Cooler Master are a brand that we are very familiar with at eTeknix and have always been a company that we have focussed on to see what they come up with in the future. Whilst the future is bright, we can't but help look back at the past at a slightly older product, though even as it's not the newest swanky thing on the market, it still holds its own by offering an amazing cooling product at a low price, especially when compared to its rivals.

We can only be talking about the much talked about Cooler Master V8, which gets its name and styling from the famous engine, without all the noise that a V8 engine is famous for. It incorporates a large heatsink design with a fan sandwiched between it and is suitable for the latest and greatest CPU sockets on the market. For complete control over the CPU cooler an included PWM fan control gives complete silence when needed and extreme cooling if that's your bag.

Based on the awards this cooler has obtained, it seems to live up to all of the hype above but how do we get on with it after we've looked at the likes of the Noctua NH-C14 mammoth cooler. Will we be let down or pleasantly surprised?

Based on the benchmarks we ran the verdict is pretty clear. The performance loss over the course of three months of normal use is minimal at best, with no real discernible difference observed by the user. Windows boot time is still under 15 seconds where we see most of the newer drives performing out of the box...

Today we have a brand new chassis line from BitFenix, called Shinobi. It was named after some of the most feared Ninja assassins of the modern age. There are two versions of the Shinobi.  At the writing of this review, one comes with a side window and the other does not. From the uniquely crafted side panel window and fan vents, to the brushed aluminum accents, the Shinobi Window carries through the signature BitFenix design philosophy of clean lines, understated elegance, and modern styling. Superior cooling options allow the system to stay cool during intense gaming sessions.

The Shinobi Window is engineered to handle up to three 5.25″ drives or eight 3.5″ hard disks and can also install a 2.5″ SSD with the included adapter. The Shinobi Window should easily accommodate long graphics cards that are out in today’s marketplace. The BitFenix SofTouch Surface Treatment, for resistance to fingerprints and stains, surrounds the brushed gunmetal logo on the front and is also used on the top of the case as well.

Anyone who thinks that all printers are alike needs only to look at the Lexmark Genesis S816 to see some innovation in the printer industry. This is an all-in-one printer that has both a unique shape and some interesting new technology.

It has been about a month since we last delivered ATI/AMD Radeon Linux benchmarks comparing the performance of the open-source driver against the high-performance proprietary driver. Since that point there's been various improvements to the Mesa/Gallium3D driver and there's also been the merge of the latest Radeon DRM code for the next kernel, which will likely be called the Linux 3.0 kernel, but in the DRM pull request was referred to as Gardenshed. Here are these benchmarks on several different Radeon graphics cards.

The Aivia M8600 Wireless Macro Gaming Mouse is absolutely riddled with features. During testing I found the responsiveness the best I have ever experienced. This is the first mouse I had to dial down from max resolution for gaming. The software is clean and easy to use making regular tasks smooth and macro programming as simple as I have seen.

While we might have been reviewing some high end AMD gear recently, the nVidia camp needs representing too. Fortunately Zotac have sent through one of their more powerful cards, the GTX 580 Amp! Edition. Let’s see how it stacks up in our benchmarks.

When it comes to console gaming, there are certain games which lend themselves to gamepads and there are some that do not. If you own an Xbox 360 and wanted to use a keyboard and mouse for your favorite FPS game (for example), your options were however very, very limited. Luckily, for all you hard-core console gaming FPS'ers out there, Splitfish is coming to your rescue with their all new FRAGFX Shark.