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Thermaltake Aquabay M1 Review
Watercoolers often wonder: “How much water do I have in the system?”, “Is my flow rate ok?”. Thermaltake’s Aquabay M1 watercooling reservoir with fill level and flowrate indicator will help you answer this question. It is mounted into two 5.25″ drive bays and is compatible with any watercooling system.
This is a seriously great looking system, especially if you already have a black/blue theme going on. Check out the full review at techPowerUp! for the details!
Plextor ConvertX PX-TV100U USB Personal Video Converter Review
Today we have a fresh look at the PX-TV100U, a USB based personal video recorder (PVR) for the Windows OS. PVR’s are extremely popular now-a-days with consumers due to their empowerment over their favorite television broadcasts. With a home computer, an internet connection, a PVR, and the right software users can schedule television around their lives instead of the other way around.
Head over to Bona Fide Reviews for the full look!
Age of Empires III Preview @ Firing Squad
The Age of Empires games have special meaning for me. While one of my friends, Paul, was slaving away in college at his engineering degree, he happened to mention that he got a new computer and likes this “Age of Empires†game that puts ancient civilizations into mortal combat with each other.…..
VIA Envy24 Family Driver Guide
The Envy24 is a great audio card chipset, and is what our recently reviewed Chaintech AV-710 uses. VIA Arena has written an in-depth guide on the Envy24 and the control panel which is included in the drivers.
The VIA Envy24 Family driver package supports the controllers in the middle range that fall between those ends of the market. VIA manufactures 5 audio controllers that have been developed for cost effective surround sound, media centres, game consoles, internet appliances, consumer electronics, notebooks and high end motherboards. The differences in the resolutions and sampling rates between the controllers means that VIA offers a range of options so that the most suitable level of performance and bit accuracy can be selected by both manufacturers and consumers alike, depending on the level of audio quality they want and need.
Check out the full guide over at VIA Arena.
Hands-On the GBA Micro @ IGN
You already know that the Game Boy Micro is small when you hear people tell you that it’s just barely bigger than the cartridge that fits into it, but you don’t really get a sense for just how small it is until you get your hands on it. Your thumb just about…..
ABIT Fatal1ty X800XL 512MB Review
We’ve got ABIT’s Fatal1ty X800XL 512MB video card on the test bench today. Read inside as we examine the performance and image quality of this video card as well as the unique vGuru and XTurbo push button overclocking technologies.
Check out the full review over at Hard OCP.
Mushkin Heatsink Preview
The thing that makes this quite different from the usual Mushkin design is the circular holes along the top, which should aid in airflow, assuming you have some form of airflow going across the ram area. BTX design will most likely make more of an effect here. The holes appear to align with the actual ram chips themselves, so that air can reach down the sides of the chips.
I don’t usually look forward to seeing how new memory heatsinks perform, but this one has potential. It does look great, and makes sense by the design to have better airflow. Now it’s a matter of reviewers to get their hands on them to find out for sure. Check out the preview over at Viper Lair.
Intel’s New Centrino Mobility Campaign Posted
Team ARP was recently guests at Intel’s launch of their new Centrino Mobility Campaign. Boasting five different programmes involving partners like Starbucks and Channel V, there will be plenty of goodies for us, the consumers! So, check out our report on the launch and get details on the new Intel promotions!
Check out the informative look over at Rojak Pot.
SilverStone FM82 & FM121 Fans Review
Hmm, Fans, what can I say, they move air. That is their sole purpose for being made. It seems today with high CPU and video card temps, you can never have enough fans in your system, unless of course you water cool, but then you still need a good fan to cool your rads. Some fans are made well, and some are junk. Silverstone has sent me two of their new fans for review the 80mm and the 120mm varieties. Are these the well made ones or are they junk? You’ll just have to read on to find out…
Head over to Think Computers for the full review. You can also check out our review of the FM82 here.
Epox EP-9NPAJ SLi Review
Overall, Epox 9NPAJ SLi is a good value board as it gives good performance and comes with a lot of features such as EZ buttons, onboard LED display trouble-shooting, flexible thermometer and others. However it doesn’t really a good overclocking board altough it provides nice BIOS tweaking.
Head over to PC Modding Malaysia.
ATI ALL-IN-WONDER X800 GT PCI Express
If you want a single board that does 3D and media tuning that comes with good software, and your budget means you’re happy with the mid-range 3D performance and price of the X800 GT version, you’re staring right at it.
Check it out at Hexus.
TViX Multi-Media Player and HDD Enclosure
TViX offers full support for all types of video connections as well as audio. On the audio side we have Optical and coaxial digital out as well as standard left and right out. But video well you have your standard composite, then your svideo and just to future proof you HDTV connections.
Check out the full review over at Xtreme Computing.
Silverstone SST-TJ05 Review
In the end, SilverStone has managed to engineer another fine looking case. Sure it’s partly made out of steel, but that’s because the case’s aluminum front is very end heavy.
Check out the full review over at Overclockers Online.
AOpen Prima Power AO700-12ALN 700W Power Supply Review
The AOpen Prima Power AO700-12ALN is a rather plain looking power supply, but one which has the ability to deliver a massive 700W of power and four separate 12V rails! To sweeten things, the AO700-12ALN is also very quiet thanks to the large 120mm fan generating 28.4 dBA at maximum RPM. The most impressive feature of the AOpen Prima Power AO700-12ALN are its quad +12V rails, all four of which have a maximum rating of 15 Amps. The +3.3V, +5V and the four +12V rails can output a maximum of 680W and the total peak output of the power supply is 700W at an internal temperature of 35 degrees Celsius.
Check out the full review at PC Stats.
Abit AW8 (i955X) Review
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This past year at Computex Taipei, one of the hot spots for
Phoronix was at the Abit booth. On display were several innovative
motherboards but what had caught our attention was their new Northbridge
cooling methodology. Spanning the length from the Northbridge to the I/O
panel was a very small heatpipe, which they have dubbed Silent
OTES/Q-OTES.
Check out the full review over at Phoronix.
V.L. System M-Play 202 Indicator & Remote Controller Video Review
This product is easy to install, set up, and use. The Vacuum Fluorescent Display supports USB 1.1/2.0 and it has a 20×2 character size. The metal frame is also available in silver or black. The 48 key remote controller is very responsive and comfortable to hold for extended periods. What a perfect addition to any Home Theater PC! Watch the Video to find out more…
Head over to 3D Gameman for the full video review!
NCsoft’s Lineage II featured on MTV2
AUSTIN, Texas, May 11, 2005— Tune in to MTV2 on Friday, August 26, at 10:30 PM Eastern time to see a music video starring characters from Lineage II! MTV2’s innovative show Video Mods (http://www.mtv2.com/#series/13696) combines video games and popular songs from great artists to create a killer music video. Don’t miss it!…..
Cooler Master Praetorian PAC-T01 Tower Chassis Review
Computer cases are no longer simple beige boxes that hold everything in place. Boasting more and more usability features, high-end computer cases also bring new meaning to the word beauty.
Today, PsYkHoTiK takes a good look at his new baby – the Cooler Master Praetorian PAC-T01 Tower Chassis. Let’s see if his choice is worth every cent he paid for it!
Check out the full review over at Rojak Pot!
Cube August 2005 Screenshots
Cube, the famous open-source 3D first person shooter, has its
2005 release finally out which brings forth a slew of fixes and also a
multitude of new maps but it unfortunately marks the retirement of Cube
as we know it. Nevertheless, Sauerbraten is currently under development,
which is slated to be the next generation version of Cube. For your
viewing pleasure today, we’ve posted a swarm of new screenshots from
this fast-paced FPS, which runs great on nearly any graphics card and
operating system.
This is a fantastic looking Open Source game, and I am definitely giving it a go. Check out many screenshots over at Phoronix.
The Tonkputer by Nev@Lehmä
What do you think of when the conversation turns to Finland? It’s the kind of question that might only happen in some sort of Pub Quiz word association game. Some might think of snow, or some platinum-haired beauty. Motorsport fans will reel of a succession of rally and F1 drivers, such as Häkkinen, Mäkinen, Räikkönen, Grönholm, and Vatanen. Telecommunications giant Nokia is possibly the most famous Finnish company worldwide.
This is easily one of the most creative and cool looking case mods I have ever seen. Without a doubt, check out the entire article over at Bit-Tech.
Will the Xbox 360 be backwards compatable?
Since we are on the Xbox 360 road here, we should post about a great FAQ that TeamXBox has posted, all about the backwards compatability.
Yes, the Xbox 360 will be backward compatible with the Xbox. To take advantage of these features though, the Xbox 360 hard drive is required.
It’s sketchy on whether all games will be backwards compatable or not, but I seriously hope they are. I’d much rather have one system hooked up than two. Check out the full informative FAQ at TeamXBox.
Interested in paying $2,000 for an Xbox 360?
Gamestop seems to think that people do, and I am sure some people will indeed take advantage of this offer. For $2,000, you will receive an Xbox 360, all the immediate system goodies, including 3 spare wireless controllers.
Of course, what’s a system without games? They also include the 20 hottest 360 games for your enjoyment, because if you had a life, they don’t want you to have it anymore. Check out the full crazy deal over at Gamestop.
MSI NX7800GTX Review
A high-end graphics card needs a symbiosis with a high-end CPU. 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 or a rather sizable AMD Athlon 64 3400+; this is something you need at the least. Even with our Athlon 4000+ testing rig we ran into CPU limitation here and there. That’s does not mean games run like crap though, oh of course not. They are way up there in the highest ranking scores and performance. Yet the graphics card can go faster then it’s allowed. The CPU simply isn’t presenting data fast enough to the graphics card driver. Even a game like Half-Life 2 for example can run into that limitation if you turn off stuff like AA and AF and then measure in 1024×768. Of course you’ll have incredible framerates and let me emphasize this again, at blazing speeds. But the graphics card could compute faster if it were allowed to receive more data from the CPU in certain games.
Check out the full review over at Guru 3D!
SE-VOIP USB Skype Phones
Although Skype requires no additional hardware beyond an Internet connected PC sporting a sound card with speakers and a microphone, USB compatible Skype Phones are available to make the experience even more convenient… Geeks.com carries a handful of USB VoIP phones for use with the Skype service, and they have sent over a pair of phones from Skype-Phone.net for consideration.
Check out the full article over at Big Bruin!
Epox EP-9NPA+ SLI Motherboard Review
The Epox 9NPA+ SLI supports any current and future socket 939 AMD Athlon64 processor and is based on the Nvidia nForce4 SLI chipset with support for up to 4GB of PC3200 DDR memory. The Epox EP-9NPA+SLI motherboard adds on to this capability with an on board PCI Express-based Silicon Image SiI3132 Serial ATA II controller. The SIS SiI3132 supports two additional Serial ATA II channels, and thanks to port multiplier capabilities it can accommodate up to 30 SATA HDDs (fifteen on each port) with an appropriate port-multiplier device.
You can check out the full review at PC Stats.