Popular with PC enthusiasts, Thermalright makes cooling products that are known for their quality and performance. What some people might not know is that Thermalright also caters to the server / workstation crowd, offering heatsinks that fit dual socket boards and rack chassis. This review will take a look at a pair of the HR-01 X heatsinks, which fit a 120mm fan.

SSD drives are slowly making it on to the market but the prices still scare alot of people of. The SSD drive does not have any movable parts which makes it completely silent and also more well performing than our current harddrives. Price and small drives are still the main issue but I have seen over 200GB drives hitting the market already although today we are taking a look at a 64GB SATA 2 drive from Gskill.

Aten is a company I've checked out before, not surprisingly, both times it was a KVM switch. If you don't know already, that's because that is all Aten does. KVM's, are used to control 2 or more computers from a single set of "Keyboard, Video and Mouse". Almost every computer repair shop and server farm admin uses or wants to use a KVM. It keeps the costs down, and just make things easier to deal with. Server farms can have hundreds of computers controlled by half a dozen KVM switches that takes up only a single "U" worth of space. If you've ever seen '24' you've seen them go to the giant server room and pull out a sled that has a LCD monitor and keyboard built in, that is a KVM unit.

SSD drives are slowly making it on to the market but the prices still scare alot of people of. The SSD drive does not have any movable parts which makes it completely silent and also more well performing than our current harddrives. Price and small drives are still the main issue but I have seen over 200GB drives hitting the market already although today we are taking a look at a 64GB SATA 2 drive from Gskill.

Today we'll test the fifth X58 motherboard in a row, this time from the folks at eVGA. They recently released their eVGA X58 SLI motherboard loaded with features. Tagged with a 299 USD sales price this motherboard seem to be very impressive. But since it's eVGA, they decided that this motherboard should be all about overclocking, and nothing else.

So hypothetically, if you were planning to purchase this product, pop in a Core i7 processor and leave things as they are .. well, you'd be wasting money really. In this article we'll show you why that is. We'll cover the motherboard from A to Z, and to spice it up a little I'll slap on some water-cooling and overclock our processor towards 4.2 GHz, stable.

We find the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Atomic in something of an odd position. It is unquestionably the fastest single consumer graphics card currently available to buy -- our benchmarks prove this unequivocally. Its watercooling loop is also able to keep the GPU remarkably cool, significantly more so than a stock card and much quieter in doing so as well. The problem lies in not only the price, which borders on the ridiculous, but the knock on effects of putting such a high thermal output card into such a relatively small watercooling loop. CPU temperatures suffer terribly to the point that even a £10 aftermarket cooler will comfortably outperform it.

What this product is then, is niche. In fact, it's a niche within a niche. It's for those looking for the absolute fastest graphics card without the hassle of building a waterloop themselves and have money to burn. If you fall into this, admittedly small demographic, then the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Atomic is a great product that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do -- it's the fastest consumer card in the world right now, is an absolute breeze to fit, and runs cooler than a stock card by a wide margin even under load.

If however you're like the rest of us who don't have the best part of £600 to spend on a single graphics card or even fancy being brave enough to try putting together your own watercooling loop, then this isn't such a success. Similar performance can be had at a much cheaper price point by either watercooling and overclocking a stock 4870 X2 (although you'll lose your warranty by fitting the waterblock), or by picking up a pair of GeForce GTX 260 (216) cards and running them in SLI. While respectively more difficult to install than and not as elegant as the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Atomic, you'll save a packet either way.