Asus after sales support somewhat negative

WE START today's roundup on a more philosophical note with FiringSquad wading into the murky waters of DRM in the BitTorrent and Broadband Age. The article takes a look at the in and outs of DRM and other touchy issues surrounding protecting digital content.

Rbmods has reviewed the Corsair Twin2X 2048-8888C4DF DDR2 Ram Kit and if you're willing to pay around $500 for your memory sticks then these perform exceptionally well. Although between the heatspreaders and the fans you'll have to make sure there's plenty of room in your case.

Bjorn3d has been getting to grips with the abit NF-M2 nView AM2 m-ATX Motherboard. With its small form factor and onboard GeForce 6150 graphics this board is a great option for an HTPC or similar type of PC, but serious gamers and PC enthusiasts will probably want to look elsewhere.

TweakTown has reviewed the ASUS "Republic of Gamers" Commando - P965 to the limits which performs superbly. The price and lack of a few features may put off certain users, but if performance is what you're after you should definitely be considering this as an option.

Madshrimps brings us the Coolermaster X Craft External Hard Drive Enclosure Review. This is Coolermaster's first foray into external hard drive enclosures and with USB 2.0, Firewire and eS-ATA connectivity, it looks like they've managed to come up with a pretty decent product.

BenchZone has begun an interesting series of articles that look, not at the products provided by a manufacturer, but rather at its after sales and tech support. It's great to have good products, but when things go wrong what kind of help do you get? Up first is a big boy, the ASUSTeK Computer Inc Evaluation and sadly it comes up very short, so it looks like you'd better hope that nothing goes wrong with your Asus gear.

Virtual-Hideout has been cooling off on the CoolIT Systems Eliminator Cooling System Review and if you've decided that air cooling is too loud and inefficient then this unit should do the trick nicely.

With more and more of us storing vast amounts of digital media and having our own small home networks, many people are considering a dedicated server to help manage and share all that content. With this in mind ArsTechnica bring us the Ars System Guide: Home Media Server to help users decide on what to focus on when building a PC for this purpose. µ