Hardware Roundup for March 27

Welcome back from the weekend peeps! I hope you are ready to get back into the action, because there are many good reviews up today. Be sure to check out our review of the Corsair PC2-6400 PRO if you are looking for some good DDR2 to throw in your rig.

Budget doesn’t have to mean crap, and 3D Xtreme proves it in their review of the Directron Black Phantom tower. For only $60, it is missing a few features you’d come to expect, but it does come with a PSU. G. Skill is a well known in the memory world for producing super fast, quality modules. Bjorn 3D takes a look at a 2GB PC4000 kit that they manage to OC to over 300MHz. They broke through the 7000MB/s in SANDRA, so that says a lot about their potential.

Cases & Enclosures
• Cooler Master CM Media B260 mBTX Case – BTX Form Factor
• Directron Black Phantom Computer Case – 3D Xtreme

Cooling
• Gigabyte 3D Galaxy Liquid Cooler – Motherboards.org
• Scythe Samurai Z CPU Cooler – Technic3D

Memory & Storage
• G.Skill F1-4000BIU2-2GBHV DDR500 – Bjorn3D
• OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Gold Dual Channel – Madshrimps
• Thecus N2050 DAS Appliance – Hexus

Motherboards & CPU’s
• ABIT AW8 30-day Test Drive – techFEAR
• ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 – techPowerUp!

Peripherals & Power Supplies
• Enermax Liberty 500W PSU – Hardware Secrets
• SilverStone Zeus 650W – ST65ZF PSU – OCIA

Video Cards & Monitor
• EVGA 7800GS „Superclock“: The new AGP-Flagship? (German) – PC Masters
• NVIDIA 1.0-8183 Display Drivers (Leaked?) – Phoronix

Etcetera & Contests
• Abit AN8 32X PCIE s939 Motherboard Competition – XS Reviews
• Colossus – The Worlds First Electronic Programmable Computer – A1-Electronics
• Give-Away – Cooler Master “Aqua Gear” – Big Bruin
• Netgear ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 – Trusted Reviews
• XFX 7600GS Giveaway – Game Pyre