Daily Reviews Summary 01/11/09

This case comes covered by a soft fabric material and is available in Black Pinstripe, Tan Houndstooth and Black White Plaid. Now there is no reason not to be stylish when sporting your iPhone 3G!

I have come away from my experience with the Spedo Advance Package with a great appreciation for all the Spedo has to offer. Bold styling along with some useful features makes the Spedo Advance Package worthy of anyone's consideration.

One of the main problems with various motherboard's northbridge cooler is the small heatsink with little fan at 5000rpm. Fan at such speed makes high noise making use of computer very uncomfortable, not to mention the situation where the fan stops at all making the northbridge to overheat and possibly break due to it. Evercool was kind enough to provide us their newest northbridge cooler called Serpent.

In the past, many people watched James Bond movies with suspicion, and they admired numerous devices which secret agent 007 used during his missions. At that time, those devices were science fiction, and today some of them are a part of ordinary life. This fact was confirmed by most recent product range of New Universe (NU) Company where we can find portable video players, digital photo frames or sunglasses with integrated camera and mp3 player (for true 007 experience). We received similar device with New Universe signature for testing.

However, when the Patriot Viper PC3-12800 6GB Triple Channel Memory is pushed to its full potential, there's a huge amount of memory bandwidth available which the I7 can use with things like audio and video formatting. It's actually quite surprising to see just how fast the kit is in both dual and triple channel mode. To give you a good idea, formatting an 8GB video file came close to matching the Skull Trail's performance which I had on demo at PDXLAN. The difference here is that the Skull Trail is two physical Core 2 Quad Extreme 1600 MHz FSB processors versus a single Extreme 965 with Hyperthread making virtually 8 cores.

I know that there are many of you are thinking right now: "what, another new graphics card from Nvidia?" yup, you got it guys, Nvidia is on a mission to recapture the performance crown from the HD 4870 X2 and they aren't being subtle about it. Their latest stab at the ultra high end is called the GTX 295 and it is packing enough heat to put ATI's frontrunner in its place.

To make matters convenient, the charger is designed in such a way that you can easily use your keyboard while its being charged. It's like a plate that your keyboard docks to and your mouse rests upon. While this could work nicely if you have the Desktop 8000 connected to a desktop PC, it isn't necessarily ideal for a Media Center PC which is hooked to your TV ten feet away and the keyboard is held in your hands instead of a table.