Large USXGA LCDs are no longer expensive

BIOS has what it claims is an exclusive review of the Logitech Cordless Desktop MX5000 laser, one of the more expensive keyboard/mouse combo out there. It features Bluetooth 2.0 and laser technology. There are more to it than what you might expect as it turns your computer far far away into a true laser-equipped communication hub.

With Corsair in the headlines as the memory used in the fastest single core, single GPU computer, William Henning from Neo Seeker chose to review the TWINX2048-4000 platinum series. Rated at 250MHz, it is a DDR memory and comes only with a grey coloured heatsink rather than a black and LEDded armour. Verdict; Overclocked nicely, good price and performance.

A graphics card though is nothing without a good or rather an exceptional monitor. This is exactly what Hardwarecentral proposes to us. The Samsung Syncmaster 204T offers 1600x1200 pixels on its 20.1-inch widespan. Now that's quite a lot for a LCD monitor costing around $550. It wasn't not long ago that a similar LCD could cost upwards of $5500. Not only is the display literaly brillant but it provide with landscape and portrait orientation as well as a thin bezel - perfect if you want to buy two of them. It also supports both VGA and DVI inputs.

Belgium website Matbe checks the Thecus N2100, a RAID enabled NAS - Network Attached Storage. It might prove to be a better idea than having a server/PC always on to access information. This is proving to be a growing problem in SMEs or dwellings with multiple PCs. A RAID-0 1TB version costs around £700, which is not that much expensive except when you compare it to making it yourself. It is more about convenience rather than performance though.

PCperspective has a close look at Creative Labs best of breed, the Sound Blaster X-Fi. While it is the first card to really use RAM to enhance the user's experience, it is also probably one of the last to use the venerable PCI slot. Watch out then for the first PCI-e x1 sound card to come out very soon. If you are a real audiophile, you will probably look elsewhere, for gamers, Creative labs still represent the best in Audio and the X-Fi does prove why.

Singapore web site, Hardwarezone, tests the MSI RX1800XL-VT2D256E Radeon X1800XL 256MB graphic card. With a Core clock of 500MHz, a 256-bitmemory interface and much more, it is a nice change from the 7800GTX wave, we've been accustomed to in the last months. Anyway, it overclocks nicely thanks to MSI's proprietary D.O.T and is probably more future proof than the 7800GT. µ