HighPoint RAID's 16 S-ATA drives

IT CAN BE difficult to make something like a RAID Controller sound exciting, but when you see TweakTown's review of the HighPoint RocketRAID 2340 Controller - Supporting 12,000GB of storage its easy to get a buzz from the idea of support for 16 S-ATA drives, but maybe that's just the morning espresso kicking in.

Elite Bastards has put up the ASUS EAX1950PRO CrossFire video card review which takes a good look at how Crossfire works and how it performs. It looks like a pair of these cards perform very well indeed and if you're not concerned about DX10 then well worth considering if you're after the shiny eye candy.

XSreviews has updated its one year anniversary competition changing the format slightly to a points based system. Entrants to the competition will get a single point for every post they make on the site's forum and 60 points for every pic they upload with the XSR logo in it. Prizes worth about £500 include Silverstone case and watercooling kit for first place as well as other cases and gaming paraphernalia, so get posting if you want a shot.

Bjorn3d has reviewed the XFX 8800 GTX XXX which is essentially one of the best graphics cards around today and comes with a double lifetime warranty. Many thanks to the many readers to clarified the double warranty thing for us, which means that if you sell the card the buyer just has to register it to be covered by the warranty as well.

BIOS magazine brings us its take on the Linksys Wireless-G VPN Router (WRV200). The touted RangeBooster feature doesn't seem to a lot in terms of actually boosting the range of wireless access, but the WPA2 works perfectly even if you do have to reboot the router after every change to the configuration.

The boys at TweakTown are drooling over the Gigabyte H971 Home Theater PC - HDMI, C2D and Loads of Style! which seems to have everything you could want from an HTPC including blending in well with the rest of the devices in your living room.

Madshrimps has put up the HuntKey HK500-13BP 500W Power Supply Review which shapes to nothing earth shattering, but certainly a decent mainstream product with more interesting news coming from the manufacturer.

XSreviews has been playing around with the Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse. Ideazon are well known in gaming circles for their Zboard, which has been hugely popular, but unfortunately this new mouse doesn't seem to match up to the same level of convenience.

Virtual-Hideout has put up its CES 2007: Part 3 (Microsoft & Cooler Master) which wraps up all they could absorb during last weeks CES show in Las Vegas. µ