MSI mPC 945 Barebone SFF
Viper Lair :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“HD Audio, and Gigabit LAN are welcome additions and “modernizes” the mPC family. The WiFi connection is an option and was offered as such with their previous mPC, but needless to say, this does give the user more options about the PC’s placement should there be no hard wired Ethernet connection near by. The mPC 945 is not terribly noisy and much quieter than the majority of full desktop PCs. Temperatures are kept in check, and most of the time, stays under 60°C. Stability was never in question, and performance was quite good at stock speed, slightly faster than MSI’s previous mPC 915.”
ECS P965T-A Motherboard
Viper Lair :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“ECS has been making great strides from top to bottom on their Motherboard lineup. We have seen their Elite division and their budget division increase in not only quality but delivering what the consumer wants. If you are looking for a budget board, that performs well with a Intel Core 2 Duo at the helm, the ECS P965T-A could be calling your name.”
CoolerMaster Mini Aquagate Review
Techwarelabs :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“The team at Cooler Master has sent TWL the entry level water cooling system called ‘Mini Aquagate’. This preassembled kit is for the gamer who is looking to water cooler their processor w/o the high cost of your present market water cooling systems. Techwarelabs has installed and tested the Mini Aquagate and bring you the results. ”
Antec Truepower Trio 650 Watt Power Supply Review
Tweaknews.net :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“Antec has once again proven that glossy finishes and modular cables isn’t all to making a great power supply. Despite lacking some glamour, the TruePower Trio hits where it counts- stability, flexibility, and rock-solid performance. Given the Trio’s relatively low cost, the bang for the buck cannot be denied.”
StarDock Object Desktop 2007 Windows Customization Software Suite Review
Tweaknews :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“If you want to change your desktop look, either by simply replacing a simple theme, or modifying your desktop to a radical degree, Object Desktop 2007 is the program suite to have. Aside from the graphical features, the host of other useful and powerful programs makes this a package that stands out from the rest. Object Desktop has become one of my must-have program suites, and is one of the first things installed on a new rig or after a reload of Windows.”
Cooler Master Hyper TX Socket 775 CPU Cooler Review 
Big Bruin :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
The Cooler Master Hyper TX offers just about everything you would want in a processor cooler; easy installation, minimal noise, respectable cooling performance, and the secondary benefit of cooling motherboard components near the processor… Despite the compact size and light weight of the Hyper TX, it did quite well when it came to thermal testing.
Monsoon II Active TEC CPU Cooling System Review
Legit Reviews :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
Used commonly in the aerospace industry, thermoelectric chips (TEC), or thermoelectric coolers, have not been integrated in the cooling of CPU due to previous humidity problems. Vigor Gaming had resolved these problems and developed the patented Vigor Monsoon II series of CPU cooling systems with TEC. Legit Reviews compares this TEC cooler to some leading air and water coolers in this review. The test system was using an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and as you’ll see in the review by overclocking our CPU we actually surpassed the TDP that the cooler could handle. See what a leading TEC cooler can do with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 processor!
ATI Radeon X1650PRO Graphics Cards Compared
Tweak Town :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“Well, the new ATI Radeon X1650PRO is available – it is priced well and of course performs well. So like our round up of the Radeon X1300XT cards just the other day, we will be doing the same thing with the new X1650PRO from ATI and four of its partners – GeCube, PowerColor, Sapphire and HIS. We will be looking at the cards alone with a pair in Crossfire mode to see what type of performance is on offer from one of ATI’s newest GPU’s.”
Foxconn 975X7AB
Lost Circuits :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
The probably hottest newcomer in the motherboard scene is Foxconn, who has recently set new standards of how to build motherboards based on nVidia and Intel chipsets. One thing we love about that company is that there is always one board where it seems that all stops have been pulled, examples have been the Winfast NFPIK8AA as well as the C51XEM2AA but both were aimed at AMD CPUs – understandable at the time of their introduction but things have chnaged. Intel’s Core2 processors have conquered the enthusiast community by storm and – who might have guessed – Foxconn is following with the appropriate board, based on Intel’s 975X chipset and displaying the inspiring name 975X7AB.
NGOHQ’s Survey Shows Radeon 9×00 Still On Top
NGO HQ :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
We posted a survey back on September 5th asking our readers, “Which GPU do you have?” and the results have shown to be very interesting. The survey ran for just over six weeks and after all the votes (19,256 uniques) are in it seems that a large majority still have Radeon 9×00 series video cards.
SApphire Pure Crossfire AM2 motherboard review
Neoseeker :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“So, I flashed it. And once flashed, the overclocking went much, much smoother. But there was a hitch involved. For some reason, the board didn’t seem to like those 4-4-4-12 memory timings we had set in the beginning. So, to get it running we reset the memory to 5-5-5-18, and that seemed to work wonders. In the end, our final score came out to be a 524.8 x 2MHz memory speed, for a total of 1049.6MHz memory. As for the processor itself, with the help of a BIOS update, lower memory timings, and a lot of hope, we managed a decent overclock. With an 8x CPU multiplier tied to a 333MHz bus, our final rating of 2,664MHz ( 2.6Ghz) wasn’t half bad. But it obviously wasn’t that good either.”
Powercolor X1650 Pro
techPowerUp! :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
ATI’s Radeon X1650 was introduced with the X1950 XTX and the X1300 XT. Just what is this card? As the name suggests, it is a little step up from the X1600 XT. With the same amount of pipelines, and slightly higher clocks, is there anything to look forward to with the X1650 Pro? No doubt, this card at least runs cooler – insured by a smaller manufacturing process. Does it bring balanced performance at a fair price? How does it fair compared to the X1300 XT? Most importantly, is it worth buying?
Palit 7900GS Review
AOA Forums :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“With a huge variety of high-end cards currently available there has been a bit of a gap in the mid range sector, the 7800GT appeared briefly and was phased out, the X1800XL never had enough grunt to keep up with the Nvidia based solutions and the X1800XT and 7900GT have never been cost effective enough to be classed as budget cards.
e-bug Wielander C 1615A Review
Technic 3d :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“The new e-bug Wielander C 1615A PC arrived Technic3D. See you in the following Review a fast PC with a small Price”
Palm Treo 700p Review
OCIA :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“The 700p comes with plenty of memory to start you out. 128 MB of onboard memory (60 MB available to the end user) allowed me to install all of the applications that I wanted, including some games. I still had roughly 45 MB or so left over. This leaves enough room to store a fair amount of music or tons of pictures and videos without even touching the expansion card.”
ASUS EN7950GT VGA Review
Gamepyre :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
The ASUS EN7950GT/HTDP/512M/A video card is an excellent example of the 7950GT series retailing for a MSRP of $299 (Newegg price 10/17/2006), matching the price of the other 7950GT cards. At this price point it’s a decent purchase you get all of the features of the 7900 series, the performance of a 7950GT, and you get Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.
Corsair HX 620W PSU review
Driver Heaven :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
Corsair is a company whose name is synonymous with quality RAM, however they have slowly tried to diversify by creating water-cooling systems for enthusiasts (the highly acclaimed Nautilus). Today we are looking at another product in this expanded range, one of their new high quality power supply units, they offer two models in this range, the HX520W and the HX620W. We received the higher specification 620w unit for testing today, so let us see if it lives up to the high standards we associate with the Corsair brand name.
Corsair HX620W review
Driver Heaven :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“Corsair is a company whose name is synonymous with quality RAM, however they have slowly tried to diversify by creating water-cooling systems for enthusiasts (the highly acclaimed Nautilus). Today we are looking at another product in this expanded range, one of their new high quality power supply units, they offer two models in this range, the HX520W and the HX620W. We received the higher specification 620w unit for testing today, so let us see if it lives up to the high standards we associate with the Corsair brand name.”
How to Setup a RAID System
Hardware Secrets :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks and with at least two hard disk drives you can setup them as a RAID array in order to increase the disk performance or to improve data reliability. In this tutorial we will teach you how to setup a RAID system on your PC.”
CoolIT Freezone CPU Cooler
3dgameman :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“The CoolIT Freezone CPU Cooler performs great, is easy to install, very quiet, and looks great. I really love how they’ve implemented the peltier reservoirs. Normally you’ll see them implemented on a heatsink or right on the waterblock. The way this liquid cooling system is designed makes it work very well. I suspect there will be many more products in the near future using thermoelectric coolers. Watch the Video to find out more…”
Zalman Reserator 1 V2 & Fan Kit Review
Techgage :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
Water cooling has a lot of benefits. First off it’s more effective, water removes heat close to ten times better than air. Secondly it’s generally quieter, this is owed to waters better thermal capacity and the fact that the radiators used have way more area than a simple HSF does. Today we take a look at an un-traditional water cooling system that’s about as quiet as you’ll ever get.
Spire Pininfarina SP-ATX-PALU Silver Case Review
MVK Tech ::
“Spire has joined forces with world renowned designer Pininfarina to develop and introduce a truly unique state-of-the-art chassis to technology enthusiasts and professionals worldwide. Pininfarina, most acclaimed for the Ferrari and Maserati, has fashioned a revolutionary case that has transformed the traditionally vapid PC case into a sophisticated and aerodynamic PC power house. The exclusive Spire Pininfarina chassis was designed with functionality, creativity and opulent style in mind.”
Birthday Contest at Overclockers Online
Overclockers Online :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
There’s about 2 weeks left in our birthday contest consisting of a number of prize packs tallying up to 1300USD! If you haven’t entered, this is the time to do so!
The BoxHeads Halloween LAN Party 2006
Phoronix :: Sunday, October 29, 2006
“Over the weekend, The BoxHeads had put on their October 2006 (Halloween) LAN Party. This event was in Plainwell, Michigan with approximately 100 gamers making it out. In the past The BoxHeads have hosted events up to 150 people, but coming up in December, they will be hosting an event with approximately 250 gamers in Lansing, Michigan. The BoxHeads have been hosting large LAN parties going back to the start of 2003…”
