"Sapphire's Vapor-X Radeon HD5870 takes a top of the line single GPU graphics card and enhances it in a few areas to make it even more appealing. The 3D performance is definitely impressive, but the fact that it stays cool, quiet, and doesn't send the electric meter spinning seems like an even greater accomplishment."

"Nvidia has released the 980 chipsets for the AMD camp, and by the books, is an impressive chipset that allows excellent integration of Nvidia GPUs with AMD CPUs. This is an answer to the desire for an improved chipset to work with Nvidia graphics and SLI. With this addition to the motherboard market, motherboard manufacturing giant, MSI, has picked up the chip and engineered a motherboard around this chipset with their usual attention to detail.The MSI NF980-G65 is the latest AMD motherboard featuring the Nvidia nForce 980 chipset. The MSI NF980-G65 is an AM3 ready motherboard giving AMD CPU fans up to date SLI technology. MSI packed into this new board HDD backup utilities, improved energy saving utilities, as well as onboard DVI/HDMI video output from the onboard Hybrid graphics."

"Today we are going to have a look at their latest high performance case, the Freedom Xone. Unlike the Omega and the Infinity Zor cases that we recently reviewed and which Akasa classes as full size tower cases, the Freedom Xone is classed as a midi tower case even though its physical size is marginally smaller than the Omega."

"Despite the top positioning, this motherboard doesn't look overloaded with bells and whistles like some competing models. This is typical of Intel, its engineers have always had a sense of proportion in expanding functionality. Unfortunately, this sense has somewhat failed them now. On the other hand, Intel's active advancement to the retail market was deemed to result in this funny reevaluation: a rave of LED colors instead of simplicity."

"Over the last 3 decades, laptops have sky-rocketed to become one of the largest industries inside consumer electronics, and as more and more of us strive to have the newest and greatest out there, we find ourselves spending a good portion of our "extra money" on accessories for our personal computers, specifically laptops. Logisys, a huge dealer in electronic parts and accessories, delivered the NP160 Aluminum USB Laptop Multifunctional Cooling Pad. At first glance the Cooling pad looks ordinary and you wonder if Logisys really makes use of the "Multifunctional" part of its title. Can they add that extra *bam* to this cooler and make what seems to be ordinary, in to something "extra"ordinary?"

"My thoughts on the QNAP TS-419P are a little mixed. When I started this review, I mentioned that I was looking for a few things in a NAS. One was a NAS that would fit my storage needs. I think that the TS-419P does. I am starting out with four 500 GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration, giving me a total of 1.3 TB of disk space. This is plenty of disk space for my backups and media serving needs at this time. Another plus is that I can expand the NAS at a later date to about 5.5 TB by upgrading the current drives to 2 TB drives. I also like the fact that I can use QNAP’s online RAID Capacity Expansion, when I decide to upgrade, which will save me from having to backup all the data on the NAS and then restoring the data back..."

"We love USB drives here at TestFreaks, we love to test them and we really love the unusual ones. Today for review I've got four USB drives that are very cool, these are from a company called Tyme Machines and they're special because they're Star Wars themed. I've got 4gig versions of Yoda, Darth Vader, Boba Fett and a Storm Trooper. They're very nicely made, they look great, but looks aren't everything, so I had to test them out and compare them to some 'regular' USB drives I've got on hand, so read on to see a whole bunch of pictures of these drives and the testing of course"

"Powercolor's new HD 5750 PCS relies on a copper cooling solution by Zerotherm to keep the card cool. It does so without much fan noise and while being twice as energy efficient as the HD 4850 which is comparable in performance."

"The QNAP TS-419P Turbo NAS features space for 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives with up to 8TB of total capacity and supports 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hard drives. The QNAP TS-419P is also fairly powerful as it uses a Marvell 1.2GHz CPU and 512MB DDRII memory. Read on to see how it does!"

"Packard Bell is back with a new DOT, the M/A version features a 1.2Ghz AMD CPU, integrated ATI graphics GPU and has a larger 11.6 inch screen with HD Ready resolution. With a 6-cell battery, bluetooth, wifi and card reader this small laptop aims to impress. We'll find out if it is worth your money."

"We tested Megahalems Rev. B, a CPU cooler from Prolimatech with a tower design, six copper heatpipes and room for one or two 120 mm fans. Its appearence is great, but let's see if its performance is great too."

"In our first CPU review in a long while we'll take a look at the AMD Phenom 2 X4 965 Black Edition. Now the 965BE has been out for a while already, but Nov 4th AMD launched a new version of the chip, now using the C3 stepping."

"BlacX Duet is a hard disk drive enclosure for you to install up to two hard disk drives outside your computer. You probably have seen hundreds of devices like this before, but what makes this Thermaltake product really unique is the fact that it is a docking station, allowing you to install and remove hard drives with the computer turned on and without needing to open the device to install your hard drive – just insert your hard drive on the available slot on the docking station. In fact hard disk drive installation with this unit remembers the installation of cartridges in older video game consoles. Sounds interesting? Read on."

"While ATI's HD 5800-series have been in high demand and consequently extremely hard to find, HD 5770 and HD 5750 cards are widely available and represent great value for your money. In this review we take a look at Sapphire's custom cooled and overclocked HD 5750 Vapor-X which promises to bring a long list of features to the table while offering increased performance to boot."

"Both the XFX HD 5870 and XFX HD 5850 are powerful cards and both earned good marks here at OCC, but when paired in CrossFire the performance boost gained was enormous for some of the test programs. Both video cards operated happily at 1000 MHz core speed with software that could adjust the core voltage easily. The memory overclock was hindered by the 5850 which couldn't go as far, but could at least match the 5870."

"The QNAP TS-419P Turbo NAS features space for 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives with up to 8TB of total capacity and supports 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hard drives. The QNAP TS-419P is also fairly powerful as it uses a Marvell 1.2GHz CPU and 512MB DDRII memory. Read on to see how it does!"

"The OCZ Black Edition 4GB DDR3-1600 memory modules allow users with an AMD Black Edition Phenom processor and supporting motherboards to take advantage of the advanced features that are possible with AMD's OverDrive utility. With these Black Edition memory modules, you can download and update profiles that wil automatically optimize your settings. While diehardenthusiasts may prefer manual settings, this can be very helpful to novicesthat aren't entirely confident with the abundane of tweaking that OverDrive has to offer."

"This article is all about answering one question: how well does the Radeon HD 5770 scale in CrossFireX performance tests. Benchmark Reviews has already investigated and published two reviews for video cards based on the HD5770 "Juniper" chip; an engineering sample from ATI and a production card from XFX. They both acquitted themselves quite well, and we included some CrossFireX test results in the XFX review, using two cards strapped together on an Intel P45 platform. This time we take a look at how 1, 2, and 3 cards work together on our new Windows 7 test suite, with an AMD 790FX motherboard."

"Travel often? Need a full-featured router, but not its full-featured size? If so, the TEW-654TR deserves your attention. Despite its small size (smaller than an iPod classic), it delivers a lot of functionality, including the ability to act as an AP and also a wireless card. It also happens to offer great performance, and a price tag of under $60."

"Nokia's latest Smartphone takes a giant leap into becoming a full-fledged handheld PC. We take a detailed look at the N900 and find its features and flaws."

"Thermaltake is a household name. That is, if your household is one of the growing number of households where discussion of enthusiast-level computer parts is normal. Thermaltake makes everything from cooling devices, to power supplies, to chasses, and more. This review covers the Thermaltake Element V, a full tower chassis with a multicolor personality and plenty of space inside for a high-end gaming rig. However, its not without its faults. Read on for the ThinkComputers review."

"It seems that Cooler Master has done what many budget chassis makers have been trying to do for some time now, to produce an inexpensive case that has the right stuff in the interior and some high style to boot. Their Elite 310 case will house your hardware, keep it fairly cool and look good doing it for the miserly sum of around $35-40 US."

"Looking to make a splash in the slim midrange digicam point-and-shoot class, the Samsung DualView TL225 / ST550's headline feature is that it sports not one, but two LCD screens. With class-competitive specs including a beautiful wide touchscreen, this new stunner really bridges the performance and fashion needs of the demanding consumer. Alas, the truth still lies in the user experience and the pictures, and for answers we must delve deeper. Come with us as we spend some quality time with our new mate to see if she's as easy to live with as she is to talk about."

"Dubbed the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series, this newest piece of silicon comes in two flavours: The high end is represented by the 5870, and the mid-range the 5850, which is what we're looking at today. This latest chip is supposed to support the new DirectX 11 features that will hopefully be fully exploited in Windows 7."

"In the world of notebooks, Apple is an indisputable trend setter. Case in point, the 13-inch Averatec N3400 that we recently reviewed had an aluminum outer shell, while the Acer Timeline 4810T used island-style keys like those found on MacBooks. Not surprisingly, however, those two laptops are considerably less expensive than anything on Apple's product line.

Today we'll be taking a look at the X-Slim X340, a very slim notebook from MSI that's been labeled by many as the budget alternative to the MacBook Air. Currently selling for $600, MSI hopes to lure potential buyers with its svelte design and extended battery life."

"In my Office 2010 Preview, I mentioned some of the new product editions that Microsoft will be delivering to customers in this version of its venerable office productivity suite. Among them is Office 2010 Starter edition, which will replace Microsoft Works and only be provided to customers who purchase new PCs. This week, Microsoft surprised me by providing a downloadable Beta version of Office 2010 Starter, which also has the distinction of being the first public vehicle for Click-2-Run, Microsoft's new virtualization-based software deployment tool. (Click-2-Run was also discussed in the Office 2010 Preview article). So there are a number of things going on here."