Content and news by Rob Williams

There has been a nice FAQ put up over at Ritualistic, so you can learn all you need to know about the upcoming game. How long will each chapter of SiN Episodes be?

Each chapter of SiN Episodes will approximately take 3 – 6 hours to play through from start to finish. Action-based outcomes will add replay value, so that you can play through each chapter multiple times to experience the various possible outcomes.

Check out the full FAQ here.

It performs flawlessly, overclocks far more than its expected speed and its massive size will keep users happy for quite some time to come. It can be even used by enthusiasts in small workstations, as the size allows for professional applications to run flawlessly while the performance does not get compromised. It is also able to work at very tight timings for DDR2 RAM, and very high if I may add.

Check out the full review at Xtreme Resources.

VR-Zone has learned that the upcoming GeForce 7800 GT will be 20 pipes instead of 24 pipes as intially reported. The vertex shader could probably stay at 8 and ROP at 16. The core clock for 7800GT is 400MHz instead of 335MHz initially thought. It will be interesting to see if the 4 hidden pipes can unlocked on the 7800 GT to become GTX. The 7800GT is slated for launch on 11th Aug at Quakecon 2005 and MRSP for this card is US$449. Also NVIDIA won’t release their 7800 Standard yet until their 6800 inventory are cleared.

Even with ‘only’ 20 pipes, this card will kick some serious ass. $450US is still a tad high though, but seeing that the 6800GT’s are still usually around $400 themselves, it’s not so bad. Source: VR-Zone.

Overclocking at low latency has always been the target of most enthusiasts. We all know that running the memory at extreme timings will boost your system’s performance significantly. However, with overclocking, most of the time we have to sacrifice latency over speed. That has changed recently with the rebirth of Winbond’s BH5 in the form of UTT chips.

They managed to pull off 2-2-2-5 @ DDR540 speeds with this memory! Check out the full review at OC Tools.

The Fatal1ty AN8 SLI is ABIT’s contender for the Athlon64 nForce4-based speed crown. Finally, ABIT fans have a top-of-the-line board to call their own, but is this board too late to the SLI party?

It’s about time this board received some SLi love. Check out the in-depth review at Hard|OCP.

The Internet’s governing body, ICANN, has approved the creation of the “.mobi” domain suffix, for use by Websites designed for cell phones and other mobile devices. The initiative is aimed at improving ease of use of Internet-based mobile services, although some question whether creating separate domain for mobile devices is necessary.

.mobi sounds like a reasonable domain extension to me. Check out the full info at InfoWorld.

I have no idea how I forgot to post this yesterday, but Firefox 1.0.5 has finally been released. In this release, stability issues have been handled, as well as numerous security fixes.

Thunderbird 1.0.5 has also been released with the same fixes. You can grab them both here.

At a glance, the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router appears to be a simple wireless broadband router. But is it really just that? Today, we take a close look at the Linksys WRT54G and find out if that’s true!

Check out all the info on this router at Rojak Pot.

You need to evaluate what you require in a graphics card. On the one hand, XFX’s GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB makes a compelling case as a cheap, relatively-speaking, workstation-class card, capable of running exotic displays. On the other though, and this affects the majority of potential buyers who tend to be gamers, you’d be better off opting for a single GeForce 7800 GTX or a couple of GeForce 6800 GTs in SLI formation. £470, then, will be either a snip or prohibitively expensive, depending upon your intended need.

Head over to Hexus for the review!

With a greater number of computer users constructing elaborate wireless and wired networks in their home’s or small offices, a centralized SOHO server usually takes center stage in the network. Although there are countless numbers of services the server could offer, most often in these home/small office type situations its to offer a network repository for files and programs and to stream audio and/or video across the network from an HTPC. In this article, we’ll be looking at some different products to effectively lower the noise level of any computer system but mainly in the way of HTPCs/servers.

Check out the article over at Phoronix.

A1 Electronics is running a contest where you can win an Ice Mat Siberia headset! Go here for all the details.

A compact light weight DDR memory cooler for those of you who want to get the most from your DDR memory.

Now this is a very unique idea. Sounds great for overclocking your memory! Check it out at A1 Electronics.

he PrimeCooler CoolPad is as simple as you see in our pictures, but then this is just what is needed.

I’m so tempted to buy a laptop cooler, but it would be great to know how well they actually worked! Check out the review at A1 Electronics.

The overall size no doubt plays a significant role in the Tuniq Tower’s performance, but I think it may actually be too big. It overhangs the CPU socket on all sides, and there are a number of things that could interfere with this beast. On the test system, it only had a problem with the chipset cooler, but that is problem enough. I can foresee issues on other boards where it may be too close to the memory, power supply, chipset, OTES type cooling, or maybe even the video card.

Check out the full review at Big Bruin.

Overall the CaseBuy AI-01 series case is a good-value-entry case where it offers extra features that cannot be found on most normal value ATX cases. The mesh of the case looks good but if you live in a dusty area, you might end up clean the case frequently. If you are looking for a nice looking case but with a limited budget, you should have a look at the CaseBuy AI-01 series case. By the way for Malaysian, you can get the CaseBuy AI-01-BK-DE under the AVF brand logo (model AC0502M-BB) for RM229 which includes a AVF power supply.

Head over to PC Modding Malaysia for the full review!

Networking computers together continues to be a daunting subject for the computer novice, so we’ve seen many different approaches to the subject. The book, Home Networking Simplified, aims for a middle of the road approach, neither oversimplifying the subject or being too technical and dry. The technical details behind home networking are covered as well as the procedures involved and the steps needed to secure a network and protect sensitive eyes from the dangers of the Internet. This 393-page, full colour soft cover book falls into the lower-priced category of computer guidebooks, which certainly makes it an easy addition to your tech library.

Check out the full article at PC Stats.

HTPC’s are becoming more popular, and components designed for the specific purpose of usage in a home theater are increasing. Because of this increase in demand for HTPC’s we are also seeing a return of “desktop” style cases in the form of HTPC cases. Amongst the myriad of companies offering “HTPC” cases is Thermaltake. Thermaltake has just recently entered two products into the HTPC market, the Mystic and the Tenor. The latter is the one we will be examining today.

Head over to Phoronix for the full review!

Ever since the launch of SLi we have known that Dell has wanted to get ‘in’ on the action – but it was clear why they hadn’t, NVIDIA only did AMD chipsets. However, since then we have seen the introduction of Intel P4 support on nForce4. All of the building blocks are now in place.

Head over to Hexus for the posting.

PDP Systems with its introduction of Patriot Memory +XBLK line takes dead aim at the DDR enthusiasts. They bring to market tight timings and flexible VDimm requirements to allow you to stretch the usability of a PC3200 Module to that of a PC4200 Module. A well done introduction into the market space, giving us yet another vendor for serious consideration when choosing our memory.

Head over to Viper Lair for the full review!

The change to the Microtune 2121 does the ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon X800 XL for PCI Express a lot of favours in Europe, technically, with a knock-on effect of increased feature set. The 400MHz X800 XL and AIW features, on PCI Express, should make it a massive seller in the UK and Europe when it appears later in the summer.

Check out the full look at Hexus!