Madshrimps: Is it time to upgrade your computer system with the latest and greatest gear? Most enthusiasts do it every year and they are looking for top notch hardware. It’s important to have the correct hardware combination to ensure a speedy system. Memory plays a crucial role in a system’s overall performance ...

Madshrimps: Nvidia’s 8800GTX has been dominating the high end GPU market for around 6 months now and there has been little variation in this department. However, MSI have now released an overclocked GTX with its own water cooling setup. This is the MSI OC Liquid, let’s see if it can give us some nice numbers. http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/graphics-cards/msi-8800gtx-oc-liquid/ ...

Madshrimps: I think everyone who has anything more important than the latest round of email jokes on your system should have some sort of Raid setup, or at the very least external backups. And I see no reason not to check out the CFI B4043 to see if it fits your needs http://virtual-hideout.net/reviews/CFI_Raidbox/index.shtml ...

Madshrimps: The P5B Premium is ASUS’ latest introduction in their P5B series, touting full Windows Vista Trusted Platform support. With the stellar performance seen with the rest of the P5B series, this board shows lots of promise. http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI5MiwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

DailyTech: USB thumbdrive-sized devices will support high-speed wireless access at home or on the road....

DailyTech: Best Buy backs HD Radio, offering the technology at all U.S. locations...

VR-Zone: AMD disclosed updated performance projections for its upcoming native Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, code-named ‘Barcelona.’ The new Barcelona projections are based on the latest SPECcpu2006 benchmarks and show that AMD expects to have up to a 50 percent advantage in floating point performance and ...

VR-Zone: Family Model Old Price New Price % Change Core 2 Quad Q6600 851 530 -38% Core 2 Duo E6700 530 316 -40% E6600 316 224 -29% E6420 - 183 - E6400 224 183 -18% E6320 - 163 - E6300 183 163 -11% E4400 - 133 - E4300 163 113 -31% Pentium ...

VR-Zone: Samsung has developed the first all-DRAM stacked memory package using ‘through silicon via’ (TSV) technology, which will soon result in memory packages that are faster, smaller and consume less power. The new wafer-level-processed stacked package (WSP) consists of four 512Mb DDR2 DRAM chips that offer ...

[H]ardOCP: AMD today announced its intention to offer, subject to market and other conditions, $1.8 billion aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Under certain circumstances, ...