Daily Reviews Summary 12/23/06

Zalman have been offering quiet cooling solutions for years now, and the VF-700AlCu provides compatibility for most cards right through to the some of the latest and greatest offerings from nVidia (7900 series) and ATi (X1800 series). I wasn’t content to just comparing the VF-700AlCu to stock, I wanted to see how it stood up versus its bigger brother, the VF-900Cu. This cooler has more fins on the sink, and heat pipes connecting the fins to the sink base. Can the aluminium-copper hybrid hold up to the full copper VF-900?

The ET-850 is certified to be SLI Ready by Nvidia, and even features four PCI-Express power leads for graphics cards. It is rated for over 80% efficiency with four independent +12V outputs, and has eight Serial ATA power connectors. With plenty of power and plenty of connections, it sounds like it's ready to take on anything available on the shelf from quad-core CPUs to SLI graphics cards with as many Serial ATA drives as you can fit in most cases.

We have just released the Complete BIOS Optimization Guide Rev.
9.4 for both FREE and FULL versions.

This will bring the BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 9.4 to more than 360 BIOS features!

This release features these 6 new BIOS features :-

- ACPI Headless Mode
- Add-On ROM Display Mode
- ARMD Emulation Type
- Chipkill
- Headless Mode
- Wait For 'F1' If Error

FOXCONN tries their hand at a high end Intel Chipset board and came up with an 975 Express based motherboard that packs some serious punch for the price tag. The 975X7AB-8EKRS2H revision AB is an updated version of the older AA boards and supports multi-core Intel processors. Will it be a Fox or a Dog? We'll find out as we look at the $169 Foxconn 975X7AB motherboard.

Mad Moxx has been providing pre-modded cards to their customers for several years now. Their GeForce 7900 GTO Burstfire is a GeForce 7900 GTO, overclocked to 7900 GTX speeds. In our benchmarks we saw that performance is identical to the 7900 GTX, at a much lower price. What makes the Mad Moxx product special is that you retain your warranty and the GTX overclock is tested and guaranteed.

FTP is an easy way to transfer files over the Internet and in this guide PCSTATS will explain the basics of using it, and how to set up a home FTP server in WindowsXP. If you've ever tried to share a large number of files over the Internet, you've no doubt noticed that it is not the easiest thing in the world to do. Sure you can use MSN messenger to send things… One file at a time. You could email, but that's slow and limited by the size of your mailbox. What if you want to make several directory's worth of your files available to yourself over the Internet while you are traveling? You could use remote desktop software, but that typically has anemic file transfer options and slow performance. What's the solution? Why FTP of course!

With the ASUS EAX1950PRO and EAX1950PRO CROSSFIRE being under $200 each, the budget gamer will love its performance and price. Plus, for the same price as a 1950XTX, you can buy two 1950PRO's and run them in crossfire mode

Copenhagen, Denmark-based gaming gear company Soft Trading is a a relative newcomer to the gaming product market. You may have heard of Icemat or the SteelSeries, two of the company's brands. SteelSeries is most well known for its Steelpad, an aluminum mouse pad, which ThinkComputers reviewed this past August, while Icemat is known for its namesake glass mouse pad. The SteelSeries Steelsound series of gaming headsets is comprised of the 3H, 4H, 5H, and 5H USB. This review is for the 3H, the series' compact and inexpensive model.