silentpcreview: Edward McKeating’s project started not as an exercise in reuse and recycle but because he wanted to move his media PC into the living room to watch TV and videos more comfortably. The problem was that the PC was ugly and very noisy. He decided instead to modify what he had with some of the junk cluttering ...

bit-tech.net: The Cooler Master Stacker 830 is one of our all-time favourite cases. We review its new stablemate, the Stacker 832, as well as an exclusive look at the Smooth Creations 830 with custom paintjob.

bit-tech.net: The people have voted_ over 11,000 votes to re-introduce Windows XP into its range of home PCs and notebooks and Dell has responded in increasing their range with XP Inside.

bit-tech.net: French modder Kotomi has just unveiled his new modern/retro system mod, the Wii-SNES. You guessed it - a Super Nintendo inside a Wii chassis. One suspects he’s rather missed the point of the latest Ninty console.

DailyTech: 103 kilometers later, Russia will be a little closer to Alaska again...

DailyTech: Motorola acquires video-processing solutions company to advance video infrastructure...

Madshrimps: In multimedia stuff and this synthetic benchmark AMD’s native quad core is 33.3 percent faster than Intel’s fastest Quad core, while in the floating calculations it is a massive 66 percent faster. The QX6850 with FSB 1333 might improve the situation a bit, but it won’t be enough save the day. Intel ...

Madshrimps: DESPITE THE fact that Vole told us that Vista would be much more secure than XP, a top Microsoft security expert has warned that very little will change. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39123

Madshrimps: The purpose of this series of five articles is (1) to review what is unique about multiprocessor software as compared to both uniprocessor embedded systems and general-purpose systems: (2) to study scheduling and performance analysis of multiple tasks running on a multiprocessor_ (3) consider middleware ...

Madshrimps: Sometimes the desire to create a perfect product results in somewhat absurd consequences. Today we are going to introduce to you a perfect illustration of this saying – the top-of-the-line Gigabyte mainboard from the Intel P965 Express based family. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/ga-965p-dq6.html ...