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Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov   
Sunday, 29 July 2007

CoolIT Systems Products at ThinkComputers:

First up we have the USB Beverage Chiller. The CoolIT USB Beverage Chiller helps keep your beverages cool. It's about the size of a hard drive and is composed mostly of plastic. It's perfect for any desktop, whether it's at work or at home. The Chiller connects to your computer via a USB cable. This allows you to connect it to any other device, gaming consoles, laptops, or even cars that have a USB port.


Noctua NC-U6 Chipset Cooler at GideonTech:

Noctua has improved the cooling on the northbridge with a small design. With the motherboard I used for testing I know you would not be able to use every type of heat sink. You need units that don’t overlap the northbridge (Zalman CNPS 9700 for example). The information on the fins is off by one. It says 29 but I counted 28 on the cooler. I would like to see the next ones to come out with a smoother finished surface.


Xigmatek HDT-S963 CPU Cooler at Modders-Inc:

The Xigmatek HDT-S963 is a heatpipe cooler that looks similar to others, while offering a few differences in design. The cooler uses three high performance U-shaped heatpipes that pass the heat from the base through the aluminum fins. The 92mm fan is mounted to the cooler via anti-vibration rubber mounts to help control the noise levels.


Memory Buying Guide at Tech ARP:

Let's compare a system with a slower CPU like a Core 2 Duo E6300 and 2 GB of memory against a system with a faster CPU like a Core 2 Duo E6600 but with only 512 MB of memory. You may think that the second system will be faster and you would be proven right by a CPU benchmark. However, if you actually use the system, the first system will feel much faster. Applications load quickly, multitasking with multiple applications is effortless, everything just feels faster.


Arkon Soundfeeder SF-250 FM Transmitter at PCApex:

Let's take a look at the SoundFeeder unit itself. It's slightly smaller than my battle scared Motorola V220 flip phone and pretty much egg shaped. It is silver with a black wire. The 3.5mm connector "plugs" into the SF-250 unit when not in use to keep the wire tidy. The wire is about six inches long when fully extended.


Wolf King Ultimate Gaming Pad at OCIA:

The product up for review today is made by Wolf King and is called the Ultimate FPS Warrior Game Pad, or just Warrior for short. It's not meant to take the place of your keyboard but rather clusters most of the left-side keyboard controls into a circular pad for easier accessibility. If you're looking to replace your keyboard altogether check out the Timber Wolf which incorporates the circular pad with a standard notebook-sized keyboard.


NZXT Lexa Blackline at techPowerUp:

The entire package of the Lexa Blackline is kept in black and is fairly compact. Even though this case is available in two colors - blue and red, the former is used to underline the fact that this case is lighted. The front also shows the red version of the case. On the rear you will find further features of the case listed. The only thing letting you know that the case inside actually employs blue LEDs is a small sticker on the side of the case. Seems like NZXT designed the red variant first and then decided to add a blue one, as their website does not mention the former color at all.


Building a computer at Techware Labs:

I received all of the components within 3 days of ordering them, and first unpacked the case. The safest way to unpack a case without damaging it is to cut the tape and pull the case out by the styrofoam. Place the case on the ground, styrofoam side down. Pull the styrofoam side facing up off of the case. Flip the case onto that side and pull off the other piece. Now take off the plastic wrapper. This keeps you from pulling things off in the air and potentially dropping the case. Now take off the side panel and place the thumbscrews somewhere that you won't lose them. Look around inside and remove the bag of screws from the case so they don't get lost. Notice the bag of screws was taped inside the case on the HDD rack.


MSI 8600GTS Diamond Plus with HDMI at TweakTown:

Digital TV users might currently find themselves with a Home Theater PC which utilizes a standard VGA cable, the other popular choice is a DVI-to-HDMI cable. The good news is that if you’re using the former but think it’s time to go digital connectivity between your HTPC and TV, we might have just the card for you.


Security boot camp at Tech ARP:

However, hijackers don't do it for fun. They generally hijack your PC for three things - attacks, propagation and referrals. When used for attacks, the hijacker usually uses your PC to attack a webserver as part of a larger DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. In propagation, the hijacked PC is used to send out spam or hijack other PCs by using an infection vector. Finally, referrals, being the most annoying of all, generally means an attacker hijacks your PC to relay you to websites that earn them money through referrals.

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