Content and news by Rob Williams

Back in the old days Sunbeam was known for it’s high quality, cheap and reliable cold cathode lights. They then produced cold cathode fans and started producing more and more products. Nowadays you can purchase various things from a lot of suppliers world wide and they have recently released their brand new line of powersupplies.

Check out the full review at BurnoutPC.

When we first explained TAAA in our Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX preview, we included a comparison screenshot from early on in Half-Life 2. A scene from the train station with lots of chain-link fences—a prime candidate for TAAA. Still, it was a shot from the vendor, and we’d like to see the effects in our own tests.

This is a great article with comparitive screenshots. Check it out at ExtremeTech.

The wire claims that Intel has told its OEMs they “are now allowed” to buy AMD microprocessors.

Is this true? First it would imply that Intel told its OEMs they weren’t allowed to buy AMD microprocessors in the first place, so making the whole antitrust legal cafuffle in the US redundant. And demonstrating a certain gutlessness on behalf of the OEMs.

Regardless of whether this is true, I want to see AMD more readily available, especially from Dell. Check out the posting at The Inquirer.

BIG BLUE has hammered the final nails into OS/2’s coffin. It said that all sales of OS/2 will end on the 23rd of December this year, and support for the pre-emptive multitasking operating system will end on the 31st December 2006.

20 years is not bad for an OS. In fact, I didn’t realize businesses still used OS/2. Check out the posting here.

This is the coolest keyboard, EVER. Each key on the keyboard is an actual display, and capable of displaying characters, icons and anything else.

If this comes into production, I’m sure it would cost a fortune. Check it out here.

Today, we have a unit on the bench that I think encompasses the necessities of what a power supply should have and be. High Power has been in existence since 2002 and has put out a number of quality units. Their latest unit, the High Power PW480 102DF really shows a nice mix of flash and usable features.

Head over to Overclocker Cafe for the review.

Hackers attacked a site promoting Firefox last weekend in order to commandeer it to send spam, the Mozilla Foundation said on Friday. The attack was limited to community marketing site SpreadFirefox.com. In a statement, the Mozilla Foundation said the unspecified security vulnerabilities were exploited to mount the attack.

Check out the posting over at the Register.

A NEW type of television will provide a hi-tech peace treaty for those endless family rows about who gets to watch what: the world’s first liquid crystal display that shows two completely different images depending on where you are sitting.

This is incredibly cool! Check it out here.

New AMD nForce drivers (6.66) have been released today! You can download the Windows XP/2000 drivers here and the Windows x64 drivers here.

Obviously, you need to have a motherboard with an nForce chipset to make use of these drivers!

Overall the Vantec NexStar 3 is an outstanding hard drive enclosure where it does not only deliver the performance but also comes out top on quality and looks. However if you are changing hard drives often, it is not that feasible that you get the Vantec NexStar 3 because it is not easy to swap hard drives from the enclosure. The price of the NexStar 3 is nearly the same with NexStar 2 at USD50. If you are thinking of get a “cool” hard drive enclosure, the Vantec NexStar 3 is one of the best choices for you.

Head over to PC Modding Malaysia for the full review!

GearGrip has been at the game of producing reliable computer harnesses for quite some time. At nearly every LAN event we attend there’s dozens of gamers using GearGrip products to assist in the transportation of their computer equipment. Today up for review, we’re trying out GearGrip’s LCD Shield Harness.

Check out the review at Phoronix.

Aspire have released quite a multi-function enclosure. Overall the styling of the case is very nice. The three analog gauges on the front not only provide a good amount of information, but also a nice graphic feature. The blue black and silver color scheme really work, and the inclusion of the led fans provide a nice glow in the dark look.

Head over to Viper Lair for the full review.

The DFI LanParty series is legendary among overclockers. We haven’t seen any other board offer that many overclocking features. For example, being able to your run your memory at voltages of more than 3.3V is pretty unique. A well thought out components layout and little on-board switches make overclockers happy.

Check out the full review at TechPowerUp! You can use our review of the board as a comparison means, here.

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol for establishing sessions in an IP network. But if you are like most of us, that means nothing to you. In layman’s terms, SIP is a method by which various computers can talk to one another so that they can complete voice calls.

Check out the full article at Bona Fide Reviews.

The MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard is any overclocker’s dream motherboard. It offers rock solid stability even when running at 250HTT around the clock! And having the ability to do up to 355HTT steadily, we take our hats off to this champ. Being the best nForce 3 based motherboard we have tested up to date, the K8N Neo2 Platinum is the “baddest” and meanest socket 939 motherboard out in the market.

Check out the review at PC Modding Malaysia.

The Turbo-Cool 510 Express/SLI’s main selling point is its suitability for SLI videocard systems. This starts with the pair of 12V six-pin video card power connectors on the unit and ends with the fact that the power supply is one of only four officially recommended by nVidia for use with SLI videocard computer systems. While the 510W sustained of the Turbo-Cool 510 Express/SLI might appear to be pedestrian, it can handle up to 650W at peak, and that is drastically even more than enough for an overclocked SLI desktop PC.

Head over to PC Stats for the review!

With Firefox growing in popularity, it’s amazing that many people still do not know what Extensions are. We’ll explain what they are and how they are beneficial to your browsing experience. We also have our top 10 list to get you started.

With everyone using Samsung TCCD, Gigaram follows and pairs it with a non Brainpower PCB. Does it overclock as well as the
excellent BP/TCCD combo? You’ll be a little surprised.

Check out the full review at InsaneTek.

U.S. local television broadcasters said on Tuesday they would accept a 2009 deadline to switch to airing only higher-quality digital signals, a date being considered by lawmakers.

However, they urged Congress to give consumers the choice of receiving the new signals as-is or converting them to analog so that they would work on older television sets — and to require cable companies to carry extra channels broadcasters offer.

We’ll have to see if this will actually fall through or not. Check out the post at Yahoo News.

Call of Duty 2 lets players experience four individual soldier stories as they overcome insurmountable odds in multiple campaigns. Players have the freedom to follow each of the four storylines through for the ultimate character-driven experience, or they can engage in the historic battles chronologically for quick hitting action. Along with the…..