Everyone that is a gamer knows that having the freedom to game whenever you want is severely limited to who you are living with or next to. Other than some special situations, both will actively object to you disemboweling your adversary with a gattlin gun at 3am in the morning with you 5.1 speaker system at gaming volume. Because of that simple problem, gamers rely on a good set of gaming headphones to span those times where our gaming audio is not appreciated by others.

For review today I've got a Micro SD / T-Flash Card Reader from our friends at USBFever and it's possibly the world's smallest card reader on the market today. A little while ago I reviewed the SuperTalent Pico-C Gold USB drive and this reader is actually a tiny bit smaller than the Pico-C Gold so it's a very portable and very useful little gadget. Throw a microSD card into it and you've got the making of the world's smallest USB drive!

Just over two months have passed since the release of our initial article. XFX has sent us a replacement sample for the GTX280 which is completely free of from the electronic component hum we initially experienced. In addition to the GTX280, XFX also sent us their latest and greatest XXX version of the card for review. We decided to embrace this as an opportunity to compare the two cards in a head to head along with a number of other popular graphics solutions. Our intent is not to rehash the plethora of features already covered in great detail in the aforementioned article, but more to concentrate on serious testing and expound on those features that prove noteworthy with the more mature drivers we will be using.

While the OCZ Vendetta 2 isn't silent, or the absolute best thermal performer, it strikes an excellent balance between them considering the £23 price tag. In fact, in some respects we think OCZ might be selling itself short at this price, or we'd happily pay a few quid more for some spare screws and gromits... and a new mounting mechanism. While it might not be up there with the big boys of the Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 or Noctua NH-U12P in performance, /for the money/ there is very little able to touch the Vendetta 2's performance, both thermally and acoustically.

As you've probably guessed by now, the UCP 1100W is a 1100 Watt power supply with a maximum output of 1320 Watts, which conforms to the 80 Plus Silver efficiency standard, with an efficiency rating of 89.05% at 50% load and 86.99% on average, making it one of the first PSUs in this particular power range to gain such certification.

With all of that power at its disposal, you'd expect to see it paired up with a lot of connectivity cabling-wise, and that's exactly what we find here. Aside from the normal 24-pin power and a couple of eight-pin motherboard power connectors, the UCP 1100W also supports a single floppy drive, nine Serial ATA devices and five Molex connectors. The power supply certainly isn't lacking in its support for PCI Express graphics boards, with three eight-pin and six six-pin PCI Express power connectors on offer here too - Needless to say, this unit is also NVIDIA SLI certified, and running 3-way or Quad SLI (as well as CrossFireX) should be possible with the amount of power and connectivity on show here.

With all the kerfuffle surrounding Intel's IDF this week and Nehalem news pouring out of almost every crevice of the internet, Asus gave /bit-tech/ a quick wink and a nudge then slipped us a brown paper envelope...via a postman.

Trying not to act like a kid at Christmas and moving swiftly to a secluded corner, we ripped it open to find that Asus' P6T Deluxe is quite the pimped out hot potato. Based on Intel's upcoming X58 chipset it will have more features than you can shake a fist full of sticks at - overclockers and high end users especially will love this.