First dual core PC goes on sale

THE Saitek Backlit PC Gaming Keyboard bundle is under scrutiny at ITreviews. This pack comprises of a specially designed keyboard plus a separate gaming pad. Saitek is already a well established name in the gaming world, so this keyboard comes as no surprise. Mind you, its' not wireless but does clearly sets a trend with its backlit thingy. The second review from them is the TwinHan Digital TV Magic box, an external USB2.0 20g receiver, just like a dongle. It's not that expensive at £56 and its size makes it ideal for a laptop. It also comes with Cyberlink Power DVD.

PC Magazine brings us the newest Dell Dimension, the XPS Gen5 featuring the Intel Pentium EE 840. The XPS Gen 5 has a Dual Core plus Media Center 2005 flanked with two TV tuners. You get "only" half a terabyte of hard disk space though plus a 20-inch LCD monitor, the possibility to overclock the beast even more and a X850 XT PE video card, a chicken-tooth-like component. Performance is stellar as you would guess for only $3999. PCMag also reviews the new Nokia phone, the 8801 and answers the question, is it a real luxury Phone as it looks to come straight from a Bang and Olufsen design centre. Large colour screen, MP3 player, Ryuchi Sakamoto rigtones. Hmmm, makes us wonder.

AMD Zone tests the Sempron 3300 Paris core, here.

Hexus also sends us two tests, the first one, the Epox EP-5LWA+ with its 925XE chipsetis set to be obsolete in a couple of months when superseded by the 955 chipset. For now, this board offers the best money can buy. This board is presented by being a budget conservative buy and has been awarded a good value and recommended stamp. Further down, they review the SavRow Katana 3D-9 Portable Workstation which literally make a fool of some older workstations. This luggable laptop features a Pentium 3.6Ghz Processor, 1GB of DDR memory and a 100GB Seagate HDD plus of course, the 17-inch LCD monitor and a Quadro FX GO1400 which earns it the Workstation label.

Friends from Tewaktown send us yet another review of the HIS X850XT and the X800XL PCI-e models, the latter being better value than the former. Basically, the only main differentiator between HIS and most of its competitors is its ability to overclock to rather high speeds using the iTurbo software and better than usual cooling.

BIOS magazine presents the Canon EOS 350D digital camera, the sort of professional stuff you will probably buy if you are in the real thing. Mind you this is not for the faint hearted. Eight Megapixels resolution, a large and massive body, the kind which makes your forearm aching after a couple of minutes. µ