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Zalman continues to innovate in the field of high performance, low noise cooling. The VF-900Cu provided excellent cooling performance and was able to do so with absolutely no noise. Even at full speed, the cooler was quieter than the stock unit it replaced, and it kept the X800 GTO almost 10 degrees Celsius cooler!

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Who would have thought that 1000 watts would be used in a personal computer system! Well, the fact is, most still don't require this kind of serious power. However, for the serious computer user and especially the hardcore gamer, it most definitely is. With dual NVIDIA SLI and ATI CrossFire setups becoming common place, a high-quality power supply with lots of juice is a necessity. Also, most serious gamers will push their systems to the absolute limit…

Today on the test bench I have our 3rd ECS motherboard: the ECS C19-A SLI Pentium 4 (skt 775) Motherboard. What differs this board from our previous ECS boards is that the C19-A SLI is the first board from ECS to formally support NVIDIA SLI in an Intel Platform. Unfortunately it is only implemented as dual 8x pipes or a single 16x pipe for the PCI-e. But again: Budget.

Adrian's Rojak Pot has just posted the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Graphics Card Review!

"If you loved the performance and value of the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT, you will fall in love with the new NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT. Not only is it fast, it's also very affordable. A gamer's dream come true. Check out the review and find out why!"

MaXit caught up with the cast and crew of Mission Impossible 3 for an exclusive insight into the making of this third sequel in the ever popular MI3 stable. Just another action flick or a full on Anti-Thayton for Cruise?

Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today staked the claim that the Xbox 360^TM system will have a 10 million-unit head start by the time the competition enters the market and more than 160 games by the end of the year. Gates went on to outline the company's bold new vision to connect millions of Xbox 360 gamers with hundreds of millions of Microsoft^® Windows^®-based PC and mobile gamers from around the world through the Xbox Live^® online entertainment network.

The Playstation 3 is revealed at Sony's E3 presentation - with more than a few shocks.   Availability is set for November 17th in the US and the playstation 3 will be coming in two flavours (expensive and mega expensive) similar to the Xbox 360 core and premium packages.

BitTorrent is a great little program, useful for just about any type of file transfer you would need. Several companies use torrent download concepts to help with their download speeds, patchers, or just diffusing bandwidth usage among its users. But some companies stay convinced its the devil for aiding piracy. Warner Bros has left this train of thought, however.

Say goodbye to MSN Messenger. Microsoft's upcoming version of the software has been rebranded, refeatured, and is set to be your one stop software for well, almost everything.

This always makes others in technical support cringe. AOL has cut 1,300 employees, primarily from its call centers. Reasons are attributed to "savvy customers", among other reasons.
First question - people still use AOL? I know I haven't since I have multiple issues when I needed a temporary connection, as well as support that didn't, well, support. It's hard to decide exactly why the cuts came. Was it really from just more intelligent users?

Let's take a quick look at statistics. AOL's peak was in September 2002, with 26.7 million uses. Today? 18.6 million customers. That's still a significant amount, and it's hard to say if the scaling of their call centers to projected call volume is going to work out well for them.

"... But the steps we take today will help ensure that AOL meets the needs of our members, meets our strategic corporate goals, and sustains the growth of our business." says Nicholas Graham, an AOL spokesman.

Here's hoping one of their steps isn't transferring support to overseas help. That always goes over well, heh...

World of Warcraft has millions of subscribers. Everywhere you turn, you have a good chance of running into a fellow player. While the game is enjoyable enough on its own, I've been playing around with UI modifications of one sort or another to simply up my enjoyment of the game, as well as clear some of the healer related clutter all over my screen. Sometimes its nice to see the screen, not just health bars, you know?

If you prefer your PSU to have all the power but none of the clutter, Enermax has a modular solution that's well worth a look! Available in a number of power outputs, MaXit put the 400W PSU under the torture bench.