For the 15^th time we are keeping our eyes on what is being published all around the World Wide Web.

Arstechnica has reviewed a rather unusual item - Badong kit: a flexible pipe, which is meant for supplying air from outside of a computer case to a CPU cooler and another piece of plastic pipe which is mounted on exhaust hole of a PSU, so hot air from the PSU does not get sucked by a rear case fan. Arstechnica found that Badong kit really helps to lower processor’s temperature. Unfortunately, they used Duron 1000MHz processor, which is not a fast one nowadays, but the effect can be seen very clearly. According to unofficial sources, Intel thinks about to propose such pipe as a standard part of computer cases to ensure effective processor cooling, as various parts of PCs are getting hotter and hotter, and so does in-case temperature. Read Arstechnica's review of Badong kit here.

Viper's Lair has had the Swiftech MCW5000 water-cooling system in their lab. Swiftech company is greatly renowned for its excellent air-cooling solutions and water-blocks, but how well will entire water-cooling system with water-pump and radiator perform? Although guys from Viper's Lair chose quite a strange way of measuring cooling performance of MCW5000 by comparing the water-cooling solution to ordinary coolers, the review is still a worth reading, as the guys discussed kit installation, noise level, build quality and so on. Read it here.

As we all know, some time ago ASUS’ subsidiary launched a new brand for inexpensive mainboards, ASRock, to compete with ECS on the low-end market segment. To ensure low costs of production, Taiwanese manufacturer produces ASRock mainboards only in China, uses low-cost chipsets and, of course, there are some features and capabilities sacrificed. Techseekers.net takes a look at ASRock K7S8X board, which features SiS746FX chipset. They found that the mainboard is not meant for any kind of overclocking, but is an excellent mainboard for SOHO market. Read the review here.

DriverHeaven has taken a trip to ATI Technologies’ headquarters in Markham, Ontario, Canada. They supply a lot of photos, so if you want to know, how the office of a leading company in the graphics industry looks from inside, you should read (or should I say "see"?) their article here.

If you are familiar with Fujitsu Siemens Computer’s SPARC64 processors, you will probably be interested to check out FSC’s roadmap for such CPUs. Apparently, SPARC64 chips will improve for quite some time from now, for instance, we will see SPARC64 VII with 4 cores and 5-6GHz clock-speeds in 2006 or 2007, as Mike Magee writes over here.