Daily Reviews Summary 12/03/06

The most impressive part of this system is the Wireless DJ Remote. For starters, it features an ultra-modern design that gives this remote a stellar "Wow" factor, impressing all who see it. The black and silver casing, which includes a removable, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, is thin and lightweight and is about the size of a standard television remote.

If you have never built a computer on your own it might seem like a very complex task that is hard to do. Considering the cost of the individual parts many people are scared to just give it a try without guidance. This article will take you through the system building process step by step.

Microsoft's newest wireless notebook mouse comes packaged as a Laser Mouse / Presenter Combination. This presenter mouse is an amazing little product. Bluetooth technology coupled with small size ensures that it is going to have great range and super portability. Not only is it compact and useable from far distances, but is feature packed with many different buttons and capabilities. As a mouse the Wireless Laser Notebook Presenter Mouse has five programmable buttons, great feel, and amazing performance. As a presenter, this device has a built in laser pointer, digital ink feature, presenter navigation buttons, and blank screen button. This presenter is able to give a powerful presentation. The bundled Bluetooth transceiver and nifty carrying case make this a portable device that should easily work in any computer that will be used for presentations.

Gigabyte's GA-M61PM-S2 is geared towards the user who just wants everything to work right away and get the job done without breaking the bank.but at the same time, getting the job done comfortably, because as you will see there are some things that make this board special. It is the Honda Accord of motherboards if you will - not pretentious or glamorous, but just a cut above the Honda Civic. The board is based around Nvidia's GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset, and has on-board everything: Nvidia graphics, 8 channel High Definition Azalia audio with a header for optional S/PDIF output, gigabit ethernet, 4 USB ports with 3 internal headers for a maximum of 10 USB ports, 1 firewire port (IEEE 1394) with 2 internal firewire headers, 1 IDE/ATA 133 connector (kind of a bummer since a lot of people still use many parallel ata devices), 4 SATA II ports, and RAID (0,1,0+1,5).

After purchasing my new Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 processor, I knew I was going to need an after market heatsink to keep this dually stable and cool. After doing a bit of research, I came across an affordable heatsink from Arctic Cooling called the Freezer 7 Pro. The combination of aluminum fins and copper heat pipes on the Freezer 7 Pro creates the perfect cooling solution for any dual core computer system. Let’s see how this product performs on this high performance CPU.

There is no question that high performance audio has found a following in the home theater PC (HTPC) market over the last year. Still most PC enthusiasts are still using outdated or worse; outdated onboard sound solutions. Auzentech has taken the lead in providing some of the same high-end audio technologies found in high-end home theater systems and bringing them to your PC. Today we are looking at the hot new Auzen X-Meridian sound card from AuzenTech. The X-Meridian is the world’s first sound card designed to maximize the potential of the new C-Media CMI-8788 chipset. We take the X-Meridian for a ride right here!

We have been reviewing several of ASUS high-end motherboards the last few months (ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium, ASUS P5W64WS Professional Motherboard, ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition). ASUS however also have cheaper and simpler motherboards in the line-up.

Today I am testing the ASUS P5B-E, an Intel965 based motherboard which might not come with all the bells and whistles of the nForce 590 or the i975 chipset but which still offers a lot of functionality for its price.