Previously we took a look at Meridian's 450W & 400W XCLIO power supplies and were quite pleased with their performance and features. Meridian has updated the XCLIO line, both internally and externally providing an even better product. One of the most notable new features externally is a rubberized coating that reduces shock and vibration, a first in the PSU industry. Internally, the PSU is completely different, and is surprisingly a near-identical design to another "big name" PSU company.

Until recently we thought that heatspreaders are not necessary for DDR2 modules, because DDR 2 runs cooler than DDR1 due to its lower voltage.
DDR2 modules in previous tests became just lukewarm. We had to change our opinion after running OCZ PC2-6400 at 2.3 volt. After a while these modules become quite hot and a quality heat spreader is therefore useful.

With a fantastic external look, and an even more impressive interior design, topped with an immense amount of room and excellent cooling properties, Antec is really raising the bar when it comes to high quality enclosures....

Thermaltake's SHARK series is one of the most versatile Tower designs on the market today. The side panel features a "Honey-comb" viewing alternative which replaces the typical plexiglas window and allows further ventilation. Plexiglas is a better insulator then conductor of heat and in-so-far as case temps are concerned your better off eschewing a plexiglas side-window. Thermaltake's solution is simple, effective and integrates EMI shielding.

The layout of the Chaintech VNF4 Ultra is pretty typical with a few welcome exceptions. Memory slots are located at the top with the processor directly below. This helps to ensure the processor is out of the hot region in your standard mid-tower case and more inline with the rear exhaust fan. The MCP chip has also moved and is now closer to the processor. Technical reasons aside the new location helps with cooling since much of the intake air passes by here. You may also notice that the 16x PCI Express slot has also moved below the MCP, this does two rather important things.

1) Allows the MCP to be above the video card giving room for water cooling solutions and active heatsinks.
2) Allows you to use the extra PCI Express slots even if your gpu cooler happens to be a double wide.

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Tired of cases that "look like" a transformer, but don't deliver? Well if you are, then you'll be pleasantly surprised today when I take a look at Razotech's Transformer case. Sure, it looks the part, but can it withstand some scrutiny? Let's go check out this budget case together.

We can see that this EverCool K803-925AC is doing very well at our low heat setting which for an aluminium heatsink that does not have a copper core is very good indeed. Only as we start to increase the temperature higher than this EverCool K803-925AC is intended to be used at does it start to lag behind and especially so at our highest temperature test which is a rather harsh test.

The Pentium D 820 is a great processor for those who like to multi-task but who are also on a budget. It would not be my first choice for gaming, but if you are in the market for a fairly inexpensive, general processor, the Pentium D would be a great choice...

First off we have to say that this Titan Bianca is not sold as an all powerful all conquering water cooler heatsink system but as an economic universal AMD & Intel processor water system. The whole Bianca kit is well made as you expect from Titan and comes complete with all the accessories you need and a fully comprehensive manual, but then the Bianca is easy to set up and use.

In this review we go over the properties of the Nvidia GeForce 6600 & 6600 GT graphics video card which is a really great value performance graphics card that gives outstanding in all but the most high resolution settings where it cannot compete with the GeForce 5950 with its 256-bit memory bus which gives it higher memory bandwidth. But then since the price is a lot cheaper who cares.

If you want the absolute best mouse performance possible then you must match your mouse with a high performance mouse pad. And there is no mouse pad better than the new Hybrid from XTracPads. The Hybrid takes the best features of a hard surface pad and soft surface pad and combines them into a mouse pad so slick you will wonder how you ever used you mouse without it.