"At anywhere between £187 and £200, including VAT, the Radeon HD 4870 1GB appears to represent pretty good value for money. It's not only cheaper (and better-performing) than the various GeForce GTX 260+ cards on the market, but it's also not that much more expensive than the pre-overclocked GeForce GTX 260s out there as well. In most scenarios, it's actually not too far behind Nvidia's GeForce GTX 280 a card that costs around £80 more.

When you compare it to the Radeon HD 4870 512MB, which retails for around £170 these days, you still appear to be getting a good buy as well. It costs around eight percent more and in some circumstances you're getting performance increases much bigger than that, even at 1,920 x 1,200€ the screen resolution this card looks to be targeting. Of course, there are scenarios where there will be little-to-no benefit, but they're to be expected anyway not all games are completely GPU bound and in those games you'll see very little benefit from a faster graphics card, period."

"In keeping with the rest of their TOXIC range, this offering features increases to both core and memory clock speeds over a reference boards - While the card's RV770 core gets a modest 30MHz boost for a final clock speed of 780MHz, the GDDR5 memory on board gets a more substantial 100MHz increase, with the 1000MHz memory clock offering up some impressive memory bandwidth improvements.

The Radeon HD 4870 TOXIC's cooler also gets a complete overhaul from AMD's reference solution - While it remains a dual-slot affair, the cooler itself is a copper block sporting three heatpipes coupled with numerous aluminium fins, and an 80mm fan on top of it all to provide airflow to the cooler. The Radeon HD 4870 TOXIC also makes use of Vapor-X vapour chamber cooling technology - Its interesting stuff and effective to boot."

"In terms of single GPU performance, the Radeon HD4870 set the bar pretty high, and the Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card had its work cut out for it to do much better. With a factory overclock of 30MHz on the GPU and 100MHz on the memory, the Toxic version generally did perform better, but not always by much."

"Now here's the thing - I have a beautiful Antec Nine Hundred case with a single DVD drive installed in one of the 5.25' external drive bays, so the other bays remain largely unused. I've considered putting in additional optical drives, but tell you the truth, I personally just don't have any great need to do so. For looks alone I've been considering installing a fan controller or something fun with lights and gauges, but just never saw anything that I couldn't live without. Fortunately for me, ICY DOCK came along with an intriguing new product and I was given the opportunity to check it out. Not only does the ICY DOCK MB672SKGF internal 3.5' SAS/SATA HDD Enclosure look great, but it actually solves a problem I never realized I had. Now with one drive bay easily accessible in the front of my Nine Hundred case, I can easily swap out hard drives and forget about those external drives and the plethora of cables and power supplies that come with them. Let's take a closer look at ICY DOCK and the new internal drive enclosure from this innovative company."

"One such company is Liteon, they've got a line of portable optical DVDRW drives called the EZ-DUB. These drives feature a standard sized, fully featured, optical drive inside of an external enclosure, but what makes these special is the addition of two touch sensitive buttons labeled 'File and 'Dub' to make common functions easily accessible to the end user. Is the EZ-DUB worth your money, are the extra features worth it? "

"Hiper's newest iteration of their popular HTC series enclosures is the Hiper Osiris, a chassis that takes what was great with the Hiper Anubis and expands upon it. Featuring the same 6063 T-5 aluminum alloy construction that the Anubis used to great effect, the Osiris aims to attract a new contingent of enthusiasts looking for a high quality and well built chassis. Will the Osiris manage to outshine the Anubis? Will Hiper's newest enclosure match well against comparably priced enclosures? There's only one way to know for sure, and HardwareLogic is bent on finding out!"

"Enter todays review subject, the Radeon HD 4550, which sits nicely between the 3450 and 4650 in ATIs product catalogue and competes directly against the GeForce 9400 GT. In this review we will be comparing those two cards in a selection of the latest games as well as seeing how each fairs in some high definition playback tests."

"A-DATA's 4 GB Vitesta Extreme Edition DDR2 memory kit offers great performance at a low price of only $75. The memory can even run CL3 at the specified 800 MHz, with a small voltage increase and scales up to DDR2-1066 at CL5."

"Although ATI seem to have taken the throne for high performance graphics cards, there's still a vast demand for mid-range cards. This demand is in favour of nVidia, who offer some great mid-rangers for low prices. One card which comes with a low price tag and fairly good specs is the 9500GT. Today we have Zotac's version of this card, let's give it a whirl."

"It is nice to finally see the SB750 on the same board as the 790FX chipset. The addition of the SB750 brings a performance boost to the aging 790FX, and boosts the performance of the Asus M3A79-T Deluxe to help it outscore its younger sibling, the Asus M3A78-T. It may not have been a huge jump in performance, but it was enough to make a difference in our testing, and certainly proves that the SB750 fits well with the 790FX. Performance wise, this board did just fantastically..."

"Hiper's new Osiris mid-tower case features clean styling, all aluminum construction, and good airflow with plenty of drive space. Will a case built for the gods meet your needs? Read on and find out what the Osiris has to offer."

"External hard drive storage is the technology that people are using to keep their data backed up in multiple locations in the current era of technology. There are good products and bad ones just the same but not all enclosures promise the same thing. The Thermaltake BlacX was probably the first unit to take a hard drive and turn it into the removable storage. Now you can easily keep multiple physical backups with ease using this product. Pretty interesting."

"Although the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870 were launched nearly four months ago, they are both still exciting cards and we look forward to testing each and every one that enters our labs. For our latest article, we have another "TOP" card from ASUS in house, in the form of the EAH4870 TOP, which of course is a factory overclocked Radeon HD 4870.

Like most other HD 4870s on store shelves, the EAH4870 TOP sports 512MB of GDDR5 memory and a 256-bit memory bus. Additionally, the card features support for DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1, and CrossFireX multi-GPU technology. What differentiates the EAH4870 TOP from most other 4870s is its factory overclock: the core clock pushes pixels at 815 MHz (ATI's reference spec is 750 MHz) while the memory is set to 925 MHz (ATI reference is 900 MHz). Come on by the site and check it out..."

"So what does it take to destroy the ATP ToughDrive USB flash drive? Good Question! We wanted to know as well so we promptly TORTURED it! Does the ATP ToughDrive survive being driven over, immersed in water, set on fire, used as a dog chew toy, shot with an Airsoft gun, Frozen, TORCHED, and finally beaten with a hammer? See our amazing brutality in our video of this drive. Of course we tested the drive first and bring you our thoughts on why we feel this drive deserved our Editors Choice Award. Those with a queasy stomach may not want to watch. "

"OCZ's Gladiator Max heatsink is an extension of the Vendetta 2 model, except that it now utilizes four large diameter copper heatpipes and a somewhat different aluminum fin geometry. As with other heatsinks from this series, the copper heatpipes make direct contact with the top of the processor - an approach called Heatpipe Direct Touch. OCZ's Gladiator Max heatsink is equipped with rubber vibration absorbing fan posts to quietly support a 120mm PWM fan which can scale in speed from 800-1500RPM."

"People rarely like change. But once in awhile you just have to give it a shot and see if something different is worthwhile. Well, today we have a new mouse that is different enough by promising some radical design changes from what we've typically seen around the market. But can the Silverstone Raven Gaming Mouse compete with the heavyweights in a market dominated by familiarity?"

"It's no secret that the HD 4870 is one of the best overall GPUs on the market right now, but with so much selection from vendors, it's hard to choose the "best" one. Palit has a definite winner with their Sonic Dual Edition though. It's pre-overclocked, runs cooler than the reference design and carries no cost premium."

"Today we will be looking at another addition to Noctua's award winning lineup: the NH-U9B. Unlike the other Noctuas we have put through their paces, the U9B is different from its brethren since it is actually quite small in comparison and uses a completely different fan size and design to keep its heatsink cool. It is geared towards those of you who do not want a massive heatsink in your HTPC (or standard ATX) case and seems to have been released to compete with the Thermalright Ultima 90."

"Cooler Master's UCP 900W has performed admirably throughout several days of testing while having an attractive aesthetic finish to complete the overall product. It's quiet and stable with plenty of power, has nicely sleeved cables while providing plenty of well organized SATA and videocard connections."

"So, you say you just bought a second or even a third computer for your household and you're wondering how you're going to connect it to the Internet? Well, for one thing you'll need a router and probably a wireless adapter such as the Belkin F5D8053 N Wireless adapter, unless you plan on directly wiring it to a port on your router. Using a wireless adapter however would be the much easier and quicker way to setup access to your home network/broadband Internet connection. Benchmark Reviews has just reviewed the Belkin F5D8053 N Wireless adapter for you. Now let's see if it's something worth buying or not."

"NZXT began life in 2004 and had a goal of producing a product line that was geared toward enthusiasts and gamers. From the beginning, they have shown a love for those who are looking to eke out that little bit of extra performance from there machine. Even in the beginning when they used pretty basic design builds for some of their initial products, these folks have always added something to the build to make it different from everybody else.

Since those humble beginnings, NZXT has worked hard to enhance that enthusiast outlook and are now in the market of creating truly unique enclosures and have even added power supplies to the mix. All this brings us to today's piece, the NZXT Khaos. This enclosure features a full tower design that offers some innovations not found in your everyday case, which suits the company very well."

"In today's world 600Watts may not sound like much but it is really more than enough power for the average user and there are several aspects of the SilverStone ST60EF that help to reinforce this"

"What is there to say about the Sapphire HD4870 Toxic video card other than it is amazing? I was very surprised to see the benchmarking scores that it was able to produce. It was able to compete with and beat out the PowerColor HD4870 PCS+, which is also an overclocked HD4870 with a custom cooler. The Sapphire card was able to either compete with or beat just about every other card during both the stock and especially with the overclocked speeds, and in those it did not beat it kept the performance differential close."