HP Mini 5103 Review

The HP Mini 5103 is a dual-core netbook that features an Intel CPU clocked at 1.5GHz and a sleek, sturdy metal body that is lightweight and is extremely portable at around 3 pounds. There's also a 10-inch widescreen display with an option to get it with a capacitive touch screen and 2GB of memory.

Earlier this year Xigmatek released a couple of power supplies which didn’t receive much coverage, but we really liked the whole ‘eco friendly’ approach they were focusing on, heck they even shipped the unit in a box made from recycled materials.

They have four supplies in this range, The PC402, PC502, PC602 and PC702; with the first number in the product name signifying the power output. The PC702 we are looking at today is therefore a 700W model, the highest in this particular range. These models are marketed at the everyday enthusiast with a high value element to ensure they are easily affordable – The PC702 for instance is only £70 in the UK right now. We need to balance out our test units as we have, to this point, focused primarily on expensive, high end power supplies

With the GTX460 being the sensible choice of the Fermi range, we had to take a look at the performance of a pair, courtesy of EVGA.

KitGuru has looked at a number of Arctic Cooling’s products over the past weeks and they’ve all been impressive, winning some of our most sought after awards. One of these products was the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro (Rev.2) which proved to be a great upgrade from the Intel Stock Cooler and provided great performance for the price.

Today we’re going to look at Arctic Cooling’s top of the range cooler, the Freezer Xtreme (Rev.2) which is designed for more performance minded users who don’t want to break the bank. It improves on the Freezer 7 Pro in a number of ways to justify the increased price. But we shall see how their performance compares in our tests.

If, like me you rarely use an internal optical drive now in any of your system builds, then the product we are looking at today will be of particular interest. The Asus Extreme Slim DVD-RW Drive is only 14mm thick and takes all its power from the USB ports – meaning it will be easy to move between machines without power adapter restrictions. Did we mention that this is the slimmest model available on the market today ?

The ESEDRW-08-H (or ‘Kate Moss’ as we call it in the Kitguru labs) extends full DVD read and write data and content handling to any Windows PC, being especially useful to people with netbooks and those computers which aren’t supplied with an optical drive.

OCZ already have a 550W PSU within the Fatal1ty range, earlier in the year this new 750W variant was introduced to support multi-GPU solutions and those having power hungry systems. Today we will be taking a look at this new unit and seeing if its up to powering an aggressive gaming system.

When it comes to the important task of cooling PC components, there is no substitute for a full-tower case. Even the cheapest of them tend to offer features you really can't get in mid-tower cases, and the physical size of the case is an asset by itself. NZXT is no stranger to PC cases, and today HardwareLogic has the NZXT Phantom up for review. Available in multiple colors, the Phantom is NZXT's newest entry into the market, and it does certain things quite a bit differently from other full-tower cases.