PC Zenith v4

Except one game Intels Core i7 - 965 3.2 GHz was able to convince us in every single benchmark or game. Through the whole span the performance was higher. But as we expected Nehalem couldn’t show it’s real potential and therefore we all need to stay patient for some time until the majority of the game- and software insdustry puts software on the market that can take advantage of eight or more threads. With the synthetic benchmark 3DMarkVantage you can see what Nehalem is able to because in this case Futuremark spreads the load to every single of Nehalems eight threads. This explains the huge performance gap between Core i7 - 965 and Core 2 Q9650. Read all @ Ocaholic.ch

It is easy to see that Fanatec has spent a lot of time and attention to detail on the Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel as it is as authentic and realistic to a real Porsche 911 wheel as possible. The leather is just beautifully done, and the feeling across your fingers and palms is magnificent. The backlit buttons for both PC and Playstation are excellent, along with the force feedback delivery and pedal vibrations makes the entire experience more realistic. The clutch and differing forces of each pedal made this experience soar to even greater heights, along with Fanatec providing the user with three different choices in gear box style delivery systems to appease even the most meticulous racers. Add to this the wireless technology, easy setup, the Porsche USB Key sticks and overall excellent build quality on this system and what you have is an amazing entire racing system that is easily and wirelessly able to transform to race with any car and personal preference setup. Fanatec Porsche 911 @ Techware Labs

I always think that buying a mouse is probably one or the more personal hardware choices anyone will make - After all, we all have hands of different shapes and sizes, and we all doubtless have a slightly different way of using input devices.  This makes giving out recommendations for parts such as this rather a tricky process, especially given that it’s usually hard to get the opportunity to “try before you buy” with these things.

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Let’s knock the OEM / ODM thing out first. There are several companies that are selling the Samsung drive, including Samsung. This is common in the computer hardware world and easy to sort out for the end user and hardware reviewer. Basically, what the end user will want to do is, if the product is deserving, purchase the one that has the lowest cost and the longest warranty. Luckily the G.Skill variant has the lowest cost when compared to the Samsung and OCZ drives and by a large amount. When it comes to performance the G.Skill SLC based drive is the benchmark in which all others should be compared. The drive is fast in all of our benchmarks, a task that is not exactly easy to do, as we proved in the Crucial SLC review. It isn’t going to matter if you are running a large database or installing this drive in your notebook, the drive is simply fast and everything you run off of it will benefit from faster load times and overall “snappiness”.  G.Skill FS-25S2-64GB SSD @ Tweaktown

The SideWinder X5 Mouse is a decent gaming mouse. For very close to the same money you can get much more sensitive mice. However, the macro recording capability is nice and the mouse works very well. Gamers looking for an alternative to Logitech or Razer may find the SideWinder X5 Mouse appealing. Microsoft SideWinder X5 @ I4U News

Looks like the low-cost quad-core processors market has changed significantly. Prices went down, new models came out. However, as we have just seen from our new article, there is hardly anything new we could advise you at this point.One of the best choices among low-cost quad-core processors is still the old 65nm Core 2 Quad Q6600. Intel has dropped its price so significantly lately that is remains in the spotlight despite its age and relatively high power consumption. Especially since in some applications such as 3D games, for instance, it manages to perform as fast as a more expensive Core 2 Quad Q9300 thanks to large L2 cache. Its overclocking potential is also pretty encouraging. It doesn’t require a specific mainboard: you can almost always push its frequency 1.5 times up with just an efficient cooler. Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ X-bit labs