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The “Best Bang For the Buck” award would have the be a TIE between Vantec’s Four Fan Rheobus and FrozenCPU’s 3.5” baybus. Both controllers were able to withstand the demands of the 92mm Vantec Tornado’s without skipping a beat, and are definitely the least expensive controllers in this roundup. If you are looking for a 5.25” controller to fill one of those spaces next to a Cd-Rom, I would highly recommend Vantec’s Four Fan Rheobus. However, If you are looking for a more convenient, more compact look and wish to fill one of those useless floppy faceplate’s, head on over to FrozenCPU.com and check those out as well.

With the rise in popularity of USB Key Drives it's hard to choose the best one for you. Today we take a look at one key drive that has more to offer than other key drives on the market, the DiskOnKey Pro.

The OCZ 512MB PC-3200 dual channel kit is comprised of two hand selected memory sticks that ensure stability at high front side bus settings in dual channel and non-dual channel motherboards. This memory is rated at 400MHz DDR, however, it goes well beyond that. Watch the Video to find out more.

Is the Western Digital Caviar 800JB the fatest harddisk on earth? Can't you really hear the Maxtor Diamondmax Plus9 spin? What about the Seagate Barracuda IV, has it become antique? Read all about it in this 5 harddisk roundup, also featuring the Maxtor Diamondmax and the Western Digital 800BB.

Every hobby needs its followers who do just a little bit more, and go that extra mile to stand out among their fellow enthusiasts as if to say “I laid the sp4nk down on j00 f00lz.” For car enthusiasts, it’s the hot rodders and their modern equivalent, the ricers. For bikers, it’s the choppers and customizers. For us technophiles, we have the overclockers: those who veraciously seek out higher clock speeds, smoother graphics, and squeeze every possible hertz out of modern technology. It’s an art that requires a certain finesse with modern electronics, a bit of money (hey, we’ve all nuked a chip or two in our day when we’ve gotten too greedy), and most of all, a l33t cooling system. Even though the art of overclocking has become more accessible over the years, it has yet to find its way into the rig of the average computer user, whether due to far, ignorance, or the fact that you’re still gaming on your mama’s box. Abit looks to change all that with their new Outside Thermal Exhaust System (OTES) line of GeForce 4 cards, which come straight from Abit’s factory to your box pre-overclocked.

Considering the AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Barton at only 2.16GHz does exceedingly well up against the Intel Pentium 4 running at a whopping 2.8GHz. In some cases beating it. Makes you wonder how well the AMD Athlon XP Barton core at 2.8GHz would do. How high would the graph be!