TriGTX 280 plus 9600GT Physx

SOME HARDCORE Cryostasis testing is going on at Legit Reviews. They've plugged Tri-SLI GTX 280s plus a 9600GT for PhysX. You could power a small town with all that juice.

Tom's boys rounded up six sub-$100 Core 2 motherboards. These have definitely matured to a point where you can't go wrong.

Gainward is setting itself up to gain its enthusiast cred in the ATI segment. Tweaktown has a review of the Rampage 700 Golden Sample. Definitely worth reading

FrostyTech is chilling its CPUs with a Spire Thermax II heatsink. Low fan speeds with very good cooling make it an overall winner on both AMD and Intel CPUs.

OCC has the MSI Eclipse SLI for review. MSI has included some interesting add-ons to the board, which make it quite unique.

Trusted Reviews has something in the way of a MFC-9840CDW Laser MFP from Brother. Relatively cheap, it's downside is a slow duplex print mode.

Think Computers is looking at the WD Caviar Black 1TB drive. It's cheap but speedy, and the storage, well, that's why you're reading it, right?

Malaysian site Breakthelimit.net has acquired some thorough benchmark details on the upcoming Phenom II processor. Lots of overclocking, big expectations.

Xbit Labs is taking the latest instalment in the CnC series - Red Alert 3 - to the bench for some graphics card benchmarking. Gone are the days of sprite-driven RTS games

Virtual Hideout has some high-end Kingston HyperX PC3-16000 kit for testing. Some new testing methodology is involved, which is worth looking at by itself.

DreamWare is testing a Tuniq Potency 550W PSU. With its 80plus certification, it's more than able to power most PC configs, but the quiet operation will appeal to HTPCers.

Overclockers Online got a Gskill 128GB SSD. Simon tested the drive as a primary and secondary drive, but it's in the primary function that it shines.

OCWorkbench has posted its first instalment of the DFI LP JR 790GX M2RS micro-ATX mobo. This is a 790GX with SB750 southbridge board, built for serious Crossfire performance.

Mobile Choice in the UK has reviewed Nokia's N97 sliding candy bar phone. The Jack-of-all-Trade is weighed down by a crap user experience, it is said.

Tech ARP has updated its Hard Drive Myths Debunked guide. Demiffing is always funny and useful.

Laptop Mag is looking at some noise cancelling Bluetooth earpieces. Get a rock concert down to a buzz with these little pieces of ear-ware.

InsideHW is comparing the current GPGPU vídeo transcoding apps from ATI and Nvidia. Nebojsa found some annoying bugs in the ATI solution, but its free, so you can't really complain, can you?

Hardware Logic has the Scythe Musashi VGA cooler on test, today. It'll cool almost anything except dual GPU solutions, quite effectively.

Hardware Canucks has completed its run of Christmas GPU performance benchmarks. You can find Part I here and Part II here.

There.

Merry Christmas everyone, if you're the Christmassy kind. µ