Hardware Roundup for Jan. 3

There’s many cooling related reviews going ’round the web today for all tastes. If you want to get into water cooling your PC, but don’t know which kit to choose, you may check out the review of Corsairs COOL kit over at Bjorn 3D. It’s not the best kit in the world, but worth a look. On the air side of things, PC Modding Malaysia takes the latest from Arctic Cooling for a spin. They are testing it on their Intel system but it’s also compatible for your AMD S939. For comparison purposes, they even detail the differences between this cooler and the non-pro version.

If you think your $300 CPU is pricey, then you won’t want to check the review of the 2.8GHz Xeon at Hexus today. Rolling in at $1,030US, it beat the more expensive Opteron that it was being compared to. If you have yet to jump on the dual GPU bandwagon (me too), but are still considering it, you can check out Driver Heaven today for a great review of a dual X1800 setup.

Cooling
• Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro – PC Modding Malaysia
• Coolermaster Nano Fusion Thermal Compound – AMD Zone
• Corsair COOL Water Cooling Kit – Bjorn3D
• PrimeCooler MegaCool 7 Intel Pentium 4 LGA775 Heatsink – A1 Electronics
• Sharkoon Red Shock Cooling – Technic 3D
• Thermaltake Big Water 745 – techPowerUp!
• Thermaltake Golden Orb II Cooler – AMD Zone

Memory & Storage
• OCZ 1024MB EL Gold GX XTC PC3500 Dual Channel DDR – Big Bruin

Motherboards & CPU’s
• Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9 – OC Workbench
• Intel ‘Paxville’ Xeon DP 2.8GHz – Hexus
• nForce4 SLI Motherboards: Premium Performance at a Bargain Price – AnandTech

Peripherals & Power Supplies
• Microsoft Optical Mouse 3000 & 4000 – Hardware-Pacers
• SteelSeries SteelSound 5H Headphones – techFEAR

Video Cards & Monitor
• ATI X1800 Crossfire Edition – Driver Heaven
• Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 9.8 – Rojak Pot

Etcetera & Contests
• Canon PowerShot S80 – Design Technica
• Evesham Mini PC Plus – Bit-Tech
• Gregwired Panosaurus Spherical Tripod Head – XYZ Computing
• The Benefits Of Using Ergonomically Correct Mice And Keyboards – Bona Fide Reviews