Gulftown

It's here folks. Intel's new monster, the Core i7 980X, with 6 cores and Hyperthreading. Plenty of reviews to go with it too. You should read at last one of the reviews below, some of the benchmark scores are just incredible.

Intel Core i7 980X 6 Core 32nm Gulftown Processor Review @ Hi Tech Legion
Intel's Core i7-980X Extreme Edition - Ready for Sick Scores? @ Techgage
Intel Core i7-980X Gulftown Processor Review @ Benchmark Reviews
Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Six-Core CPU @ hardCOREware

As always, any more reviews on the same we get in our news box will join the above list later today.

Case and Cooling

Zalman CNPS10X Performa CPU Cooler Review @ ThinkComputers .:. Thermaltake Silent 1156 CPU Cooler Review @ OCIA .:. NZXT Hades @ techPowerUp .:. InWin Diva MITX Case @ TechwareLabs .:. Antec P183 Advanced Mid Tower Case Review @ ThinkComputers

Patriot Box Office Media Player Review @ BCCHardware

I must admit that I am kind of spoiled. My primary media box is a full PC running XBMC and so I have come to have high expectations from my media device. I don't think I am alone though in my expectations. However the Box Office does definitely have price in its favor, and if you can overlook some of its UI shortcomings you will get an inexpensive device that is well built, quiet as a mouse (even after playing 1080P video), power friendly and very small.

Featuring Northern European Design, Stainless Steel Casing and Elegant Looks

March 9, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan ~ Silicon Power, one of the world’s leading flash memory manufacturers announced today (3/9) the “Metal Aesthetic” Touch 830 . The design of Touch 830 inherits Silicon Power’s Touch series good looks, class and ultra thin design. However, the new Touch 830 has been given an extra touch of Northern European flavor. Combining art and technology, its design features icy-silver casing, natural looks and simplicity, it complies with Europe designer’s conception of “A Mature Design is the Perfection Design”. The simplicity and humble design of Touch 830 reflects the Northern European’s way of life, attracting just the right amount of attention while keeping it simple and elegant!

Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB Review @ XSReviews

The performance GPUs (5800 series and higher) make use of the Cypress chip architecture with the more mainstream cards using the smaller Juniper core. This mainstream segment of ATI's DirectX 11 range was filled with the joint launch of the HD 5770 and HD 5750. So what's the difference between the two 5700 cards? Effectively, the 5770 is the full-fat version of the Juniper chip making use of all ten of the SIMD cores with the 5750 trimmed down a little.

ASUS Maximus III Formula motherboard review @ Elite Bastards

ASUS' motherboard layouts always tend to impress, and the Maximus III Formula sticks to that clean but effective layout, which should prevent anything too major in the way of component placement conflicts or the like. The rear of the motherboard offers up a single PS/2 port for a keyboard, nine USB 2.0 ports (one of which is offered up for ASUS' RoG Connect functionality), a single FireWire and eSATA port and a Gigabit RJ45 network jack.

ASUS EAH 5850 TOP DirectCU @ techPowerUp

ASUS has released what seems to be one of the best custom designed HD 5850s. The card which supports DirectX 11 and Eyefinity is extremely quiet, offers better price/performance than the AMD reference design, comes with an overclock out of the box and supports voltage control via SmartDoctor.

Case and Cooling

Lian Li PC-T1R Spider @ techPowerUp .:. NZXT Hades Crafted Series Tower @ Pro-Clockers .:. Thermaltake Element V Chassis @ Hardware Bistro .:. Coolermaster GX 750 Power Supply @ Pro-Clockers .:. Raidmax Skyline Case Review @ OCIA

WD SiliconEdge-Blue Solid State Drive @ Benchmark Reviews

Western Digital has been the leading name in consumer storage technology since the early 1970's. Just in time for their 40th anniversary, the WD SiliconEdge-Blue Solid State Drive debuts as the first consumer SSD they've ever offered. Based on the JMicron JMF612 SATA-3Gbps SSD processor, the SiliconEdge-Blue promises 250/170Mbps read and write transfers with 5000-4KB IOPS. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the WD SiliconEdge-Blue SSD, 256GB model SSC-D0256SC-2100, against a myriad of high-performance solid-state enthusiast storage devices.

Kingston SSDNow V-Series 30GB Solid State Boot Drive Review @ ThinkComputers

Upgrading from a normal hard drive to a solid state drive can be quite expensive and for most people it really does not make that much sense. Solid state capacities are getting larger, but that just brings the price of the drives up even higher. Kingston wants to help people out who want to take advantage of the blazing speeds of solid state drives, but dont want to break the bank. They have just released the SSDNow V-Series 30GB solid state boot drive. This drive will retail at around $100 and will allow you to load your operating system and applications on it for fast load times, and then you can just put all of your media on a normal SATA drive. This is a great upgrade option for people looking to get a solid state drive, but might not have that much extra money for one.

ByteSized

SteelSeries Xai Laser Gaming Mouse @ BCCHardware .:. Everki Beacon Laptop/Notebook Backpack @ TechwareLabs .:. Thermaltake BlacX Duet Hard Drive Docking Station Review @ Hi Tech Legion .:. Steelseries Xai Review @ XSReviews .:. EOS wireless loudspeaker system @ TechwareLabs