Content and news by Rob Williams

“There are many PSUs on the market but few have as many unique features as this one does. The big plus is its modular design which cuts down on the cable mess, increases case air flow, and simply looks cool. Additionally, it has dual +12V rails & 2 PCI-E Video Cards leads. It even includes a real time wattage display. Empowering! Watch the Video to find out more…”

Check out the full review over at 3D Gameman.

“Another Contest!! We are giving away a PNY GeForce FX 5200 Verto! All you have to do is have 5 posts in the forums and submit your case to the case gallery. Once you have posted your case reply to this topic with a link to your case in the case gallery. It’s that simple! This contest will run for 3 weeks, so get in the Case Gallery and post your case!”

Check out all the details at Think Computers.

“Logisys has provided us with many interesting products lately such as the unique cases, power supplies, coolers, and various other products. Today we have another product from Logisys, the Logisys 12-inch Day & Night UV-Blue Inter-Switchable CCFL Kit.”

Head over to Phoronix for the full review.

A new version of the RivaTuner can be had over at Guru3D. Here are the updates to this version:

• Added ForceWare 76.xx driver family support.
• Updated databases for Detonator and ForceWare driver families. Added databases for ForceWare 72.03, 76.10, 76.44, 76.45 and 76.50 drivers.
• NV40BIOSSwUnitsMaskeliminator patch script has been replaced with NV4xBIOSSwUnitsMaskeliminator. Now the script may optionally remove software units mask from both NV40 and NV43 VGA BIOS images.
• Added Catalyst 5.3 and 5.4 drivers detection.
• Updated Catalyst 5.3 and 5.4 certified SoftR9x00 patch script. Take a note that ATIOverclockingAntiprotection and ATIOverclockingAntiprotectionRuntime patch scripts are discontinued and no longer updated, as new ATI drivers are no longer overclocking protected.
• Improved NVStrap driver v1.8 provides Quadro capabilities unlocking for some new hardware protected NV40 based display adapters.

You can grab the download over at Guru3D.

“Frankly, we’re sick of moaning about historical RTS games. There are just so many of them attempting to grab your attention, yet most have little in the way of originality and selling points between them. Empire Earth 2 has managed to put a gag on our moaning for now by being an Comment (0) -->

“Today, PCStats will be looking at the new Asus K8N4-E Deluxe motherboard. It’s so new that it’s not even up on Asus’s North American website. Based around the nForce4 chipset, this motherboard supports Socket 754 AMD Athlon64 or Sempron processors. It’s memory slots will accommodate up to 3GB of single channel DDR memory. Graphics come courtesy of a standard PCI Express x16 slot, which is the key selling point as far as we’re concerned. Onboard goodies consist of an extra Serial ATA/RAID controller, a 7.1-channel audio codec, IEEE 1394a Firewire and Gigabit LAN.”

Check it out at PC Stats!

“The key to maintaining a healthy PC system, especially an overclocked one, is to keep it in the ideal state. And this includes the operating temperature.

Jetart has one such product to monitor your system temperatures – the Jetart ThermoEye DT2000! Today, we will take a close look at this thermometer. Let’s see how it performs!”

Head over to Rojak Pot for the review!

“Today I bring out some bling bling courtesy of StarTech with their Mutant Mods line up. Let me thank StarTech for the opportunity to review this cool product. I have for you the Mutant Mods 6′ Lava Lamp LED USB 2.0 Cable A-B M/M this is the Blue/Green version, also their site lists the Red/Yellow here. You may have come across colored cables but, this is a lighted and stands out more than a non lighted one would.”

Check out the full review over at Think Computers.

“Welcome to a new world, a world at war. Lost Eden will be my first expansion as Game Director and I am very excited at being able to continue the Anarchy Online saga following in the footsteps of Gaute and Marius” Morten Byom – Game Director Read the full Letter from the Comment (0) -->

It appears as though, Mourning, a new MMORPG has quietly launched today. You can even go to the website and download the client, although you need to buy a $19.95US key to play, which gives you a free month. “In many tales and legends the world of Krel is described as a Comment (0) -->

“Security vendor VeriSign found 66 percent would choose to give up their passwords for a Starbucks coffee, during an informal on-the-street survey conducted Thursday in San Francisco”

The people didn’t obviously reveal their usernames, but even so. Of course, I would likely give out a fake password for a free latte. Booya. Read it here.

” Software developers have figured out how to extract files from the Universal Media Discs used in Sony’s new PlayStation Portable handheld video game device, though there is no way to play the games extracted from those discs.”

PSP games will likely never be able to be downloaded illegally and played on the system, however it’s fully possible to create PC emulation for it. Since the files can be extracted, I am sure it’s only a matter of time before that happens. Check out the full article here.

“Firefox, the open source web browser, has been downloaded 50 million times since its official launch in November. To celebrate, the Mozilla Foundation, which led its development, is giving away commemorative coins to people who have done the best job promoting it.”

Not sure exactly how they choose the people that get the coin. It’s noted that Firefox has been a main competitor of IE since it’s release, so it will be interesting to watch what happens when IE 7.0 get’s released. Read the article at BBC UK.

“The search engine launched the beta version of a solution that will accelerate the online browsing and the loading of the generated searches.

Web Accelerator is a freeware program that runs together with the browser and directs all the searches and web-site requests through Google’s searches. The software is compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox.”

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, you can read more about it at Softpedia, and also download it there as well. Head over to The Inquirer for a potential security risk.

“Overall, we found the Soltek EQ3501-300P a solid system with a few flaws, both minor and major depending on what you’re looking for in a SFF PC. The system itself is suitable as a full sized system replacement, and if you’re aware of the limitations and can work around them, you’ll be fine. Whether or not you like the appearance though is up to you.”

If SFF is your thing, check out this review at Viper Lair.

“The system will run with a master card and slave card. The slave card can be ANY ATI card on the market, which is just about as cool as absolute zero, but (and it’s a big BUT).. the master card, which will control the frame buffer, has to support MVP. The ATI solution runs on a tiled based approach – which has a minimum checkerboard size of 32 pixels square.”

Whew, this is going to make the next few months of computing very interesting. MVP works on a different method than SLi, and ATI fully believes it’s a better way. I can’t wait to see this technology come to light, and I am sure that we will see that MVP will potentially beat the pants off of SLi. Check it out at Hexus!

“Today 3DXtreme is proud to present our latest review, this review comes from a relatively newcomer in the memory field, USModular. In this review we are taking a look at the 1GB Kit of USModular Cold Fusion PC4000 Memory; this memory is rated for use at 250 MHZ or DDR500 with the timings of 3-4-4-8. The Cold Fusion 512MB sticks of memory feature gold heatspreaders and the Cold Fusion insignia under the hood are specially tested, speed binned Hynix ICs.”

Check out the full review over at 3D Xtreme.

Monolith has been responsible for a large amount of quality titles over the years, including Blood, No One Lives Forever 2, and Alien Vs Predator 2. But The Matrix Online is the developer’s first foray into the world of Massively Multiplayer gaming. After a right old carry on getting our copy patched Comment (0) -->

“Sunbeam’s 20-in-1 Superior Panel is exactly that! A brilliantly devised and constructed panel to put everything any PC user would need at their finger tips. There are many other panels that could be purchased for your PC, but why go with 2 or 3, when you could simply go with 1?”

Very cool product no doubt. Check it out at Lan Addict.

“The reason for this occasional slow performance is the same reason why Microsoft Windows XP runs considerably slower than Windows 2000 at times; it’s what’s going on in the background. Every modern operating system needs to run certain processes constantly, regardless of what other programs and operations are currently active and regardless of what the user may be doing. These background processes may be used to detect new hardware, monitor the network for incoming data, or a variety of other things that require the operating system to pay constant attention to its surroundings. In Windows XP, these background processes are called Services and they will be the topic of this edition. We’re going to look at what the WinXP Services are and do, why they are necessary, which ones should be running on your system and which ones you can do without.”

Check out the full article at PC Stats!