Late Friday Reviews

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Day 2 of our E3 booth babe hunt brings us the E3 Access Babes, the Dead or Alive girls, nVidia babes, Hooters girls, SRS Racing babes plus a whole lot more!

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With so many manufacturers producing heatsink/fan combos nowadays, one gets the impression that a lot of copycat designing is happening instead of innovation. That is until recently, as Thermaltake has released there newest creation the Silent Tower. This new HSF is compatible with all cpu types, has heatpipes, and an option for a Dual Fan Setup. Not to mention it's also one of the largest HSF's i've come across.

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As GPUs become faster and hotter, cooling has become a real problem. One solution is the sandwich cooler that uses heatpipe technology. One such cooler is the Giant III from Thermaltake. This baby is a no-holds-bared solution to cooling your graphics card. As the names suggests, the Giant III is GIANT. Due to it's size, it may not be the best solution for everyone, but let's take a look at this mega cooler and see if it's worth the Overclocker's time and money.

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Within the last few weeks we've seen a huge amount of drama hit us in the video card sector. Both ATI and nVidia have debuted new cards that flat out cook. Scores of 10,000 pts on 3DMark 2003 are now a reality for the air-cooled crowd, and running full eye-candy is now something you can do at higher than 1024x768 resolution. Of course this power comes with a price, and even though both ATI and nVidia admit that their new cards use less power than their predecessor's, nVidia was rumored to need at the minimum a 460W power supply. Well, some of us out there are still using 300W, and if you are one of those people, and you're wanting to dwell into the insane world of 400fps in Q3, than you are going to need a new power supply. Luckily, we have a newcomer on the table today, and its hardly a budget unit, although it is very affordable, and once testing this PSU, we'll try and see if its advisable to shell out some cash for it. Lets take a look at this new company and what it has to offer us overclockers...

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On the Nokia n-Gauge, we were delighted to see The Elder Scrolls Travels:
ShadowKey. Set in the famous Elder Scrolls series of role-playing games (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind), this first-person role-playing game offers landscapes that reminded this reporter of the dozens of hours spent in the first title of the series (where the role-playing elements were a step beyond most of the competition, but the rich and complex world of intrigue for Daggerfall and Morrowind, as well as the refinements of the engine were not yet in) where combat was king. The graphics, even on the small screen (or perhaps, because of the small screen), were better than those remembered from Arena and even the Alpha version we saw was not crashing in the dungeons (an infrequent, but not unlikely problem in the first game).

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Now updated for use with SP2. For those of us who have been hearing about all the Big Brother characteristics of Windows XP, it is glad to hear the end user still has some control. Ever since Windows 95 we have all been staring at the word “Start” in the corner of our monitors. It made sense at first, but now it almost seems annoying. How many of you actually use the start menu every time you want to start something?