The recommended retail price for this mainboard is set at $140, but what is it really capable of? Can it meet our needs and expectations fully? Won't it turn out having limited functionality and being priced too high for what it can offer? Or it has all the potential for successful competition against its more pricy rivals and is worth every penny?

What will happen if we take the fastest single-chip graphics cards and put them into a CrossFireX configuration? How far will the performance increase?

Most GeForce GTX285 solutions you see in retail are exact copies of Nvidia's reference design. Today we are going to talk about a truly unique modification of this powerful graphics accelerator.

We are going to discuss another compact and affordable liquid-cooling system for the CPU. This time it is a solution from Corsair.

"Green, Quiet and Reliable" - this is the slogan for the new Synology Disk Station DS409slim that is designed to provide users with a budget-friendly solution for easy file sharing and backup. It features snap-in 2.5" hard drive design, comes with Synology Disk Station Manager 2.2 and offers excellent functionality.

We are going to compare six SAS RAID controllers we have reviewed before side by side in this roundup. Solutions from 3ware, Adaptec, Areca, HighPoint, LSI and promise - all in one article.

Our today's review will talk about packaging, accessories and software bundle, strengths and weaknesses of the Biostar mainboard, its functionality in terms of system configuring and overclocking, performance level and power consumption compared with the already tested solutions. We will also talk about the features that sometimes make us exclaim: "OMG"!

Following the super-powerful Cypress, which we have already reviewed before, AMD graphics division released an inexpensive and affordable Juniper, which should spread the Direct X 11 revolution into the mainstream segment. Our today's review will be devoted to these particular solutions.

AMD promises that processors on Deneb core with the new C3 stepping will offer lower heat dissipation, improved overclocking potential and a few other enhancements. But will this make Phenom II X4 processors more attractive?

Today we are going to check out a stylish and beautiful cooling solution for a wide range of graphics cards on ATI and Nvidia GPUs. Read our review for details about this new Thermaltake cooler.

Having launched the new Radeon HD 5850, AMD didn't really know what a mean trick they played on themselves by doing it. Read our review to find out why.

Today we are going to talk about two top models from Thermaltake's ISGC lineup that stands for Inspiration of Silent Gaming Cooling. Find out how well these coolers performed in our traditional tests.

We would like to introduce to you ioSafe Solo storage solution. It differs dramatically from numerous other solutions based on 3.5-inch HDDs by a number of quite extraordinary features: it will preserve the data even after spending three days in a 3 m deep pool of water or after 30 minute heating up to 850°C.

As you know, beauty and cooling efficiency are not always the combination that all solutions have. To illustrate this statement we are going to talk about two cooling solutions from Asus: a very beautiful one and a very efficient one.

In our today's roundup e are going to take a closer look at 17 SAS HDDs with storage capacities from 74 GB to 600 GB launched over the past several years. Find out who the winner is in the today's SAS arena.

We are going to talk about a liquid-solution from Alphacool, one of the leaders in this field. Although this product is not very new anymore, it is still very up-to-date and has a lot of potential.

Many users believe that the times of dual-core processors are coming to an end. However, so far there haven't been any inexpensive processors with more than two cores in the market. Today AMD is correcting this: the new triple-core 45 nm CPUs are priced starting at $76!

It no secret to anyone anymore that in about 6 months AMD and Intel will roll out their six-core processors for desktop platforms. However, we decided not to wait until then and put together a system with a six-core processor today. It is built around a six-core AMD Opteron 2435 from Istanbul family.

We are going to talk about a second monitor designed to work with Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision stereoscopic glasses. This time it is a solution from ViewSonic.

The top ASRock mainboard on Intel P55 Express chipset looks good, comes with rich accessories bundle and boasts a number of different functions and features. Unfortunately, fault-free performance in nominal mode is not one of them: the board couldn't ensure stable CPU functioning at nominal settings.