Daily Reviews Summary 01/07/07

The Super Talent T1000UX2G4 is a DDR2 kit ready to run at 1000MHz. Does this alternate brand keep up with its mainstream competitors? techFEAR finds out and more.

The Danger Den Maze 5 is a waterblock that fits most ATI and NVIDIA video cards. It is engineered for optimum performance and flow rate. Danger Den has years of experience in designing water blocks, which you can see in this product. In our testing we saw an increase of maximum stable GPU clock by over 70 MHz compared to the ATI stock cooler.

With AMD and ATI merged, there is only one other game in town: INTEL and NVIDIA. The PN1 SLI2 matches up the INTEL Core 2 DUO to a NVIDIA 590 SLI Chipset. As one of ECS's "EXTREME" products, the board certainly does look the part. It also has one of the most complete bundles and a new black PCB. But does it perform? Let's find out!

2007 marks the 40th anniversary for the Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES), the largest technology convention in North America. This will be the 4th consecutive year of TheTechLounge covering CES. Today we attended the CES Unveiled press event where we were able to talk one-on-one with several different companies who were showing off their latest and greatest gizmos and gadgets. Check back regularly for more coverage of CES and our Pre-CES coverage including more from CES Unveiled and Pepcom Digital Experience.

Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on an Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. It covers the usage of internal NTFS partitions (e.g. in a dual-boot environment) and of external USB NTFS drives.