Tom tries out a $500 Gaming PC

But as SA points out, it is very expensive and while it is made out of Aluminium, it might be cheaper if you just get a no name Aluminium box and just stuck in an expensive PSU for the same price.

The Novatron IAMM NTD-25 multimedia player is reviewed at 3DVelocity. It is actually one of those new screen-less hard-drive based jack of all trade players. It is compatible with a whole lot of formats, comes with a bag-load of connectors and doesn't cost the earth. Oh and it has a 40GB HDD. You can upgrade its firmware and its OSD/OS are quite intuitive.

A1Eletronics tests the Silverstone Nitrogon NT02 AMD A64/P4 cooler heatsink. No, there's is nothing even remotely connected to Nitrogen in its design. You get copper fins, a white fan, a fan control panel and some very good performance although not in the same league as the Thermaltake Beetle.

Tomshardware gets to put together a $500 gaming rig. No they did not get any discount because they were tomshardware. As a sidenote, it might prove to be a better idea just to buy a second hand computer off Ebay and add one or two components. The system assembled is unsurprisingly devoid of OS, P&P, floppy and other bits and pieces can add up to more than $100. There's not even a casing in there.

Ever wondered how to tweak that new plasma screen that you have just purchased or even that quad LCD they bought at your work place? Fear not. The Colorvision Datacolor Spyder TV will help you. It is a Colorimeter and a software package which will help you in this task. More about it and the world of calibration on XYZcomputing's website.

Adrian's Rojak Pot has updated definitive BIOS optimization guide, now in revsion 8.4. It has over time gathere information about more than 260 BIOS options and has also published a book on it. Note that it exists as hoth a paid for and a free version of the BOG.