Hardware Roundup for Jan. 24

AMD has a new stock heatsink to be included with some of their processors, and it looks great. It’s a nice step up from the previous version, so it would be nice to see it available for their entire line-up. You can read all about it at MadShrimps. We all know that the OCZ Rally is a super fast USB thumb drive because of it’s dual channel memory. Well, GeIL has recently released a similar product and Techniz is taking it for an evaluation. It took only 18 seconds to read 500MB of data off the drive!

Cases & Enclosures
• Raidmax RX-9 ATX Gaming Case – Big Bruin
• SilverStone LC09B Mini-ITX – Virtual-Hideout
• Xion II ATX Case – Futurelooks

Cooling
• AMD new stock Athlon 64 HSF – Madshrimps
• Coolermaster Susurro – Madshrimps
• Scythe Ninja Plus CPU Cooling – Technic3D

Memory & Storage
• DAViD 100 Series, Dual Channel USB Pen Drive – Techniz
• SanDisk Sansa m230 512MB MP3 Player – XYZ Computing
• X-Micro Mini DisGO 20GB Portable Hard Drive – Think Computers

Motherboards & CPU’s
• ECS PF5 Extreme – techPowerUp!

Peripherals & Power Supplies
• SilverStone Strider 600w ST60F – A1 Electronics
• Zalman ZM460-APS 460W Quiet Power Supply – 3D Gameman

Video Cards & Monitor
• XGI Volari 8300 Graphics Card – Rojak Pot

Etcetera & Contests
• 3DMark2006 Benchmark Roundup – TweakPC
• VoIP and the Leap of Faith – Design Technica