It’s not a shocking revelation that the video game industry is mainly fueled by testosterone. According to a 2007 survey by Game Developer Magazine, women make up approximately 20 percent of employees. Moreover, it’s not a huge surprise that many of the top executive positions are occupied by men. However, there have been a small number of successful women who have broken through the “glass ceiling” and become valuable assets to their companies.

Futurelooks News Flash - Futurelooks Asks - Where Are the Women in the Video Games Industry?

- Available NOW in limited quantity from Corsair’s Web Store –

FREMONT, California, May 6, 2010 — Corsair, a worldwide supplier of high-performance PC components, today announced the launch of the Dominator^® GTX4, a new ultra-high-speed module with operation guaranteed up to 2533 MHz. These modules are available immediately, in limited quantity, from the Corsair Online Store.

 

We get a lot of cases from companies like Antec, Silverstone, and NZXT—companies that have been in the business a while. Every so often, though, a company new to the field decides to send something our way. That's the case today, as Microcool has sent us their first attempt at grabbing a foothold in the PC case market, the Banchetto 101. The Google translate-o-bots tell me that Banchetto is Italian for feast or banquet. We'll see soon enough if this case fills the bill, or leaves us hungry.

Microcool Banchetto 101 Case @ TechwareLabs

"The i3DSpeed informs you about performance of popular graphics cards and the best price/performance deals in the market. In this issue we added NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, ATI RADEON HD 5570 test results."

iXBT Labs Review: i3DSpeed, April 2010

- a complete external PCIe expansion solution for customers

6 May 2010, Taipei, Taiwan – Netstor Technology today introduces its added external PCI Express expansion box series to its product line – the TurboBox-mini™ NA220A, a compact external PCI Express enclosure for ease-of-adding one extra PCI Express card to a laptop, desktop PC or server.  Netstor once again demonstrates its dedications in bringing complete and cost-effective PCIe expansion solutions to its customers worldwide.

6 May 2010, Keelung, Taiwan – Lian Li Industrial Co. Ltd. launches the PC-V352 Desktop/HTPC Chassis. The all aluminum design features right or left side mounts for ODD bays and multimedia I/O ports, giving users the flexibility to place the PC-V352 in any position they wish without sacrificing easy access. The sleek brushed aluminum chassis comes in black, silver and red, with a clean, easy-on-the-eyes front panel design. The dimensions stand at 279 x 262 x 373mm (W.H.D). The chassis comes with all the functional and user friendly design aspects that users have come to expect in a Lian Li’s case.

Dual fan towers have quickly become the aftermarket cooling standard for the PC. They are relatively compact, provide excellent surface area for cooling, and are limited only by the available room in your chassis and motherboard components. Of course performance is the key thing with aftermarket coolers and overall performance is a direct result of how well a company can combine everything together.

Thermaltake Frio Heatsink Review @ Ninjalane

You want a custom computer case really bad but you do not either have the time or means to make one, then what do you? Well guess what you are in luck! The guys over at Case Appeal have some really cool looking custom cases that you can choose from and even customize for about $200 USD.

CaseAppeal AV8 Custom Computer Case at Modders-Inc

It's always better to have and not need, than to need and not have. This Golden Rule applies to computer system memory as much as the other aspects in life, and having more RAM than your PC needs can only help matters. Multimedia editors require large amounts of memory to keep their encoding tasks moving at top-speed, otherwise the PC's much slower storage drive is called into play. Crucial offers the power-user a guaranteed boost to system performance, with their triple-channel 12GB DDR3 memory kit. The Crucial CT3KIT51264BA1339 UDIMM kit consists of three 4GB DDR3 modules rated for 1333MHz CL9-9-9-25-1 each. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the high-density RAM kit against memory big and small, fast and slow.

12GB Crucial DDR3 Memory Kit Review @ Benchmark Reviews

"Throughout the reviewing and testing, there wasn't really a whole lot I could pick as a problem with this cooler. It's cheap, quiet, cost effective, built well and best of all, it performs just like any other premier coolers I have tested on the market."

Zalman CNPS10X Performa Cooler Review @ Tweaknews

There is no denying that good cooling can make or break the stability of your system. Likewise there is no denying that water based cooling systems outperform nearly all other types of cooling for the same price. CoolIT Systems makes some of the highest quality and highest performing systems on the market. We take a look today at their new ECO ALC Cooling system to find out if it is worth your cash.

CoolIT Systems – ECO ALC Cooling System @ TechwareLabs

Like so many other memory vendors on the market, Kingston offers a wide array of solid-state disks for your perusal. For the low-end segment, it has the SSDNow V series, which at current time offer the best GB/$ on the market. We're taking a look at the latest release here, combining a recent JMicron controller with Toshiba NAND.

Kingston SSDNow V Series SNV425 128GB @ Techgage.com

Network storage is a concept that many people use without a second thought in corporate environments, but what about at home? Count the number of PCs in your house and tell me it wouldn't be nice to have one central location for backups, video and music storage, and everything else. All that and much more is readily available in a Network Attached Storage server. The QNAP TS-259 Pro NAS server uses a custom Linux distro and a powerful, energy-efficient 1.66GHz Intel Atom D510 CPU with 1GB of DDR2-800 memory to eliminate any potential bottlenecks.  Dual Intel Gigabit Ethernet controllers allow failover safety and teaming, while two SATA drive bays offer single disk, JBOD, and RAID 0/1 configurations.  Benchmark Reviews examines the QNAP TS-259 Pro in detail here, and tests its performance against a wide variety of NAS servers.  We also have a pleasent surprise for Win7 users.

QNAP TS-259 Pro Turbo NAS Server @ Benchmark Reviews

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 4, 2010 – Benefitting from the company's power-saving architecture, transistor and circuit design expertise, plus unique manufacturing process techniques, Intel Corporation today unveiled its newest Intel® Atom™ processor-based platform (formerly "Moorestown", PDF 202KB)

Today we are looking at the Foxconn A7DA-S 3.0 socket AM3 motherboard.

This particular board comes with support for the latest AMD Phenom II processors, 4 DDR3 slots and uses the AMD 790GX and SB750 chipset and has integrated 7.1 channel HD audio, Gigabit LAN and onboard Radeon 3300 graphics.

Even when overclocked, this board provides great stability.

Foxconn A7DA-S 3.0 Motherboard Video Review @ eTeknix.com

The HD 5830 has seen a fairly lackluster introduction into the lineup and has received mixed reviews. HIS has taken the HD 5830 and pumped it up with the iCooler V Turbo package. The HIS HD 5830 iCooler V Turbo 1GB offers good performance out of the box with a factory overclock and has a full complement of accessories to make it even more attractive.

News - HIS HD 5830 iCooler V Turbo Review at Overclockers Online

It’s always interesting to see what comes out of the labs at CoolIT Systems. We saw many of their new innovations at CES 2010 and were pretty impressed with what we glimpsed. While I wasn’t able to get a look first hand due to a pre-show  injury that didn’t sate my intrigue when they announced the product we’re reviewing today. The ECO A.L.C. CPU cooler is yet another product in the same vein as the Domino A.L.C. CPU cooler we reviewed more than a year ago. It sits in a similar price range, has a similar form factor, and has related underlying technology. It also won the same award from CES as its older Domino A.L.C. sibling. With a new set of refinements to the already innovative Domino A.L.C., the new ECO A.L.C. is set to make its older brother proud. To see how proud, let’s get this thing tested and reviewed.

Futurelooks News Flash - CoolIT Systems ECO A.L.C. CPU Cooler Review

Nexus is one of the leading manufacturers of silent cooling systems and power supplies. We've had a chance to review quite a few of their products in the past and this time we will have a look at their newest, most powerful, power supply RX-1.1K.

Nexus RX-1.1K PSU @ Rbmods

Arctic Cooling's wooden in-ears are put to the test. Dubbed E352 these in-ears are closely related to the E361s which we recently had the pleasure of testing. For a budget of only about $50 you get solid sound quality coupled with a nice finish.

Arctic Cooling E352 @ techPowerUp