Tweaktown emulates Al Gore

Or at least, how different PC games eat up power - thumbs up for Supreme Commander. Personally, I consider this whole hype about CO emissions just a smoke in the mirrors, since we could go on and on about real pollution. Yeah, we produce mountains of garbage and consume ton of power, but the fact of the matter is that there still isn't CO reduction coming from real polluters - heavy industry. And if you're really worried, know that your car will waste energy with a single hard press on the brakes - one power-saving lightbulb could work for 10 years. That was from one braking point, yet alone how much will you waste on your car-laden trip to the grocery store and back.

Sean from PlanetX64 tested something that you will not find everywhere, an AMD-based Tablet PC. HP tx1000 proved quite an interesting product, so if you're considering Tablet-PC computers with full keyboard, this just might be the ticket.

In the motherboard segment, XbitLabs came up with a review of nForce 650i built by ECS, while guys from Ocworkbench tested Intel's Lake of Beer chipset that is paired with DDR2 memory. That one was built by Asus, and you can check the review here.

IT-Review.Net spend their weekend on testing lower-end boards. Palit 8500GT Sonic and Gainward 8500GT Golden Sample ended up with 3DMark06 score lagging behind the high-end by staggering 10.000 points. We have to say that this is a worrying trend, because while both ATi and Nvidia state that they bring "DirectX Something" compliancy into the entry-level market, these cards aren't powerful enough for real-world next-gen apps.

After a while, it is good to see Zalman being reviewed on the Intraweb. This time, XSreviews tested their silent power supply, ZM500-HP. Zalman is a company that never got into the whole deal with 1kW PSUs, but still is able to produce power supplies that supply enough juice to dual-socket systems. What makes this PSU unique is of course, the fact that Zalman could not stay off heat-pipes - ZM500-HP features heat-pipe cooling as well.

Bit-Tech got in touch with their gaming side by reviewing Revoltec Fightmouse.

If you consider yourself a modder or would like to try to improve existing hardware, Ocworkbench modified Creative's X-Fi card. This mod will tweak quality of sound output, but you should be catious - this is highly tricky stuff. It just might be worth a while. Second mod comes from a different part of the world.

Chris from AMDZone is now cooking in southern USA, so he went to find the way to improve cooling of his Xbox 360. We have to warn you that the "cooling solution" would have real hard time to explain its advantages, especially if your missus sees it in the living room.

RBmods tested Noctua NC-U6 chipset cooler - around 80% products on the market are better than stock coolers on nForce 680i and 975X, and this one definitely fits in the "slightly better but silent" category.

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