Sitecom wireless gaming router... works

SITECOM IS a fairly local Euro brand from the Netherlands. They build this gamer-friendly wireless router dubbed the 300n XR. It's Gigabit LAN, 802.11n and has a packet optimiser. Metku Mods has one.

If your PC is stalling on account of your dirty software deeds, Technibble has compiled a bunch of useful software tools that'll tune it up and get you zooming through apps and games in no time.

PC Perps has a break-down of what the Ion platform does, and how it improves on the Atom. Offloading processing from the Atom has to be a good thing...

Guru of 3D also has a hands-on with the Nvidia Ion reference platform. Hilbert's chewed through HD video, disk transfers, transcoding and power consumption. It shows promise he says.

Tweak Toon is testing DFI's LANParty UT X58-T3eH8 mouthful motherboard. It's packed full of options and supports both quadfire and SLI... yum.

Enermax's Pro 82 PSU is under a barrage of tests at XS Reviews. These aren't high-powered PSUs, but rather very efficient and cheap.

XCpus has published a clock-for-clock comparison of an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 and a Phenom II X4 940, overclocking included. If you already own an AM2+ platform, go for it, if not... stick with Intel.

Xbit Labs is measuring Crossfire and SLI scaling on the Core i7 platform. You get plenty of choices in this department and it's all up to your personal taste...

Sinkcomputers has a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P motherboard on the block. Although it doesn't carry all the little details as its bigger brothers, it doesn't disappoint, at all.

Small Net Builder finds the HP EX487 MediaSmart Server an interesting bit of tech, but while they're working on the review they've posted it to their massive NAS charts, where you can get an idea of how it compares to other NAS.

PC Games Hardware is going through six generations of graphics cards in a single round-up. ATI has been recovering some lost ground over the last generation, it seems.

Toshiba's Qosmio X305-Q725 notebook is a monster of a DTR kit, with a very powerful CPU and shedloads of RAM, but a weak, puny 17-inch LCD... On review at Notebook Review.com.

Laptop Mag has a first look at the next-gen Atom platform in the body of na EeePC 1000HE. This carries the updated Atom N280 processor but a first impression tells Joanna it leaves much to be desired. µ