overall the Razer Diamondback Plasma LE is as perfect a gaming mouse can be as anything better than this would have something to do with lazer sensors. To be short, the Plasma LE is the best in its class. The mouse provided excellent responsiveness, thanks to its 1600 dpi infrared sensor and always ON mode. As for starters, this mouse may be a little too fast for you but fret not because the driver lets you adjust different types of sensitivity and speeds. Changing sensitivity without having to use the “Alt+TAB” button is also possible with the “On-the-fly Sensitivity” feature. Gamers will certainly love this feature as it gives total control over the mouse, which is a critical point for professional gamers.

Check out the full review over at PC Modding Malaysia!

Cnet has a cool list of the top 10 best and worst products of the last 10 years. It’s no surprise that the iPOD made #1 on the best product list:

No other product has had the incredible, loyal devotion that the iPod inspires. It’s also one of only a handful of products to get a 9 rating from CNET. It revolutionized and popularized music players with its stylish design and is still considered the industry leader. Even if you devoutly believe other music players have better features now, you have to acknowledge that iPod is still the king.

Microsoft Bob made the #1 on the worst list.. and I really can’t disagree. Check out the Best and Worst lists!