Ten cool holiday gifts
DV Hardware looked at ten cool holiday gifts

DV Hardware just published a new shopping guide to help users find gifts for tech savvy friends. First they take a look at some more expensive products (priced at more than $100) and then they take a look at five more affordable gifts.

Ten cool holiday gifts

Mid-Range DIY Computer Buyer's Guide
TheTechLounge posted a Mid-Range DIY Computer Buyer's Guide

The big corporations of this world are starting to foam at the mouth at the thought of astronomical holiday sales. Let's be honest, we're going a little rabid ourselves. Our mid-range system budget is set at $1,600, and our goal in this article is to recommend components which offer the best bang for the buck while maintaining an overall balanced system.

Mid-Range DIY Computer Buyer's Guide



Corsair HX620W Power Supply Review
OCTools take a closer look at Corsair's foray into the PSU market

If Corsair can make great memory modules, they have now proven that they can also make great power supplies. The packaging is impressive, the design elegant, and the performance superb. Add to that the quietness of the unit, you got yourself one of the best power supplies in its class money can buy.

Corsair HX620W Power Supply Review

Super Talent MEGA Screen 2GB Mp3 Player Review
Overclockers Online has posted a new review on the Super Talent MEGA Screen 2GB Mp3 Player

The MEGA Screen truly is a quality product, screaming with sound quality, stylish construction, and ergonomic design. This audio player would be a great addition to anyone's pocket to entertain you on your daily commute, in your home, or anywhere else you feel the desire to listen to music.

Super Talent MEGA Screen 2GB Mp3 Player Review

BlackBerry Pearl Review
XYZ Computing has a new article out on the BlackBerry Pearl

At this point in time, a BlackBerry is just about standard issue equipment for anyone who needs to be easy to reach. There are a number of other options, most notably Windows Mobile smartphones, but the BlackBerry remains the tool of choice for business users. The company did this by catering their products to business users- their phones are great with email, are easy to use, and are packed with productivity features. Despite the restrain BlackBerry showed in sticking to phones aimed at professionals, the consumer market was just too attractive for them to stay away. That consumer phone, BlackBerry's first, ended up being the 8100. This phone was highly awaited because as soon as word of it got out, the blogs were buzzing with excitement. When it was formally announced consumers were met with the small, slickly designed Pearl.

BlackBerry Pearl Review

Seagate Barracuda 750GB ES Review
Techgage posted a review of Seagates 750GB ES drive

Seagate made quite a splash earlier this year with their 750GB hard drives. They have since released an ES version of the drive with a far higher reliability factor making them perfectly suitable for RAID and business applications.

Seagate Barracuda 750GB ES Review

Gigabyte GV-NX88X768H-RH (GF8800GTX) Review
OCW posted a Gigabyte GV-NX88X768H-RH (GF8800GTX) review

The GV-NX88X768H-RH features the GeForceR 8800 GTX with 768 MB GDDR3 memory and the GeForceR 8800 GTS with 640MB GDDR3 memory, delivering the highest levels of sophisticated game rendering for a greatly enhanced gaming experience. Transporting users into a new realm of gaming excitement, the GIGABYTE GV-NX88X768H-RH and feature 128 and 96 stream processors as well as support for HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection), providing the highest quality High-Definition video for the ultimate home theater experience....

Gigabyte GV-NX88X768H-RH (GF8800GTX) Review

Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Champion Series Case Review
Pro-Clockers has posted a review on the Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Champion Series case

The Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Champion Series case represents the ideals of one of the ultimate gamers. Trimmed and fitted in thick black aluminum and white advertising the case asks to be paid attention to. These features as well as the presence of a healthy number of cooling fans leads to a very stylist looking case but at the same time a very heavy one.

Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Champion Series Case Review

Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Champ1on Series Aluminum Case Review
OCIA.net takes a look at the Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Champ1on Series Aluminum Case

I will be the first to admit that most all of the Fatal1ty products I have seen to date look pretty sweet, but many end users have complained about the hefty premium price tag put on these items and cannot justify spending the extra money. Today I will be looking at the Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Champ1on Series Aluminum Case... definitely a flashy looking system, but does it warrant the near $360 asking price?

Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 Champ1on Series Aluminum Case Review

ASUS EAX1650XT 256MB (X1650XT Single Card, and CrossFire) Review
HEXUS has posted a review on the ASUS EAX1650XT 256MB (X1650XT Single Card, and CrossFire)

This is also a CrossFire-capable adapter, using the recently introduced internal system rather than the much-maligned external dongle. There's no need for a special CrossFire Edition of the X1650XT, as the RV560 GPU has a compositing engine built in. So read on to see how the Asus stacks up to the value competition, and whether ganging two of them together gives a worthwhile boost.

ASUS EAX1650XT 256MB (X1650XT Single Card, and CrossFire) Review

Antec's Fusion HTPC Case Fuses Computers with Home Theater
OCModShop posted a review on Antec's Fusion HTPC Case Fuses Computers with Home Theater

Home Theater PCs are becoming more popular these days, and they all try to tone down that they're a PC, trying to blend in with other Home Theater equipment. Antec's Fustion case is one of Antec's latest offerings for the home theater enthusiast. Antec designed this case to reduce noise and heat buildup using an innovative chamber structure, and even included a VFD display to complement your home theater software.

Antec's Fusion HTPC Case Fuses Computers with Home Theater

Thermaltake Toughpower 750W Modular Power Supply Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the Thermaltake Toughpower 750W Modular Power Supply

As hardware manufactures add more and more components to PCs such as multi-core processors, multiple video cards, Physics processors, large RAID arrays, etc the need for a strong power supply becomes more and more important. Now a day's a 500 watt power supply seems to be just enough to squeak by when you reach the midrange-higher end. Thermaltake has answered the call of many enthusiasts with the Toughpower 750w which provides quad +12V rails, Active Power Factor Correction and a high efficiency of up to 85%, and on top of all that it is a modular Power Supply so it won't clutter up the inside of your case.

Thermaltake Toughpower 750W Modular Power Supply Review

Shuttle XPC X100 Review
TrustedReviews have looked at the Shuttle XPC X100

Inside, things are neatly packed, resembling a notebook rather than a desktop PC. The memory is in SODIMM format, in this case two 256MB modules, which is less than I'd like to see. The graphics chip is an ATI X1400, which is a low range graphics card that will suffice for casual gaming. This is actually an MXM module, which is an expansion method often employed by notebooks.

Shuttle XPC X100 Review