Saturday Wrapup
Here’s a look at some of the news and reviews that hit the web this week:
Cases, Cooling, and Power Supplies
Best CPU Cooler Performance – Q3 2008 – Benchmark Reviews
Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler – CPU3D
Cooler Master HAF 932 Case – HardwareZone
Evercool Transformer 6 CPU Cooler – r&bmods
NZXT Sentry LX LCD Fan Controller – Techware Labs
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W PSU – OCIA
Silver Power SP-SS500 500W PSU – XSReviews
SilverStone OP1000-E 1,000W PSU – PC Perspective
Tagan A+ Seenium Case – Bjorn3D
Thermaltake M9D Case – BurnOutPC
Xena II Notebook Cooler – Fusion Mods
Desktop Systems
Acer Aspire X1200 SFF – TechSpot
Überclok Reactor – AnandTech
Gaming
BlizzCon Day One – Joystiq
Diablo III Hands-On Impressions – GameSpot
Gears of War 2 Gone Gold – Shacknews
Halo 3 Recon Details – Destructoid
Infogrames Completes Atari Inc Acquisition – GamesIndustry.biz
StarCraft II Lead Producer On The Split Single Player Campaign – Kotaku
Spore Review – I4U News
Graphics Cards
ATI Radeon HD 4550 – TechPowerUp
ECS Hydra Watercooled 9800 GTX+ SLI pack – bit-tech
GeForce GTX 260+ VS Radeon HD 4870 1GB – The Tech Report
Palit HD 4870 Sonic Review – neoseeker
Laptops
Lenovo Thinkpad X301 – Laptop Logic
Toshiba Satellite Pro A300D – Hexus
Motherboards, Memory, and Storage
500 GB Hard Drive Round-Up – Hardware Secrets
BIOSTAR TPower N750 AM2+ Motherboard – TweakTown
Corsair XMS3 PC3-12800 2×1GB Memory Kit – Sharky Extreme
Kingwin Elite 3.5″ SATA to USB/eSATA Hard Drive Enclosure – DragonSteelMods
MSI Eclipse X58 Motherboard Sneak Peek – HardOCP
MSI P45 Diamond Motherboard – BIOS Magazine
Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor SATA Hard Drive – Tech ARP
Peripherals
I-Rocks RF-6572 2.4GHz Wireless Keyboard Mouse Combo – Big Bruin
Microsoft Sidewinder X6 Keyboard – t-break
Razer Salmosa Mouse – PlayIT3D
Samsung T240 LCD Monitor – Overclockers Online
Software
Linux 2.6.27 Kernel Released – Linux Kernel Mailing List
Mandriva Linux 2009 Released – Mandriva
Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week – ZDNet
Microsoft To Release Oslo Modeling Software – Information Week
Microsoft’s Touchless SDK – InfoWorld
