Daily Reviews Summary 06/28/10 #2

Want a high end motherboard but haven't got the room for a full ATX? Try the Rampage Gene

To retain modest pricing, it's common to see lower-end graphics cards equipped with either DDR2 or DDR3. That design choice, though, can have a major effect on performance, something that's proven twice over with AMD's Radeon HD 5550 and HD 5570, both of which have just been upgraded with a move to GDDR5 memory.

KitGuru has already reviewed monitors from heavyweights such as Dell, but today we are going to be looking at a very dramatic panel from Asus. The Asus MS236H is a member of the Designo MS range of screens and the focus is not on class leading specifications, but on the radical appearance. You could almost assume that Apple had a hand in the design of this screen as it follows many of their company ethics. Simple colours, a couple of (noticeable) buttons and an eye catching, purist design.

The HP Pavilion P6510F is a mid-line desktop PC that offers some solid hardware to go with it, some of which includes a quad-core AMD Athlon 2.8GHz CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a huge hard drive. At an average cost of around $600, it gets you a good computer without spending too much money, but it does lack a discrete graphics card, so 3D gaming is limited.

Mini ITX motherboards are growing in popularity because of their low power consumption, good performance, and support for high definition video and audio. They are also a good solution for users on a budget because most (if not all) are being outfitted with high quality integrated video and CPUs like the ASRock A330ION we are evaluating today.

For avid overclockers, the stock cooler on your VGA doesn't usually cut it.

The ASUS O!Play HDP-R3 Network Media Player has been designed to make your HD media experience living room a better one. Simply connecting your O!Play HD Media Player via HDMI and you can then stream HD content stream from your PC or NAS to the Media Player and then watch them on your 1080P HDTV!

Today we take a look at the ASUS O!Play Air High-Definition Media Player. Introduced earlier this year, the O!Play Air is the second high-definition media player ASUS has released in a year. Their original player, the ASUS O!Play HDP-R1 was launched last summer providing consumers with one of the first fully-functional HD media players on the market. The “Air” version of the O!Play adds built-in Wi-Fi and media card ports on the side. ASUS is still using the same family of chipset, the Realtek 1073DD, that powered the original O!Play...