Today we are going to talk about a very interesting and unique cooler using Core-Contact technology (when heatpipes form part of the cooler base).

Ultra low-cost personal computers (ULCPCs) have been gaining market share as numerous consumers decided to cut their spending on primary or additional personal computers and wanted to have rather miniature and simple devices. However, as a recent poll of X-bit labs readers showed, 60% of technology professionals and enthusiasts consider netbooks and nettops obsolete. We decided to ask AMD, Intel and Nvidia whether they saw prosperous future for those product types.

Since its first public showcase, the enthusiast community has been waiting impatiently for it to finally become available. Everyone hopes that it would be the best. Please meet Noctua NH-D14!

The main hero of our today’s review belongs to the DFI LANPARTY DK series that you are already familiar with. However, it doesn’t mean that we won’t see anything new. We are going to uncover some truly unique technologies as well as new features deep inside the mainboard BIOS.

As it has been initially planned, AMD has just launched a new member in their ATI Radeon HD 5x00 family. This time it is a solution for those users who need ultimate performance at any price.

We are going to talk about seven new monitors on TN matrixes in Samsung’s Touch of Color series, including SyncMaster XL2370 solution with LED backlighting.

The three new processor coolers that we are going to discuss today belong to the so-called tower-type. However, they look and perform very differently. Our today’s review will tell you which solution is the best of the three and what its advantages are.

The recommended retail price for this mainboard is set at $140, but what is it really capable of? Can it meet our needs and expectations fully? Won’t it turn out having limited functionality and being priced too high for what it can offer? Or it has all the potential for successful competition against its more pricy rivals and is worth every penny?

What will happen if we take the fastest single-chip graphics cards and put them into a CrossFireX configuration? How far will the performance increase?

Most GeForce GTX285 solutions you see in retail are exact copies of Nvidia’s reference design. Today we are going to talk about a truly unique modification of this powerful graphics accelerator.

We are going to discuss another compact and affordable liquid-cooling system for the CPU. This time it is a solution from Corsair.

“Green, Quiet and Reliable” – this is the slogan for the new Synology Disk Station DS409slim that is designed to provide users with a budget-friendly solution for easy file sharing and backup. It features snap-in 2.5" hard drive design, comes with Synology Disk Station Manager 2.2 and offers excellent functionality.