Xigamatek Red Scorpion S1283 Review
Tech-Reviews.co.uk has posted a review on the Xigamatek Red Scorpion S1283

Direct heat pipe technology on CPU coolers is becoming more frequent than ever, at Tech-Reviews we reviewed a Nexus HOC-9000 a few days ago which made use of this new technology. The results from the heatsink bundle were good, but nothing to shout about. Today we've got another entry to the 'direct heat pipe' family, the Xigmatek Red Scorpion S1283. Unlike the Nexus, the Red Scorpion hasn't been designed for silence in mind; instead, it's been designed for pure performance and efficiency. Well let's just see shall we.

Xigamatek Red Scorpion S1283 Review

Cheetah LCD HDTV Screen Protector Review
DragonSteelMods takes a look at the Cheetah LCD HDTV Screen Protector

Luckily for the rest of us, he decided to design a product to protect most sized LCD/Plasma TVs from the scourge of flying Wiimotes. Using an ultra high strength acrylic that is nearly indestructible, he created the Cheetah Screen Protector. Composed of BC" Plexiglas and elevated away from the television screen with =BC" rubber spacers, the Cheetah Screen Protector provides a BD" buffer between the outside world and your HDTV.

Cheetah LCD HDTV Screen Protector Review



CoolJag Programmable LED Flash Fan Review
Overclockers Online posted a review on the CoolJag Programmable LED Flash Fan

As a minimalist, I normally prefer function over form. However, the CoolJag Programmable Mini LED Flash fan incorporates both. A great 120mm fan, it comes with the added benefit of showing off your individuality with your choice of four different messages of up to 16 characters. Fully clear, the fan allows the text to be emphasized thanks to the blue and red LEDs.

CoolJag Programmable LED Flash Fan Review

Puma Platform for Notebooks
InsideHW.com has takes a look at the Puma Platform for Notebooks

The long waited AMD platform for notebooks under the name PUMA is finally introduced and InsideHW had a chance to test notebook based on this platform. To all users that have been waiting cheap integrated graphics with good performances, time has come. Intel Centrino was so far "untouchable" in field of portable computers but AMD Puma, by all appearance, got a necessary quality to fight for highest position...

Puma Platform for Notebooks

Silenx Ixtrema Review
OCC has published a new review on the Silenx Ixtrema

When you take a look at the cooler from an overhead view, you will be able to see that Silenx has decided to polish the top to add a little bit of cosmetic value to the cooler and add its company name, that way you will know exactly who is cooling your computer. You can see that all four of the heatpipes that pass through the entire cooler are evenly spaced as they pass through the the large number of fins mounted on them, which will ensure uniform cooling all over the cooler. The base of the cooler is very interesting as the copper heatpipes are visible and have direct contact with the IHS of the processor, allowing for a better transfer from the processor to the heatpipes.

Silenx Ixtrema Review

X48 Roundup: ASUS, ECS & Intel
Techgage posted an X48 roundup featuring boards from ASUS, ECS and Intel.

With so much X48 selection on the market, choosing the right board can be tough. To help make the choice easier, we are taking a look at three such boards all at once, ASUS' DDR2 Rampage Formula and also the DDR3 ECS X48T-A and Intel's DX48BT2.

X48 Roundup: ASUS, ECS & Intel

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB video card review
Elite Bastards posted Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB video card review

Starting out with the basics, AMD's RV770 core uses the now-established 55 nanometre manufacturing process, packing in 956 million transistors to bring us this DirectX 10.1 and PCI Express 2.0 supporting part, and again featuring tessellation hardware which won't see support in an official API until the release of DirectX 11.

RV770 certainly packs plenty into that transistor count, sporting a massive 800 Stream Processors to handle and process vertex, pixel and geometry shader data. These Stream Processors are arranged as arrays of sixteen units (or SIMD cores), of which there are ten. Each of these SIMD cores has a dedicated texturing unit (again making for ten in total), housing four texturing addressing processors, sixteen 32-bit floating point texture samplers and four 32-bit floating point texturing filtering units.

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB video card review

AMD Phenom 9950 and 9350e: Ups, Downs and CnQ
Lost Circuits posted a review on the new AMD Phenom 9950 and 9350 processors

AMD just released three new Phenom processors, geared towards the high end in the form of the X4 9950, and the low end, using a 65W power envelope as selling point under the model numbers X4 9350e and X4 9150e. At 2.6 GHz, the X4 9950 is the fastest Phenom ever released, surpassing the 9850 Black Edition by 100 MHz and finally fulfilling the promise made with the early 9900 that never saw the light of the channel. At 65 W TDP, the "e" series sets new records in actual power draw for quad core CPUs but are the numbers low enough to make up for reduced performance when it comes to actual energy efficiency?

AMD Phenom 9950 and 9350e: Ups, Downs and CnQ