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Arctic Cooling Silentium T3 ECO 80

Arctic Cooling has some neat ideas for making a silent case, made evident in the Silentium T3 ECO 80. Add comment

ASUS ENGTX285 TOP GeForce GTX 285

The ASUS ENGTX285 TOP GeForce GTX 285 gets top marks at Benchmark Reviews. Add comment

Spire TherMax Pro CPU cooler

At $36, the Sprire TherMax Pro CPU cooler offers a lot of value for the money. Add comment

Phenom II already taking price cuts

Our datamining on Newegg has revealed that the price of both the Phenom II X4 920 and Phenom II X4 940 have been cut by $40 USD. Checking Newegg shows that their prices are now $195 and $235 respectively. Add comment

AMD Catalyst vs. X.Org Radeon driver 2D performance

Is the open source X.Org Radeon driver faster than AMD’s Catalyst drivers for 2D performance in Linux? Add comment

Samsung SyncMaster T240 24″ LCD

Tweaknews said the Samsung SyncMaster T240 24″ LCD monitor was good enough that they’d actually buy it. Add comment

Windows 7 beta vs Windows Vista SP1 SSD performance

Tweak Town benchmarks Windows 7 beta vs Windows Vista SP1 SSD performance. Add comment

Rumored Intel price cuts true, not just Xeon

Last Friday we guessed that the price cuts rumored for the Intel Xeon would trickle down into consumer chips, and it looks like that is indeed the case. Check the chart below to see if your favorite chip was put on the block: Add comment

10 things to hate about the BlackBerry

Enterprising phone recon dudes at BGR outline the (completely true) things that suck about the BlackBerries. Add comment

Gizmo Drive virtualizes all sorts of drives

Today’s download of the day, Gizmo Drive, (here comes the naughty) lets you mount all sorts of virtual things: Virtual CD-ROMs, RAM Disks, encrypted images, Windows Virtual PC images,  and virtual hard drives all fall under Gizmo’s Drive domain. I just used it to mount a magical liopleurodon. It was rad. Add comment

Fun with CAPTCHAs

I manned up and registered (no in-line registration? Seriously?) on Mozilla’s addon site to bring you lot more in the way of experimental addons. When I went about proving that I was not a ninja robot from outer space, I, well… See for yourself: Add comment

SiteLauncher navigates in a hurry

A hot new experimental addon for Firefox called SiteLauncher gives Launchy-like control over your bookmarks. Tap a hotkey to summon a menu and then hit the hotkey assigned to the site you want to visit. Because the addon is experimental, you must have an account with Mozilla or register. Lame, but worth it. Add comment

Blu-ray Band of Brothers for cheap

Yeah, yeah, we’re not in the business of posting deals, but this $34.99 Blu-ray box set of HBO’s Band of Brothers mini-series is awesome. Add comment

Rumors on Intel’s Pineview, Atom successor

Today’s juicy rumor is that Pineview, the successor to Intel’s wildly popular Atom CPU, is in the cards for a 4Q09 release. Paired with a new chipset called Pine Trail-M, Pineview shrinks the Atom’s 2174mm square footprint to just 773mm square. The new chip features no clockspeed increases, but does arrive with a smaller thermal […] Add comment

How to lap your processor

Metku has a guide on how to lap your processor. Add comment

Seagate’s 1.5TB Barracuda firmware update

Seagate’s 1.5TB Barracuda drives experienced random freezing when they first came out, but a firmware update supposedly fixed the issue. Was performance affected? Add comment

Xigmatek Thor’s Hammer S126384

Xigmatek is going for the high-end air cooling market with the upcoming Thor’s Hammer S126384 heatsink. Crazy. Add comment

GeForce GTX 285 and 295 reviews

Tech Report gets down to business with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 and 295 video cards. Add comment

Cooler Master V10 heatsink preview

The Cooler Master V8 heatsink was epic, but check out the forthcoming V10. Add comment

Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultima

MadShrimps reviews the high-end Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultima water cooling kit. It really shines with Core 2 Quads and the Core i7. Add comment

Multi-boot Windows 7 with Vista or XP

Tweak Town has a guide on how to dual-boot Windows 7 beta with Vista or XP. Add comment