"Thermaltake has a real gem in the Lanbox chassis. The design and styling elements join to produce a small, portable case that not only performs very well, but also is relatively easy to work in, given the space limitations. And, it looks as good as it performs. Its sleek, classy look garnered a lot of attention around here, and it's easy to see why. The all aluminum construction keeps the Lanbox light while the modular design keeps it strong."

Thermaltake Lanbox VF1000BWS Case Review @ Tweaknews

All DVD-burners are the same, right? So what makes one better than the next. It's rare these days to hear about an optical drive, with all the other components that are getting faster, greener, and cheaper. Today, Benchmark Reviews is taking a look at ASUS's most recent addition to the optical drive market, the ASUS DRW-24B1ST 24x DVD+/-RW. Many of us may have recently been contemplating an upgrade to our old drives. After a few years of wear and tear, optical drives can give out. Also, with recent upgrades in motherboards, you might find yourself without an IDE channel, necessitating the purchase of a newer SATA model drive. Benchmark Reviews will test the ASUS DRW-24B1ST against other optical drives with USB, IDE, and SATA connectors to find out just exactly what ASUS has in store with it's newest DVD-Burner.

ASUS Super-Multi SATA Optical Drive @ Benchmark Reviews

"Gamers on a budget can have hard time on finding good value for their money. This time we'll check out if
Sapphire's HD5750 offers enough "bang for the buck". "

Sapphire HD5750 Vapor-X Reviewed in Metku.net

In this review we are looking at the new Gigabyte Radeon HD 5670 graphics card that will clearly keep your money where it belongs, in your pocket. So, will this card have enough power to satisfy the gamer on a budget?

Gigabyte Radeon HD5670 Video Card Review @ Ninjalane

"Thermaltake recently sent me the 301 Wing RS midi-tower case, which is at the budget end of the market, for review. Today I will be reviewing the Thermaltake Element V gaming full tower case. This case is far more up the high-end scale compared to the 301 Wing RS, and as such will demand a premium in price."

Thermaltake Element V Case Review @ XtremeComputing

iStarUSA is one of the companies that came to its senses and decided to offer an eSATA function to their hard drive docking station the xAGE-N99-SAU/US. So the only question that remains is just how close did they get their controller to the motherboard speeds? Read on and find out.

iStarUSA xAGE-N99 HDD Docking Station @ TechwareLabs

"The Sapphire HD5570 has to be taken in context to truly see how and where this product fits in ATI's current lineup of DirectX 11 videocards. The HD5570 is targeted towards the user that wants a small form factor card to insert into a small workstation or HTPC, but doesn't want to settle for the very basic performance of the HD5450."

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5570 Videocard Review @ Tweaknews

Today we are unboxing the HIS Radeon HD 5450 1GB graphics card. This graphics card is aimed mostly at HTPC users with a passive cooling solution and the ability for Eyefinity with its VGA, DVI and Display Port connections. By offering a lot for the money, it’s going to be a big hit all around

HIS Radeon HD 5450 1GB Graphics Card Unboxing Video @ eTeknix.com

PowerColor's brand new HD 5870 PCS+ comes with an overclock out of the box and an amazing cooling solution that makes the card quieter than any other card in this performance segment. For a price increase of only $10-$20 over the reference design this seems like a great deal.

World-Exclusive: Powercolor HD 5870 PCS+ @ techPowerUp

AMD's clear goal at the moment is to finish rounding-off its HD 5000-series line-up in advance of NVIDIA's Fermi launch, and so far, it's doing a good job. It's continuing its success in this goal with the release of the $80 Radeon HD 5570, a card that's designed to offer stellar media capabilities along with reasonable gaming performance.

ATI Radeon HD 5570 - Sub-$100 HTPC & Gaming Solution @ Techgage.com

Hopefully one day soon Solid State Drives will be standard equipment for new computer systems, but first SSDs must become available as an optional upgrade item for build-it-yourself orders.

Plextor/LiteOn hopes to bring this service to tier-one OEMs, and computers from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Sony could soon offer lightning-fast SSD performance. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the LiteOn 32GB 'Strong-Page' SSD, model LA-32M1S, built on the Marvell 88SS8014-BHP2 Da-Vinci controller.

LiteOn Strong-Page MLC SSD LA-32M1S @ Benchmark Reviews

Even though both drives are based off the same technology, the firmware is a different and this may have the greatest impact on performance between the two units.  Many users of the Patriot Torqx SSDs have noticed a performance decrease when using the 1819 firmware, but this firmware keeps the drives performance static on a TRIM-enabled OS - even after prolonged use.

Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD - Barefoot Still Going Strong

Today we are looking at the Jetway NC63-330-LF Mini-ITX motherboard.

This particular board comes with an Intel Atom 330 dual-core 1.6GHz processor, has 2 DDR2 slots supporting upto 8GB of DDR2 memory modules of speeds upto 800MHz. It uses the Nvidia ION chipsetand has integrated graphics that supports DirectX10. This board also has integrated HD sound and Gigabit Lan.

A perfect board for HTPC users.

Jetway NC63-330-LF Mini-ITX Motherboard Video Review @ eTeknix.com

Houston, Texas – February 8, 2010 – Seidio, Inc., the leading developer and manufacturer of premium Smartphone accessories, is excited to announce the release of our Innocell 2800mAh Extended Life Battery for the Nexus One. Seidio invests in extensive research to find the best and most powerful battery components on the market. We carefully select superior cells for our batteries to ensure the highest level of safety, quality, and performance. Our research and expertise give us the ability to create batteries that provide maximum capacity in their comparable space. This large capacity Innocell Extended Life Battery is for the avid traveler who can't always get to a charger. It has double the capacity of the original battery and will keep you charged and ready to go, even with heavy phone and data usage. It comes with a contoured black replacement door featuring Seidio's signature soft touch coating and a textured bar to mimic the phone's original design. The Innocell 2800mAh Extended Life Battery for the Nexus One retails for $64.95. Pre-orders are being accepted now and product is scheduled to begin shipping the week of February 16 2010. For more information on this and other great Seidio products, please visitwww.seidioonline.com. Founded in Houston, Texas in 2002, Seidio, Inc. is a leading developer and manufacturer of premium Smartphone accessories. We’re a visionary company with a passion for innovation and an understanding of our customers’ needs

Mushkin sent us a sample of their new DDR3 memory kit. We got a sample of their Tri channel kit with 3x2GB Ram kits at 12800 speed and 7-9-7-24 timings. What can we do with this kit and our Core i7 920 Cpu? Lets have a closer look.

Mushkin PC3-12800 6GB Kit @ Rbmods

HELSINKI, FINLAND – February 8, 2010 – Futuremark® Games Studio today released the first screenshots from the upcoming Moonrise content pack for Shattered Horizon™, their PC exclusive multiplayer first-person shooter. The Moonrise pack, which will be free to all players, includes four new environments effectively doubling the number of levels in the game. http://www.shatteredhorizon.com/

The NMP-1000 is not only a simple media player to hook up to your TV. The small unit includes a BitTorrent client, NAS, uPnP & DNLA functionality along with playback of ShoutCast, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa and Apple Trailers. In fact the list of functionality is so diverse, it does justify the 399 US Dollar price tag and still manages to put a smile on our faces.

QNAP NMP-1000 Network Media Player @ techPowerUp

Technology is growing at an amazing rate. Every couple of years we experience some kind of major changes in the industry. Just about two years ago we reached new and higher speeds of transferring data from one in interface to another. With SATA/SAS 3 Gb/s many companies converted their SCSI interface environments in to SATA/SAS and saved alot of money on power and got increase in storage. Lets face it a SCSI hard drive would cost roughly 200$ for 140 GB. With the same 200$ we could purchase a 1 TB hard drive and save some money in the long run.

UMLan Article Release: Seagate Constellation ES - Review

Ultra, the company who’s claim to fame is inventing the modular power supply, brings us another one of their X4 creations. Their last power supply got good marks in the lab, lets see if their more powerful version can pull off the same.

Ultra X4 1050 Watt Power Supply @ TechwareLabs

For the longest time, Asus was the kind of company that was only known by techies and enthusiasts. That changed in recent years with the release of devices like the Eee PC line of netbooks and soon expanded into the realm of all-in-one PCs with the Asus Eee Top. Now the company is going one step further with its one of its first home theater PCs. Working off a subsidiary, we discover the ASRock Ion 330HT NetTop. It’s got ASRock branding, but this is an Asus product through and through.

A Futurelooks News Flash - ASRock ION 330HT NetTop HTPC Review