Today I am reviewing an aluminum case made by Directron. For an aluminum case it is very nicely built with rolled edges and very few sharp protrusions. It has plenty of room for most users. It also has the advantages of some front ports for USB (2) and Firewire (IEEE1394). And it comes with a side window already installed. All this and more for under $100.00 shipped. (I think mine was right around $90.00 to my door.)

I am going to take us back to a time when Lian Li’s looked like Lian Li’s, except we are going to add a little shimmer to the subject. Enter the Lian Li PC-65B – PLUS EDITION. I know you are saying to yourself right now, “The PC-65B, what’s so special about that?”

The other day I was doing an install on a new system and was looking for the software I needed to finish. It took me a good  hour to find what I was looking for. Now normally I consider myself fairly well organized. But this was just unacceptable for me. I thought to myself “Man there has got to be …

There are endless options when shopping for a computer case. You can choose a steel or aluminum chassis in most any color out there. The only thing that governs what you get is the price. But for those of us who want a nice case for little cost there is hope, and you don’t have to settle for beige. Black cases are a great alternative and you can easily find accessories to match black rather than some off the wall color. Enter the Evercase ECE4252…

The Asus P4B533 I’m reviewing here is my own personal workstation. The board is version 3.0 with the 1006 BIOS. Supports socket 478 P4 processors up to 2.2 GHz+ with enhanced 533MHz FSB.

The Hard Drive I think we can safely assume that the majority of our readers have a basic working knowledge of their PC. If not, let me acquaint you with the item with which RAID is concerned. This would be your hard disk drive or HDD. Now your HDD is where all of the software (operating system, spreadsheets, games, etc.) …

OK, you went into the local PC mega-retail store because you have been reading about these heatsink thingies on the ‘net. You peruse the aisles of overpriced video cards, keyboards and floating, optical mice that know where you want to click before you do. Then you spot them. Those hunks of metal with the funny looking blades and some kind …