Content and news by Rob Williams

Small Form Factor Cases are becoming more & more popular because they are light & compact. This makes them a perfect candidate for building a KICKASS system for LAN parties. The SG01 is aluminum with fantastic styling, construction & looks. There are 2 external 5.25″ & 2 internal 3.5″ drive bays. At the front, conveniently located, is 1 Firewire, 4 USB2 ports, mic & headphone jack. It also has good air circulation. Watch the Video to find out more…

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

The Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra offers users a very flexible nForce 4/PCI Express platform, and has some useful integrated peripherals like a 8-channel audio, 10 USB2.0 ports, IEEE 1394a, and Gigabit LAN. It’s not the most well equipped motherboard we’ve ever dealt with, but for mainstream users I think you could say it fills out all the necessary points well.

Head over to PC Stats for the full review.

The Albatron GeForce 7800GTX videocard is pretty darn impressive. In addion to its nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX GPU with 302 million transistors, the PCI Express x16 videocard packs 256MB of GDDR3 memory, SLi compatibility, a low-profile & low-noise heatsink, twin DVI video connections and support for a host of video input and output formats. Albatron ship along a basic set of software and cabletry with the Albatron 7800GTX videocard so that every feature can be used (SLI bracket excluded), but there’s nothing else in the box aside from the 7800GTX card to really get excited about.

Check out the full review at PC Stats.

When talking about a binary number like computer memory or processor cache, where the memory is made up of a series of memory cells that hold single bits of information, the number of memory cells is always power of 2. For instance, 1024 bits of memory, what you’d likely usually call a kilobit, is 2^10 bits. However, kilo is a prefix for base-10 or decimal numbers, so it doesn’t actually apply to that figure when it’s a representation of a binary number. The correct prefix is instead kibi, so 1024 bits is really a kibibit.

Check out the full article over at Hexus.

Team ARP is proud to announce a new giveaway contest! At stake is a 1GB Mushkin PC3200 222 Level II V2 Dual Pack Memory Kit! This is your chance to get this amazing memory kit for free!

Check out the full details at Rojak Pot.

We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates!

Check out the full guide over at Rojak Pot.

By absorbing heat from the processor, the fluid will dissolve and form into gas which travels towards the top of the pipes. Once the gas is cooled down it’ll turn into a solid fluid form again and travels back to the bottom of the CPU cooler. The recirculation of the coolant is based on gravity. So the evaporation chamber absorbs whatever heat energy is available to it from it’s surroundings to vaporise the refrigerant.

Check out the full review at Guru 3D.

Computer enthusiasts and case modders are always looking for that next-best-thing. We search for products that allow us to squeeze the last few MHZ out of our systems in search of the ultimate overclock. We also want to have a product that looks good. The Evercool Neon Crab Memory Cooler is advertised as something that can fill both these voids. It has a funny name and looks unusual, but let’s see how well it really works…

I had high hopes for this product, but it seems that it didn’t actually cool the memory that much. Check out the full review over at Big Bruin.

After hearing many complaints from enthusiasts, OCZ brings back the use of TCCD in their high speed Platinum memory. The PC4800
Elite Edition overclocks wonderfully to amazing new speeds.

Check out the full review over at InsaneTek.

Today, is a rather special day for GeForce 7800GTX Linux owners as we can finally expect some new drivers from NVIDIA that fix the poor performance issues. Although these new 1.0-7675 drivers continue to lack some of the new antialiasing modes, and SLI (Scalable Link Interface), supported by the GeForce 7 series they do come with a hefty amount of changes. In this article, we have new benchmarks to demonstrate the areas that the driver improved, and those that have not been affected. Continue on for this exclusive 1.0-7675 testing.

Check out the full preview over at Phoronix.

The unprecedented sales success of the Apple iPod portable music player has spawned a growing peripherals business to supply the owner base with a wide range of accessories. Among the most popular add-ons are compact portable speaker systems which allow the user to un-tether from his/her headphones and share their music with others. Altec-Lansing, in particular, has had great success with a variety of portable speaker systems, from the ground-breaking inMotion to the subsequent IM3 and IM4. Now Logitech has entered the fray with their mm22 Portable Speakers.

Check out the full review over at Bona Fide Reviews.

San Diego, August 4, 2005 – Razer, the world leader in high-end computer gaming peripherals, unveiled the newest snake in their family of reptilian gaming accessories – the copperhead(tm) – during a press conference at their world headquarters in Singapore.

“Razer products embody cutting- edge gaming technology pioneered by a team of talented engineers,” Robert Krakoff, president, Razer USA, said. “Working closely with the gaming community also helps us develop peripherals like the Copperhead, giving gamers a competitive edge in play. We’re confident that the Copperhead will be the new benchmark for mice among competitive gamers.”

Most were impressed by the recent 1600DPI mice, but it was only a matter of time before we seen it go higher. This mouse comes in at an impressive 2000DPI! You can check out even more infomation on the new mouse over at Razerzone.

The drive for this first release is clear. This isn’t a showcase of the new features to you and I, this is the starter course for many months of development work from partners and application designers. Many of the new and exciting features which interest the users are missing from this release and there is far more emphasis on getting the under-the-bonnet revamping out there to the people writing the software for it.

You can check out a great look at the next version of Windows over at Bit-Tech.

Continuing its Hollywood makeover, Yahoo today introduces a new Internet search tool for finding downloadable songs, podcasts, newscasts and speeches.

The audio search feature for the first time breaches the barriers between the various online music services, providing access to more than 50 million digital recordings. It allows anyone to look for an individual song within the digital collections of 16 different services, including the iTunes Music Store, Napster, Rhapsody and Yahoo’s own Music Unlimited.

You can check out the posting over at Silicon Valley and test out the search here. This could actually proof quite useful if you are looking for a specific song, but don’t know where to look. I gotta test it out..

Falanx Microsystems is a Norwegian company that was born of a bunch of University minds and a 3D graphics project four years ago. As 3dfx and Matrox were making painfully obvious, there was getting to be less room for 3D graphics competitors. At this time Falanx, with the support of their government, focused on markets that are not always on the radar for most of us.

Falanx was incorporated in April 2001 and is a privately held corporation developing and marketing IP Graphics Cores for the mobile market for use in mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, handheld gaming devices and infotainment systems. Falanx is licensing its family of IP Cores directly to equipment vendors and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) vendors.

Hard|OCP has a bit to say on Falanx, as well as multiple slides. It’s looking hopeful so far, so chances are we will hear more about it soon. Check out the full article here.

The Mozilla Foundation has announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will continue the development, distribution and marketing of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. Unlike the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation will be a taxable entity (that is, a for-profit rather than a non-profit) but the Foundation is eager to emphasise that it will pursue the same public benefit goals as the Foundation itself and will not be driven purely by revenue goals.

The change will not affect the day-to-day development of Mozilla, with the current system of module owners, drivers, reviewers and super-reviewers staying in place. End-users are unlikely to notice any difference either, though the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation will eventually have separate websites. At the moment, only Firefox and Thunderbird will be developed under the auspices of the Mozilla Corporation; other projects, such as Camino and SeaMonkey, will continue to be overseen by the Mozilla Foundation.

This likely will not affect end users too much, but it will help keep all of Mozilla more organized and productive! Check out all the information here.

We’ve played Battlefield 2 with this new keyset and once we were used to the new locations of the commonly used keys the game became much easier to play. The enlarged movement, jump and other important keys were much easier to find. We appreciate the work of Ideazon to keep the new keysets coming and making gaming easier for ZBoard owners.

Thanks to a great relationship with Ideazon we are able to provide our lucky readers their own ZBoard and Battlefield 2 keyset in our latest giveaway – we are going to giveaway both ZBoards with Battlefield 2 keysets. Be sure to get in as many enteries (one per day) as possible to increase your odds!

Check out all the details at 3D Xtreme.

MARKHAM, Ontario – Aug. 4, 2005 – Novell has released the second service pack (SP2) for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9, delivering numerous security improvements, maintenance enhancements, and updates for the most popular open source projects within the distribution. SP2 also includes new software packages that facilitate improved clustering and server consolidation, providing a more scalable and efficient solution for enterprise customers.

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP2 contains all the latest security patches and bug fixes that have been released for the Linux 2.6 kernel and associated packages, rigorously tested and fully integrated into the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server environment. Included in this release are the new Oracle Cluster File System 2 for x86, AMD64®, Intel® EM64T®, and Intel Itanium® 2 processor family, and dual core CPU support for latest AMD64® and Intel® EM64T® processor and Intel Itanium2 processor family. SP2 also includes updated device drivers for the most recent generation of server hardware for all major hardware architectures (including x86, AMD64, EMT64, Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor Family, IBM POWER and IBM zSeries).

SP2 is available to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server customers who have valid Upgrade Protection from Novell and can be accessed here.

Almost everyone knows that Sunbeam is specialized in CCFL and other “modding” accessories, but it seems that their sub-company (Tuniq) came out with the Tower 120 which has proven itself to be a good performance air cooler. The only draw back of the Tower 120 is its huge size because some users might be wary to break their motherboard as it is heavy and tall. However, we test the cooler with proper installation withouh a hitch. Overall, the Tuniq Tower 120 is a good air cooler that is comes at an acceptable performance and price ratio.

Check out the full review over at PC Modding Malaysia.

The Albatron K8SLI motherboard is a compact nVidia nForce4 SLI board that packs in quite a bit into a small space. The Albatron K8SLI comes with a basic set of features, such as Gigabit network ethernet, 5.1 channel audio controller (with SPDIF out), two free 32 bit PCI slots as well two PCI Express x1 & PCI Express x16 slots, and the standard assortment of SATA and IDE connectors supported by the nForce 4 SLI chipset.

Check out the full review at PC Stats!