Thermaltake VI-ON USB & e-Sata Drive Enclosure Review
Bjorn3D takes a look at the Thermaltake VI-ON USB & e-Sata Drive Enclosure

comes in so many different flavors it's hard to make a choice. Unfortunately, many of those choices don't include Active Cooling for the hard drive. Many of the external HDD enclosures provide the functionality you need, but are utilitarian in design and tend to 'ugly up' your desk. Not only do they raise the 'ugly' factor of your desktop, they seldom have Active Cooling for the hard working drive inside, and Active Smart Cooling is pretty much non-existent.

At least until now, Active Smart Cooling for HDD enclosures has been ignored. Thermaltake decided it was time for Active Smart Cooling in HDD enclosures and came up with the Thermaltake VI-ON. The Thermaltake VI-ON brings style to the never ending parade of external HDD enclosures, and raises the ante with Active Smart Cooling.

Thermaltake VI-ON USB & e-Sata Drive Enclosure Review

Jazz Elite HDV-188 5MP HD Video Camera w/3" Screen Review
TestFreaks.com posted a review on the Jazz Elite HDV-188 5MP HD Video Camera w/3" Screen

Today for review I've got the Jazz Elite HD Video camera and not only does it film videos in HD, but it's also a fully featured multimedia player as well so you can take videos, take stills, listen to music and even watch movies on it. In my time with it I've used it quite a bit, I've found it's easy to use, takes good videos and it has a great battery life. Did I mention it's inexpensive? So read on to check out the Jazz Elite HD Video camera from Geeks.com,

Jazz Elite HDV-188 5MP HD Video Camera w/3" Screen Review



OCZ Alchemy Elixer Gaming Keyboard Review
HardwareLogic posted a review on the OCZ Alchemy Elixer Gaming Keyboard

Today we will take a look at the Elixir, OCZs first gaming keyboard. It's certainly impressive on paper, featuring rubberized keys, 10 macro keys, 3 gaming profiles, a complete set of media-playback and web-navigation keys, all with a suspiciously low price tag (available from most retailers for just $30). OCZ also claims the Elixir to be a durable, long lasting product, with an impresive 5-million cycle life expectancy. Are these claims too good to be true? Will the Elixir poison our gaming experience, or elevate us to new levels of epic win?! Read on to find out!

OCZ Alchemy Elixer Gaming Keyboard Review

Hiper Osiris Case Review
DriverHeaven posted a review on the Hiper Osiris Case

Today we have the latest case from Hiper on our test bench, the Osiris. This model features many of the same features which made the Anubis great but Hiper have taken feedback from the older version and made numerous tweaks to the overall design. Today we will find out if the changes are for the better.

Hiper Osiris Case Review

Asus M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe Motherboard Review
TechwareLabs has published a review of the Asus M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe Motherboard

Today Nitro takes a look at one of the best motherboards on the market for the money, the Asus M3N-HT. Capable of Hybrid SLI and even Triple or Quad SLI, we are curious, is this board the magical wonder that we think it will be? Come with us as we look at the Asus M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe Motherboard.

Asus M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe Motherboard Review

BFG GeForce GTX 260 896MB MaxCore - Updated GTX 260
PCPer takes a look at the BFG GeForce GTX 260 896MB MaxCore

NVIDIA is updating the GTX 260 to be more competitive with the recently Radeon HD 4800 releases from AMD. Can this upgraded GTX 260 model put NVIDIA back into the clear lead for performance gaming? We take a look at an overclocked BFG model to find out! Do those extra 24 shader processors make up enough ground?

BFG GeForce GTX 260 896MB MaxCore - Updated GTX 260

Thermaltake Toughpower QFan 500W Power Supply Review
JonnyGURU.com posted a review on the Thermaltake Toughpower QFan 500W Power Supply

Not too long ago, I took a look at a new line of Toughpower units from Thermaltake that boasted a fancy schmancy frameless fan that promised fantastic performance with not a lot of noise to go with it. Today, I'm looking at the 500W little brother of that unit, the Toughpower QFan 500W.

Come on in and see how it did..

Thermaltake Toughpower QFan 500W Power Supply Review

MSI P45 Platinum Review
XSReviews has reviewed the MSI P45 Platinum motherboard

Over the last few years, Intel have completely dominated the enthusiast CPU market, and thanks to recent problems with nVidia chipsets, Intel based mobos have become common place in the high end enthusiast and gamer system. To cater for this wider audience the Intel boards are appealing to, they have two ranges of boards the Xx8 boards for the overclockers, and the Px5 boards for the more mid-range enthusiasts. Today MSI have sent over their P45 Platinum board for us to take a look at. Let's see how it does.

MSI P45 Platinum Review

Corsair 4GB and 8GB Voyager Mini USB Flash Drive Review
Legit Reviews posted a review on the Corsair 4GB and 8GB Voyager Mini USB Flash Drive

The Corsair Flash Voyager Mini is a mall USB drive that utilizes a cap-less retractable connector plug which easily opens with the flick of the thumb, and its ergonomic rubberized housing makes it easy to connect and disconnect from any computer. Read on as we benchmark the 4GB and 8GB version to see how they do against eight other USB 2.0 Flash drives!

Corsair 4GB and 8GB Voyager Mini USB Flash Drive Review

Sapphire HD 4850 512 MB 100245L Own PCB Design Review
techPowerUp posted a review on the Sapphire HD 4850 512 MB 100245L Own PCB Design

Sapphire has engineered their own version of the Radeon HD 4850 with cost and cooling in mind. The card's new unconventional heatsink looks good and keeps the card cool - far below reference design temperatures. The best of all is that the card costs only $169.99 online which makes it the cheapest HD 4850 available today.

Sapphire HD 4850 512 MB 100245L Own PCB Design Review

MSI Star Mouse GS-501 Review
Metku.net took a closer look at MSI's Star Mouse GS-501

MSI is not so known for its mice than for example its laptops and motherboards. Today we have their new gaming mouse in our hands. And while we talk about MSI, is this truly a MSI product?!

MSI Star Mouse GS-501 Review

Tagan A+ Curbic Case Review
Hardware Secrets posted a review on the Tagan A+ Curbic Case

A+ Curbic is a very simple steel mid-tower case that Tagan will be launching very soon, featuring four external 5 ¼" bays and seven internal 3 ½" bays. This case, however, has some features that make it better than other inexpensive mid-tower cases, like two big 180 mm fans with on/off switch and speed control (one on the front panel and other on the left panel) and screwless mechanisms for daughter boards and disk drives. Let's take an in-depth look on this forthcoming product from Tagan.

Tagan A+ Curbic Case Review

Logitech V550 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks Review
Rbmods posted a review on the Logitech V550 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks

Todays review will actually be about a notebook mouse. When it comes to notebooks people tend to want a normal mouse to work with but it might be hard to carry around a bulky big mouse with a wire or big signal receiver. Logitech have solved both of these problems by releasing the V550 Nano Cordless mouse. There is no cord nor is there a big bulky receiver, how have they done it then?

Logitech V550 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks Review

ATI Catalyst 8.9 Analysis - XP & Vista
TweakTown posted an ATI Catalyst 8.9 Analysis

As we begin to roll into the final quarter of the year, AMD are back again with their much loved Catalyst driver suite, now at version 8.9. In our usual style we’ll be checking out how the new driver suite goes against the last set.

We again see this month that AMD promise nothing in the performance department; I suppose they’re feeling pretty confident with their HD 4800 products against NVIDIAs offerings. With that said, let’s check out the test system and get stuck into the performance comparison.

ATI Catalyst 8.9 Analysis - XP & Vista

AMD Fusion Gaming Utility
Bjorn3D posted a short article about the new AMD Fusion Gaming Utility that allows AMD-owners to temporarily optimize their systems when playing games.

So what is this little utility for? The aim for the utility is not really the enthusiast users who have their computers fine-tuned and optimized, even though as we will see it still has something to offer for them to. Instead the utility is aimed to the rest of us who use our computers for all sort of stuff and thus tend to have quite bloated installations of Windows.

AMD Fusion Gaming Utility

Cirago HS-450 Mini Bluetooth Cell Phone Headset Review
Tweaknews.net posted a review on the Cirago HS-450 Mini Bluetooth Cell Phone Headset

Given its size, I was very impressed by the call clarity on both ends (I even called my landline to listen for myself). Is it as good as $100 headsets? Not really, but it's a definite overachiever in the bargain entry, and one you should have a good hard look at if you are in the market for a new ‘set.

Cirago HS-450 Mini Bluetooth Cell Phone Headset Review

Cirago Mini Bluetooth Headset HS-450 Review
OCC has published a new review on the Cirago Mini Bluetooth Headset HS-450

The functions like call rejecting and microphone mute are very handy. Furthermore, the buttons are well positioned; when using one of these functions, you don't risk pushing any other button inadvertently. However, I do not recommend it for listening to music, as the sound quality for this purpose is very poor, but when making calls, the quality was just as good as any other standard phone. Another great thing is that there is an AC charger included as well as the standard mini-USB cable. So for mobile phone users who don't necessarily have a computer on hand, they can still recharge the unit. Or it could even be plugged in the car, provided you have a DC to AC transformer.

Cirago Mini Bluetooth Headset HS-450 Review

Gigabyte GV-R485OC-1GI Radeon HD 4850 1GB Review
Guru3D is testing the Gigabyte GV-R485OC-1GI Radeon HD 4850 equipped with 1GB of DDR3 memory.

It has a custom PCB (printed circuit board), comes with no less than 1 Gigabyte of GDDR3 framebuffer (memory), the manufacturer slapped a Zalman cooler on top of it and to finish it off they even overclocked it. It's the stuff we life and breathe for here at Guru3D.com, definitely worth our time checking out. As it turns out, this is one of the best Radeon HD 4850 cards we ever tested.

Gigabyte GV-R485OC-1GI Radeon HD 4850 1GB Review