Here part 2 of this weekend's review's roundup:

- Mad Catz Cyborg RAT 9 Wireless Gaming Mouse Review
- Arctic Sound P531 Headset Review
- Zalman VF3000A Review
- Earjax Bump Earphones Review
- HP TouchSmart 310 Review
- Speedlink Medusa NX 2 Review
- Kingston SSDNow V+100 128GB SSD Review
- DeepCool Ice Matrix 600 CPU / Processor Cooler Review
- Sparkle Calibre X480 GeForce GTX 480 Video Card Review
- MUKii TransImp Docking Station Review
- Earjax Tonic Earbuds Review
- Motorola Droid R2D2 Edition Review
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU Cooler Review
- ASUS P8P67 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Preview
- Casio Exilim EX-S7 Review
- Gainward GeForce GTX 460 SE 1 GB Review
- Zalman CNPS9900 MAX 135mm CPU Cooler Review
- Arctic Cooling Arctic M571 Laser Gaming Mouse Review
- NZXT Phantom Full Tower review
- Cooler Master Elite 430 Case Review
- Thermaltake BlacX 5G HDD Docking Station Review
- Panasonic DMP-BD655 Blu-ray Disc Player Review
- ROCCAT Kave Headset Review
- Gigabyte P67A-UD7 Previewed - Intel Sandy Bridge Motherboard Breaks Cover



Mad Catz Cyborg RAT 9 Wireless Gaming Mouse Review
Benchmark Reviews posted a review on the Mad Catz Cyborg RAT 9 Wireless Gaming Mouse

Since the consumer computer mouse was introduced in the early 1980s, we've seen design innovations like the scroll wheel (1995), the wireless mouse and optical mouse sensor (2001), and the laser-based mouse sensor (2005). Various companies have added extra programmable buttons, internal LED lighting, and even built-in fans to cool your sweaty hands. Today's gamers have a plethora of high-performance gaming mice to choose from. Is there anything else left to innovate? Mad Catz thinks so, and Benchmark Reviews checks out their latest mouse, the Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T. 9 wireless gaming mouse, to see if they're right.

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Arctic Sound P531 Headset Review
OCIA.net has posted their review of the Arctic Sound P531 Headset

Love them or hate them, headphones / earphones are generally needed at some point. Depending on your living arrangements, it is quite possible you wear them a lot. If I am not gaming, I let the sound pass through my normal system. However, once I start gaming I throw on my old earphones so I don't disturb others around me. My gaming earphones have always been my old cheap Logitechs that pass over the ears and have a microphone. I have a separate set that I use for travel and music, which are the Bose QC2's. Arctic Cooling sent over their premium gaming headset for evaluation, the Arctic Sound P531. This headset is USB driven, has 5.1 channel surround and a sub-woofer built in.

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Zalman VF3000A Review
OCC has published a review on the Zalman VF3000A

The Zalman VF3000A was a breeze to install, operated quietly, and provided the best temperatures out of all the cooling solutions tested. The Fan Mate 2 gets a little warm since it is basically just a variable resistor in a nice package, but it worked flawlessly nonetheless.

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Earjax Bump Earphones Review
Bona Fide Reviews takes a look at the Earjax Bump Earphones

Today for review I’ve got a nice set of earbuds from a company called Earjax. The earbuds are called the Bump, and with a name like that you’d expect good bass and that’s what you’ll get. The Bump are nicely made and are very comfortable to wear, but the best part is that they’re inexpensive.

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HP TouchSmart 310 Review
TechReviewSource.com posted a review on the HP TouchSmart 310

The multitouch TouchSmart 310 from HP has a lot to be happy about, including a 20-inch widescreen display, a 2.5GHz AMD Athlon X4 CPU and 6GB of RAM. It also has a sleek design that looks great in a kitchen or family room. The multimedia features that HP includes are also well-worth the price, which is also quite reasonable.

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Speedlink Medusa NX 2 Review
XSReviews have a review of Speedlink Medusa NX headset.

Speedlink already have a very good range of headsets available, aimed at everyone from serious gamers to the average PC user.

This one, the Medusa NX Stereo, is aimed at the gamers out there. With it's claims of first-class sound quality, outstanding microphone quality and maximum comfort it should prove to be a very nice piece of kit indeed.

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Kingston SSDNow V+100 128GB SSD Review
Legit Reviews posted a review on the Kingston SSDNow V+100 128GB SSD

Kingston has rolled out their SSDNow V+100 SSD series which they claim is 25% faster than its predecessor even though it utilizes the same Toshiba controller. This drive has TRIM support for Windows 7 users and 'always-on' garbage collection for those running older operating systems like Windows Vista and XP. Check out the article to see how the SSDNow V+100 does in both synthetic and real world benchmarks!

As far as performance goes, the V+100 performance exceeded my expectations that were based on experience with the earlier drives with the same controller. Kingston and Toshiba have done a really nice job on reworking the firmware to get a nice performance boost. Their "always on" and OS independent garbage collection is more aggressive and can help mitigate the performance degradation of long-term use on a system that does not support TRIM. This said, if you are running RAID array(s), Mac OS X, or a Windows version prior to 7, this drive was made with you in mind as all of those do not support TRIM...

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DeepCool Ice Matrix 600 CPU / Processor Cooler Review
Tweaknews posted DeepCool Ice Matrix 600 CPU / Processor Cooler Review

Deepcool's Ice Matrix 600, like its little brother the 400, is a great looking tower cooler that installs easily and comes with a quiet fan and a lot of nice accessories. It cools a bit better than the 400, but I expected a more significant performance increase.

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Sparkle Calibre X480 GeForce GTX 480 Video Card Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the Sparkle Calibre X480 GeForce GTX 480 Video Card

With the release of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 a couple of weeks ago the GTX 480 is no longer the top of the line card offered from NVIDIA, but there are still quite a few different GTX 480’s available and many of the GTX 580’s are still the reference build. Today we will be looking at the Calibre X480 from Sparkle, which is a GeForce GTX 480 video card that is slightly factory overclocked at 752MHz core (700MHz stock), 1536MB GDDR5 clocked at 3800MHz (3696MHz stock) and 1504MHz shaders (1401MHz stock). This card is also cooled by the Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme VGA cooler to provide you with the best cooling solution possible. Let’s take a look…

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MUKii TransImp Docking Station Review
PureOverclock has published a review of the MUKii TransImp docking station.

The MUKii TransImp dock will accommodate hard drives up to 2TB with SATA III capability. And with the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface, file transferspeeds are no longer bottlenecked on a hard drive. Moving big files, archiving files, and drive imaging can now happen far quicker than before. So we've got speed in a compact form; what's not to love?

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Earjax Tonic Earbuds Review
iGadget Life posted a review on the Earjax Tonic Earbuds

Today I’ve got a brief review for you of an inexpensive set of earbuds from a company called Earjax. The earbuds are called the Tonic, and they sound fairly decent, but a bit muffled really. They do a very good job at keeping ambient noises out, and they even included several types and sizes of earbuds along with a nice carrying case.

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Motorola Droid R2D2 Edition Review
TestFreaks posted a review on the Motorola Droid R2D2 Edition

The Motorola Droid is undoubtedly one of the most popular Android phones on the market today, for good reason it’s a great phone. The Droid name is taken from Star Wars so it’s no surprise that they released an R2D2 themed phone complete with special edition live and still wallpaper and the phone of course aesthetically looks like that famous little droid. I’ve already fully reviewed the Motorola Droid 2, so this isn’t exactly as in-depth of a review, but it does focus on the special Star Wars parts of the phone. So read on to check it out…

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Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU Cooler Review
Hi Tech Legion posted a review on the Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU Cooler

The Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 is compatible with all current Intel and AMD processors, providing thermal headroom of up to 200 Watts. The Freezer 13 has a solid copper base with four U-shaped copper heatpipes extending upward, diverting heat away from the
processor and distributing it between the 45 aluminum fins. The Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 offers fantastic performance for the money and comes with a 92mm fan pre-installed as well as Arctic Cooling's MX-4 thermal paste pre-applied.

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ASUS P8P67 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Preview
Vortez posted ASUS P8P67 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Preview

Over the past few weeks we have seen plenty of coverage of the new ASUS P67 and H67 boards due for release in Q1 2011. We caught a first glimpse of the boards only a couple of weeks ago when Sahil went along to the ASUS P67 'Sandy Bridge' Seminar. That article in itself sparked a lot of interest at Vortez and we just had to get one of these boards in to test. With many features like EFI, TPU, EPU, DIGI+VRM to name just a few, these upcoming boards are sure to get the New Year off to a cracking start.

Below we have an unboxing video of the forthcoming ASUS P8P67 motherboard. Please bear in mind that at this stage only an unbox and preview of the features are currently permitted. Performance results will be published in January when Intel lifts the embargo. Meanwhile, enjoy! (Pictures on the following pages with closeup shots)

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Casio Exilim EX-S7 Review
TechReviewSource.com posted a review on the Casio Exilim EX-S7 camera

The Casio Exilim EX-S7 is a lightweight and compact digital camera that has a resolution of 12 megapixels and HD video capture. It also has a nice big 2.7-inch LCD display and supports the Eye-Fi wireless SD cards.

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Gainward GeForce GTX 460 SE 1 GB Review
techPowerUp posted a review on the Gainward GeForce GTX 460 SE 1 GB

Last week NVIDIA launched their GeForce GTX 460 SE which is designed to give a good price/performance level without compromising on memory amount. But is this enough to compete with the full GTX 460 variants that have 768 MB or 1 GB of memory?

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Zalman CNPS9900 MAX 135mm CPU Cooler Review
Legit Reviews posted a review on the Zalman CNPS9900 MAX 135mm CPU Cooler

Today we are looking the newest cooler from Zalman, the CNPS9900 MAX. The new CNPS9900 MAX features a 135mm fan and what Zalman is calling composite heatpipes. Join us as we see how well the new Zalman CNPS9900 MAX CPU cooler performs on our Intel Core i7-930 powered test system at stock speeds and then overclocked to 4GHz!

Zalman has nice cooler on their hands with the CNPS9900 MAX. The older enthusiasts can see its design heritage and at a glance have no doubt it's a Zalman cooler. The design is nice looking with the 'Black Pearl' nickel plated finish, and it performs nicely as well. The CNPS9900 MAX carries a suggested price tag of $79.90. This puts the CNPS9900 MAX into the high end air category and it performed in this range as well...

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Arctic Cooling Arctic M571 Laser Gaming Mouse Review
ThinkComputers.org posted a review on the Arctic Cooling Arctic M571 Laser Gaming Mouse

After being pleasantly surprised by Arctic Cooling’s first entry into the mouse market, the M551, I was looking forward to testing the M571. I was very interested to see what they did with the M571 to differentiate the two models and justify the additional $5 for it. So without further ado let’s take a look at the features.

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NZXT Phantom Full Tower review
The Guru of 3D posted a review on the NZXT Phantom Full Tower

We review the NZXT Phantom. Absolutely stunning in many ways as the design is simply great, the features are grand and then the extras still need to kick in. What about a 5-fold fan controller connected to a plethora of pre-equipped fans? Yep, a fan controller in the chassis, something we have been requesting for years.

The NZXT Phantom is a full tower case with an excess of room for just about anything you'd like to install in there.

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Cooler Master Elite 430 Case Review
Hardwareoverclock.com posted a review on the Cooler Master Elite 430 Case

The Cooler Master Elite 430 is a case made for modding freaks with a small purse. There are a lot of nice features for a fast hardware installation. Also the cooling performance was an important theme in the manufacturing.

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Thermaltake BlacX 5G HDD Docking Station Review
Hi Tech Legion posted Thermaltake BlacX 5G HDD Docking Station Review

The Thermaltake BlacX 5G is an upgrade in the BlacX line of HDD docking stations. The BlacX 5G boasts more speed and up to date support. The 5G tag is for the USB 3.0 and SATA III internal makeover. SATA III has a 6Gb/s theoretical speed, while USB 3.0 has 5Gb/s. So, with this BlacX upgrade, you should be able to get the most out of your external HDD dock.

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Panasonic DMP-BD655 Blu-ray Disc Player Review
TestFreaks posted a review on the Panasonic DMP-BD655 Blu-ray Disc Player

It’s about time I upgraded my Blu-Ray player I think, and Geeks.com has come through for me by sending a very nice Panasonic unit for review. My current Blu-Ray player is an older model from Sony with not many features at all, and with very slow load times. Today for review I’ve got the Panasonic model DMP-BD655 Blu-Ray player that features fast boot and load times along with Viera Cast online features like Twitter, Netflix and even Amazon Video to just name a few. The unit is small and lightweight and I’m happy with it overall, but there are a few tweaks I’d like to see done to it.

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ROCCAT Kave Headset Review
Vortez posted a review on the ROCCAT Kave Headset

What a year ROCCAT have had. We have seen a countless exchange of innovation from a variety of products - Kone+, Pyra, Kova and that only includes mice, we have also seen a new keyboard and many gaming surfaces. They certainly haven't been idle in 2010.

Earlier on in the yea saw the launch of 2 new audio solutions by ROCCAT, the Vire Gaming Headset which were classified as the 'lightest headset in the world'. A few months before the launch of the Vire though, ROCCAT launched a fully closed solution named the Kave. As of yet we haven't looked at the Kave, it has been on the list though. So today sees the day when we finally take a long awaited look at the ROCCAT Kave.

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Gigabyte P67A-UD7 Previewed - Intel Sandy Bridge Motherboard Breaks Cover
HotHardware posted a preview on the Gigabyte P67A-UD7 motherboard

The P67A-UD7 is an enthusiast class, LGA1155 based motherboard designed specifically for Intel's upcoming line of Sandy Bridge processors. It features a 24 phase CPU power design, Ultra Durable 3 with two ounces of copper within the PCB, ten SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, six SATA 6Gbps connectors, 3-way CrossFireX and SLI support, DualBios technology, On/Off USB Charge support and killer good looks in black and gold trim...

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