S-ATA 2 is heavy opposition for SCSI

GOTAPEX pits two X800GTO card against one another - HIS against Sapphire. Both cards score high when it comes to value for money. The GTO is different from the GT from two aspects - first it has four more pipes and second, it is slightly slower. The cards on tests are the HIS ICEQ II Turbo and the Sapphire GTO2, both of which are and can be overclocked even more.

VR-zone takes a closer look at the DFI Lan Party UT RDX200 CF-DR, one heck of motherboard featuring the all too recognisable cartoonish Lan party UT box. It features Crossfire technology and almost the same set of features as the Nforce SLI - dual GbE ports, 7.1 Karajan audio module, SATA support and Firewire connectors. It does command a premium and Crossfire master cards are as common as golden chicken teeth. But things are bound to improve.

PCModding Malaysia reviewed the Thermaltake Blue Orb II, a huge blue CPU HSF which goes on those nice processors. No fan speed controller is apparently included. The Orb II is a heavy piece of equipment, made of copper with 140 Aluminium fins. Too bulky for some motherboards, decent performer and good price.

Toms hardware compares five SATAII RAID controllers and while no one came on top in every bench, there is growing evidence that SCSI RAID as it stands has a formidable opponent. They all offer RAID5 as a basic start, do not require you to remortgage your house if you want to get multi-terabyte capacities and more importantly, they are easy to install and readily available.

Most people would agree that power supplies are not the sexiest thing since sliced bread so we can only applaud the effort some manufacturers, like Enermax, put in the manufacturing of their PSUs. The Liberty 620w, tested at Phoronix, sports a huge 120mm fan and quite a few features that distringuishes it from other power supplies.

Asetek has its latest watercooling system reviewed by xtremeresources. The Waterchill Xtreme KT12A-12VX features a CPU cooler, a VGA cooler and a chipset cooler as well as six 120mm low noise ADDA fans and loads of accessories. World class performance it provides, but at a very steep cost. µ