*Computer Ed* *interviews, Gene Chi of Powercolor. The focus is Green Computing, Ed and Gene Chi examine the PowerColor Go Green Radeon HD5750 Series Video Card. Find out how its done and why PowerColor Go Green is the only 5750 on the market that requires no additional power, no decrease in clock and memory speeds and is passively cooled. This interview is part of the Green Series of Live Radio interviews and articles Hi Tech Legion and The Computer Ed Radio Show will be featuring for the month of February 2010.//

The Antec Nine Hundred Two case is the perfect case for builders who are just getting started or those of us who have been building machin es for years. Antec makes the case incredibly versatile by allowing the u ser to practically customize the location for each storage device. Fan lo cations and controls are ideal and can be easily reached. All the fans ar e essentially quiet on their slowest settings, but this is more than enou gh to keep your rig cool. For hard-core enthusiasts, you can still crank the fans sacrificing noise comfort for airflow. Working with the Antec Ni ne Hundred Two was very easy...

Ultra, the company whos claim to fame is inventing the modular power supply, brings us another one of their X4 creations. Their last pow er supply got good marks in the lab, lets see if their more powerful vers ion can pull off the same.

Team Group made a solid name for themselves a couple of years ago when they started offering some of the fastest memory on the market at a price that made other memory makers red in the face. Since then Team has been a part of the enthusiast community worldwide and even expanded their product offerings to include among other things flash memory drives and even solid state drives. Today we are testing the new Team Group Xtreem-G1 solid state drive. The G1 is based on the Indilinx Barefoot controller and has a rated read speed of 260MB/s and a write speed of 180MB/s. The Barefoot controller is capable of using up to 64MB of high speed DRAM cache and Team stuffed the drive to the max with very fast cache memory.

Quote: Today for review Ive got a green accessory for your cell phone to make you life a bit easier maybe. If youre into using a speakerphone while driving then the Scosche solCHAT II might be right up your alley, its nicely made, loud and easy to use. It even talks to you in a sort of sexy female computer generated voice to guide you through pairing, usage and she can even let you know whos calling by name.

This is your chance to win a XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB graphics card with eTeknix.com and XFX.

SNIP: As the worlds patiently awaits NVIDIA Fermi which is aimed to challenge the ATI Radeon HD 5870, the graphics giant is not sitting idling. In fact, NVIDIA has been busying updating their existing lineup. NVIDIA has revamped the entire graphics line up to the 200 series.

Power supplies are important and often overlooked components. Ultra Products understands that case-proud PC enthusiasts do not overlook the PSU. In fact, hard-core hardware geeks demand not just performance, but style to complement not just their ass kicking hardware, but their beautifully lit cases. Thus, Ultra has released the new X4 Series in a range of wattages starting at 500 watts. The model we are taking to task in this review is the totally modular 1600-watt version. This block of power weighs a respectable 15 pounds, measures 240mm x 150mm X 87mm and features a 135mm fan. And, it is 80 Plus Certified. One note about the 1600-watt rating this PSU is rated at 1600 watts when connected to a 20-amp plug using the special 120 volt 20 AMP cable (included). When you use the included 120 volt 15 AMP cord to connect to a typical outlet, the PSU operates at 1200 watts.

Article Snippet: No longer will you have to worry about ghosting artifacts and you can watch any action movie or sports game and feel like you are really there. Although LCD models may try to mimic the fluid playback a plasma TV brings to the table, they cant hold a candle to plasma technology even today.

*Quote:* For 2010, Intel has introduced a new line of processors cod e named Clarkdale, and will be known as the Core i5 600 series. At this p oint there are four processors in this series, the 650, the 660, the 670, and the 661. Today I will be looking at the Intel Core i5 661, a dual co re LGA 1156 processor built in the 32nm process, with on-die video proces sing. This should make it a natural for HTPC and non-gaming rigs. How wil l the i5 661 fare with this geek who has had the honor of reviewing some of the most powerful video cards in the world? Read on to see!

Quote: The cooling solution that was on the ASUS ENGT240 did its job quite well - the highest that I saw the card get was 64=B0C during all the testing, which is not very high for a video card operating at 630MHz on the GPU and running through all these benchmarks back-to-back. I do like the fact that the ENGT240 does get all the power that it needs from the motherboards PCI-E slot - there are no extra power adapters that need to be plugged into the video card.

NVIDIA and ATI dominate the market for gaming-oriented video cards. But neither company sells video cards directly to the consumer rather, they produce reference designs that are manufactured by a number of partners. Most partners simply produce the reference design and slap an identifying sticker on the cards cooler although some might replace the reference design cooler with a quieter or more powerful solution, with few exceptions theres little to distinguish one partners version of a specific card from another partners version of the same card. EVGA breaks out of this rut with their EVGA GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition, model 012-P3-1178-TR, which combines NVIDIA GTS250 and GTX275 GPUs on the same card, and Benchmark Reviews takes it around the block to see what its got.

Today we are looking at the Boogie Bug AimB.Pad Gaming Surface. This is a regular sized mousemat that is 275mm x 320mm and is aimed at gamers and users who need precision from their mouse.

*Quote:* *The card with the best performance from AMD from the previous generation, the ATI RADEON 4870X2 has a very noisy stock cooling cooling system.

Since 1999, we have been developing the BIOS Optimization Guide, affectionately known as the BOG. From a meagre beginning of a single page, it now covers over 400 BIOS options. As old BOG readers will know, we started offering two editions of the BOG since Revision 8.0 - a simplified edition and the complete edition.

The NH-U9B SE2 continues the legacy of Noctuas classic NH-U9 series of compact premium coolers, which have received more than 100 awards and recommendations from the international press. The new SE2 version lends itself to use in quiet HTPCs or smaller cases and adds support for LGA1156 as well as LGA1366 via the latest SecuFirm2 multi-socket mounting system. We have tested the cooler with a Core i7 860 system.

*Reducing the workload of the CPU also reduces case temperatures it also gives you the opportunity to use a smaller heatsink and fan combination that will actually fit in HTPC cases. Since the Axle GeForce G210 performed most of the work during testing CPU temperatures didnt rise above 5C while testing. (CPU temps at Idle were 27C). The Axle GeForce G210 at idle was 31C and with a 100% load running OCCT GPU for 20 mins peaked at 44C. Total case temperature only increased 2C from 26C to 28C.//