One of the most useful gadgets to be released recently has to be USB Flash Drives. These nifty little devices offer more flexibility for data sharing than many other formats. They offer more space than floppy disks, more versatility than ZIP, JAZ or CDRW, and more convenience than web-based storage. These pocket-sized wonders can hold anywhere from 16MB to 128Megs of data of any type, have a retention span of 10years, or 1,000,000 erase cycles (whichever comes first) and are hot-swappable.

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• Palm Debuts $99 PDA
• Mobo makers expected to enjoy great September sales
• Red Hat Set To Acquire NOCpulse
• Website details Russia's chemical weapons arsenal
• ATI speeds up memory chips
• PCs: Then, now and the future

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It may take JEDEC several years to fully approve one or another memory standard. Since graphics processors are extremely bandwidth hungry, developers of the GPUs cannot wait so long. As a result, they need to influence the market and memory manufacturers so that the latter introduced even faster memory chips. In case such devices do not meet certain standards due to several reasons, they may propose their own specifications and make use of such chips.

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The new releases from NVIDIA are not their response to ATi's Radeon 9700. They aren't even completely new products. Instead, the NV18 and NV28 are incremental updates to the current GeForce4 MX and GeForce4 Ti products. The new iterations incorporate Intel's latest AGP specification, 3.0 (read here for more information from Intel). The marketing name for the new spec is AGP 8X.

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The last ATI card we had the pleasure of reviewing was the Radeon 9000 Pro, just a few months back. While this was a good card for the entry level market, the card we have all been waiting for is the Radeon 9700 Pro, the fastest video card on the planet at this point in time. Finally, it has arrived, and what has it brought to the table? Read on to find out!

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Today we are looking at another mainboard from ASUS, the P4PE. It is one of the first on the markets to utilize the just-introduced Intel i845PE chipset. What makes this review different from other mainboard reviews is not the added features like Serial ATA, Gigabit Ethernet, BlueMagic PCI or USB 2.0, although those added features are worthy, the real story today is Hyper-Threading technology. The i845 chipset officially supports processors that utilize the new Hyper-Threading technology like the upcoming 3.06GHz Pentium 4.

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Other Reviews :

Intel i845PE Chipset Overview - Accelenation

Intel 845PE Chipset Finally Sinks RDRAM - ExtremeTech

Asus P4PE - i845PE w/ DDR333 - Explosive labs

Intel's 845PE and 845GE chipsets, Intel blesses DDR333 - The Tech Report

Intel D845PEBT2 Motherboard Featuring the I845PE Chipset - Gamer's Depot

Even though the PC enthusiast SMP craze has long since died down and, in an odd twist of fate, Mac users are now many times more likely to be sporting an SMP rig than their x86-using peers, multithreading is once again about to increase in importance for PC users. Intel's next major IA-32 processor release, codenamed Prescott, will include a feature called simultaneous multithreading (SMT), also known as hyper-threading.

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With OTES, ABIT has officialized overclocking. In some manner, the company states that they will sell o/c products from now on. This may again cause overclocking arguments. Or even NVIDIA may show opposition to this action. We’ll see what happens sooner, but anyway I don’t think that the users will be against this.

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Today, EPoX has built a name for itself in making quality products with good features and overclocking options. What we will be reviewing today is the EP-4G4A+ which is based on the Intel 845G chipset for the Socket-478 platform. Although it may look like just another board, this board offers you a lot more integrated peripherals than most 845G boards available out there today.

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As with any other window mod, the first step is to mark the location of the window. The molding that I chose to use with this window is not designed to have the window mount in it, but rather behind it. This has to be taken into consideration when measuring the area to be cut. After tracing the outline of the window, mark half an inch inside of each and move the window and retrace. Be sure to trace the corners properly.

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Laptops are becoming more and more viable options for users. Even the “value” $1000 laptop's can handle many of the common applications like word processing, the Internet etc. Today, I am going to take a look at one of these “value” laptops, the Dell Inspiron 2600.

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As for the coolers, they work well enough, though the CNPS3100-Plus may not be the best choice for overclockers. Both heatsinks are remarkably quiet, and this is something that is gaining popularity for a lot of users tired of the noise.

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Using the mobile is quite different to any other, as this phone is really not aimed at the beginner users but more to an intermediate and advanced user. First off, instead of the normal keypad you use an 8-way joystick that is slightly harder to get use to. It's the kind of product where having a look through the manual is going to make things a lot easier. The color on the screen is amazing, and it really does set it apart from every other phone on the market

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Thermalright SK-7 Review
AMD has announced a whole slew of new and improved CPUs over the last couple months and with new and improved CPU technology comes new and improved cooling products. Although AMD's new CPUs run cooler, there is still a big demand for better CPU coolers. Recently, Thermalright has released several new products that have gained the attention of Overclockers everywhere. One such products is the SK-7 heatsink for Socket-A processors which I have before me today. The SK-7 is similar to the old SK-6 but with some very nice improvements such as the ability to use 60mm, 70mm or even 80mm cooling fans! It also looks very much like the famous SLK-800, but a little smaller. Sorry, no flashing circus lights or funny anodized colors. Just raw copper with a perfect mirrored finish... Take a look at the SK-7 over at Club Overclocker!

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Kingwin KT-436WM-2 Case Review
Kingwin enclosures are undoubtedly one of the finest enclosures that money can buy. I can say this with confidence because I've had first hand experience reviewing many enclosures from quite a few companies, including two other enclosures from Kingwin. Because the Kingwin enclosures were all from the same family (Model# KT-436) they all have the same internal features. Some models have been given unique Alpha codes after the model number to signify color and external case features. Such as the model we have here, the KT-436WM-2. Doesn't take much effort to figure out the WM stands for Window Mod while the -2 is their own identifier for color; Black. Check out the Kingwin case over at ClubOC!

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Volcano 9 CoolMod Review
Today I have a new heatsink in my labs from Thermaltake called the Volcano 9 CoolMod. The Volcano 9 is a pretty massive aluminum cooler, but does an aluminum CPU cooler still have a place in the extremely hot world of Socket-A cooling? The Volcano 9 CoolMod is also an "eye candy" cooling device as it has a lighted cooling fan. Is the Volcano 9 CoolMod just another piece of eye candy or does this cooler mean business? Well...let's put this baby to the test and find out!

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DTS 440 Universal Socket-A CPU Shim
The DTS 440 addresses several problems we have seen in CPU shims. The biggest problem the DTS 440 solves is consistency and standardization. Most CPU shims have a severe problem with maintaining consistent shim thickness. Although, the difference may only be as little as one thousandth of an inch, it may be enough to cause the heatsink to not sit level on the CPU core. Scot Mack, the owner of OCH, boasts that the metal these shims are made from is the highest of quality you can buy. He has informed me that the metal sheets are rolled and stamped out in extremely accurate presses, much like the way coins are made at the US Mint. To address the conductive material problem, OCH has the shims anodized. The anodizing process makes the outside of these shims non conductive, just like if they were coated in rubber. Take a look at the DTS 440 here on ClubOC!

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Well you may have heard about the new Gigabyte GA-7VAXP from our exclusive news release of the announcement of this board a few months back. Today we finally have our hands on it. The Gigabyte GA-7VAXP motherboard featuring the VIA KT400 chipset, Firewire, AGP 8X and everything else you could imagine jam packed into the latest AMD board from Gigabyte.

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Launched recently, the PurePower line is Thermaltake's first attempt at a power supply. True, it's a bit odd to see a company that started off making (and is still based on) CPU coolers manufacturing power supplies - but then again, Thermaltake isn't your average cooling company. Let's see how their first crack at power supply units turned out…

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The incandescent globe's days are numbered. The number's still pretty large, in my opinion, but more and more lights that use other technologies - LEDs in particular - are coming out. Here's the latest batch to cross my desk.

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